It Ends with Us

It Ends with Us is a romance novel by Colleen Hoover, published by Atria Books on August 2, 2016. The story follows Lily Bloom, a young woman who has moved from a small Maine town to Boston to start her own florist business. She meets and falls for Ryle Kincaid, a brilliant neurosurgeon with a strict no-dating rule, who makes an exception for her. But as their relationship deepens, Lily begins to see troubling patterns in Ryle's behavior. Her high school boyfriend Atlas Corrigan reappears, forcing her to confront her past and the cycle of abuse she witnessed as a child.

Hoover based the novel on the relationship between her own mother and father, describing it as the hardest book she has ever written. The novel explores themes of domestic violence, emotional abuse, and breaking generational trauma. It has been praised by readers for its honest portrayal of a difficult subject, though some critics have noted predictability in the plot. The book won the Goodreads Choice Award and became the best-selling novel of both 2022 and 2023, largely due to a resurgence on TikTok's BookTok community.

As of 2019, it had sold over one million copies worldwide and been translated into over twenty languages. A sequel, It Starts with Us, was published in October 2022. A film adaptation directed by Justin Baldoni and starring Blake Lively, Baldoni, and Brandon Sklenar was released in August 2024 to mixed reviews. [edit]