Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover

56 reviews

ashley_1206's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

3-3.5⭐️

i don’t think this book needed to be written and i don’t think it needed to be a whole new book. i would have been happy with a novella but i cant say i regret reading the book.

this book was average, it was real. seeing atlas and lily healing was amazing to see but i don’t think we needed it since it ends with us wasn’t about them, but i can see the high demand.

i think i liked this book because i like to see people happy. but i loved the minor characters more!!

if this book was never released i would be okay but i do think that it was a fast book to get through and i wouldn’t tell someone not to read it if they wanted to!!

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

_rae6021's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Overall alright read, not as good as the first one. Was quite long winded and seemed at a loss for storyline at times it seemed like they were just tryna keep the book going when it didn’t need to.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

n1amh5319's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is as Hoover describes- a lovable book that gives you exact what you want. If the first book breaks you down, the second builds you back up.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

alexandria752's review against another edition

Go to review page

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.75


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

literallysam's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I'm not going to compare it with IEWU because this book is written as a gift for the fans of IEWU, like a 'thanku', and was never really meant to be anything more than that.

I liked how we get to know about Atlas's past. I absolutely adored the new characters, they were a really nice addition to the story. I mean this book has my one of the most favourite sub-characters, you'll see when you read!
Also I loved the jokes in the book, they had me rolling. So overall, this book was definitely a source of peace and pleasure after the kind of devastation that IEWU caused. It's not much about the plot but the way it makes you feel.
Also, I absolutely loved the letters written by Atlas.

Apart from that nothing else was really new because we kind of picked up where IEWU left off and just ran with it. We already knew that the co-parenting wasn't going to be easy. What we actually needed was Ryle's character development but instead of that he is shown extremely ignorant even after we saw how he had changed in the ending of IEWU. I wanted to see Ryle getting better and moving on in his life.
This book was so anticipated that after reading it I just ended up wanting more & more and I think that there could've been some really good twist and turns.

I really appreciate Colleen for writing this and giving us a HEA to the story but personally I don't think that there was any need to write a sequel of the book and it wasn't really necessary, especially when the first book had done so well. But then I absolutely loved IEWU so I just had to read this one.

Nonetheless I really liked this book. The story is sweet, short, simple and intoxicating. And If you like reading HEAs than you should definitely go for it.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

Go to review page

hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

kels_jaadee's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book so much! Was so great to see a SPOILER ALERT<<<<happy ending between lily and atlas>>>>  <<<<Atlas deserved the world and he got it!>>>>❤️

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

ell_porritt's review against another edition

Go to review page

funny inspiring tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i’m glad it’s a more happier ending, still too much of ryle in the book for my liking🤭 but i did enjoy reading more about atlas and lily and the ending they got to have together. theo 100% probs my fav character he slayed the entire time. the ellen obsession still throws me off, along with the finding nemo stuff but oh well. 

the line “i do lily. come home” was the only line that had me nearly crying. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

ghast's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0


Expand filter menu Content Warnings