It Starts with Us is a sequel of Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us! Both are super romances depicting the wonderful character disposition of Lily Bloom. A simple girl with a difficult childhood being a witness to an abusive father and a suffering mother. Lily is not won over by her circumstances and grows up to fulfil his dream of owning her own business in Boston - the city of her dreams or like Lily and Atlas put it - where everything is better!
It Ends with Us is a captivating, intense love story between Lily Bloom a young business woman and the charming Ryle Kincaid - the neurosurgeon. It is by chance that Allysa walks into Lily's flower shop and offers to help Lily and gets hired on the spot. Its only in a matter of time that Lily discovers Allysa to be Ryle's sister and forms a kin with her and her husband Marshall. While Ryle and Lily are neck deep in love with each other, Ryle also has a dark side when it comes to relationships and that slowly gets revealed before Lily. Episode after episode Lily comes to see the darker side of Ryle and suffers immensely not just physically but emotionally too.
It is at one such incident that Lily's teenage love re-appears in her life and things go from bad to worse; with Ryle's limited understanding resulting only in heightened suspicion about Lily and Atlas having any affair even now. This further leads to unbearable torture to Lily who is now pregnant with Ryle's child and hence seeks divorce from Ryle. Through all these tumultuous times Allysa and Marshall stand strong in support of Lily as their dear friend. Which is what makes the romance different and interesting.
The story ends where Emerson is born and Lily has her complete custody!
This is where the sequel It Starts With Us begins, and it most aptly takes the reader into the lives of Lily Bloom and Atlas Corrigan. While Atlas is happy to run into Lily after almost two years, he has a challenge of his two restaurants being broken into in a certain pattern.
Lily is working hard balancing her single parenting job and her business and is super scared of reviving even her slightest of relation with Atlas due to Ryle and his extreme reactions. Though she deeply desires to re-kindle her teenage love and dreams about a happy, loving life with Atlas.
Atlas too shares the same feelings and is not just looking forward to dating Lily but this time is firm on not giving up on his lady love. He puts in all the effort that is needed to assure Lily of his love and support and above all protection.
The support characters of Brad, Theo - Brad's son and Atlas's counsellor, Josh - Atlas's younger brother through Tim and their side stories add to the plot.
However, It Starts with Us is quite a regular romance with not very intense emotions or events taking the plot on a high. It continues to weave through smoothly and is a real casual leisure time read.
I enjoyed every bit of both the parts of the story.
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