It ends with us is a New Adult novel, where romance

is combined with abuse. The book reflects situations

that, unfortunately, are encountered more and more
often, in more and more families. Situations in which
tha woman is constantly abused by her partner, but
for various reasons, she can’t get out of that toxic
relationship. The destroyed orchids on the cover
represent Lily’s ruined life.
Colleen Hoover, the author of the novel, is one of
most popular female authors in America and beyond.
International and #1 New York Times bestselling
author of romance, YA, thriller, women’s fiction and
paranormal romance. “I don’t like to be confined to one genre. If you put me in
a box, I’ll claw my way out.”, she said.
The books was published on 02.08.2016 and translated into romanian in 2018,
at the Epica publishing house. The novel won the Goodreads Choice Award for
Romance (2016) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) awards.

The message that the book conveys is a powerful one, one addressed
especially to women. Lily, the protagonist of the novel, shows us how abuse-
forgiveness-reconciliation, can become a vicious circle, a circle that can be
repeated again and again and fail to get rid of it because of fear or love, whether
it is for the person who is abusing you or for the child you have with him.
However, Lily proves us that this circle can be broken. She shows us that life
can recover again, become beautiful again and meet another person whom your
life becomes even more beautiful.

Lily Bloom, lived as a child in a family where her mother was constantly
abused by her father. That’s why on the first opportunity offered, she moved to
Boston, and after the death of her father she started her own business. Lily said
she would never allow herself to be abused by a monster hiding behind the
name “husband”. However, she meets Ryle Kincaid, a gorgeous neurosurgeon.
They fall in love with each other and Lily becomes the exception to his “no
dating” rule.
 Everything seems to be going too well to be true. This until they go to a
restaurant and Lily was face to face with Atlas Corrigan, her first love and the
orphaned boy Lily took care of when she was a child. She gave him from her
father’s clothes so that he would have something to ewar and warm up so that
he would not die, she also brought him food, and wher her parents weren’t
home, she invited him to come and take a shower and watch their favorite TV
show together, until Lily’s father found out and beat Atlas until he was about to
kill him.
Ryle becomes jealous, especially when she finds Lily’s diary and reads about
her past with Atlas. The first time he throws her to the ground, then he excuses
himself that he hot angry and unwittingly hit her. The second time , he pushes
Lily down the stairs, and after she recovers, she’s lied to by Ryle that it was an
accident and that she tripped and fell down the stairs, but she remember how
Ryle pushes her. She forgives him, but the next time, her husband begins to
sexually abuse her. He tries to rape her, and Lily barely manages to escape. She
is taken by Atlas to the hospital and there she finds out she is pregnant with
Ryle’s child.
Kincaid moves out and lets Lily stay alone in their apartment, but they don’t
divorce. After little Emerson is born, Lily tells him she wants a divorce.
Although Ryle tries to covince her to stay married, Lily still stubbornly supports
her decision. She manages to escape all thhe abuse she received from Ryle and
rebuilds her life, but this time with Atlas and little Emerson.

I recommended this book to everyone, from teenagers who are budding adults
to all women who live in toxic relationships and don’t have the courage to get
out of them. Women should take Lily as an example, and when they meet the
aggressor who hides behind the title of “boyfriend” or “husband”, to remove
him, to take him out of their lives until it’s too late. No one deserved to live
their lives in a continuous ordeal.

“Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in
like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and
make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them
things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed
onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the
waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming”