It Ends With Us
"Lily hasn't always had it easy, but it's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from a 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, but Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. 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."
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is my official introductory novel into her infamous works. If you even scratch the surface of BookTok, have any friends into trendy (and amazing) literature of the era; then you know who Colleen Hoover is.
I am fashionably late to the party and decided to go with one of her most infamous novels to start, diving head-first into my next addiction. Her writing style and ability to build complex, human characters is astounding. Completely unparalleled. I brought this novel along with me on my trip to Glacier National Park in Montana (a blog post about that coming real soon), and I found myself reaching for this one every waking chance I got. I burned through it, consumed it just in time to preorder the next one in the series; which comes out in October! This one is so much more than a mere love triangle. This novel, this work of art, is something that everyone should read. The plot twist shattered my entire heart and I found myself piecing it back together as if I was Lily herself.
Needless to say, I've ordered an entire shelf of Colleen Hoover books and am delightfully excited to read more of her work. I hope the others are just as steamy and intense as this one.
She's a well-deserved sensation, bravo Mrs. Hoover!