You’ve probably read It Ends With Us, or not and are in search of a similar read. You are in the right place. The family re-occurrence might have ended with Lily but the story doesn’t have to end there.
This article recommends books that have the same feels as it ends with us. Not exactly the same or even as intense as It Ends With Us, but similar. I went into that book blind I wasn’t sure what I was expecting but definitely not a book that shattered me and mended me back. So this is a recommendation of books that are similar to the book and maybe have the same feels as the book.
1. It Ends With Us
Of course, I am starting the list with It Ends With Us. The book shares a powerful message beyond the themes of the book. The messages in the story are just so impactful and they applies to every aspect of life, not just the theme in the book. 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. This book was amazing, and the title of the book was so inspirational.
Make sure you read the reader’s note at the end of the book.
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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.
2. Me before you
Me before you is one book that gets you in your feels. I read this as a teenager and now as a young adult, I have read it again. It was like reading it for the first time and things that flew by my head then were really clear this time around.
This is a beautiful love story of a quadriplegic Will and Lou his caretaker who brought some amount of happiness into his life despite his illness.
Ths has already been made into a movie of the same title for movie lovers.
Blurb
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.
Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.
A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
3. Hate Notes
Hate notes is an enemy to lovers romance. It is heartwarming, sweet, emotional and romantic.
It all started with a mysterious blue note sewn into a wedding dress.
Blurb
Something blue.
I’d gone to sell my own unworn bridal gown at a vintage clothing store. That’s when I found another bride’s “something old.”
Stitched into the lining of a fabulously feathered design was the loveliest message I’d ever read: Thank you for making all of my dreams come true.
The name embossed on the blue stationery: Reed Eastwood, obviously the most romantic man who ever lived. I also discovered he’s the most gorgeous. If only my true-love fantasies had stopped there. Because I’ve since found out something else about Mr. Starry-Eyed.
He’s arrogant, cynical, and demanding. I should know. Thanks to a twist of fate, he’s my new boss. But that’s not going to stop me from discovering the story behind his last love letter. A love letter that did not result in a happily ever after.
But that story is nothing compared to the one unfolding between us. It’s getting hotter, sweeter, and more surprising than anything I could have imagined.
Something new.
But I have no idea how this one is going to end…
4. The Last Letter From Your Lover
Blurb
It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon an impassioned letter, signed simply “B”, asking her to leave her husband.
Years later, in 2003, a journalist named Ellie discovers the same enigmatic letter in a forgotten file in her newspaper’s archives. She becomes obsessed by the story and hopeful that it can resurrect her faltering career. Perhaps if these lovers had a happy ending she will find one to her own complicated love life, too. Ellie’s search will rewrite history and help her see the truth about her own modern romance.
A spellbinding, intoxicating love story with a knockout ending, The Last Letter from Your Lover will appeal to the readers who have made One Day and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society bestsellers.
5. Love and Other Words
Love and other words is a beautifully crafted story of friendship and first love, of suffering loss and finding your soulmate. This book is a beautifully written romance fiction about best friends to lovers to strangers. It is a second chance romance that is written in a past and present way showing the innocence of childhood and the intentionality of Adulthood.
“Your favorite word?” he whispers.
I don’t even hesitate. “You.”
Blurb
The heart may hide, but it never forgets.
The first women’s fiction novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Autoboyography, Dating You / Hating You).
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly teen friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother…only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.
Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco reading books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
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6. Where She Went
(If I Stay #2)
It’s been three years since the devastating accident… three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard’s rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia’s home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future – and each other.
Told from Adam’s point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.
7. Ugly love
Ugly love was a book about love, heartbreak, loss and forgiveness most especially forgiving yourself.
I loved the writing style of Showing Miles’ past while we read about his present. This book is really interesting. The thing about Collen is I have come to realise I do not have to like the characters to like a book. I mean I barely like 50% of the characters. Miles was a lot and to be honest he put Tate through a lot of unnecessary stress. I read this in 5 hours it was quite a page-turner and Miles Miles wow.
See I liked this book but I hated it. Tate deserved better and Miles was just being manipulative. His past honestly wasn’t an excuse for the shit he put Tate through. But you know what Tate is a grown-up and was fully aware of her actions. This title is definitely fitting. This was definitely an Ugly Love.
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From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction, at first sight, can be messy.
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn’t think it’s love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.
Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.
They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
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