"In true inimitable CoHo style, you are hungry for more."
Picking up from where the incredible and award-winning It Ends With Us left us in 2016, Hoover finally gives her fans what they're looking for...more from Atlas and Lily.
Switching between the perspectives of Atlas and Lily in each chapter, you are hooked from the first pages. Running away from domestic violence Lily decided on the birth of her daughter Emmy that she needed to leave her husband Ryle. Now co-parenting, the book opens with daughter Emmy age one, 29 months after the event that led to their separation. Occasional gaslighting and occasional flirtation aside, it’s working. Until it isn't. Until Lily bumps into the love of her life Atlas again, two years since last seeing each other. She crumbles in his presence, he's so easy for her to love, she has an Atlas shaped hole in her life and she admits she’d like to give it another go.
Except, there's Ryle. Ryle, who hates Atlas. Ryle, who she knows will not accept Atlas in her life.
We meet Atlas more fully, and oh who couldn't help but fall in love with him? Although this could be read as a standalone, we highly recommend that you read It Ends With Us first. Instead of coming to the relationship anew, you are already invested in them, their past, their love. As they reconnect and rekindle their young love, now as adults, as grown ups, with complicated lives, you hope upon hope that this time they get it right. That they make it. That they fight for their relationship, and win. Hoover polarises opinion, but like her or loathe her, I promise you'll fly through this and want more.
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Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us.
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.
But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life-and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter's life.
Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas's past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover (Anna Todd, bestselling author).
It Starts with Us features in the following genres: Romance / Relationship Stories, General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: Social issues, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, Books of the Month, Recommendations
It Starts with Us is available in Paperback, Hardback
It Starts with Us was written by Colleen Hoover and published by Simon & Schuster Ltd
