It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

 

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

After reading It Ends with Us, I felt like there needed to be some sort of redemption for Atlas. I'm so glad that he got his own story in this book!! This book is a much lighter read than the previous one and it is so much more enjoyable!! I didn't find myself wanting to hide my eyes as much as the trauma from the first book could be overwhelming at times. This story needed to be told and I'm glad that the author listened to her readers to develop this one.

I'll never be a fan of Ryle's, nor will I ever make excuses for him. I hope that readers will realize that someone can be rehabilitated *if they choose to be* but if they have no desire to change, that it will never happen.

Hearing Josh's story totally ripped my heart out after all the Atlas has been through. Atlas is the real hero of this entire series!!

Overall, I'm very pleased with how this all ended! Make sure you read this series in order though (which will seem very backwards because of the titles) or you'll be sorely disappointed!

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Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

 

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Tate is having to move in with her brother. Upon her arrival, her brother is not there but she meets his friend Miles. Boy is he something else! Tate can't even get into the door for his lug of a body! They have a rocky start but it's a very brief "start" before life takes off for both of them. Miles has a lot of baggage to unpack (at least 6 years of it) and Tate does her best to help. I'm not 100% certain that her "help" was in her best interest though. I found her to be a doormat and made women look bad. I wished she'd had more self-respect, but then again, that's what this book is about.

Overall, I enjoyed this book to the point that I had to stay up half the night reading it. I just couldn't put it down after getting about 20% in!

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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

 

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

I wanted to read this book after finishing Verity recently. My expectations were a bit high after loving the first book I read by this author. This book, while enjoyable for the most part, was not the hit that I found in Verity. This is a hard book to read. There are so many hard things that Lily faces and has to deal with and she doesn't have the best support system either. I didn't like Ryle from the get-go and struggled with his character through out the story.

It will be hard to put this book down because you just have to know what's going to happen next. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in this series with a slightly lower expectation than I had for this one.

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Verity by Colleen Hoover

 

Verity by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I just jumped on this Colleen Hoover bandwagon and this was my first read by her. Woah, woah, woah....there are so many facets to this book that it's hard to write about it without giving anything away. I will say this...don't start it and think you're going to be able to put it down. I mean, I had to due to life but once I picked it up (at 11pm mind you), I had to read it until it was finished (3am). There were so many twists and turns, and while I suspected what might have happened, do we truly know? I have a few questions still and this one will stick with me for awhile.

I look forward to reading more books like this but I've been told that this author doesn't generally write in this specific genre. I'd like to encourage her if she is reading this to write more like this!

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