Review: It Ends with Us

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I bought this on an impulse at an airport. A friend had mentioned that the book involved Boston and a girl named Lily, and beyond that I had no clue what to expect. It starts of as just-another-teen-romance, lulling you into a sense of safety and cliche. Then, things change. The story unfolds, the tone shifts, and suddenly you're holding onto a book that is inadvertently making you very sad. I will not say any more about the actual plot because I don't want to spoil the book.

Looking back on it, I have some complaints. The pacing in the latter half felt a bit off, which broke the flow here and there. There were too few characters that were involved in the plot, and side-characters appeared and disappeared without much development. The world of the book felt a little too closed to be more broadly believable.

But I don't think these complaints matter. None of them can take away from how shocked I felt reading the book and how sad it made me. I had to sit and stare at the cover after I was done because I did not know how to untangle my thoughts or feelings after reading it. It did the one thing a good book is supposed to do: it had an impact.

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