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A review by leclerc
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
2.0
I didn't pick this book up solely on the reason to hate on it. I was excepting to like it like everyone else that I know did, but it was a no for me. I respect the personal nature of the story besides that the author's note doesn't exempt this work from criticism, so I will put my thoughts about the book down below.
The book felt more like a love triangle than a story about abuse. I empathize with Lily a lot, and the childhood stories of hers were very relatable since I grew up like that as well. But I don't think that the book captured the heaviness of the topic or the trauma well, and the book is also marketed as romance which I find is very …
Ryle was a red flag from the beginning. I saw some people that said "Oh, I liked Ryle at the beginning". He kicked a chair because he was angry, He had a photo of Lily in his room, and didn't even know her that well. That's not romantic that is weird. I could sense that he was a problem at his first experience. From that moment on he got even worse.
Atlas, I think a lot of people will hate me for it, but I don't like him. I know that he is a token book boyfriend on TikTok along with other famous book men, but I will never get why. One thing that I found very concerning and weird about him was SPOILER — that he waited for Lily to turn 16 and the second she was 16, he had sex with her. Which is so messed up, and I think a lot of people love to forget that. Also, the praise he gets for acting like a decent human being … unbelievable.
The ending felt too rushed, I wish that we would have seen more of her healing process rather than the romance. It was just all too fast and didn't make the story feel complete. I will read the Part 2 next month and hope that it will be better.
This is no hate towards Colleen! I love her. And I did enjoy quite a few of her books. This one wasn't for me.
The book felt more like a love triangle than a story about abuse. I empathize with Lily a lot, and the childhood stories of hers were very relatable since I grew up like that as well. But I don't think that the book captured the heaviness of the topic or the trauma well, and the book is also marketed as romance which I find is very …
Ryle was a red flag from the beginning. I saw some people that said "Oh, I liked Ryle at the beginning". He kicked a chair because he was angry, He had a photo of Lily in his room, and didn't even know her that well. That's not romantic that is weird. I could sense that he was a problem at his first experience. From that moment on he got even worse.
Atlas, I think a lot of people will hate me for it, but I don't like him. I know that he is a token book boyfriend on TikTok along with other famous book men, but I will never get why. One thing that I found very concerning and weird about him was SPOILER — that he waited for Lily to turn 16 and the second she was 16, he had sex with her. Which is so messed up, and I think a lot of people love to forget that. Also, the praise he gets for acting like a decent human being … unbelievable.
The ending felt too rushed, I wish that we would have seen more of her healing process rather than the romance. It was just all too fast and didn't make the story feel complete. I will read the Part 2 next month and hope that it will be better.
This is no hate towards Colleen! I love her. And I did enjoy quite a few of her books. This one wasn't for me.