It Ends With Us Review

It Ends With Us

By: Colleen Hoover

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.

With this bold and deeply personal novel, Colleen Hoover delivers a heart-wrenching story that breaks exciting new ground for her as a writer. Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, It Ends With Us is an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price.

I walked into this book knowing nothing except for the fact that it was written by my favorite author, and it was her most personal book yet.

I was nervous.  What would this be about? Would I enjoy it? Would I cry? My name Lily is the same as the main characters, would that change my opinion on it even more?

There's no way you can really prepare for the heartbreak that's bound to come with a book so I sucked it up and closed myself out for a few hours in my room.

When I emerged, I had a new perspective.

The emotion held in this story was real and raw.  Colleen didn't hold back on the characters flaws and kept throwing more things to hate and love about them.  These types of relationships happen, I've seen people go through them at even a young age in high school, to what my mother tells me of her father. 

I admit I didn't cry while reading this book, because I was too shocked at the realness this story holds for people.  I've always wondered why people don't just leave abusive situations? Why stay? Just walk out, easy and simple.  But as I cheered on Ryle and Lily, just to see them crumble, I wanted him to change, I wanted them to work out.  But the reality of it is it's simply never going to happen. I felt myself pulled into the abuse, belief in his lies. 

Survivors of abuse, people who deal with it, are extremely brave.  Not just to be in the situation but to have the strength to walk away. 

This story made me thank my parents for showing me how true love is supposed to work.  They had always told me how lucky I was, but I didn't truly realize it until now.  The biggest fight I've ever seen them in is when my dad drives and my mom freaks out when he goes a bit too fast and doesn't stop right away.

I want to hug every single person out there, no matter what they are going through.  Because you are loved.  By God, Jesus, He will never let you down.

Though it didn't have some crazy plot twist that blew your mind, it held something else.  Raw, real material of something that happens everyday to people.  Some people we may know, some we don't.