Review: It Starts with Us

It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

one star out of five. a book that could’ve been an email.

i was really disappointed in this book because it ends with us was powerful. this, on the other hand, was flat, uninteresting, and plotless.

lily and atlas didn’t need a whole sequel. i feel like we got most of their love story in lily’s journal entries to ellen degeneres. this felt overdrawn and unnecessary. honestly, a single “future chapter” to conclude it ends with us would’ve been enough.

if this had been a coming-of-age story about josh and atlas from josh’s perspective, it could’ve been a solid 4 or 5 stars. better plot, fresh angle, and we’d still get glimpses of lily and atlas. instead, we got a story that had already been told… and told better the first time.

i also didn’t like the perspective change in the book at all. no man in real life yearns that much. cmon now.

i wanted to like the sequel but…

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