
'It Ends with Us' by Colleen Hoover explores the complex themes of abusive relationships, domestic violence, and the cycle of abuse. The story follows the protagonist, Lily Bloom, as she navigates a relationship with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid while grappling with her past traumas and the impact of her upbringing. Through a raw and emotional narrative, the author delves into the challenges of making difficult decisions, the importance of breaking cycles of abuse, and the power of forgiveness and redemption. The writing style is described as captivating, raw, and evocative, drawing readers into the characters' lives and evoking a range of emotions from laughter to tears.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
Content warnings include domestic violence, emotional abuse, and themes of childhood trauma.
Has Romance?
The book contains romantic elements but is primarily focused on serious themes rather than being a straightforward love story.
From The Publisher:
In this "brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long after you've finished it" (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can't stop thinking about her first love.
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 where she grew up-she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life seems 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.
An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is "a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down" (USA TODAY).
Ratings (368)
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Loved It (118) | |
Liked It (86) | |
It Was OK (47) | |
Did Not Like (35) | |
Hated It (29) |
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13 comment(s)
This book…THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING! I fell in love and out of love and back in love with the characters so many times. Didn’t realize that this story would be such a thought provoking one. Reading the authors note at the end really tied it all together. I am very interested to see how they’re going to be able to execute this as beautifully as the book did in the upcoming movie.
I expected better writing for how popular these books are. The character’s dialogue & inner dialogue is bizarre, and other characters’ behavior is weird.
Reading this brought me back the the worst relationship I ever had my senior year of college and made me realize that I wasn’t crazy and when you read a book that so authentically echoes your own personal experience that it is both painful and healing it’s important that you let people know it’s a worthwhile read which is what I am doing now by writing this review.
Somehow I picked this up not knowing it was a DV narrative. 😬
****4.0****
I wanted to read this book ever since it got into Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 Romance category and became a winner. Nah! I don’t like to read much of romance but once in awhile it feels good 🙂 Plus, look at the colors on the cover!! purplish-red or mauvish-crimson or … Ok Magenta 😛 So lovely 🙂 My first Hoover book!
Lily Blossoms Bloom, it’s a noun, yes it’s our protagonist and she wants to be a florist. ( Ironic right!) She worked hard and went to college and moved to Boston and got a marketing or some other job despite her family problems. Her father , Mayor in a small town in Maine, is abusive towards her mother but loves her immensely. All Lily want is to stop the abuse and live normally but instead she finds herself getting involved with her homeless senior Atlas, who is exactly opposite to her father. But they get separated with a bit of parental intervention and Atlas joins the army for good.
The above is the backstory. Now, after Lily leaves her father’s funeral, she meets a handsome neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid and she is attracted to him. Ryle is arrogant, but hard to forget and he too looks like falling for her. But Ryle believes in One night stands and Lily doesn’t. On the other hand Lily opens a Florist shop in Boston and she meets him again and again in different circumstances and believe me this part of the book that is the first half revolves around “too-good-to-be-true” love story or sexing and I was about to puke :@:@
But… the next half was so dramatic and with lots of twists and turns like
All are impressed by Ryle
Ryle and Lily marries
Ryle is exactly like Lily’s father
Enter Atlas
How will it end ??? 😛
Well, it ended on a different twist but a happy one.Good Narration and good plot.
If you have the patience to go through the first part then it’s a good read 🙂
Happy Romancing !!!!
Really well done, written in a way that makes you really feel and think about the reprecussions of peoples actions, and just how many things can affect a person.
4.5⭐️ a quick read… engaging… an emotional roller coaster… visualized the whole story and the characters… overall I enjoyed the novel and read the second part as well.
gatilhos do livro: agressão, violência doméstica, consumo de álcool, estrupo.
esse foi meu primeiro livro da colleen e logo de primeira fui fisgada por ela. a escrita me envolveu e em poucas páginas eu já estava apaixonada pela lily e pelo ryle e por todos os outros personagens que estavam na trama. depois disso, meu deus, foi tiro, porrada e bomba. o que a lily escreve no diário dela, tudo que ela vivencia, se comparando sempre a mãe dela... meu jesus amado.
nunca tinha lido um livro que tratasse sobre violência doméstica e também não conheço muitos, mas esse livro me fez abrir os olhos para muita coisa, me fez aprender muito. quero ler mais sobre o assunto e, principalmente, mais livros da colleen.
"As pessoas passam tanto tempo se perguntando por que as mulheres não vão embora... Onde estão as pessoas curiosas do porquê os homens serem violentos? Não é aí que deveria estar a culpa?"
simplesmente fenomenal. leiam.
Boring and predictable
This is my first book by this author. I had heard a lot of good things about her, so I had really high expectations. And I guess I'm a little disappointed. I was expecting something spectacular, and this is an average story, still completely different from what I thought. Well, I found a lot of things here that I usually don't like in my books.
My biggest problem with this book is I thought it was going to be a romance. And while this is Lily's love story for two men - one from her past and one now, I wouldn't call it a romance by any means. Because I cannot call a romance a story in which a beloved partner physically abuses the main character. This may be a believable portrayal of a domestic abuse relationship, but it's not a romance. And I've seen that book even classified as chick lit. In my opinion, it's more of a woman's fiction.
One of the things I really don't like in my books are flashbacks. This book was no exception. Lily's diary excerpts are way too long for me. I figured out pretty quickly what was going on in Lily's parents' marriage, I really didn't need all those details. Nor did I need to learn the history of Lily and Atlas with so many details. This is always a problem for me with a dual plot like this when we have the present plotline and the past one. Unless there is anything particularly remarkable in the past, I'm not interested in it.
I heard somewhere there is a love triangle in this book and I was afraid of it. I am one of those people who really don't like this theme. Atlas is Lily's first puppy love. I understand that she still has feelings for him, but I think at this stage it should be more like good memories rather than true love. I believe that after so many years you cannot continue a relationship where you left it. Given the passage of time, her still quite strong feelings for Atlas are a bit strange to me. They are no longer the same people they were as teenagers, they are adults now, in different mindset. It's a bit like clinging to a memory of a loved one distorted by the naivety of youth. But it's a good thing that this thread is not very elaborate in this book.
These threads about Ellen DeGeneres have gotten old poorly now that we find out how she treated the people around her. But perhaps there is a strange irony in it that Lily writes about her problems and domestic violence to Ellen DeGeneres, who has abused her subordinates.
Stories like this are way beyond my comfort zone, and I usually avoid them. It was hard for me to read. Because of this, I did not form an opinion about this author, I have to try her other books. Hope to find more romance in them.
About the Author:
Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Slammed, Hopeless, Maybe Someday, Maybe Not, Ugly Love, Confess, November 9, It Ends with Us, Without Merit, and All Your Perfects. She has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance three years in a row-for Confess (2015), It Ends with Us (2016), and Without Merit (2017). Confess was adapted into a seven-episode online series. In 2015, Colleen and her family founded The Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly subscription service offering signed novels donated by authors. All profits are given to various charities each month to help those in need. Colleen lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. Visit ColleenHoover.com.
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