5 Smooches!
Synopsis
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, and 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.
With this bold and deeply personal novel Colleen Hoover delivers a heart-wrenching story that breaks exciting new ground for her as a writer. Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all too human characters, “It Ends with Us” is an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price.
REVIEW
OK! OK Colleen Hoover! Just OK! I know, I know. I know what to expect when I read one of your amazing books. I know to expect some tears and all of the feels. I know you are going to surprise me, hurt me, and then put me back together. But I wasn’t prepared for this kind of abuse. I just wasn’t. I felt blindsided with this book. This wasn’t your usual method of operation and I hate you for it. I love you too, but still I hate you. Because you took my sweet unsuspecting reader heart, you held it in your hands carefully and then threw it on the ground, stomped all over that bad boy and shoved it with back into my chest. And you did it over and over and over again.
‘That’s what fifteen minutes can do to a person. It can destroy them. It can save them.’
You made me love someone that I shouldn’t. You made me question something that I always thought I knew. You made me question wether I would leave. It’s a funny to thing to learn that you could be a weak woman while reading a Colleen Hoover novel. The kind of woman you despise. Because she isn’t strong enough to make the right decisions. Because you made me love him that much. You made me root for him stupidly. You made me hope he would change. You made me sympathize so badly for him that I thought for sure love could save him. And I am just so pissed about it. And I am damn uncomfortable. It is an awful feeling and I don’t like it one bit.
‘Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.’
But in the end I had to give this one 5 Stars and that is because I believe in my heart that the author wanted me to feel this way. It was intentional. She wanted to make me question everything that I ever thought I knew about the subject matter at hand. She wanted me to want to stay. She wanted me to struggle along with Lily. And I kinda hate Colleen Hoover right now but I will get over it because I am pure crap at holding a grudge and because this story was brilliant, thought provoking, and heart breaking just as she intended. And I am seriously hoping one day, I won’t be so angry about it all.
“Just keep swimming,”
~Amie
