This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

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In this story Lily and Ryle meet by chance on a rooftop after experiencing respective miserable days. The raw emotions Hoover excellently wrote and embedded into her characters make the story extremely powerful, sad and painfully truthful. When I was first reading and got to the point where she does her journal entries, but she does them so they are letters to Ellen DeGeneres, I thought I wasn't going to like that aspect of it.

On one hand, I feel like we got to see a lot of Lily and Atlas during their childhood in It Ends With Us, and I would love to see more; however, I hope the book isn't completely filled with their time as teenagers. Although it’s understandable to feel bad for what he had to go through, it is all used to manipulate and abuse Lily.

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Abuse and domestic violence are a delicate subject, and when I found out they were this book's main theme I thought about not reading it.I began reading it late at night and every time I tried to put it down to go to sleep, I just had to get back up and keep reading because I couldn't stop thinking about it.

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And even though there is a touch of romance, I think the book is very explicit about it not being healthy for Lily to jump right into a new relationship. Moreover, this expands my discontent with how Colleen chose to shove in aspects of her usual work to something so serious.

It Ends With Us is one of the most powerful books of 2016 and one of the most raw, honest, inspiring, and profoundly beautiful stories I've ever read. 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. it really opened my eyes to the emotions of those in these types of situations and helped me gain a lot of perspective. But the real reason I'm telling you this is because for two days I was drowning and It Ends With Us was my lifeline. After scrolling on TikTok, a popular social media platform, for all of five minutes, I had seen nearly 10 book recommendation videos.

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some of the missing years and then fast forward to when Emmy is 5 and they realize she is picking up healthy habits from them about love and respect. There is no such thing as bad people, we’re all just people who sometimes do bad things,” is my favorite quote from the book and is something that I think people should take into deep consideration.

The maturity that Lily showed towards her young love Atlas isn’t convincingly translated to her marriage which is adds to a sense of juvenility and one-dimensionality. My favorite symbolic object is a refrigerator magnet that Atlas gave Lily as a teenager, which shows up in her and Ryle’s apartment.