PLEASE TAKE CARE;THIS BOOK HEAVILY MENTIONS RAPE, ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND CHILD NEGLECT***
14 October 2024 review by Hassana Jibril
plot/blurb
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 a Neurosurgeon that's assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. She can’t get him out of her head. 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.
My Ratings:8/10
Age:18+
Themes:Fiction, New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Romance and Love
Release Date:August 2, 2016
My Thoughts
I bought this book after It Starts With Us came out in 2022 and everyone was running to the nearest book shop to buy it. I wanted to read it starts with us like everyone else, but of course I had to read It Ends With Us first.
I usually need a book to start of very interesting or I lose interest after the first few pages and it's a struggle to get through, but thankfully this book wasn't like that at all and I finished it in three days. I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.
I liked how in the first few pages there's already some sexual tension In the first few pages. I was kind of expecting that though since it's a Colleen Hoover book but I feel like if it started with anything else I would of lost interest.
I definitely understand why this book was so hyped but I also understand why there was hate. One of the reasons I think it was hated so much is because Colleen didn't put a trigger warning anywhere in the book but she has stated why she said I don't agree with this and think this should be a must to put trigger warning at the beginning of books.
And also another thing people didn't like was how Colleen was "Romanticising" toxic relationship I really don't know, when reading this that didn't come to my mind I only contemplated this in my head after people on tiktok said so; so I don't really think so.
But I think, this story is moving. It will make you think about things that are uncomfortable to think about. It will lift your heart, devastate you at times, make you proud, fill you with sorrow and make you smile. It will move you. It’s powerful and intense in the best way, but also has hopeful and lighter moments. The story itself is one that has been heavy on my heart from the moment I finished it.
93% of google users liked this book so it's only 7% of people that wern't moved reading this and I think that is just crazy! one of Colleen Hoovers best books that got me back into reading, would definitely recommend. But I give it 4 stars because I'm not really a fan of graphic sex scenes but that's just personal prefferance and I should have known, knowing It was a Colleen Hoover book
4 stars for me
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