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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This is one of my absolute favorite books. This was so heart-breakingly good. This is a book everyone should read, both male and female. There is a lot you could learn.
This was my first time reading Colleen Hoover ( I know right, *gasp*) She has always been on my tbr but I just never got to her for some reason.
I couldn’t put this book down; I read it in 24 hrs. I love her writing style and the story was heartfelt and addictive. I truly couldn’t figure out what Lily was going to do. Highly recommended.
An Insightful 5 Stars!
Whew! This was a tough read. I can usually barrel through a CoHo book never wanting to set it down. With It Ends With Us, I actually had to take a few mental health breaks. Waiting so long to read this one after so much social media attention, I thought I had a handle on this story’s trajectory. Wrong! Every other chapter, my thoughts and speculation veered. There wasn’t one moment in this book that was predictable. With a satisfying and somewhat bittersweet conclusion, this author proved she had a story to tell and I just had to trust her storytelling journey. Poignant, witty, romantic, and heartbreaking, this was an insightful story that will resonate with many. It certainly did with me.
This is a very well-written book about an important topic, domestic abuse, and Ms. Hoover deftly explored many of the complexities involved.
I loved it. Sweet story with complex characters
this book is amazing!!!! he really makes you feel as if you are in the story!!
One of the most impactful books I’ve read. I felt so moved at the end of this book and so attached to the characters. I recommend this book to everyone I know!
Wow! That’s the first thing I can possibly think to say about this book. Just wow.
It’s been a while since a book has made me feel many emotions like this. This book made me even get the feeling in the pit of your stomach when you know something is terribly wrong and I even get heartbroken.
How authors can make you fall in love with a character and then shatter you is beyond me. How do they go through the process of that?
This book was truly amazing
This one stayed with me. It developed beautifully and had you thinking. Interesting ending and not what I expected. I will read it again. It’s fantastic.
This book wrecked me. Such a sensitive subject matter and so very well done. I loved this book–the tension, the nuanced characters, the heartbreak and triumph. I’ve been telling everyone to read this.
This is my favorite Colleen Hoover story. It feels real and raw and true, which are three things I love in my storytelling. It feels honest and I love the characters, even the ones who cross the blurred lines that she portrays so perfectly. Definitely a must read if you love a story that will grip you and pull you in.
I have mixed feelings with this one.
I think the good parts were VERY good, but everything surrounding them was kind of meh.
I think the fact that Lily and Riley’s relationship ended up being an abusive one justifies a lot of the things that happen in the beginning of the story. Still, their relationship was not at all believable to me. I never got a chance to fall in love with Riley, therefore I was really confused as to why Lily felt so strongly about him, specially after chapter 23, aka THE Chapter. I had a hard time accepting she was so torn because I never even liked Riley.
That said, if you can accept the fact the she is indeed somehow in love with him, her internal struggle felt very real. I think the aftermath of THE Chapter was very real and consistent.
I didn’t like the pregnancy plot, I think it was a cheap plot twist, but I also think it eventually helped to develop the story line. I liked how she put her unborn child first and how her relationship with Riley evolved after this. I liked to see Riley kind of own up what he did, although I think he got away with everything a little too unscathed.
I wish we had gotten more out of Lily’s conversation with her mother about the whole situation. I feel there was a lot more to be said and shown. And I also wished we had gotten more of Alyssa after all, because her reaction to what happened was absolutely ridiculous. “Yeah, my brother almost killed and tried to rape you, but YOU’RE HAVING A BABY OMG THIS IS GREAT!!!!” Like… what the hell?
I loved the scene where she has the baby, the conversation she has with Riley and how the title of the book comes to be.
Now, I’m going to comment on Atlas separately because I feel it was a completely separate story. For the longest time I waited to see what his role in the story would be and… what was his role? I don’t understand his presence in the book at all. I loved him, I loved his plot, and I wish she had used it to write a separate book.
I loved to read the diaries and to see how their relationship started and ended. He was by far my favorite character, and his plot my favorite plot. I wish we could have seen more of him, what happened before he met Lily, what happened after he left. I feel like the ending of his and Lily’s story fell flat, I didn’t like how it ended, I didn’t like his reasons to not go after her, I didn’t like he reappeared out of nowhere and then disappeared again. It didn’t work for me.
But, as I said, the good parts were VERY good. THE Chapter destroyed me. I was nauseous for an entire day after I read it and couldn’t go back to the book – this is a sign of something well written. I connected to Lily in a lot of different ways, I loved the writing style, I loved that it was written in first person. I cried in several different moments. I got myself thinking about how we treat abuse and how we see abused women.
I just really wish some plot points were better developed because I feel this is a very important, very heavy subject to write about.
This is probably one of the most emotional reviews I’ve ever had to write. I finished reading it almost a month ago and as I finally sit down to write this, I’m already tearing up. That’s saying a lot because I’m not one that gets super emotional over books. I can swoon with the best of them but actually crying has been limited to only a handful of books. I had to get support from my co-blogger while trying to write this review. It truly affected me that much. This book is completely different than what I was expecting and I had no idea what an emotional roller coaster ride I was about to go on.
First of all, Lily Bloom is by far the most inspiring heroine I’ve ever read and is absolutely now my all time favorite. She’s kind, loving, strong, funny, etc. The list goes on and on but the most important quality out of that list is her bravery.
“Five minutes. That’s all it takes to completely destroy a person.”
From the beginning, I was connected to Lily and Colleen Hoover did an amazing job developing her character and describing her story in a way that was pure, raw and powerfully insightful. Then I went back and read the book again. I didn’t think I could emote any more feelings then I already had but I was completely wrong. Her story has so many layers to it that I realized that there is still so much more to it. I fell deeper and deeper into it. It just has that much power to it. The entire time I felt like I was her, experience her journey right beside her.
It Ends With Us has one of the most powerful messages in it’s story. It’s a message that I hope everyone gets. It will be raw and sad yet it will be hopeful and beautiful. It makes you think. About everything. It truly is insightful and makes you take a step back and evaluate things and situations that you might have either been personally involved in or know someone who has. To evaluate your own views.
“Naked truths aren’t always pretty”
I purposefully tried to stay away from giving away anything. If there is ever a book that you should go into with out any preconceived notion, this is the book. Although I have my personal reasons for being so emotionally involved, I’m positive that the fact that I went into it without knowing anything really helped to heighten my experience while reading it.
So here’s my super emotional connection that I now feel with Colleen. The first time I read the book, I made it all the way to the end without crying. I know I said in the beginning of this review that I was a balling mess, so let me explain. Of course I was emotional and I did get teary eyed but it wasn’t until Colleen’s “Note From the Author” where I absolutely fell apart. She disclaims this in the book and I will do it here. PLEASE DO NOT READ this before you read the book. It has major spoilers in it. It has been made clear that this is a very personal story to Colleen and after reading her note, I too had that very personal conversation with someone. I can relate to her in more ways that I would have ever imagined and I am so very proud of her for taking the time to create something so powerful and share with her readers. She will impact way more people then she probably can even fathom. This will be the one book that I will talk about for a very long time.
Coming out of a book coma and bracing for the inevitable hangover to come that only a book that truly caresses your soul and invokes every human emotion can give you. Usually I am lining up my next read quickly after I have finished a book, often times as soon as the same day. But this book not only demands reflection and decompression…it deserves it. Mad love and respect for #ColleenHoover #ItEndsWithUs #IEWU
4.5 stars
“We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
Here is my spoiler-free review. My expectations for this book were out of this world. I was really hyped up because of all the 5+ star reviews I had seen passing by on my timeline for weeks. Normally I have my words ready for my reviews but can’t think of anything to say right now. How can I explain this book without spoiling it? I just got to keep it as general as possible.
“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
There were some really great quotes in this book that really gets you thinking. There were moments in this book that had me laughing and smiling, but there were also moments when I was sad and crying. I was also angry with a particular character but I also loved that person. I was having so many mixed feelings. This book gave such a great view into the head of people who are in certain situation (can’t say what without spoiling it!). It was so realistic and heartbreaking. The title and the cover of this book is PERFECTION!
“We’ve all got a little bit of good and evil in us.”
The reason I didn’t give this book 5 stars is because the ending was in my opinion rushed. I think a couple more chapters would’ve concluded this book better. It left me a bit hanging and I was like “This is it?”. On the other hand it can also mean I just didn’t want it to end and I wanted more.
“When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . Just keep swimming.”
My all time favorite book. IT ENDS WITH US. you can’t predict the end but also you gonna love the end. i read this novel twice. You can see the consequence of wrong decision and how past becomes your present. While reading this book i cried and somewhere i laugh. I LOVE THIS NOVEL SO MUCH. <3
I had heard so much about this novel so reading it was a must for me, it has just taken this long for me to pick it up.
I’m finished and I am a little unsure what to say.
In this heartbreaking, highly confronting novel we meet Lily. A childhood tarnished by domestic abuse at the hands of her father, the only sanity Lily has in her life is that of a homeless boy Atlas who lives in the abandoned house next door. With time the pair become inseparable and the bond they share is unique. But it’s a secret relationship, because if Lily’s father ever found out blood would be spilled. And that is the last thing that Lily wants. She wants to protect her Atlas and the scars that run deep in his soul.
But one defining moment will change their course. Her father will change everything.
But Lily and Atlas promise that even if they are apart they will find each other again.
Years on, Lily has moved to Boston. With her father gone she takes comfort in knowing her mother is safe. She is now free to spread her wings and live her dream. Very single and loving life a chance encounter with a hot, sinfully delicious neurosurgeon Ryle is all it takes to turn Lily’s world upside down.
But it isn’t what you think.
On the surface things are great, but what happens when the doors are closed?
What hell does Lily find herself in?
Her present is colliding with her past?
Can she escape?
And can Atlas help her get out?
Guys this for me personally was an extremely hard novel to read. I had no idea going into this novel what it was about and I must say it took me by surprise.
But what I absolutely commend Colleen Hoover on is giving this particular subject a voice. As hard and all as it was for me to digest for my own personal reasons, it was a beautifully written, detailed read with so much depth that I couldn’t put it down. Such a beautiful novel that shouldn’t be missed. A bittersweet novel that left me breathless.
5 stars
Whoa. This was truly amazing. I need to finish my drink, then I’ll review
Beautiful story about some pretty deep issues. I didn’t want it to end.
“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
Excellent read.