It ends with us

Based on the 2016 novel of the same name, the film will follow Lily, a woman who moves to a new city following college graduation and meets and falls in love with a man named Ryle. Her newfound bliss isn't long lived, however, as a blast from the past comes back in the form of her ex-lover who turns her world upside down.

New York Times bestselling author enjoys an almost cultlike following (I’m not joking— It Ends With Us , to the screen, has also found herself at the center of a growing and important debate. And it’s starting to show, with TikTok adding words like “ Hoover burst into the literary scene with her first book It Ends With Us, the most popular in her canon, sold upward of 4 million copies. Many of her books, including It Ends With Us, deal with domestic abuse. That isn’t a problem in and of itself, to be clear. In fact, the world could do with more books that dig into this topic in a sensitive, meaningful way. The issue is that Hoover’s work has a tendency to romanticize abuse. A Hoover-ian plot typically kicks off with a relationship problem that drives the protagonist away (like in November 9). The main character very easily forgives her partner for his dangerous transgressions ( . And the boyfriend rarely, if ever, apologizes for his harm (like in It Ends With Us). Now, you could easily argue these books are fiction and should be treated as such. But Colleen Hoover’s books are extremely popular and leave an impression on young women—Hoover’s primary audience—by casually portraying abuse as “just how a relationship is supposed to work.” This is the main reason why it’s worrying that It Ends With Us is getting a film adaptation. Given the book’s popularity, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Justin Baldoni (Rafael Solano from Five Feet Apart) and It Ends With Us follo...

BookTok, rejoice! Colleen Hoover’s 2016 bestselling novel It Ends With Us is officially being adapted for the big screen – with Blake Livelyand Justin Baldonitaking center stage. “We have a cast! Our Lily is going to be played by Blake Lively. Blake Lively y’all! She’s my dream Lily,” Hoover It Ends With Us — I immediately wanted him to be Ryle. I just thought that he had what it takes to play that character. And the good news is, he’s going to be Ryle. I think Justin and Blake have what it takes to bring these characters to life and I cannot wait for you guys to see that happen.” The writer made the big announcement from her childhood home, sharing that the novel — which centers “I just want everyone to know how appreciative I am to my mother, who got us out of a scary situation when I was little and brought us here to this house which doesn’t look like much but was full of love and joy,” she explained at the time. “So thank you, Mom, for making that very difficult decision. … The fact that we are now discussing a movie that was made from a book that was loosely inspired by my mother, it’s bittersweet. So many people have had to go through [what she did], but to know my mom’s decision has helped so many people get out of that. I love you, Mom.” Released in 2016, It Ends With Us became a cultural phenomenon on social media and was the top-selling print book of 2022. The novel remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over 90 weeks. In order to view the video, plea...

Colleen Hoover was born on December 11, 1979, to Eddie Fennell and Vannoy Fite in Sulphur Springs, Texas. She was raised in nearby Saltillo, Texas. Hoover witnessed episodes of domestic violence from a young age, and her father’s abuse of her mother deeply impacted Hoover in childhood. After graduating from Saltillo High School in 1998, she married husband Heath Hoover in 2000. The couple has since welcomed three sons. Hoover later obtained a degree in social work from Texas A&M – Commerce. Hoover began writing while holding diverse roles in the fields of social work and teaching. Since 2012, she has self-published several novels and book series, including Slammed, Hopeless, and Finding Cinderella. Many of her works have been featured on the New York Times Best Seller list. She published It Ends with Us in 2016, though it did not see broad critical or cultural acclaim until much later. The novel’s sequel, It Starts with Us, was published in 2022. In 2015, Hoover and her family launched a signed book subscription service, The Bookworm Box, which seeks to promote a love of reading and raise charitable funds for various organizations. Like many contemporary romance novels, It Ends with Us deviates from the tropes of stereotypical romance and explores love in light of the vast ramifications that domestic violence, sexism, and traumatic experiences have on its characters. Thematically rich romances like Hoover’s have increased in popularity and pervasiveness in the years since ...

Contents • 1 Description • 2 Plot • 3 Characters • 4 Adaptations • 5 Trivia • 6 References Description [ ] Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. 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 in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named 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 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. Plot [ ] The novel opens with Lily—a young college graduate living in Boston—on a rooftop, clearing her thoughts after her father’s funeral. There, she encounters Ryle Kincaid, a resident surgeon. The couple has chemistry, but it becomes clear that both have different aims when it comes to relationships. Ryle only w...