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It Starts With Us

 



It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

This review contains spoilers for the first book, It Ends With Us.

Title: It Starts With Us
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Romance
Published in: 2022
Age suggestion: 18+
Spice-o-meter: 3 of 5
My rating: 4 of 5

My thoughts:
I rated this book 4 out of 5 stars. This is the sequel to It Ends With Us. In this book, Lily Bloom has been divorced from Ryle and is raising their daughter as a single mother when she runs into her childhood love, Atlas. This book is the story of Lily and Atlas as they navigate a relationship together while still dealing with their lives separate from each other. Lily has an angry ex-husband to deal with, and Atlas discovers he has a family member he had no previous knowledge of and has to stand up to the horrors of his childhood.

Since I had just completed the first book, I decided to read this one immediately afterwards, especially because chapter one started exactly where the last chapter of the first book ended. One thing that was different about this book compared to the first one was that this one had split perspectives. Every other chapter switched from Lily to Atlas since the story dove more into each of their personal lives. This book was a much happier story in comparison to the first book but still featured all the characters from the first book.

Trigger warning: this book contains mentions of suicide/self harm and domestic violence. Please pass on this book if these topics make you uncomfortable.

This book may be for you if you like:
  • Love triangles
  • Split perspectives
  • Difficult topics (check trigger warning above)
  • A little bit of "spice" - the scenes in the book are fairly explicit, but there are not many of them - for 18+ readers

Overall, the book was good. It was a nice palette cleanser to read something happy after reading the previous one immediately before reading this one.

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