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I really enjoyed this book. Its one of those books which gives you happiness, pain, heartbreak and so many more feels altogether. How are you all liking the characters?
How does Atlas make you feel and what were your initial thoughts about him?
Ruchi, I'm sorry but I really do not like Colleen Hoover as an author. She's one of the most overrated author of the times. I've reada couple before discounting her,so I'm not even making an attempt at reading this one.So, here's wishing you and everyone else a good read and enjoy!!
I was blown away with this book. It was a rollercoaster of emotions for me even after I had finished it. Lily's journey got me invested in her story from the start. It is a story that needed to be told and I am glad Colleen did in a way I doubt any other author would have done in her place. I am glad i read the book and I will be waiting for the movie next year.
Supurna wrote: "I was blown away with this book. It was a rollercoaster of emotions for me even after I had finished it. Lily's journey got me invested in her story from the start. It is a story that needed to be ..."I am so glad you enjoyed this book. Although, the sequel of this book - It Starts With Us... was a major let down for me. I just felt that Colleen Hoover wrote the book to cash in on the opportunity. Have you read the book? What do you feel about it?
Wondered why their so much love and hate regarding Collen Hoover’s “It Ends with Us” and “It Starts with Us”. that’s how I started reading it ends with us, but due to their negative aura or romanticization of abusive behaviour, I can’t read it regularly. Allysa and Marshall’s characters are great. I didn’t connect with Lilly and Ryle. It e conveying some good things throughout out and the last chapter was good. but I never liked the epilogue it felt vulnerable and the author just wanna stretch things it goes the same for “It Starts with us “ it made me feel it was written to please people and make money.
Mahesh wrote: "Wondered why their so much love and hate regarding Collen Hoover’s “It Ends with Us” and “It Starts with Us”. that’s how I started reading it ends with us, but due to their negative aura or romanti..."I agree with your point of view, to some extent there was casual romanticization of abusive behaviour in 'It Ends With Us.' But, I guess what matters the most is the final step taken by Lily and how she decides to stand up for herself. She decided to end the cycle and and also the story gave us a deeper perspective in the lives of people who face domestic abuse and how difficult it is for someone to stay in that situation and even to break from that situation.
I also believe that 'It Starts With Us' was mainly written to please people and fill pockets of the writers and publishers. It did ruin the kind of ending I wanted for Lily and her daughter. I also feel the character arch of Lily was ruined in the sequel.
For me the book should end , when lily started living happily with child as an independent women who following her dream and happy with Emerson.
It Ends with Us is a romance novel by Colleen Hoover, published in 2016. It is based on the relationship between Hoover's mother and father. Hoover described it in 2016 as "the hardest book I've ever written."
A sequel titled It Starts with Us is scheduled to be published in October 2022.
Blurb:
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.