Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants.
She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business.
So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily.
And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing.
Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.
As 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.
He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.
My Review of It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover.
This book will make you feel all your emotions in extremities.
First, you're feeling sorry for Lily, the main character, for losing her dad, then you're cheering her and Ryle on, to go ahead and date.
This is a beautifully written, heart-wrenching book that highlights the connection between love and an abusive relationship.
Lily has to grow up resenting her father, who physically abused her mum all her life, and goes on to not have a good thing or two to say about him, during his funeral.
She lives with that hurt, that pain of watching the woman you love so much being severely battered by the one person who should protect her from the monsters.
Her rescue becomes her journal which she addresses to Ellen DeGeneres, where she pours out her anger for her father, and her displeasure for her mother's insistence to keep holding up with the abuse.
But Atlas comes into her life, and it takes an interesting turn. She has a dynamic relationship with him, which would be flung to her past many years later.
Lily thinks there's a perfect man out there waiting for her, and she feels like she's on an infinite search for the Holy Grail, but would Ryle later become the Holy Grail?
Would history repeat itself all over again, and would she be able to have this perfect relationship she's always dreamed of?
This book is a mixture of romance, heartbreak, laughter, tears, and something else. It's a book everyone should read. Especially if you're the one to always blame the victims of abuse, because why won't they just get up and leave?
No. The only person to blame when an abuse takes place is the abuser, and not the abused.
This is because most times it takes an astronomical amount of strength to give up on whom you love, simply because they cannot nip their temper in the bud.
And it also takes a lot of courage, to break free from what you feel is the norm, what you've experienced all your life, and the cycle that you're used to.
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