You made me rethink all of my preconceived notions about what it means to be in an abusive relationship.

I haven’t walked in your shoes.īut I cherish your empathy, your patience, and your never-ending love. I wish you made two different decisions but I can’t fault you for it. I wanted to get in your head and learn even MORE about you but maybe that’s what the sequel, It Starts With Us, is going to give me. The spark that wanted to believe that life could and would be better. As a boy of eighteen, I felt your sorrow and saw the spark that was still there. Not only is this such a well-written book, but Colleen Hoover gives us the best characters to fall for. But I had to finish and I’m so glad that I did. In fact, I almost folded at 65% when things were getting real. I didn’t read this book for entertainment. She wanted to use her mother’s personal experience to write a book about love and abuse. Now, Colleen Hoover said in her acknowledgments that she didn’t write this book for entertainment. Man, how I bawled my eyes out with this book and hugged my daughter real tight after because I don’t ever want her to be in a situation like Lily.īut that’s why this book has been around a time or two on #Booktok and getting all the hype long after its release because it’s THAT GOOD and one of the best Colleen Hoover books. I went from feeling elation, to sadness, to anger to depression to sorrow and contentment and everything in between with this book. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.ĭarn you, Colleen Hoover! How dare you rip out my heart and make me feel all of the things. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily, but Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing.Īs questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan – her first love and a link to the past she left behind.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. When Lily feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Category: Contemporary Romance, New Adult Romance

It all ends with us