It Ends With US by Colleen Hoover

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.

Rating: 4/5 Stars

“People spend so much time wondering why the women don’t leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn’t that where the only blame should be placed?”

This book was nothing like what I expected.

I’m not a fan of Colleen Hoover’s books, except for her novellas with Tarryn Fisher. I’ve tried Confess and Ugly Love (DNFed it, though) and neither of them left a lasting impression on me. Add that to the fact that I’ve had terrible experiences with the NA genre, I wasn’t sure whether I should give this book a chance or not but in the end I got curious about all the glowing five stars reviews.

I should probably warn you that It Ends With Us has a very deceiving summary. Just by reading it I thought it was going to be about romance and a love triangle, but then you get to the 50% mark and HOLY FUCK it’s so much more than that!

There’s not much about the plot that I can say without giving away spoilers, all I can tell you is that it was heartbreaking, infuriating and beautiful.

This was by no means a perfect book, but it’s definitely worth a try!