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katinthestack 's review for:
It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
After more consideration... I'm bumping this down to 3 stars. The writing was surprisingly well done. I like the difference in tone from when she was a child writing to Ellen and then how it shifted as an adult.
Trigger warning: DV, abuse
What lost me were the stereotypical "best guy you'll ever meet" and "dream job" tropes. Also the abuse was very hard to read and came out of nowhere, which I guess is similar to what really happens in a DV relationship. I don't mind that history repeated itself with the main character, as is often the case. I didn't even mind how many chances she gave her abuser bc of how in love and confused she was. I just hated the end... She kept the child and let him see her... And then at the last second, of course she runs into Atlas and decides she is ready to be with him. Because of course.
I looked up the author and she might be religious so that could be the reason for the lack of talk of aborting the baby. I don't want to speak for DV survivors or how a woman might act in that situation, nor do I want to minimize her wanting to keep the baby and still have her (ex) husband in her life but damn... In the end it was really hard to sympathize for Lily.
Atlas was a great character but perhaps lacked depth and I wish Lily would have read that final chapter sooner than was noted. It would've helped keep the focus on Atlas. Something about him irks me though... I can't put my finger on it.
Anyway. It was an ok book. Not my favorite and I most likely will never read it again.
Trigger warning: DV, abuse
What lost me were the stereotypical "best guy you'll ever meet" and "dream job" tropes. Also the abuse was very hard to read and came out of nowhere, which I guess is similar to what really happens in a DV relationship. I don't mind that history repeated itself with the main character, as is often the case. I didn't even mind how many chances she gave her abuser bc of how in love and confused she was. I just hated the end... She kept the child and let him see her... And then at the last second, of course she runs into Atlas and decides she is ready to be with him. Because of course.
I looked up the author and she might be religious so that could be the reason for the lack of talk of aborting the baby. I don't want to speak for DV survivors or how a woman might act in that situation, nor do I want to minimize her wanting to keep the baby and still have her (ex) husband in her life but damn... In the end it was really hard to sympathize for Lily.
Atlas was a great character but perhaps lacked depth and I wish Lily would have read that final chapter sooner than was noted. It would've helped keep the focus on Atlas. Something about him irks me though... I can't put my finger on it.
Anyway. It was an ok book. Not my favorite and I most likely will never read it again.