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It Ends With Us By Lily Hoover

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Lily Bloom is a 23-year-old woman whose relationship escalated quickly from love to hate. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover is a fiction romance novel about a relationship between two adults in their young twenties who live in Boston and fell in love the first time they laid eyes on each other. The story follows as going six months without seeing each other, then one day, they set eyes on each other again. After that, one day, they started frequently talking online and in person. Colleen Hoover's books hook you into them much more than an average person would expect and have suspense that keeps eyes locked like a chest with no key. Lily grew up in a small town in Maine, with an abuser being her dad. Her dad's name was Andrew, and her mom's …show more content…

Every day he would get off the bus with Lily and shower. This worked because Lily's mom also worked late, so he had time to stay and do whatever he wanted. This started to become a daily thing. As Atlas started to come more and more often, Lily developed feelings for Atlas. She wrote to one person in her diary about Atlas, Ellen DeGeneres. She never shipped them to her; she kept them for herself. One afternoon, both Lily's mom and dad were home. Right before sunset, she heard her mother screaming a deathly scream. She ran downstairs to see Andrew hitting Jenny. They fought and fought right in front of her deep blue eyes, like seeing a bull attacking anything red. She grabbed a knife and yelled at her dad to stop, but Andrew slapped her. Atlas came running down, picked Lily up, and ran her to her bedroom. A few weeks later, Atlas told Lily he could move to Boston to live with his uncle. Lily's heart sank to the floor. She did not want to see him leave but wished him the best. Lily was depressed as soon as he left. She loved him, truly loved him. Watching him move was a significant impact on her life. "But I did not die. Because he let go, and here I am. Still living. Just barely" (Hoover, 158). This quote from It Ends with Us shows that Lily was starting to get over it but was still very sad that she felt like

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