caffeinatedpagesnyc 's review for:

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 I don’t even know where to begin with this one… Bookstagram said it would break me, they said it would leave me in tears, that it would absolutely shatter my heart. It did. 

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.” 

Lily Bloom grew up in a toxic household in Maine. Using her love for Ellen Degeneres as an outlet. She meets Atlas, a homeless boy who is staying in an abandoned house behind her backyard and they quickly form a connection, that is until he leaves to join the military. When Lily goes graduated from college she starts over in a new city, Boston, where everything is better. There she meets Ryle, a neurosurgeon and they fall madly in love. Suddenly her life is way too good to be true. Or is it? 

This book was so hard to review and I am hesitant to discuss too much of it because I think readers should go into this book with minimal information about it. This book was totally worth the hype and I can’t recommend it enough. It really gave me perspective on Lily’s situation and what women in her shoes go through. This book was honest, inspiring, and educational and it really made me think deeper about toxic relationships. I don’t want to say more. If you haven’t read this book, stop what you’re doing right now and pick it up. DM me if you want to discuss this, I know I’ll be reflecting on this one for a long time.