It ends with us (Book Review)

 🌼 The story starts with Lily going on a terrace to get some fresh air, and after a while she finds a stranger on the terrace taking his anger out on a chair. They both were there because they had a miserable day.

 

🌼 In a matter of minutes, Lily goes from worrying the stranger on the roof could be a psycho to getting into his sexy (though not so sexy) pick-up lines. 

 

🌼 They had just started talking, from introducing themselves to talking about what they were doing there. And in an instant, they are talking about things they hadn't talked about with anyone before. Then the stranger (Ryle) starts flirting with Lily.

 

🌼 “If you wouldn’t sleep with someone you just met,” His eyes meet mine again. “Exactly how far would you go?”

She already said thanks, but no thanks. But Ryle doesn't stop there. He does some inappropriate things to a stranger, and the stranger, Lily, lets him do that.

 

🌼 Then starts the first love story of the book, that of Atlas and Lily Bloom. It started when they were both at the same school. Atlas was a homeless teenager who Lily helped and befriended. Atlas was also raised in an abusive household. When he gets an opportunity to get some help from a relative, he takes the chance. Lily moves on with her life, graduates college, and later in her life, she meets Ryle on the roof. Ryle looks handsome; he is rich and a neurosurgeon, and he’s never had a girlfriend and doesn't even want to marry, as he thinks he can't handle responsibility. Even after dating only six months and having busy schedules, they get married excitedly.

 

🌼 Basically this story was about domestic abuse, but the main character is making excuses not only the first time he knocks her ass down on accident but also the second time when she wakes up after falling down the stairs and after hearing his sob story about something he had faced in his childhood and then agreeing on a policy where “When you’re upset, just walk away and I’ll walk away,” because that was going to work somehow, and then saying “It’s okay, Ryle. It’s okay. You were angry, it’s all okay” and still making sure even when you’re bleeding out of your head and are concussed and have quite possibly just been raped by your own husband that you get taken to an emergency room in a hospital other than the one where your abuser husband works, in order to protect his ass as well as explaining “sometimes the reason women go back is simply because they’re in love." 

 

🌼 Ryle is himself a neurosurgeon. But because he faced something really hard in his childhood, he sometimes can't control himself. Even after learning that he doesn't try to get better before living in the same house but is instead saving many other people's lives, that was very frustrating to read.

 

🌼 There are many more things lined up, but I don't want to spoil everything for you. While reading, there were times when I was angry, terrified, sometimes sad, and sometimes happy as well.

🌼 Even after such things I am excited to get my hands on the second book in the line - it starts with us.

🌼 I love the cover design of both of the books, how the title has been designed on the cover. It ends with us is ending downwards and it starts with us is growing downwards. And how the author has chosen the cover for the second book, you'd get to know that here as well if you'd be sincere while reading this one.