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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

422 reviews

hansii's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

ellileninja's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Rape, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Domestic abuse

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Minor: Infertility, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Terminal illness

aiiime's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Sexual violence, Cancer, Gaslighting, Grief, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Rape

blve0live's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

eliya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I’m glad I read this book. Colleen Hoover really does write an incredible story, and awful characters. She does a fantastic job pulling my emotions, but she lacks class consciousness. It’s one thing to tackle domestic abuse, and it’s another to tackle homelessness. I absolutely think someone needed to read the perspective that maybe people experiencing homelessness aren’t in that situation because they choose to be, absolutely, but it doesn’t end at just donating to charities. I was incredibly disappointed with her rationality of hoarding wealth.

From the get go, her characters lack emotional depth. Maybe this book is just a little out dated, but it was very clear that

Ryle didn’t respect her enough to ask for consent until he was already knee deep in physicality with her. He throws micro-tantrums at little things OF COURSE he has a temper. It didn’t seem like there was much to his character other than the fact that he was pretty & was ambitious & met the basic standards of being a good/likeable guy.

At one point, she writes that

Atlas tried to unalive himself and decided not to because he SAW lily and she was SO BEAUTIFUL that he didn’t. give me a break. so incredible tonedeaf.

I think some one who hasn’t thought about these things would absolutely learn from this book, this book is important for what it does & the ending

was so incredibly beautiful i cried, it really did pull at my heart. god that was so perfect. The author’s note was also incredible, I’m so happy i got insight on the characters

I think Colleen Hoover in general is a great fast easy read and a great introduction to reading, but her books and male characters lack depth & common sense. She tackled too many issues with this book and is generally illinformed with the other issues she tried to tackle. Her plots are always such an incredible ride & when it hits it hits! Do better colleen plz for me i love your books!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexism and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, and Suicidal thoughts

gmbooks11_'s review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Violence

alysia_04's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Grief, and Toxic relationship

mjfawcett's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

1.5

The fact that this book is so popular just really bums me out.

Listen I know this is a stupid thing to get caught up on. But the book lost me on page 1 when the character feels like hanging out on a rooftop, uses Google Earth to look for nearby apartment buildings with rooftops, and then just like, goes to one and somehow gets onto the roof. Later we learn it’s a luxury building full of rich people penthouses. Do they not lock the building????? Is there no doorman wondering why a sketchy 23 year old is lurking around???? My immediate impression was, “ok so this author has never lived in or been to an apartment building.” 

Also the fact that the character is named Lily Blossom Bloom and she owns a flower shop at age 23. And the creepy love interest is a med school student yet calls himself Dr. Kincaid and somehow is fabulously wealthy and can buy a 3 bedroom apartment ?? TMI but once I went on a date with a med school student and he used Kleenex as napkins and had almost no furniture in his rented studio apartment. So now we know the author has no concept of money or med school either.

Don’t even get me started on the teenage diary entries written as letters to Ellen Degeneres that take up half the book. Or the fact that in the diaries Lily Blossom Bloom recounts entire conversations in quotes. Oh and of course the other character names are Atlas, Ryle, Allysa, Rylee and Emmy Dori because the author apparently hasn’t met normal humans with normal names either. 

This is the first and only Colleen Hoover book I’ll ever read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Violence, Suicide, Rape, Child death, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Alcohol

macleanbridie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence