The book titled “It Ends with Us” became so famous. The book’s genre is contemporary romance, but you will experience many other emotions like mental disturbance, jealousy, fear, violence, etc.
The way this book has been written has resonated deeply with people, and everyone is talking about it.
One thing is that you are attached to a person and love him and the other thing is that you just live with a person. The difference between living with someone whom you love and living with just anyone without love is explained in this book.
Although the genre of this book is contemporary romance, it is actually based on domestic violence. The heroine of this novel grew up watching her father beat her mother.
It Ends With Us Book Summary
On this page, you will read a short and sweet summary of the book called “It Ends with Us.” I will also explain why it was named this way.
I will also tell you who should read this book and why. At the end, I will give my review on how I felt after reading this book and share what others who have read it are saying about it.
It Ends With Us book is written by the author, Colleen Hoover. She is an American author. People love her for the way she writes. She writes so creatively, and her book’s themes are so different and fresh. Her content especially accommodates the new generation, and her writing is so detailed.
She doesn’t just write to write the book, she actually writes about the issues. I know many other writers talk about the issues, but this author tries to give solutions.
She guides you if you are in a situation, showing where you should go or what you can do.
I think this is what makes this author different from other authors
Book Summary of "It Ends with Us”
Characters of " It End with Us"
- Lily Bloom (female) – Heroine
- Ryle Kincaid (male) – Lily’s bf
- Atlas Corrigan (male) – Lily’s childhood friend
- Allyssa (female) – Lily’s friend and Ryle’s sister
- Marshall (male) – Allyssa’s husband
Lily Met Ryle
The story starts with a girl named Lily, who is also the heroine of this novel. She has returned to her home in Boston after completing her Master’s in Business.
The author says, that today Lilly is very sad. She is sitting on the terrace and thinking about her father’s funeral. Lily hates her father very much because he used to beat and abuse her mother a lot. Her mother never told anyone about the domestic violence and Lilly was also forbidden from telling it to anyone.
When Lily was thinking all this while sitting on the terrace then a boy, Ryle Kincaid came there. Ryle is attracted to Lily from the very first sight. Ryle has completed his studies as a Neurosurgeon. He is very attractive and handsome.
But he gets angry very quickly. Lily and Ryle sit on the terrace and start talking and share all their problems.
Lily says that she wants to leave marketing and open her own flower shop and Ryle says that he wants to become a very good surgeon. Meanwhile, Ryle leans towards Lily to kiss her and Lily refuses. Ryle gets a phone call and he leaves from there.
Lily opened her own Flower Shop
After 6 months, Lily takes her mother to a place in front of a store where she wants to open her flower shop. Lily has bought this place with her inheritance capital. A girl named Allysa helps her a lot in buying this place.
Lily and Allysa become good friends very soon.
Lily Met Ryle Again
Once Lily injures her leg while working in a shop, Allysa makes a phone call to her husband and her brother. When they arrive, Lily learns that Allysa’s brother is the same boy she met on the rooftop.
After meeting again at the flower shop, Lily and Ryle start spending a lot of time together.
Who is Atlas and How Lily met him ?
Then one day Lily takes out her old journals and starts reading. Lily reads about Atlas Corrigan in her journal.
Atlas does not have parents, Lily shares many of her things with him, she gives him food by hiding it from her family and she also keeps giving her father’s clothes to Atlas.
Lily used to tell everything to Atlas, and both of them were very good friends since childhood.
One day Ryle tells Lily that he wants to meet her mother. Then the three of them go to a restaurant for lunch Amit, Lily, and her mother go to a restaurant.
At the restaurant, Lily saw that her childhood friend Atlas was working as a waiter there.
When Ryle and her mother leave, Lily talks to Atlas a lot as they meet each other after many years.
Lily told about Atlas that I have opened a flower shop. Then Atlas told about his girlfriend. After talking Lily leaves from there.
Lily and Atlas's Childhood Memories
Then Lily continues to read her old journals. In the journals, she had talked about her feelings with Atlas and how they had planned about their future together one evening.
Altas had once given an open heart to Lily as a gift which he had carved from a tree near their house and this gift was a symbol of the connection and love between them.
But their growing love was limited to this only, then one day Atlas’s uncle offered him a house and he could not say no to his uncle so he went there to live with him.
Lily and Ryle’s Love Life
In the present, the relationship between Lily and Ryle is growing, they are coming very close to each other and they both decide to live together.
The twist in the story comes when one day Ryle is taking out food from the oven and his hand gets burnt but Lily starts laughing loudly which Ryle does not like and then Ryle gets very angry and pushes Lily hard. With this hard push, Lily gets hurt a lot.
Lily gets very scared and remembers her own father’s atrocities on her mother, how her father used to beat her mother.
For Lily, it was a love and complexity. Ryle realizes his mistake and apologizes to Lily and says that he will not make this mistake again. Lily is scared but she still forgives Ryle. She also says that if he tries to hurt her again, she will leave him.
The next day, Lily, Ryle, Allyssa, and her husband Marshall meet for lunch at a restaurant where Atlas works as a waiter. Atlas sees Lily’s injury and thinks that Ryle must have harmed Lily. Lily goes towards the washroom and Atlas follows her. Atlas asked Lily what happened to her and how she got injured.
Then while coming back from the washroom, Ryle sees Lily with Atlas and he thinks that Lily is cheating on him but Lily assures him that Atlas is just her old friend.
The very next day, Atlas reaches Lily’s follower shop and gives her his phone number so that if she ever needs him, she can call him.
Lily then reaches home to read her last diary which mentioned the same night when she met Atlas.
Atlas had come to meet her on her birthday. He had promised Lily that he would return after making his life better and he would have enough money to keep Lily happy. Then he also gave Lily a Boston Magnet as a gift .
Lily and Ryle’s Married Life
Then one day Lily and Ryle decide to get married. After that marriage, both of them lived a very happy life just like their dating life.
One day Ryle gets Atlas’s phone number from Lily’s journal. He gets angry and beats Lily a lot.
She got injured again. Lily is not like her mother and she decides to tell Allyssa.
Lilly tells Allyssa that she has decided to leave Ryle. Allyssa also asks her brother Ryle to tell Lily about the incident from his childhood when he shot and injured his younger brother. Ryle tells Lily about this incident and also convinces her to stay with him.
Meanwhile, Atlas gets a 2-month fellowship in Europe.
But one night, Ryle reads Lily’s journals and he also sees the gifts given by Atlas to Lily long ago. After reading all the journals, he comes to know how Lily keeps feeling for Atlas.
Now Ryle again beats Lily a lot and makes her unconscious. Lily regrets a lot as to why she had forgiven Ryle for beating her repeatedly because it had become a habit for Ryle to beat her whenever he got angry.
Lily called Atlas to take her to the hospital and then Lily came to know that she was pregnant. Lily did not tell anyone about her pregnancy.
Then from the hospital, Atlas takes Lily to his home and lets her stay in the guest room. Atlas tells Lily that he is going to Europe for 2 months so that she can live peacefully in this house. Then Lily asks Atlas when you went to stay at your uncle’s house, you promised that you would come back to find me after becoming successful in your life, so why didn’t you come back?
Atlas said, that when he came back he came to know that Lily and Ryle were very happy with each other so he went back.
Then Atlas tells Lily that if she wants to come back again, she can come back, he will always wait for her.
After that, Lily called Allyssa and told her what happened to her.
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Lilly’s Pregnancy
When Lily’s pregnancy becomes visible, Ryle asks that she be allowed to come home so that both of them can take care of the child together. Then Lily gave birth to a daughter.
The newborn daughter was named Emerson i.e. Amy in the ownership of Ryle’s dead brother.
Lilly’s Freedom
After the birth of the daughter, Ryle asks Lily what she wants to do in the future, what is she thinking, does she want to stay in this relationship.
When she has a boyfriend, if she comes to you and tells you that her boyfriend beats her a lot, then what will you tell her to do?
Hearing this, Ryle understands everything and after that, both of them get divorced.
Lily did not want her daughter to go through what she and her mother had to go through.
Lily goes back to Atlas and while leaving she tells her daughter that
It stops here with me and you, “It ends with us”.
It Ends With Us My Book Review
I love this book. I love the way the author beautifully portrayed each and every character. We can relate to it because there are women out there who are struggling in their relationships.
Lily Bloom, who is the lead character of this novel, is very bold and brave.
I like Lily’s intelligence because she did not make any decision quickly; she thought many times about whether to leave Ryle or not. She gave Ryle many chances not to engage in domestic violence.
Lily did not want to spoil her life like her mother.
My hats off to the writer; she has given women the courage to take a stand for themselves.
The Most Loving Quotes from It Ends With Us
Here is the list of the most loving quotes from the book called “It Ends with Us”.
There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.
Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them
But sometimes you can’t control where your mind goes. You just have to train it not to go there anymore.
People spend so much time wondering why the women don’t leave. Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn’t that where the only blame should be placed?
I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up.
FAQs
All women should read this book because this book takes human emotions to a different level. When a woman reads the book, she sees herself somewhere in Lily. Men should also read this book because a different point of view gives you a different perspective and opens your mind.
I found this content to be very, very adult material. The age to read this book is 18 years plus, according to me, because intimate scenes have been discussed in great detail in it. I agree that it was necessary for this story, but this exposure is not right for a growing mind. That is why parents should not allow their children to read this book. The second reason I think, even if we ignore the physical intimate part, there is still chemistry between Jolie and Royal and Lily and Atlas, which only an adult can understand. This topic is very sensitive. If you see your child reading this book, then you should take note of it.
The writer wrote It Ends with Us for her mother because her mother was a victim of domestic abuse. She never told anyone about this. This book is written about domestic violence, but the author aims to inspire and give courage to those women who stay quiet and tolerate violence
Ryle was 7 years older than Lily. When Ryle met Lily, he was 30 years old, and Lily was 23 years old.
Atlas and Lily were both teenagers when they met for the first time. Atlas was 18 years old, and Lily was just 15.