| Review | It Ends With Us | My CoHo's journey

Here we are with another chapter on my adventure to understand people’s obsession with Colleen’s writing.

I’ve previously read Ugly Love and Confess. And the next step was stepping into CoHo’s most talked book, It Ends With Us. I’ll be honest, I knew nothing of this book, I only picked it up because of the hype.

And… This book is a mind fuck.

Pardon the language, but it’s the most accurate expression I could give. I finished this book and spent the next few days staring at plain walls wondering about what the hell I was doing with my life.

Synopsis:

Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

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 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. 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.

Review: 

The main couple is Layla and Ryle and from the very beginning you understand that something about them is off. The met in a time where both of them were in weird states of minds. Layla had just lost her father, which by the way, was abusive to her mother and she hated. And Ryle is in the prime of his career, working to be the best in is field. And that, among other things I will not mention, immediately put the reader in high alert.

The thing I found his Coho’s book is that her characters are amazing, always super related because they are built on insecurity, on fears, that everyone can relate with. Her writing; however, is not the greatest. It’s simples and quick-paced, but it isn’t one that draws you in for how beautiful it is. Which makes her books the perfect example of what I believe in: ‘’The characters make the story and not the plot’’.

She always has intense or very different details on her books, like in Confess the whole confessions-turned-into-paintings plot, or the plot-twist in Ugly Love, but in this one there’s just this really real situation, that raw and powerful, and really messes up your mind.

I don’t want to say more, because Colleen’s obscure theme is always the fun part of her books, but this book really messes with your head. You’re an entire book waiting for something, that another thing happens and the world is exploding and nothing in your life makes sense anymore. And then you’re thinking how, how, how, and why, why, why.

So basically, I’m still not sold on Colleen Hoover’s books, until this moment I’ve read Ugly Love, Confess and It Ends With Us and I still find her books a little mediocre. Nice books for a day read, when you’re only looking for a relaxing time – except this one, read this one with precaution – but either than that, I don’t get it…

Rating: 3 stars