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WOW! I feel like I'm just echoing everyone when I say this is Colleen Hoover's BEST WORK YET. She is my favorite author and of course I love all of her work, but she completely hit it out of the park with this one. I'm so glad I had the time to sit an devour this book in one sitting because I'm not sure I could've handled having to put this one down.

I know everyone keeps saying to go into this one blind and I fully agree. Personally this is how I go into all of CoHo's books. I may read the blurb prior to the book being released, but I never go back to read it again before I read the actual book. Sometimes it's just better to experience the journey yourself and this is one of those books. The reward at the end of the journey is so worth it. So, once again I'll echo others and not go into the story, but just talk about the things I liked.



Colleen has a way with all of her books that really makes you feel. With this book, I felt as though I were walking in Lily's shoes. I loved when she loved and my heart broke when her's did. I felt anger, guilt and confusion for loving the guy who could bring her so much pain. I too wanted to make excuses and hated myself for it.



I loved both Ryle and Atlas. They were Lily's two loves at different times in her life and both loved her deeply. I loved the "naked truth" times. It's so refreshing to see characters be that open and honest with each other. I honestly didn't know how the story was going to end, but my heart beat rapidly with anticipation. I love when we get to the parts in stories where the title of the book is used, but this one...completely wrecked me. It was so fitting, yet so heartbreaking. It still brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.



Colleen deserves a huge round of applause for this book. The note from the author at the end...Wow! An applause for Colleen's mother too.

"All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses."

I can't recommend this book enough. READ. THIS. BOOK!! It's up there on my all time favorite list.