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It Ends with Us

by Colleen Hoover

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It Ends with Us is Hoover's most-discussed book for a reason beyond the romance; it's written around domestic abuse, drawn in part from her mother's experience, with an author's note worth reading before or after. It's heavier than the soft cover and "romance" shelving suggest.

Cover of It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover.

why track this in moth

This is a book a lot of readers want to sit with before moving on to the sequel, It Starts with Us; Moth's notes are a good place to process before you continue Lily's story.

Book facts

Genre
English & College Success, English, Fiction, Social Sciences, Poverty & Homelessness, Family & Consumer Sciences
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published
August 2, 2016
Pages
384
Reading time
7 hr 38 min · ~18 nights at 25 min/day in Moth
ISBN
9781501110375
Language
English

Publisher's summary

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BLAKE LIVELY AND JUSTIN BALDONI! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him and It Starts with Us, a “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman in a new relationship who can’t stop thinking about her first love. 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 where she grew up: she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems 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. An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down” (USA TODAY).

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