She doesn’t seem to have been in regular touch with Atlas, and they’ve just run into each other. I’m disappointed to learn that Lily didn’t speak about her abuse and therefore she doesn’t have total/ solo parenting rights but I think I sorta get where her head is on this. This seems to start up about 18 months or so after Emerson’s birth and Rile & Lily are divorced. 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 “He’s a broken man, but he isn’t broken because of me. I don’t usually do this, even for Colleen but … 5 stars. It might just open your eyes and your mind.

This lends perspective - and a few different ones at that - to an important subject. It’s really easy to judge when you aren’t actually in the sitation. Think anyone who stays in an abusive relationship is asking for it? Stupid? Bringing it on themselves? Think again. What I especially think is note-worthy is, like in other books, she has a way of putting things in perspective. The writing’s also addictive and she did a great job setting the book in Boston, so mad props there. 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.Įlicting those feelings is impressive enough of course. Yea, if you allow yourself to get lost it in, it might wreck you a couple times. (Oct.“His touch is everything I need and everything I shouldn’t.”

Agent: Jane Dystel, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.

Hoover is as unafraid as ever to explore the darker and more vulnerable aspects of love, expertly demonstrating the soul-deep trust required to reach happily after ever. The author’s talent for creating nuanced and empathetic characters is on full display, and fans will be especially excited to finally hear Atlas’s side of the story. Meanwhile, Josh, the half brother Atlas never knew he had, enters Atlas’s life, and Atlas takes him in, hoping to finally have a real family. He’s still in the picture as Emmy’s father-and he wants Lily back. Their chemistry is even stronger than it was in their earlier years, but their budding relationship is complicated by Ryle. Now he’s a successful restaurateur while Lily runs a flower shop-and they’re back in each other’s orbits. Atlas has past trauma of his own: he grew up in an abusive home and was forced to live on the streets as a teenager. After Lily Bloom finds the strength to exit her abusive relationship with Ryle, her ex-husband and the father of her child (the adorable Emmy), she’s reluctant to let anyone else capture her heart, even her childhood crush, Atlas Corrigan. Hoover breaks hearts all over again in this stunning sequel to her bestselling It Ends with Us.

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