It Ends With Us
By Colleen Hoover
Absolutely Captivating. I couldn’t put it down. It had me hooked from the first page.
It Ends With Us is not my first Colleen Hoover experience. Many years ago, I read Never Never and I hated it. I had to breeze through to the end just to find out the ending and I said I was never reading her books again (I am probably going to give it another try). When I saw this I said no
Kept on seeing it on every booktok list, but booktok doesn’t always recommend the best books. However, my sister, who isn’t even a book reader, sent this saying that I would enjoy it. So we got the book and I started reading it. Couldn’t drop it and I was captivated.
“Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen seconds that we’ll never get back.“
Reading this book was a rollercoaster of various emotions. I’m laughing one moment and the next moment I’m crying. I was happy, sad, angry, shocked and hurt but in the end, I achieved peace with the characters.
But most of all I was angry. I remember exclaiming a lot while reading and saying if I was Lily I’ll do this and that but I kept on reading and really asked again what I would really do if I was her? I wasn’t angry anymore, I was sad, broken and hurt.
It’s how we all have an opinion until we’re faced with the situation. I am trying to put down my thoughts after reading this book and I have tears in my eyes. It wasn’t what I expected, it was better. Books like It Ends With Us are why I love reading and why I always continue to read books. This was a beautiful piece of literature and an easy five star and I would give it more stars if I could.
Oh my days, I cried after reading this book, I cried while reading this book and I cried some more after reading the reader’s note at the end. It was so heartfelt It broke my heart and stitched it back together. I feel sad but at the same time at peace, and these characters will forever live with me. This book was amazing, and the title of the book was so inspirational.
I went on this journey with Lily feeling all she felt, love, kindness, friendship, hurt, anger, and betrayal. When they cried I cried and when they laughed I did. I fell in love with Ryle at the beginning just like she did and every other thing that she felt after.
I admired her character as well as her strength and conviction.
“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.”
It Ends With Us shares a powerful message beyond the themes of the book. And that is why I want everyone to read it even if you are not a book reader.
Note that this isn’t a sad book I thought it was and avoided it but it wasn’t. I laughed a lot and, the message in the story is just so impactful and it applies to every aspect of life, not just the theme in the book.
“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
“Cycles exist 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.”
Blurb
Sometimes it is the one who loves you 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. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. 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.
Announcement
A sequel for It Ends With us titled: It Starts With Us, has been announced to be released on the 18th of October 2022.
Great review ! I wanted to read this book for a while but I was scared it was really sad. I already read Verity from the same author and loved it (even if it’s traumatising)
I was worried it would be sad too but it wasn’t. It’s overhyped and rightly so. You should definitely read the book. Verity is on another level of its own never read a book like it and it was def traumatizing especially reading verity’s thought process in the manuscript.