A review by aotora
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I hated this one ... Atlas was still great and his relationship with Lliy was everything - but man did I hate the way Hoover threw around gen z and Tik Tok because it read like hey I am so hip and young and I know all these things look at me - but at the same time she was still pretty much worshipping Ellen throughout the entire book despite all the garbage that came out about her recently. I did love that Lily finally sat down Ryle and that his sister did it alongside her and that they chose to limit his time with his niece and daughter and that someone has to be always present and that he has to go to anger managment - because I loathed the fact that he attacked her again and she didn't report him again. I also loved the ending - I just ... didn't care for most of the book because it tends to copy and paste a lot of the first book and it repeats a lot of the first story.