It Starts with Us: the highly anticipated sequel to IT ENDS WITH US

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she had literally been divorced for 2 years after all of the abuse she went through and she still fears ryle and is considerate of his feelings and opinions about her personal dating life? Like wtf? His opinion shouldn’t matter after all the shit he made lily go through.

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of this book is a retelling of the first one through Lily's creepy letters to Ellen. Literally reused, word for word scenes. Was Colleen tryna reach a word count or smth? He’s a broken man, but he isn’t broken because of me. He was broken before he met me. Sometimes people think if they love a broken person enough, they can be what finally repairs them, but the problem with that is the other person just ends up broken, too.” —It Stars With Us this review will be in bullet points. minor spoilers will be included, but read it anyway as a warning not to read this book. Atlas brings lunch to the flower shop for Lily. While he's there, Ryle comes in unannounced. Lily gets nervous about his reaction to seeing Atlas there, so she hides Atlas in a closet. After Ryle leaves, Atlas and Lily agree to talk on the phone later. While on the phone later, Atlas asks Lily on a date and she agrees. While on the drive to the restaurant for their date, Lily falls asleep. Instead of waking her up, Atlas occupies himself by reading some of the journal entries that Lily wrote about Atlas when they were kids. When Lily awakens she finds out they missed their reservation and feels bad. The novel continues from where It Ends with Us ended and centers on the relationship between Lily and Atlas. [6] The novel alternates chapters between the first-person narration of Lily and Atlas. [5] Plot [ edit ]

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It Starts with Us shows the after effects of abuse in every form. It shows how realistic, how tragic and how even a happily ever after is still shadowed by the ache and reminder of abuse. So it's rather disappointing that this story didn't do anything for me. There was no emotional punch, no compelling conflict. It took me days longer to read this than I anticipated because I didn't feel any pull to keep going. And now having finished this, I'm already unable to point to a single memorable moment because there honestly weren't any. Maybe the idea of love ending being a negative thing is simply a matter of perspective. Because to me, the idea that a love came to an end means that, at some point, there was love that existed. And there was a time in my life, before you, when I was completely untouched by it.” Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to It Ends with Us. In the past and for forever, you are my favorite person. Always have been. Always will be. I love you. Everything that you are.”

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alternatively titled: a bland man does the bare minimum and people eat it up like he’s an austen character. yes, i know this sequel is 100% fan service and a massive cash grab, but i am exactly the fan whose cash CoHo is grabbing.

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I’ve spent my life not making bold moves when it comes to her. I wanted to make sure she knew where I stood this time.” Let me start by saying this: there’s going to be a lot of hate for this book for the sole reason people just want to dislike this author for their popularity and there’s this hate train going on for the littlest things this author does so I already know people are going to just come out of the woodworks and find the tiniest thing to hate on this. That is not to say that this book is perfect or that your review will be disingenuous. Books are subjective-- therefore there can be books that I love you hate, and books I hate that you love. I just don't understand or stand for the unwarranted amount of hate that goes into BASHING books just for the way they are written. I have been reading Colleen Hoover since 2012- Slammed was my first book by her. I have had many misses with her along with many hits.

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the letters were basically coho saying “see they are in love! they’re not bland! they do have other things in common other than their trauma!) which is false. Writing this review VERY late but goodness me, the moment I remembered about it, I knew I had to make a review for the series. Hoover does a great job of (at least per my own experience) depicting some of Lily’s feelings/ inner thoughts, etc. in regards to being a domestic abuse survivor. It stays with you. I loved both of these books. I was going through a stage where I hadn’t been reading for months and monthsAllysa in particular was extremely annoying in this book. “Why would Ryle hate Atlas if you didn’t cheat on him 🥺🥺” idk girl maybe it’s because he’s abusive, which you have known for years now! The whole “me cheating on my husband doesn’t count because I was 19 ✨” thing was also??????????? Not to mention the fact that Lily’s closest friends are Ryle’s sister and his best friend; it is close to impossible to heal from abuse when you are still in such close proximity to your abuser. The way Allysa and Marshall talk about Ryle as if he’s a little kid who just gets mean sometimes, instead of the violent wife beater and attempted rapist that he is, is so strange…. Maybe I’m the weird one, but if someone I “love like a brother” were to push their partner down the stairs and bite them so hard they bled, I simply wouldn’t love them like a brother anymore! Atlas has always been book boyfriend material but this book really cemented him as one of the good guys, and if not one of the top 10 book boyfriend’s in existence. I was not expecting this to get 5 stars from me, my favorite book by Colleen Hoover is Reminders of Him but this really deserves five stars for how thoughtful, realistic and just downright beautiful this was. jokes on everyone in the comments who was mad i rated this five stars before i read it. i read it. guess how many stars im giving it? ;) Colleen Hoover's 'It Starts with Us' Sets S&S Sales Record". Publishers Weekly. October 20, 2022 . Retrieved December 3, 2022.

It Starts with Us: the highly anticipated sequel to IT ENDS

I can draw a seedling with two tiny branches. Yours and mine. We’ll be on our own brand-new, tiny family tree—one that starts with us.” I’m excited about the potential for Starts With Us to help people develop greater humility, curiosity, empathy, and mental flexibility.” i dont think the second book was necessary tbh. And the only thing i liked about ( it starts with us ) was atlas and getting to know him and his past better and watching how well he’s progressed through it all and how strong he’s become. I also loved all his romantic moments with lily because they both deserve each other.There is nothing happy about this book. It's depressing, it's awful and up until 80% of the way through, I got nothing out of it. Never liked Ryle, it didn't change, once I knew the 'real' Ryle, I didn't even care to read the chapters he was in. Lily, dear sweet Lily. You are so brave , strong and pure of heart. I feel your pain of loving Ryle but you were so smart and brave to break that ugly cycle and give not only Emmy but Josh the true meaning of love , hope , understanding and unconditional love. I’m not new to Colleen Hoover but there was a certain circumstance (won’t tell you, no spoilers!) made me actually curse her out and hate her for a moment. Clearly, Ms. Hoover is a great content writer. Her visuals are on point and I can almost, but not quite feel what the character is feeling, that being said.... my theory still stands: colleen hoover, ironically, cannot write a good romance. i believe every single one of her books has these terrible, wild plot twists to cover up the fact that she cannot. lily and atlas had zero chemistry apart from them talking about how miserable they were when they first met and how they were each other’s saving grace.