It Ends with Us
A young woman falls for a charming neurosurgeon, but when her first love re-enters her life, she must confront painful truths about love, strength, and the cycle of abuse.
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Lily Bloom opens a small flower shop in Boston and starts dating a charismatic surgeon named Ryle. Atlas, her first love from a hard adolescence, walks back into her life. The book is heavier than the cover suggests.
Loosely. Colleen Hoover has said It Ends with Us was inspired by her mother's marriage to her father. The events and characters are fictional, but the emotional reality of the abusive relationship draws on Hoover's family history.
Yes. A 2024 film adaptation directed by Justin Baldoni and starring Blake Lively was released. The film became a major commercial success, though Lively's promotion of the film generated significant public controversy.
It Ends with Us depicts domestic violence, sexual assault, and emotional abuse. The themes are central to the plot. Readers sensitive to depictions of abuse should approach with care.
It Ends with Us was written by Colleen Hoover by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd..
It Ends with Us is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, It Ends with Us takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
It Ends with Us is a standalone novel by Colleen Hoover, not part of a series.
It Ends with Us is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
