Y’all can say anything nasty about Ryle and I would completely agree, but you also have to admit that this guy is nothing but ✨ consistent ✨ in his abusive behavior. My face was this 😐 emoji the whole time, except when it came to Ryle, cause at least that guy gave me some emotions.. his texts to Lily even made me laugh… Lily, sweetie I’m sorry but your ex-husband humor is immaculate 🤡🏃🏻‍♀️ Ryle kept me on my toes, cause I never knew what else would come out of his mouth or what would happen at the mercy of his fist. What an unpredictable king. 😌 I’ve read It Ends with Us years ago and that book made me bawl my eyes out, because it was such an honest and realistic story about a women finally ending the circle of abuse in her family. IEWU had a purpose and meaning. Whereas, It Starts With Us reads like every other second-chance romance between two past lovers that shared a connection in their childhood. Reading Lily and Atlas romance gave me n o t h i n g. This was dryer than any cactus in the dept of the Sahara. Their interactions made me yawn, I’m sorry but Atlas was better as a side character in IEWU. Atlas is (maybe) the most unproblematic Colleen Hoover Hero, but imo that also makes him the most boring one.

I read the book," she said. "Halfway through, I'm just freaking out. Who would have thought reading could be enjoyable?" The #1 New York Times bestselling author is no stranger to accolades. Hoover took home the prize for Best Romance in the Goodreads Choice Awards three years running, with her novel Confess winning in 2015, her famed novel It Ends With Us taking out the award in 2016, and her book Without Merit winning yet again in 2017.It Starts with Us shows the after effects of abuse in every form. It shows how realistic, how tragic and how even a happily ever after is still shadowed by the ache and reminder of abuse. This novel begins with an unlikely attraction between a nurse named Tate Collins and an airline pilot, Miles Archer. Balancing busy schedules, total disdain for each other, and an undeniable physical attraction, the two decide to spark up a sex-only arrangement with two basic rules—don’t ask about the past, and don’t expect a future. After surviving the things that tested them in the beginning, Layken and Will are sure their love is stronger than ever. But the tests keep coming with the death of Layken's Mother, and Will is soon desperate to prove to Layken that he's the man she believes he is.

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. Theo making fun of Atlas was funny, I actually loved that because THE KEEP SWIMMING LINE WAS CORNY AS SHIT I DON’T CARE This anthology features twenty-six authors who were all given the same first sentence. It was then left to them to decide where they took their story, leaving us with 26 wildly different and unassociated short stories. All profits have been generously donated to charities supported by Hoover's organisation, The Bookworm Box. This novel follows the little-bit-strange Voss family, who live in a repurposed church, through the eyes of Merit Voss, the youngest Voss child. Her mother, having recovered from cancer, lives in the basement while her father lives upstairs with his new wife, her mother’s former nurse. When Merit meets the witty Sagan at an antique shop, she is pushed to reveal her family’s dark secrets and choose herself.But then, that's always the fear when an author gives in to fans and writes a sequel or prequel they originally had no intention of writing, isn't it? That the result would be mundane, at best an unnecessary add-on, at worst ruining the legacy of a previously amazing work. (I'm looking at you, Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.) High School senior Sky and Dean Holder share a passionate young love for each other as well as devastating pasts. Their well-kept secrets and troubled pasts are forced to the surface, with Sky, and Dean pushed to choose between the hopeless truth and the empty lies they tell themselves. The Bookworm Box is proud to present Two More Days, our second anthology installment. Much like the first installment, Two More Days is an exciting and unique reading experience with contributions from several of our charity's featured authors. Each author was given the same first sentence. Where they took that sentence was completely up to them.

Here, we follow a nurse named Tate Collins and an airline pilot, Miles Archer, who have nothing in common apart from an undeniable attraction. So, they begin a no strings attached relationship. Unsurprisingly, rules soon start to be broken. I also want to add, I loved the side characters. Every single one of them. Theo and Josh stole my goddamn heart. The only thing I rolled my eyes at was Lily writing to Ellen still but alas a book can’t be too perfect. And she gets a small thrill each time her sons do the laundry. "I'm not going to complain when my white towels turn pink," she said. When life takes a surreal turn Sydney is living an amazing life with her best friend and has a caring and loving boyfriend. But Sydney's idyllic bubble is about to burst when she discovers her boyfriend is actually a cheat. Thrown into the arms of musician Ridge, Sydney does her best to move on, but it's not as easy as she'd hoped.Hopeless follows two young lovers with dark pasts and secrets, who explore first love and ghosts of the past. Sky, a home-schooled and adopted 17-year-old girl, convinces her mother to let her attend public school for her final year, where she reunites with Dean, a childhood friend turned promiscuous popular guy. A chance encounter results in a real life fairytale for Daniel, who meets a mysterious girl only for her to disappear after one hour of deep, emotional connection between them. Will he find Cinderella? The third and final installment in the Slammed trilogy, This Girl takes the familiar story and turns it on its head, with the story unfolding from Will’s perspective, rather than Layken’s. The couple continues to struggle with the shadows of Will’s past, balancing the weight of that with the hope of their future.