It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover REVIEW

 It Ends With Us

by Colleen Hoover

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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.

Review

The main thing I found when reading this book is how majorly cringy it is. From characters names to the relationships themselves there were so many "wtf seriously?" moments. Beginning with Lilly Blosson Bloom wannabe florist and our main character it really just stays at a steady cringe through a good portion of the book. And, I'm just going to say it. Lilly and Ryle's relationship is so cringy it gives me secondhand embarrassment. I just... yuck.. no thanks. At one point he monitors her heartbeat while he pleasures her so he can get her heart up to a 140 bpm, like what?

So why keep reading if I spent most of the book shaking my head? Well, because mixed in with all that is the story of a woman who watched her mother suffer from abuse at the hands of her father and how that impacted her life as she got older. This book really is more than a woman chosing between two men. This is a book where actions have consequences and where sometimes rainbows are hard to find. Yes, this book has so many cringy parts, but there are also funny parts, sad parts and even scary parts. So would I give this book 5 stars? No, I actually gave it 3 stars. But would I say this book is worth reading? Yes, what it does wrong doesn't cancel out what it does right and this book shines a rare light on abuse and the impact it takes on those involved.