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Book Title: It ends with us

Author: Colleen Hoover

Genre: Contemporary romance

About the book...

This book follows the life of Lily Bloom and a romance that flourishes with an untamed man named Ryle. Lily has grown up with a tainted view on men and relationships due to having a violent and emotionally distant father. She always resented her mother for staying with him until he passed away and never understood why she didn’t leave him. As her relationship with Ryle becomes more intense and intimate she starts to find herself tolerating very similar behaviour. Throughout the story we also get to know her first love Atlas, a homeless boy, that she fell in love with as a teenager. He comes back into her life during her relationship with Ryle and begins to cause waves. Lily eventually finds the strength to break the cycle that her mother and her have been through, but only to change her daughter’s life, whom she has with Ryle.

What you liked….

I enjoyed getting to know the characters through the book from Lily’s perspective as a young woman and also as a teenager. This isn’t a typical romance novel where the two main characters fall in love, face adversity and then live happily ever after. The presence of domestic violence throughout the book is condemned and the main character Lily finds the strength to do what is right for herself and her daughter despite the promises that Ryle will change his way. For any young girl or grown woman that may be inclined to read this book, it sends the positive message that women can and should walk away from relationships that do not honour or respect your boundaries.

Reviewer:

Nastasija Koroneos

Digital Media Officer

Library Services

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