It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover – A romance novel | Get PDF

In this blog, we will be discussing the summary, quotes, and also about the writer.

Quote

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”

― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

 About the author Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times best selling author of Romance, YA, Thriller, Women’s fiction and Paranormal Romance. Her books are widely acclaimed by vivid bookworms and It Ends With Us is amongst them. It’s about domestic abuse in love, care and affection well written which takes you on the roller coaster ride of emotions. The book also gives an insight into the world of domestic abuse, which may not present itself to everybody in the same manner, but recognizing it from the early signs and taking strong steps, one risks nemesis by taking such stakes.

Quote

“Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.”

― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

A brief background of the novel

This book takes the reader into the desolation of abuse by Lily’s lover neurosurgeon Dr Ryle Kincaid, similar to that of her father, even though she didn’t want the nemesis attached with the neurosurgeon but she couldn’t resist. 

Quotes

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”

― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

Summary

It’s a tale of a woman named Lily, who has seen her mother being abused by her father whom she loved thinking that the good of her husband outweighed the bad. Little did Lily know that a similar fate was awaiting her. Lily’s father, Andrew abused her mother, Jenny and she couldn’t escape the wrath of the ill and wicked until his demise. At her father’s funeral she had given the worst obituary as she couldn’t recall any good deeds of him.

Quotes

 “All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”

― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

 Lily had an arduous life but she kept working hard for the life that she dreamed of. She grew up and graduated from a small state of Maine, from where moved to Boston and started her own flower business. Where she meets Dr Ryle Kincaid, a neurosurgeon, a handsome, charismatic man who doesn’t believe in relationships and on the other hand Lily is against one night stands. The duo meet on the terrace one night when Lily  attends her abusive father’s funeral and Dr Ryle loses a patient. Lily gets warned about Dr Ryles’s intentions from his sister who happens to be her new friend and her employee.

Quotes

 “He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me.”

 ― Colleen Hoover,It Ends with Us

Cupid starts messing up with Lily by making her visit her past by reading the journals that she had written as a teenager, engrossing and absorbing into the pages of her life with her first love Atlas Corrigan. Atlas was her senior who was kicked out from the house by his stepfather. Lily helped him when she found he was a homeless boy squatting in the neighbor’s house, by providing him food and allowing him to take shower in her house and also bestowing him her room’s space when it was cold outside. Little by little the sweet Lily fell in love with Atlas, but she was heartbroken when she came to know that he was leaving for Boston to live with his uncle, and she hadn’t heard from him since. 

Quotes

 “You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”

― Colleen Hoover,It Ends with Us

When the Reminiscent of her past comes to an end she comes to the reality of Dr. Ryle who is giving mixed signals, as he isn’t interested in relationships, but sends flowers to her or at times shows up at her house unexpectedly. The new love birds go on the first date and get drunk, in this state Dr. Ryle hits Lily and blackens her eyes. The Doctor apologizes just like Lily’s father apologized to his mother each time he abused her. The couple went to a restaurant that evening. The chef came to the couple’s table to get the review from the customer. Atlas sees a mark on Lily’s eyes and assumes that Ryle must have hit her. Atlas persuades Lily to leave Ryle but when she makes excuses, he slides his number in her purse as insurance to her safety but that instead creates havoc for Lily. After a lot of trauma that Lily goes through she finally settles for Atlas for the better good of her child and herself.

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