It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Colleeen is the Tik Tok sensation author, who was a bestseller before Booktok readers found her, and has since risen to even greater fame. ‘It Ends With Us’ is the first of her books that I’ve read and is the most personal to her because it deals with domestic violence which she witnessed herself in her childhood home.   

We meet Lily on a rooftop in Boston where her quiet contemplation after a funeral is interrupted by Ryle, a handsome surgeon. Despite him saying he doesn’t have serious relationships, they fall in love. We follow their relationship through its highs and its lows, along with the gradual exploration of Lily’s first love. It is a romance story, but it’s also an exploration of the darker elements of human nature.

It’s an engaging story told in an easy to read and approachable style with a strong female character, who refreshingly refuses to be a victim in life. Colleen knows how to build characters and pull you along in the story, I’m not a romance fan usually, but I definitely wanted to keep reading. If you enjoy a gritty romance that has a bit more to it than a straightforward love story, then you’ll enjoy It Ends With Us.