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A review by coolhav21
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
2.0
WASTE OF MY TIME
i’ve had some time to process my reading experience, and i can now say with 100% certainty that reading this wasn’t worth it.
i’ve spent two books with these characters and i could not tell you a single personality trait about any of them if my life depended on it.
i also absolutely hated how their whole relationship was just them communicating to each other through letters. call me a boomer but back in my day book couples actually spoke to each other instead of waiting until the other was asleep to write out all their thoughts on a post it note that they then leave dramatically by the other persons pillow. but hey, that may just be me.
and if there’s a way for sex scenes to be boring, colleen hoover has cracked that code. i’ve seen more passion in myself when i go to an olive garden.
atlas is…a man. cheers, i guess. he happens to be hot and thinks abuse is bad so we have our book boyfriend of the year.
while i genuinely enjoyed the first book, this one just felt like it overstayed its welcome. at the end of the book, colleen hoover provides a little authors note saying she had never planned to write a sequel because she thought the ending of the last one was the right note to end on. but then, she was convinced to write about lily and atlas because of booktok.
listen, if there is a moral to the story, it’s this: don’t let booktok be what pushes you to write the next great viral novel. see lightlark if you have questions.
there are better books out there that you should definitely spend time on instead of this. go read Goodnight Moon or The Cat in the Hat for something more emotionally charged.
i’ve had some time to process my reading experience, and i can now say with 100% certainty that reading this wasn’t worth it.
i’ve spent two books with these characters and i could not tell you a single personality trait about any of them if my life depended on it.
i also absolutely hated how their whole relationship was just them communicating to each other through letters. call me a boomer but back in my day book couples actually spoke to each other instead of waiting until the other was asleep to write out all their thoughts on a post it note that they then leave dramatically by the other persons pillow. but hey, that may just be me.
and if there’s a way for sex scenes to be boring, colleen hoover has cracked that code. i’ve seen more passion in myself when i go to an olive garden.
atlas is…a man. cheers, i guess. he happens to be hot and thinks abuse is bad so we have our book boyfriend of the year.
while i genuinely enjoyed the first book, this one just felt like it overstayed its welcome. at the end of the book, colleen hoover provides a little authors note saying she had never planned to write a sequel because she thought the ending of the last one was the right note to end on. but then, she was convinced to write about lily and atlas because of booktok.
listen, if there is a moral to the story, it’s this: don’t let booktok be what pushes you to write the next great viral novel. see lightlark if you have questions.
there are better books out there that you should definitely spend time on instead of this. go read Goodnight Moon or The Cat in the Hat for something more emotionally charged.