Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

1194 reviews

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I can't believe I read another CoHo book after swearing off her years ago... I got curious, okay? And it was *gasp* pretty good? Better than her other books at any rate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Minor: Classism, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

mckinleyelle's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Child death, and Infidelity

paigeinabook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

As someone who knew most of what I was getting into, I still came away very surprised by it all! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Excrement, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Addiction, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

bmz's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Misogyny

c_marie226's review against another edition

Honestly, it was so much and I thought it was truly offensive to read. Ryle absolutely sucks. The main girl has an edge of manic pixie dream girl. And I could not, could not get over how she describes her first relationship.

She calls him “a homeless man”, he is a teen without a home due to an awful home life.

I could not force myself to keep reading and upon looking up the book synopsis, I am glad I gave up when I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

cam_cameron44's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

aaashtyn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Wow! I’m really surprised how much I loved this book. I like romance books, but I don’t love when they are super lovey dovey, but I loved that there was so much more to this story than just a happy love story.

As much as I wanted to root for Ryle, I couldn’t because I felt for Lily and wanted her to protect herself. I love that this story talked about how it’s much harder to leave someone that it seems, and talking about domestic abuse is something that can’t ever be talked about too much. I also liked how Lily didn’t immediately choose Atlas and start dating Atlas after he helped her.

  I felt emotions for all characters in this book, and everyone deserves to have a friend like Allysa. Such a great book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Rape

rad_reads_123's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death of parent

justine_311's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent

lyssie03's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

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

0.5

well. this was a ride. oscillating (still) between 1 and 2 stars. need to figure out a personal rating system. i think 1 means i absolutely abhorred everything about it. this book had some moments where i didn’t hate it or didn’t cringe; and i understand the message and i think, honestly, when i had gotten to the end, the 2 star i was contemplating was due to the message, but i don’t believe coho handled the topic as well as she should have. while i appreciate that this is personal to the author, this is a dangerous narrative to push to impressionable young readers while glorifying and romanticising aspects of it. while atlas was also one of the ‘better’ (tbh, everyone in this story pissed me off at least once; marshall’s might have been the least offensive but i am still undecided) character, he is still not the perfect man and while i’m glad he was there to help that night, it would have been more powerful if someone else could have been the person for lily to lean on—e.g., allysa or her mother.

the attempted rape, graphic sexual assault and humiliation of lily that night should have resulted in ryle never spending unsupervised time with his child, or any children. like i need him locked up. and i wish it was stressed by others in the book at how terrifying this was. allysa, as his sister, would’ve loved for lily to give him a second chance? what the fuck? whether speaking as his sister or her best friend, you should STILL want her to have nothing to do with that man ever again? in fact, you shouldn’t even want anything to ever do with that man. [also pissed me off when she made him tell lily about their brother as if that had anything to do with anything. whole time i was sat there like... is this supposed to make up for you shoving her down the stairs and then GASLIGHTING her about it? talmbout “you fell”??] the fact that it was so different from the first two “incidents” in the fact that it was calculated should have sounded warning bells that this is not just a “damaged” man who is dealing with inner demons. he planned to humiliate and harm her that night. he does not need to be redeemed or coddled or talked down to in order to understand why lily cannot stay in their marriage (“what would you say if it was your daughter?” good god. he is not a child.)

also. regarding atlas, depending on the situation, i tend to have few problems with 16–18 relationships [dependent on the fact that there are no power imbalances, grooming, and that no one is being harmed, etc]; e.g., if the older person had just turned 18/the younger person’s 17th is soon/they had been together prior to one partner turning 18. however, there was genuinely no need for them to have sex. their relationship, to serve as the comparison to ryle and lily’s, worked well enough before the scene and it would have had the same impact had she left that scene out as it had already been established how much they meant to each other and how crucial he was as a fellow child of an abusive home.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy