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swiftlyjo 's review for:
It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I... yeah. I always knew what this book was about, and it was both a tough one and an important one and I'm happy Colleen Hoover wrote this. I haven't read anything else by her but my impression is she's one of the big romance-writers and I'm of a firm opinion that there should be more books out here like this in the romance-genre. There just... needs to be.
Two quotes I highlighted, that punched me right in the gut and say so much:
If I had to compare this feeling to something, I would compare it to death. [...] That's what this feels like. It feels like Ryle has died."
"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. When you experience it firsthand, it isn’t so easy to hate the person who mistreats you when most of the time they’re your godsend."
Always knowing where this book was headed, a part of me felt 'oh, but it's so obvious Ryle's not a good guy. I would have left instantly!' but I think the second quote says it all there. I probably wouldn't have. And I think it's easy when you have any kind of personal experiences of bad relationships to try and find all the ways that were different from the description, to think that in another situation you would have EASILY seen it coming but, well, yeah. That's not how it goes and I'm glad this book pointed that out explicitly.
I much appreciated the author's note and it lifted the book even more for me.
I hope the middle-aged man in a leather jacket who asked me about this book on the train because he'd heard it was about "good and less good relationships" reads it. I don't know what his story was or how he'd heard of this (maybe I'm just prejudiced about who reads Colleen Hoover!!) but I wish him well :)
Two quotes I highlighted, that punched me right in the gut and say so much:
"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. When you experience it firsthand, it isn’t so easy to hate the person who mistreats you when most of the time they’re your godsend."
Always knowing where this book was headed, a part of me felt 'oh, but it's so obvious Ryle's not a good guy. I would have left instantly!' but I think the second quote says it all there. I probably wouldn't have. And I think it's easy when you have any kind of personal experiences of bad relationships to try and find all the ways that were different from the description, to think that in another situation you would have EASILY seen it coming but, well, yeah. That's not how it goes and I'm glad this book pointed that out explicitly.
I much appreciated the author's note and it lifted the book even more for me.
I hope the middle-aged man in a leather jacket who asked me about this book on the train because he'd heard it was about "good and less good relationships" reads it. I don't know what his story was or how he'd heard of this (maybe I'm just prejudiced about who reads Colleen Hoover!!) but I wish him well :)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence
Moderate: Sexual violence