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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

1148 reviews

kaylee_kale's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

froggybooks's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

3.5

the bad bits were really bad

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Child death

renreadsbooks's review against another edition

sad fast-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

2.0

I don’t know what I expected from this? I guess I just wanted to see what the hype was. and yeah, it has a poorly written, immature, repetitive, cornball essence that mimics fanfiction. I did appreciate the fast pace, and the character Atlas. but that’s it. don’t even get me started on the

pregnancy trope

jesus. let’s make a bad situation worse shall we? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, Cancer, Child abuse, Medical content, Blood, and Child death

loochia's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.25

THIS IS NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

eleana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I went into this having some, not very good, preconceptions about Colleen. I've seen as much hate as love online about this author, so I hate to say I believed blindly her writing would suck. I was very pleasantly surprised by this. The writing itself was choppy and very cringe for the first 20% or so, but it found its rhythm and became gripping and sensitive. I also expected this to be extremely smutty, mostly due to booktok, but coming into this after an Elsie Silver book, the sex was much more tolerable. I don't love a sex scene in a book still, but did find I enjoyed parts of these.

I loved many characters, Atlas, Lily and Alyssa and loved and hated Ryle in equal parts. I think the ending was perfect for these characters

All in all, I'd read more Colleen Hoover in the future. This one may be worth the hype

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault

gfrisch's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

ahallstro's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

dw1991's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Rape and abuse was the theme of this book. Well written but very hard to read if you have known similar circumstances.

rhiannonellis_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

I have put off reading this book for over four years because friends that read it told me it contains topics surrounding rape and domestic abuse. This is something I didn’t think I could face reading after coming out of a horrific relationship, and I’m so glad I left it until now.

I absolutely loved this book.

If you have experienced domestic abuse this book really shows how hard it can be to leave someone even if they do truly horrific things. I resonated with Lilly’s character so much and I felt the heartbreak she felt so clearly. 

I also loved the way it was written - I enjoyed how the story developed and the diary extracts throughout. Atlas’ story was equally heartbreaking and in a way I wish I could of read more about him - maybe that’s what the sequel to this book is about?

Initially I was going to rate this a 4.5 as some of the writing was poor and I found myself getting frustrated with how forgiving Lily was, but this just shows what it’s like looking in from the outside at an abusive relationship. The way the book ended made it 5 stars. 

I’m kind of at a loss for words in terms of how much I loved this book and I can’t really review it with words that give it justice.

Highly highly highly recommend reading.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

lmjones's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

3.5

Gripping read. Biggest issues are the name choices (sometimes there are books where all the characters have names that seem like they were stolen from a millennial tween’s list of future children and, unfortunately, this is one of them), and it’s too sexually graphic for my taste… I always think of that scene with the principal in “10 things I hate about you” writing her romance novel when books get this explicit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Child abuse