It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

The synopsis of this book leaves much of what the story is truly about as a surprise, and instead of a typical adult romance I enjoyed an extremely powerful story.

I think this book reads best when you only know the synopsis Colleen Hoover shares, because it is that much more powerful when you find out everything as it unfolds. There are very sad, painful and honest situations and relationships in the novel. You feel everything that the main character Lily feels; her joy, love and pain.

Hoover does an amazing job of giving complex layers to multiple characters. She helps you understand a situation that for most makes no sense and I admit I cried several items.

I can’t say much more without giving things away, but do yourself a favor and read this book. I’m still thinking back on it several months later.

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. 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. 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.