Book Review: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

It Ends With Us (It Ends With Us) by Colleen Hoover
Genre: Adult Fiction (Contemporary/Romance)
Date Published: August 2, 2016
Publisher: Atria Books

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 where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems 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.

It Ends With Us is the first book in the It Ends With Us duology by Colleen Hoover. I'll start with what irked me. The letters to Ellen. They were a little much. I feel like we needed all that background info, but I really wish it wasn't through letters to Ellen. That made it a bit cringey, in my opinion. I do appreciate her bringing attention to domestic abuse through this story though. I feel like this wasn't as extreme as a lot of stories portray domestic abuse to be, but that makes it just as important. In real life, the woman may think it's "manageable", but it could easily have escalated to an extreme case. There are all kinds of domestic abuse. No case is the same.  There really is quite a bit more I'd like to say, but I feel like I've already said too much. If any of this applies to you or this book speaks to you... you can break the cycle too!

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.

To learn more about Colleen Hoover and her books, visit her website. You can also find her on Goodreads, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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Tour! A Review of Rampant by Gemma James

Rampant (Condemned #2) by Gemma James Genre: Adult (Contemporary Romance/Erotica) 18+
Date Published: October 28, 2014
Publisher: Self

Life is twisted. Cruel. After being ripped from the safe haven of Rafe's arms, my new kidnapper is waging a sick game. Unable to make my body do his bidding, he's resorting to psychological warfare. He'll bend my mind until I break, and when I do, that just might be my saving grace.

I'll forge through hell to get back to Rafe, body and spirit broken and bleeding, but I'm unprepared for what I find. He's done what I can't: he's erased eight years of pain and betrayal. I don't know how to bring him back to me, because bringing him back means ripping him to shreds all over again.

RAMPANT is a new adult dark romance with disturbing themes and explicit content, including sexual scenes and violence that may offend some. Intended for mature audiences. Part two of the CONDEMNED series. This is not a stand-alone read.

Rampant is book two in the Condemned series by Gemma James. I wasn't as consumed by this book as I was the first book, and I think that's because there was so much of Zach in it. We got a detailed look at Zach's kind of crazy and saw where Alex's father's loyalties lie. Where we seemed to be moving forward with healing(even if in a deranged way *wink*) and plot through the last book, this one moved us backwards on many levels. I've really had enough of Zach and what he does to Alex. I'm done with that part of the storyline. Let's move on.

I like Rafe without his memory. It gave me a glimpse of who he was before his life went down the drain. Could this be a second chance for Rafe and Alex? It's never that easy. Not that anything about this series is easy.

Rampant by Gemma James was kindly provided to me by Dark World Books for review. The opinions are my own.

Check out my review of the first book in this series!

 

Gemma James (a pseudonym for Christina Jean Michaels) loves to explore the darker side of sex in her fiction. She's morbidly curious about anything dark and edgy and enjoys exploring the deviant side of human nature. Her stories have been described as being "not for the faint of heart."

She lives with her husband and their four children—three rambunctious UFC/wrestling-loving boys and one girl who steals everyone’s attention.

To learn more about Gemma James and her books, visit her website.You can also find her on Goodreads, Facebook, and Twitter.

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