It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, 385 p.

CW: Domestic abuse 

"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."--Goodreads blurb

Colleen Hoover is loved by many a reader. This was my first foray into her books, and I did enjoy the writing and the story kept me interested. But I'd heard that I'd be sobbing on the floor while/after reading this book. That was definitely not the case for me as I found myself more angered than touched by this storyline. This was another case of a book's hype perhaps ruining a bit of the experience of reading said book. I will be trying another Hoover book in the future, though.