Paperback, 450 pages

French language

Published April 5, 2018 by Hugo Poche.

ISBN:
978-2-7556-3708-3
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OCLC Number:
1327624515

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4 stars (17 reviews)

Lily Blossom Bloom n'a pas eu une enfance très facile, entre un père violent et une mère qu'elle trouve soumise, mais elle a su s'en sortir dans la vie et est à l'aube de réaliser le rêve de sa vie : ouvrir, à Boston, une boutique de fleurs. Elle vient de rencontrer un neurochirurgien, Lyle, charmant, ambitieux, visiblement aussi attiré par elle qu'elle l'est par lui. Le chemin de Lily semble tout tracé.

Elle hésite pourtant encore un peu : il n'est pas facile pour elle de se lancer dans une histoire sentimentale, avec des parents comme les siens et Atlas, ce jeune homme qu'elle avait rencontré adolescente, lui a laissé des souvenirs à la fois merveilleux et douloureux. Est-ce que le chemin de Lily est finalement aussi simple ? Les choix les plus évidents sont-ils les meilleurs ?

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reviewed It ends with us by Colleen Hoover

Heartbreaking, emotional, and enlightening.

5 stars

"Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen seconds that we’ll never get back."

This will probably be one of my all time favorite books from this point forward. It gives a perspective into domestic abuse and answers a lot of common questions as to "why didn't they just leave their abuser"? In summary, this book is about two different forms of love; abusive love and genuine, unconditional love, and it takes you on the journey of both so you can see and understand the difference. But it also gives an interesting perspective into the side of the abuser, that sometimes abusive tendencies are a result of deep rooted trauma, and no matter how much the abuser truly wants to change, it isn't always so simple.

"There is no such thing as bad people. We are all just people who sometimes do bad things." …

reviewed It ends with us by Colleen Hoover (It ends with us (tom 1))

Review of 'It ends with us' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This was one of those books that was available at the library and digitally shelved with other books I'd read and enjoyed, so I picked it up without knowing the premise or genre. So I think Colleen Hoover writes romance novels, and while this is centered around a love story (with ridiculous descriptions that make it clear that people are very attractive and very rich), the thing that saved it for me was the author's take on domestic abuse. As she states in the author's notes, so often it's hard to imagine why people stay in those situations, or it's easy to say, "I'd just leave" and discount the person who stays as weak. In this book she tries to take a less judgmental look at ways in which firm boundaries can sometimes start to blur. (Even so, I found myself eye rolling pretty hard and and yelling "LEAVE HIM" …

reviewed It ends with us by Colleen Hoover (It ends with us (tom 1))

Review of 'It ends with us' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

DNF. I was really looking forward to reading this considering the countless 5-star ratings, but it is so cliché and cringey that I couldn't even get past 50 pages. To be fair, I have never particularly liked the Romance genre, but when a review on the cover says "everyone with a heartbeat should read this book" I am likely going to be tempted. I can understand why people enjoy this stuff, but the dialogue is brutally unrealistic and hard to get through. Like many fan fictions I read when I was 12, the love interest is a brooding, non-committal weirdo that right off the bat assumes the protagonist to be a prude. Also, the main character's name is Lily Blossom Bloom? This is not for me, but props to you if you can overlook nonsense like that.

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