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In this blog post I will be talking my third book, It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover.
It Ends with Us is a fictional romance novel written by Colleen Hoover, published in 2016. This book follows the main character, Lily Bloom who has just moved to Boston after losing her father. Lily’s dream is to open a flower shop, how she is going to do that she doesn’t know yet. On her first night in Boston she meets Ryle Kincaid, a neurosurgeon, and the two spend one night sharing their bad days. Lily never plans to see Ryle again, until she meets Alyssa, with whom she opens florists with and to Lily’s surprise is Ryle’s sister. We follow Lily as she navigates her new life in Boston, running her new business and experiencing new love, but what will happen when she runs into Atlas, the boy next door from Lily's past and her first true love. What could possibly go wrong?
I would give this book a 4 out of 5 stars. this book has a fast paced storyline, which grabs you in from the beginning and makes you feel like you can't put it down. However, I decided to rate this book slightly lower than I would like to as I was not a fan of the writing style.
This was the first book of Colleen Hoover's that I decided to read. Colleen Hoover has a long list of work, but I believe having read multiple of Hoover's books that, It Ends with Us, is one of the best ones to start with.
It Ends with Us was adapted into a film and was released this year. Overall the adaptation of the book into this movie was pretty good, however, it was not very accurate to the book. The movie stars Blake Lively as Lily Bloom, Justin Baldoni as Ryle Kincaid and Brandon Sklenar as Atlas Corrigan. The movie was able to portray majority of the key moments of the books well, for example, Lily and Ryle's fight on the staircase. The movie also depicted Lily and Ryle's first meeting on the rooftop is relatively accurate, which is pivotal in setting up the tone of the film. On the other hand, there are a lot of crucial pieces of information from the book that are missing from the movie. In the book one of the most important climaxes of the story is when Ryle finds a Boston magnet, from Atlas, hidden in Lily's box in their room, which leads to one of their biggest fights. The movie also leaves out references to Lily's diary entries when referring to past Lily and her relationships with her mother, father and Atlas. A smaller detail that was missed out in the movie is why Atlas decided to change the name of his restaurant. Although some details that are missing are not big they do impact the storyline.
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