It Ends With Us

 

Rating: 2.5/5

Summary: 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.

Thoughts: This book…. GOODNESS, this book was something else. I don’t know if I liked it at all.

In the beginning, I thought this was going to be a cute little romance with people bonding over their trauma… NO. Not. At. All.

To be fair, I went into this book blindly. Probably a bad idea but that’s just what I do with books. There was so much hype surrounding this book on TikTok and Instagram, so I just gave it a shot in the dark. I was not prepared for some of the stuff I read.

Not much bothers me in terms of sensitive topics but, this bugged me so bad. I kept reading this trainwreck of a book just hoping Lily would get out of her situation. I was so disappointed that she kept going back, knowing the situation she came from and how she felt about her mother. Not only that but the flimsy backstory Ryle was given and used as an excuse…  come on!!

I may be a little insensitive about this because I have no experience with stuff like this, but I felt like it was being glorified. AND WE DON’T GLORIFY ABUSE IN THIS HOUSE!

When Atlas finally came along the book was less horrible. It felt like a book worth reading and I actually did finish it because of that. But the whole situation with Ryle made me want to DNF.

 

I guess because I was rooting for Atlas and Lily so much, I ended up buying the sequel, but I have no intention of reading it any time soon. That book was just so confusing to me that I don’t think I can stand to read the sequel. I am going to give another one of her books a chance to see if it’s her writing I hated or not. I guess stay tuned!

 

Anyway Bye!!!!