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.(Blurb from Goodreads)
Whhhyyyyy???? Why did I take so long between Colleen Hoover books? I’ve read and enjoyed Slammed and Hopeless years ago. But man, was It Ends With Us soooo good. And I was pleasantly surprised to read that the setting was in Boston (as someone who lives in Massachusetts.)
It’s just that Ms. Hoover is SUCH a great writer that you are immediately drawn in. I finished the book in a few days and then I was bummed when I did. LOL. It’s not the happiest of books, but then again, if it was it would be pretty boring, you know?
There was one baby baby thing, not a mistake per se but a local thing, that stuck out to me, that you wouldn’t know if you weren’t from here. Ryle, the male lead, works at Massachusetts General Hospital, but when referring to it around here, we call it Mass General. I know it sounds silly, but when it was mentioned in dialog where Ryle worked and the answer was Massachusetts General Hospital, it took me out of the story for a millisecond.
Again, I still LOVED this book and would definitely recommend for anyone wanting to read a contemporary romance. Read it!!
