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“It stops here. With me and you it ends with us.”
-Colleen Hoover
There are endless romantic stories talking about the beautiful way of falling in love and a happily ever after. But only a handful of them go beyond the happily ever after. This book became that for me, and maybe that’s why I could connect with it so deeply.
Spoiler Alert!
For those expecting it just to be a love story, let me warn you it’s beyond that. There is more to this heart-wrenching novel that attends to sensitive subjects such as domestic violence and failed marriages. So, kindly don’t expect only a mushy love story, for it’s not.
Introduction
Author - Colleen Hoover
Genre - Contemporary Romance
Language - English
Naked Truths - Beginning of the End!
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Lily and Ryle Kincaid when met, they instantly struck a chord and a story of dark naked truths began, giving Lily ideas for her dream project. And just a year later Lily was ready with her business plan.
Serendipity was at it’s best when Lily accompanied an amiable but rich Allysa to work with, sister of Ryle, the hot surgeon Lily bumped into a year ago.
The typical boy-girl drama that ensues among the two, renders the two of them entranced by each other, with their respective dark issues. Everything is perfect, until history repeats itself. Ryle, apparently with temper issues, physically hurts Lily.
But, promises to never hurt her again, begging for forgiveness genuinely. Lily, shaken to the core, believes him and forgives him, warning him to never ever mistreat her again.
But once a cheater always a cheater, and so Mr. Doctor repeats the mistake not only twice but thrice, leaving a broken Lily with no choice but to leave him. Now amidst being married and pregnant, what will she decide?
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Letters to Ellen Degenneres: Atlas and Lily
A 15 year old Lily with an adulation of The Ellen Degenneres show and her personality, began writing journals to her when she met a homeless boy, Atlas Corrigan. Her bleak and hapless world imbibed a little hope through her friendship with him. And for him, her benevolence and compassion strengthened him to live.
Having an abusive man for a father, brutally hitting her mother, made Lily’s life a living hell.But her epistolary talks with Ellen and watching her show with Atlas gave her immense joy and peace.
Immersed in each other, the two romantically get involved, but the pure bond of love and care only picks-up. Unfortunately though the two are parted and embark on their respective journeys, holding on to each other but living their individual lives.
Lily is Dory to Atlas’s Marlin, jostling him to keep swimming and never stop until you reach the shore.Their bond is beyond any sexual or materialistic pleasures, the two want each other but are also happy to let go when required.
Meeting after years, the two are jubilant to find each other successful but are also disheartened to be in different companies. However, the beauty about these two is exactly that, they never confine each other, they only set free.
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Love triangles or 'Wreck'tangles?
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Love is a mess with two people, no wonder with three it's sheer wreckage. After years of parting with Atlas and moving to Boston only to find him, she encounters a dapper Ryle and plans a life with him incognizant to Atlas being just round the corner.
Atlas who is now a successful chef when finds Lily with Ryle in his restaurant could only notice her swollen eye. He confronts her for repeating the same mistake her mother did years ago, parting on a sad note again. Lily, who believes Atlas has moved on, marries Ryle who loves her immensely, only to hurt her again when he finds Atlas’s number in Lily’s phone.
She loves Ryle but she hasn’t forgotten Atlas, and maybe that’s why still kept his things. Each of the three has different pasts, but that never gives one the right to mistreat the other. Even after constantly promising her to never hurt her, Ryle in his fit of rage almost rapes her and breaks her head.
Third time’s a charm or it's the last? Well it’s clearly the last time for Lily to endure any of Ryle’s antics and leaves him, only to seek refuge with Atlas, again.
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Mothers in Quandary: The Present is All About the Past!
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All her life she blamed her mother for enduring the brutality of his father, constantly forgiving him and having no self-esteem of her own. She made a pact to her young self to never be in her mother's shoes, only to find herself in the same predicament, years after.
Lily throughout the novel compares her father with her husband, drawing differences between the two men, as to who is better. But the conclusion is that when you have to find reasons to believe someone’s intentions, it’s a lost cause.
The book very easily describes that, just because you hate someone, your love for them won’t just vanish away. She loves Ryle and keeps falling into the vicious cycle of forgiving him.
She finally realises what her mother went through and when she herself becomes a mother she vows to never let her daughter fall into the endless cycle. Saying,“with you and me’ it ends with us”.
My Ratings for the Movie - 3.5 on 5
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Written By - Shivani Singh
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