THE TIKTOK SENSATION ‘A brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it’ Anna Todd, author of the After series ‘A glorious and touching read, a forever keeper’ USA Today ‘Will break your heart while filling you with hope’ Sarah Pekkanen, Perfect Neighbors SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST. Lily hasn’t … SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST.
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up – she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily, but Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.
As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan – her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.
With this bold and deeply personal novel, It Ends With Us is a heart-wrenching story and an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price.
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Finished this one! I won’t give anything away but this book was so important. The characters were so likable, even when they shouldn’t be, which I think was the point. This certainly wasn’t a fun happy read but I think it was the happiest ending possible.. If that makes sense.
When my son was a toddler, we had an at-home accident involving him slipping on the tile and his toothbrush going into my eye. He was OK but I on the other hand wound up alone at a local urgent care with a swollen and bloody eye. After being treated, I left with some prescriptions, a referral for counseling, and a stack of domestic violence resources. My injury was not the result of abuse and I told the provider that. Regardless, I smiled, took the information, and thanked her for her concern. Why? Because I am very certain she has heard every excuse under the sun and the resistance must be exhausting. Why would I contribute to that? Why give a helping hand any cause to hesitate next time? Because “next time” may very well present a true victim finally ready to take action. Here’s hoping anyways.
It Ends With Us is a fictional story based on very nonfiction people and events. Despite my initial thoughts while reading, Ms. Hoover’s purpose was not to smile, nod, and say OK to victims who give violent partners yet another chance, but to offer perspective on why some may struggle with the choice to act.
This book is both happy and sad, it’s funny, sexy, suspenseful, scary, honest, but also miraculously hopeful. Most importantly though, it gently coaxes readers into non-judgement mode. Perspective does that. It changes people. It changes the self-righteous as well as the downtrodden who may need that little bit of motivation to make a choice. Read this book!
Amazing storytelling and beautiful story!
This book deals with a hard and brutal subject. It was a hard, tearful story, but also filled with courage and hope. This book was a very good read from a very talented author. I recommend this one to all readers. You will smile through the tears.
Wonderful story! Started off a bit rough for me but once I got into the meat of the story I was hooked and could not put it down! It put me through the full range of emotions from high to low and left me thinking about it for days. When any book leaves me thinking about it for days afterward, I’d say that was a big success. It made an impact. Kudos to Ms. Hoover.
Would LOVE to have this book make it to the big screen. One caviat, however; they’d need to bring in Colleen Hoover as a Supervising Consultant to make sure it’s done right!!!
This book is important, powerful, and heartbreaking. I’m not kidding when I say I cried the entire way through the last 100 pages.
As someone who has spent my career in social work, this book gives an accurate portrayal of some of the things that happen behind closed doors. I pictured names, faces, and stories while reading this book and I felt the pain that so many women face.
I’m not going to say much more because I want to avoid spoilers but I think this is a book that every single person should read.
5 emotional stars! This book takes you all around the emotional wheel and right now I’m still wiping tears away. My first book from Colleen Hoover and now I am ready to take on her entire backlist!!
When I began this book I envisioned a certain story and what I got was entirely different. This book was good for my soul. This book is good for many women of many stances. And those of us who have been or are currently in these situations you feel it to your bones. But I think this broke me at the “Note From The Author”. I never saw a child’s perspective and now I it hurts. I applaud you Colleen for bringing your story alive. This took courage and I am so damn grateful to the women who recommended this book to me. But now I don’t know what will ever top this book.
“That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person.
It can destroy them.
It can save them.”
There were so many moments in this book that rocked me, that I had to put it down and walk away. I forced myself to take my time. I couldn’t rush this book. I needed to make it last. I have rarely in my entire life felt the emotions I am feeling now. I’m feeling a lot and damn it feels right. The end was beautiful and inspiring and I hope every story ends that way. But I wasn’t sure where this was going. I was on edge the entire book. I wanted to pretend like I didn’t read some pages and still root for this one or that. But that is exactly what this book is meant for. And let me tell you the parts where it goes into the past are the most beautiful stories. They hurt you but make you see the unselfish truth. Man I really can’t believe I have never read this author before.
“You were the only one in my life who ever stood up for me. You were strong when I was scared.”
This was a book I bought paperback as my amazon prime gift to myself and I am so excited to have this book to myself. I recommend everyone to read this book and embrace this book. This may just be a perfectly written love story for you, this could be someone you loved story and you see this side, this could be your story, but know this is someone’s story and it is amazing!! I don’t think you can write a book any better then this.
“ I want to be you when I grow up.”
Lastly I just want to say that in my head the entire book and it’s title “It Ends With Us” had me thinking on thing the entire time until the very last page and then it smacked me in the face. The very last line was my undoing…
Haunting, raw, and real. I cried for these characters, and that’s not easy to make me do. Also, this is my first Colleen Hoover book. It won’t be my last.
“I don’t know,” I say with a shrug. “As his daughter, I loved him. But as a human, I hated him.”
It Ends With Us is narrated with poignant details of domestic abuse. The motives of this story is thought provoking and while we visualise the story descriptions are on point. This psychological thriller has a lot of fuss and brutal honesty.
‘Covering up what she doesn’t want to see. Taking blame that isn’t even hers to take.’
There are many things of Lily Bloom I thought right, I keep agreeing and relating most of the situation. Her father may be an adored mayor and her mother a loving teaching assistant but inside a home where happiness and sadness and safety was felt Lily grew up facing abuse not on herself but among the people who were supposed to love and make her feel safe.
No one takes a second chance after life dealth them raw. Also same second chances are approached, we just need to take a chance. What happened to Lily, she could relate because she already went through it, when she faced it again she braved for herself and her future.
She faces the same trauma with Ryle. It’s apparent her internal conflicts regarding Ryle’s neediness and his continuous apologies forces Lily to make hard dicisions. I thought Ryle was hard to hate and easy to sympathize because of his childhood trauma; while it’s never justified Ryle is a ruined man. His future is a dash, is he safe enough for furthur relationships? Can he be recovered?
A second chance for Lily after grief and heartache is great but I didn’t like how Atlas was used. He was there when Lily needed him and is kept aside while she ‘deals’ with her problems.
“In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again fall in love with me.” He presses his lips against my forehead. “You’re still my favorite person, Lily. Always will be.”
In the end I thought Ryle didn’t deserve Lily and she doesn’t deserve Atlas. Romance factor aside the violence and abuses are relatable to real life.
Just finished reading, “It Ends With Us” and I loved it!!!
This is a beautiful story, it’s relatable and well written. Once I started the book, I couldn’t put it down. I felt all the characters’ feelings. I laughed, I cried, I empathized and even felt anger sometimes. What an emotional roller coaster.
This is a must read!!!!
Colleen Hoover, thank you for sharing this story!!!
Talk about a book hangover! My emotions were all over the place. I even dreamed about Ryle, Lily, and Atlas. I have a feeling this book will stay with me for a really long time. 5-STARS!!!
4.5
This was my first Colleen Hoover book, I always hear mixed reviews when it comes to her but this book has such a high rating that I thought I give to a try. I’m glad I did… I really enjoyed this book and thought it was well done given the subject.
The entire book was a rollercoaster of emotion for me, just as much as for the characters. I really liked how she went back and forth in form of the Journals, but man these journals had me bawling almost every single time, they were so heartbreaking and yet filled with little moments of joy …. Most of the time.
I liked Lily, it was easy to relate to her and see her point if view, though she had her moments where I wanted to smack her more than once but I think that was the point and made the book even better.
Ryle… oh man the man I hate to love and love to hate , thought it was brilliantly done with him , that even we asa a reader have to struggle with him.
Atlas, while I liked him for the most part and his part I had some issues with it. Well mostly with the present Atlas , nut nothing to major.
Overall I really loved this book, there were some eye rolls at some overly convenient situations but overall I really enjoyed it and cried my eyes out more than once. Though I think the after word by the author is what got me the most. I really enjoyed the ending and thought it was done wonderfully.
I rate it 4.5
You’ll cry with thisIt Ends With Us
This book is Colleen Hoover at her best, giving readers an eye-opening, realistic view into domestic abuse and the “how’s” and “why’s” — how it starts and why women stay. I passed this one on to my friends after I finished.
Audiobook Review.
Wow! I have become a fan of Colleen Hoover. This story was wonderful, compassionate, and heartfelt. It had me in tears just as I was in “All Your Perfects” and desperately hoping for the HEA that came in quite a surprise in the end. A well-written and thought provoking piece of work.
Lily Blossom Bloom was raised in an abusive home and witnessed it daily through her parents. She never understood why her mother never left her father but knew love had to play a part in it. As the story transitions, she meets Atlas, a homeless boy from her school who comes from an abusive broken home and then later in her life in Boston, Ryle Kincade a neurosurgeon that has his own demons to conquer. She ends up in a relationship and then marrying Ryle who begans to display and act on the abusive nature hidden within him. Through her turmultuous relationship, she consoles herself through reading her journals to “Ellen”.
The journals in this story was a very added plus to the presentation of Lily’s story and for the author. This was a powerful book that dealt with domestic violence and how each character in the story gains strength and courage to prevail over what one usually sees as “black or white” and never the underlying layers as to how it gets to the point of no return for women and men. This story did hit too close to home for me and brought back alot of memories. It had its share of similarities through the characters of Lily, her mother, her father, and her friends that I’ve experienced, especially when Lily’s mother shares her “Why” that somehow releases them from a form of bondage each felt they were enslaved to.
Colleen Hoover is an amazing author and made me fall in love with her characters regardless of their imperfections, faults and or issues that consumes their everyday lives. The characters in the story were so likeable and the narration was very well done. I recommend reading/listening to the “Author’s Note” at the end as it is an important part into why she wrote such a profound novel.
Highly Recommend.
Queen Colleen is a genius! This book is amazing. I have recommended it to a few coworkers with different reading profiles they both really enjoyed it. The characters are amazing. Lily is a refreshing change from a lot of New Adult heroines. I’ve read this book at least 15 times and I still have strong reactions to it. I don’t want to give anything away so read the freaking book already and get back to me.
I’m not able to write something about this book right now. Only: it ripped me apart. (stated: 31.7.16)
UPDATE (2.8.16)
I’m still lost for words to describe how this book made me feel. First I thought it might be, because I’m no native speaker. But then I realised, that I am not able to find the right words in German as well.
Sometimes I think this story touched me so deeply, because a person very close to me suffered something simliar. This story gives insights of the internal struggle, the mixed up feelings no one else than the person going through this will ever understand. But honestly, Colleen did such a damn great job creating those characters in a wonderful way, that this book would have touched me as deep as it did anyway.
I thank Colleeen for sharing this very personal story with us readers. I still get goosebumps while thinking about all of it and her personal Statement by the end. I still need to hold back my tears while I am writing those words.
This book was nothing I expected. This is no usual CoHo book for entertainment. Reading the blurb you expect a “normal” lovestory including a love triangle. But it’s SO not! This is so much more!
I really like the development Lily went through. I could feel her struggles deeply inside me. I could understand every line of thoughts she had and I felt her heart breaking. It was almost that my heart broke along with hers. And even if it’s not the happy ending you wish for when starting this book, you see it is a very happy ending all along. Because it is HER ending.
SPOILER
I thought I might never understand why women stay with an abusive partner. That I would never allow someone to do such things to me. But now, after reading this book, I won’t judge anymore, because I know now, I might as well be one of those women like Lily, giving chances just because out of love. And I hope with all my heart, that all women out in this world will have the strength to walk away – hopefully sooner than later. To make the right desicion, if it’s not for children, please do it for yourselfs!
THIS is surely the very best book I’ve ever read!
“Cycles exists because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.”
You have to read this book they said… it’s my favorite book they said… be ready to cry they said… well they were all right! I don’t know if I can express how deeply moved I was by this book and the emotional ride I went through while reading it. It Ends With Us will forever hold a very special place in my heart and is one I will not forget.
Thank you to all of my book friends who pushed me to read this book, especially Katie for forcing me to borrow her copy and not taking no for an answer. Thank you to Colleen Hoover for writing such a heartbreakingly honest and raw book that rocked me to my core. And thank you to my partner in life Michael for never putting me in this position that so many people are put in and for loving me the way every person deserves to be loved.
This is a very powerful and emotional book. Though it starts like a simple love story it evolves into handling much more serious issues. If you are familiar with Colleen Hoover’s previous work, then you know how her stories are always multilayered where events occurring in the storyline are connected to each other in some way. I think ‘It ends with us’ is her best work yet. And in the end, knowing that it’s derived from her own life experiences, this book makes even a bigger impact. The POV of Lily is so beautifully written that you feel each and every emotion she’s going through as if your own. Her diary entries (specially the last ones) are very touching and inspirational. This book definitely deserves all the high ratings it has got. Highly recommended!