Book Title: It Ends With Us
Author: Colleen Hoover
Series: Standalone
Release Date: August 21st, 2016
Genres: Contemporary Romance

Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

With this bold and deeply personal novel, Colleen Hoover delivers a heart-wrenching story that breaks exciting new ground for her as a writer. Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, It Ends With Us is an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price.

Book Review - Never Never (Never Never #1) by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher

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Never Never, a novella series. Book one. 

 Best friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen. Complete strangers since this morning. 

 He'll do anything to remember. 

She'll do anything to forget.

3.5 STARS! ★★★☆ 

 Well this book was one whole gigantic tease of a mystery with almost zero answers given to us. 

  Me after reading the first chapter: 

 

  Me after reading the last page:

 

 And let it be known that there is this HUGE cliffy at the end of this one that can rival against that cliffy in Nocte. Yeah, remember THAT gigantic cliffy where you'd want to hunt down the author and hold her at gunpoint to reveal the answers we need?! 

 I liked that the concept is unique and original, plus I expected nothing less when it involves these two brilliant authors. Imagine Tarryn's twisted ideas thrown in with CoHo's signature hero that you'd like to take home for Sunday brunches with your family. And BAM! You'll get this little brainchild that comes in the form of an unconventional love story shrouded in mystery but also sprinkled with some adorable humor and yummy grilled cheese (that's all on you, CoHo).

   

 All I can say so far that it's like a mix of second chance romance where the MCs get to start off with a clean slate again or reading a romance story backwards since they were lovers prior to them suffering a bad case of amnesia (or so it seems). We get to see them slowly discovering things about their past but at this point, Charlie & Silas are as clueless as us readers are.

 

 My only issue would be wishing that the authors would have waited to release this as a standalone novel rather than a 140-pages novella at this point. This book seemed to have only scratched the surface of what could have been a potentially amazing read had it been a standalone. Had I known that it was this short and ends with a huge cliffy with no official news on the next release date, I would have held it off. But alas, my relationship with CoHo's books seemed to get the better of me. 

Overall, it's different and it's not a read that you can just box it into a particular category. It has a little bit of everything and possibly more; it captivates you yet it confuses you. Definitely a page-turner but if you're not a fan of cliffhangers, I'd highly advise you to wait till the next book is out before picking this one up. 

Book Review - Maybe Not {Maybe Someday #1.5) by Colleen Hoover

4 WARREN STARS! ★★★★

Colleen Hoover, the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe Someday brilliantly brings to life the story of the wonderfully hilarious and charismatic Warren in a new novella, Maybe Not. 

When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. 

 Or maybe not. 

 Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion. And he wants to be the one to test this theory. 

 Will Bridgette find it in herself to warm her heart to Warren and finally learn to love? 

Maybe. 

 Maybe not.

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Colleen Hoover: Latest Updates! New Movie & Novella?!

Attention all Colleen Hoover fans!! 

This week has been filled with a lot of great surprises from the amazing lady herself, so in case you haven't heard: check this piece of news! :D

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Ugly Love: New Movie in 2015?!

Looks like it could be happening, as according to CoHo herself that confirms in her blog post (you can read it HERE!) and Nick Bateman will be starring as Captain Miles from the book! 

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Maybe Not: Spinoff Novella of Maybe Someday!

OMG!!! CoHo drop this new surprise earlier this week and announced that Maybe Not will be out on November 24th, 2014! This will feature Warren and Bridgette from Maybe Someday and I absolutely loved them both (especially Warren!). Here's the official blurb:

Colleen Hoover, the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe Someday brilliantly brings to life the story of the wonderfully hilarious and charismatic Warren in a new novella, Maybe Not. 

When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. 

 Or maybe not. 

 Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion. And he wants to be the one to test this theory. 

 Will Bridgette find it in herself to warm her heart to Warren and finally learn to love? 

Maybe. 

 Maybe not.

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Book Review - Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

2.5 UNDERWHELMING STARS ★★☆ 

   

“Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”

I’m not even sure if I’m more upset that I’m actually rating a CoHo book less than 5 stars or the fact that almost everyone loved this book but me :( :(

This was definitely one of the most anticipated releases for me this year & as a huge fan of CoHo, I was so ready for her to blow me away again with her writing that could bring me to unimaginable places where my heart would squeeze thinking about her story and feel her characters’ emotions & let the story sink in my mind for days.  
But 
I 
Felt 
Nothing 
Here.
 
FOREWARNED: Do not read further if you don't want spoilers!! Because I can’t possibly express my thoughts without revealing major parts of this story.  


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What majorly ruined the book for me: 

1.The writing style & the whole alignment/poetry style. 

 Prior to the book release, I was already aware of this new alignment style CoHo was gonna adopt into the book for Miles’s POV. The first chapter of Miles POV, I found it bearable & I thought he was an adorable dork for an 18-year old as he experienced his first love with a girl named Rachel. But what I truly didn’t anticipate was that it was written in that style for the ENTIRE POV of 18-year old Miles. I think I could have lived with it, would it have just been emphasizing certain emotions (like in the Slammed series, which I LOVED), but it was a total overkill to my brain for it to be in every chapter for almost an entire length of his POV. I felt that the short sentences were distracting & annoying and it didn’t help at all to enhance my connection to Miles at all :( 

 

2.Tate 

I didn’t like her at all. I found myself really annoyed with her and her thoughts. You know that first kiss in the bathroom? She sounded like a 15-year old when she says things like this:

Good Lord. He’s kissing me. Oh, my God, his mouth is so possessive. His fingers are splayed out again, digging into my hip. Holy hell, he just groaned. His hand moves from my waist and glides down to my leg. Kill me now. Just kill me now.

Sorry but that just COMPLETELY ruined a supposedly good scene D: I cringed and I find myself wondering if I’m listening to a 24 year old woman or a 15 year old raging hormonal teenager. It would have been so much better if it was more of a descriptive scene instead of making me hear her hyperventilating thoughts.

And correct me if I’m wrong, but this would be the first time CoHo writes a doormat heroine like Tate. I’ve always loved CoHo’s heroine characters which is one of the main reasons I love her books, and seeing Tate offering herself to Miles for a no-strings attached relationship, I just couldn’t bring myself to like her =\ I tried to find reasons to justify Tate acting like this but I couldn’t feel any sexual tension between them & with Miles initial cold demeanor towards her, I’d like to think she would have had more dignity & respect for herself. And again, she says things like this:

No, Miles. I follow. That’s how it is with us. You’re solid, I’m liquid. You part the waters, I’m your wake.

Seriously? I can’t even…

 

General thoughts 
I’m heartbroken that I didn’t experience any ugly crying or any tears throughout reading this because it makes me feel like a heartless bitch reading Miles’ past :( I agreed that I found it heartbreaking and my heart genuinely ached for him. However, the whole writing style ruined it for me to able to relate to Miles’ pain when reading in that so-called poetic manner. Perhaps if it was written in a proper descriptive manner, I’m quite sure I would have sobbed.

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Overall, I found it to be rather cliché, ending was a little too rushed & I couldn’t relate to both MC’s. Completely underwhelmed by my initial expectations of how I wanted this story to play out. I wanted to fall in love with this story but sadly it didn’t work for me. After all the ugly things, there are still parts that I could say I enjoyed and it would be the scenes where Cap (Sam) was inside. I loved the things he said & it was the only thing that reminded me why I love CoHo’s brilliant writings in the first place :)

If you’re a fan of CoHo, I still definitely recommend you to try this out. This book could be either a hit or miss, depending on your reading preference ;) Even though this book didn’t work for me, I’m still a fan of CoHo & will be checking out her future writings no doubt.