It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Book Review:

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Description:
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.

Review:
TW: domestic violence

“Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most” - this book absolutely made that clear and pulled some heartstrings too. I didn’t find this book to be another predictable romance and I wasn’t sure how it was going to end. It was definitely eye opening in regard to the different perspectives of domestic violence and what women (specifically women in this story) go through and the choices they have to make not just for their own well being but for their children. This book was emotional and it had me empathizing for the characters, even Ryle (which you’ll understand why I said “even” Ryle once you read the book). Lily is a strong, strong woman and representation for only a minuscule amount of women in this world. Her character makes me question my own thoughts on women in situations of domestic violence and she challenges me to think differently.

Definitely would recommend and definitely would read again!