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                                      It Ends With Us

~ By Collen Hoover

A heart-touching book! 😩

The story 'It Ends With Us' by Colleen Hoover is about a girl named Lily Bloom who is very hard working, beautiful, ambitious, kind-hearted, and an independent woman. 💗 She moves to Boston in New York from Maine, her hometown since she had a lot of bad memories there. She begins her new life and starts her first own floral business there. She meets a neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, who is very stubborn, arrogant, sensitive, a brilliant neurosurgeon, and begins to have a soft spot only for Lily. 💚 After she encounters with Ryle, her life seems almost too good to be true and their love story begins. She marries him out of love with full support from Allyssa, who is her best friend and Ryle's sister, Marshall, who is Allyssa's husband, and with their parents approval. Their lives get complicated when suddenly Lily's first love Atlas Corrigan, who is a total sweet guy, generous to everyone, kind-hearted, and the protector of Lily reappears. 💜 Everything between Lily and Ryle is threatened, and slowly Ryle starts to become aggressive towards her, but she endures it since she gets support from Allyssa, and Marshall. At some moment she even goes to Atlas when she doesn't know where to go, and he is always there standing by her side, like her guardian angel during her hard times. 😇 Ryle doesn't change, so she divorces him right after she gave birth to a girl since she couldn't endure his abusive behavior. She wanted a happy life for her daughter, but without a father it would be hard and she knew it, and still she chose to divorce Ryle since she didn't want her daughter, Emmerson to grow up in an abusive family and didn't want her to go through what she went. 😌 They do share responsibilities of parenting even after they divorce, and Lily still might have the little love she had for Atlas when they were young. That's why this book has a sequel(2nd part) called 'It Starts With Us ' where it talks about Atlas and Lily's love story. 💟

The moral of the story can be to empower women, and to show respect for all the women who goes through a lot of pain and struggle, but never give up for their family, and how we sacrifice for our loved ones. 👏 To talk about the author, she is Colleen Hoover, who wrote a lot of heart-touching, love novels which are currently world famous and she is the 'Best-Selling New York Times' author. She lives in Texas with her husband and three sons. She was inspired to write this book because of her mother's situation which is related to the character, Lily in this story. So this book can be categorized into realistic-fiction and love novels. 💞

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