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A review by tiltedpages
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
challenging
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
"Please forgive me if I've done anything bad to you in this lifetime" says my grannie to him.
"Why do you need to be forgiven for sins that you haven't done? It was me who mistreated you, It is me who should ask your forgiveness" my grandpa replied while he was at that late stages of his life in a hospital room.
He desperately needed my grannie's attention those days, they had the most profound conversations for the whole days and nights like they didn't talk to each other in all those years they lived together.It is the damn truth ! their conjugal life was absolutely obnoxious especially hers was utterly abusive, he traumatized her physically, emotionally and in almost all ways possible.When I asked her what kept her swimming in the dark, her answer was "the child."When I asked the child what his childhood felt like, his answer was "terrible."It is about women, she is addictive when it comes to love, she has her own reasoning to keep someone in her life if she intends to, she can move the mountains for that one person simply because of love and that's exactly how she embraces her family with all its contradictions.
Reality can take two different dimensions, one is to stay and confront the torture, the other is to walk away and start over.Believe me, both the decisions are hard, one should have an invincible degree of courage to choose either of the two and no one other than the wounded will ever understand the reasons for her choice.Lily says "how easy it is for humans to make judgements when we're standing on the outside of a situation.I spent years judging my mother's situation.It's easy when we're on the outside to believe that we would walk away without a second thought if a person mistreated us.It's easy to say we couldn't continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren't the ones feeling the love of that person." Stop being judgemental when someone happened to choose one of the two options, they might have put their whole feelings to that final decision, they might have gone through days and nights of thinking, they might have sacrificed themselves in the whole process, they might be tired of crying, they might have gone through a million emotions at a time, they might have that tiny beacon of hope when they chose to move forward.
/Spoiler alert/
'It ends with us' is an engrossing tale about the journey of Lily Bloom from an abusive childhood to an abusive marriage which she never braced her for.It is all about her life as a teenager witnessing her mother being tortured by her father and the unexpected intimacy she shared with Atlas.She ended up with Ryle and the tragedy that followed took her somewhere with absolute hollowness.The story grew fascinating each passing day which I never expected it would be.When someone asked me who was your favourite character, I would say it is Atlas surpassing Lily.I simply fall for his humbleness, loyalty and demeanour.I don't really want to label the book as a tragic one, it is not ! it has everything, it is bitter sometimes but more than that, it is sweeter.I'm damn happy about the ending, just wanted to say good bye to all those sleep deprived nights and simply wishing them a happily ever after !
"Why do you need to be forgiven for sins that you haven't done? It was me who mistreated you, It is me who should ask your forgiveness" my grandpa replied while he was at that late stages of his life in a hospital room.
He desperately needed my grannie's attention those days, they had the most profound conversations for the whole days and nights like they didn't talk to each other in all those years they lived together.It is the damn truth ! their conjugal life was absolutely obnoxious especially hers was utterly abusive, he traumatized her physically, emotionally and in almost all ways possible.When I asked her what kept her swimming in the dark, her answer was "the child."When I asked the child what his childhood felt like, his answer was "terrible."It is about women, she is addictive when it comes to love, she has her own reasoning to keep someone in her life if she intends to, she can move the mountains for that one person simply because of love and that's exactly how she embraces her family with all its contradictions.
Reality can take two different dimensions, one is to stay and confront the torture, the other is to walk away and start over.Believe me, both the decisions are hard, one should have an invincible degree of courage to choose either of the two and no one other than the wounded will ever understand the reasons for her choice.Lily says "how easy it is for humans to make judgements when we're standing on the outside of a situation.I spent years judging my mother's situation.It's easy when we're on the outside to believe that we would walk away without a second thought if a person mistreated us.It's easy to say we couldn't continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren't the ones feeling the love of that person." Stop being judgemental when someone happened to choose one of the two options, they might have put their whole feelings to that final decision, they might have gone through days and nights of thinking, they might have sacrificed themselves in the whole process, they might be tired of crying, they might have gone through a million emotions at a time, they might have that tiny beacon of hope when they chose to move forward.
/Spoiler alert/
'It ends with us' is an engrossing tale about the journey of Lily Bloom from an abusive childhood to an abusive marriage which she never braced her for.It is all about her life as a teenager witnessing her mother being tortured by her father and the unexpected intimacy she shared with Atlas.She ended up with Ryle and the tragedy that followed took her somewhere with absolute hollowness.The story grew fascinating each passing day which I never expected it would be.When someone asked me who was your favourite character, I would say it is Atlas surpassing Lily.I simply fall for his humbleness, loyalty and demeanour.I don't really want to label the book as a tragic one, it is not ! it has everything, it is bitter sometimes but more than that, it is sweeter.I'm damn happy about the ending, just wanted to say good bye to all those sleep deprived nights and simply wishing them a happily ever after !