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It Starts with Us

by Colleen Hoover

🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate·spoiler·It Ends with Us #2·✓ Series Complete
Available on Kindle Unlimited

Why Read This?

You'll believe in healing after trauma and the possibility of healthy, loving relationships.

Synopsis

**Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.** Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting 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 “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) 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, New York Times bestselling author).

At a Glance

3.84 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingmedium burn

Top Tropes

second chancesingle parent romancechildhood sweethearts reunited

Mood

emotionalheartwarminghopefulromanticbittersweet

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

3.84 ★

Page Count

324 pages

Published

2022

Primary Genre

Contemporary Romance

Pairing

M/F

POV

First Person

Romance Pacing

Medium Burn

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Colin Donnell|Olivia Song

Narrator Count

Dual

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

FMC: survivor sign in to unlock

Spice Details 🌶️

explicit but vanilla sign in to unlock

domestic violenceabusechildhood traumaemotional abusetraumadivorcegriefjealousyparental abandonmentstalking

World & Setting

contemporary sign in to unlock

Reading Context

cathartic release sign in to unlock

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