A review by jaymrtn
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover

adventurous challenging funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

For majority of this book I was loving it and it was amazing. However towards the end it was completely rushed. I feel like the conflicts were to easily resolved for how big they were. A lot of the issues both Atlas and Lily faced for majority of the book were each fixed in one chapter for each problem without the reader knowing they had even had a plan or thought to a solution. The last chapters were just big cringey time jumps that really took away from the actual telling of their story. I was going to give it 4 stars but several points were taken off for that horrible scene where Lily’s mom was telling her about when she first met Atlas. I loved Josh and Theo. Specifically loved the line “ it is my wish for you to be my fish “.