Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. When the four meet, Lily delivers Ryle an ultimatum, requesting that he attend anger management courses, and that his visits with Emerson be supervised.

He truly and will forever be a terrible person and I’m so glad that this book continuously highlighted that.I did not ever expect it starts with us and yet I could not think of what a beautiful and necessary addition this is.

This site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to assist with navigation and your ability to provide feedback, analyse your use of our products and services, assist with our promotional and marketing efforts, and provide content from third parties. Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over. Atlas also sends a text to Lily with a similar journal style, and which went on for pages and pages.He requests to start having overnights with Emerson, but Lily asserts that Emerson will not be allowed to stay with Ryle overnight until she is old enough to speak.

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Never seen anything like it': how Colleen Hoover's normcore thrillers made her America's bestselling author". It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. 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. Part of what I loved about that book was the nuanced and flawed characters, while this book distilled everyone down to either just a good guy or a bad guy. Atlas is a bare minimum decent human being (who slept with an underage girl) and doesn’t need to outshine the story of domestic abuse and survival like the last book portrayed.

For new readers, their history unfolds in heartfelt diary entries that Lily addresses to Finding Nemo star Ellen DeGeneres as she considers how Atlas was a calming presence during her turbulent childhood. Colleen Hoover takes us on a whole new emotional rollercoaster, this time, switching between the perspective of Atlas and Lily as they navigate friendship, love and a very jealous ex-husband.

The way Allysa and Marshall talk about Ryle as if he’s a little kid who just gets mean sometimes, instead of the violent wife beater and attempted rapist that he is, is so strange…. Every other vendor I previously bought from shipped these books in thin bags with no protection, and they all arrived damaged. 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.