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A review by eantoinette285
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
5.0
A fellow reader said it best when she said this book left her immobile. It's the morning after I've shut the back cover and I'm still speechless. I'm trying to form adequate words to bring a proper review to this story, but I just don't think it can be done. Instead, I'm going to go off the cuff and hope for the best.
Lily Bloom states that all it takes is fifteen minutes to destroy a person, and that's exactly what these pages did to me. This just shot to the top of my favorite CoHo books, and it's not going to waver from number one. A day spent with this story and these characters, and now I get lessons and a message to carry with me through life.
For such a small cast of characters, they've certainly left their mark on my soul. There's Lily, the girl who is just trying to find her way, Atlas, the boy from her past, her best friend, Allysa and her husband, Marshall... and then there's Allysa's brother, Ryle Kinkaid. At the center is the story of love, but not romance. This group is too raw for it to be that way. There are glimpses of romantic love, the honeymoon period of a relationship, the fairy tale everyone wants, but then there's underlying elements and conflicts of darkness that just made this so real.
Ryle and Lily have a connection that is so good, and so deep, but behind closed doors, things aren't always magical or blissful. Atlas was the first love who just couldn't be forgotten, and kept haunting the couple's life. Allysa and Marshall are madly in love, but have their own struggles, and on top of everything, they have to keep their eyes on what Ryle and Lily aren't telling them.
I respect the hell out of this book, and Colleen, to write something that doesn't give us the big, fancy wedding, white picket fences, and 2.5 kids. Life doesn't work that way anymore. I appreciate every single word that this story told to me, and I can't begin to list the lessons I've learned about relationships (friends, family, partners, even business), love, love lost, the ups and downs of marriage, etc. I don't want to say too much and give away the purpose of this book. The best thing I can say is, go into it blind, and let it hit you without too much outside influence. Regardless, you'll be blown away, and feel emotionally drained for awhile after. This is an absolute must-read, and Colleen, Thank you a million times for this story. I bow to you on this one, because I will never be able to convey everything these pages meant to me.
Lily Bloom states that all it takes is fifteen minutes to destroy a person, and that's exactly what these pages did to me. This just shot to the top of my favorite CoHo books, and it's not going to waver from number one. A day spent with this story and these characters, and now I get lessons and a message to carry with me through life.
For such a small cast of characters, they've certainly left their mark on my soul. There's Lily, the girl who is just trying to find her way, Atlas, the boy from her past, her best friend, Allysa and her husband, Marshall... and then there's Allysa's brother, Ryle Kinkaid. At the center is the story of love, but not romance. This group is too raw for it to be that way. There are glimpses of romantic love, the honeymoon period of a relationship, the fairy tale everyone wants, but then there's underlying elements and conflicts of darkness that just made this so real.
Ryle and Lily have a connection that is so good, and so deep, but behind closed doors, things aren't always magical or blissful. Atlas was the first love who just couldn't be forgotten, and kept haunting the couple's life. Allysa and Marshall are madly in love, but have their own struggles, and on top of everything, they have to keep their eyes on what Ryle and Lily aren't telling them.
I respect the hell out of this book, and Colleen, to write something that doesn't give us the big, fancy wedding, white picket fences, and 2.5 kids. Life doesn't work that way anymore. I appreciate every single word that this story told to me, and I can't begin to list the lessons I've learned about relationships (friends, family, partners, even business), love, love lost, the ups and downs of marriage, etc. I don't want to say too much and give away the purpose of this book. The best thing I can say is, go into it blind, and let it hit you without too much outside influence. Regardless, you'll be blown away, and feel emotionally drained for awhile after. This is an absolute must-read, and Colleen, Thank you a million times for this story. I bow to you on this one, because I will never be able to convey everything these pages meant to me.