A review by aubri13
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

While I do not believe "I Ends With Us" to be a romance story, it is a love story. It’s a love story about choosing oneself over someone they love deeply, it's about choosing to end a cycle of violence that hurts more people than it helps. This book taught me how women in situations of domestic violence may feel torn between someone they took a vou for and their own personal well-being and safety. Domestic violence is more nuanced and complicated than people talk about. I hate to say that, while reading this book, I fell in love with the abuser the same way Bloom did. I made excuses for him and alwaus thought to mysef, "just give him one more chance."