

A sequel titled It Starts With Us was published in October 2022. Hoover credits the recent success of the novel to the # BookTok community on TikTok. It debuted at number one on The New York Times best sellers list in January 2022 and was number one on Publishers Weekly’s adult list and number one on its overall list for the first six months of 2022. Since it was published in 2016, It Ends With Us has sold more than one million copies across the world and been translated into more than 20 languages. But it’s something else when you write a book, and it actually does have an impact on people in a positive way.” I’ve always said I write to entertain, I don’t write to educate or inform. Women have given this to friends who needed it. “But I had the biggest response that I’ve ever had to any book. “I was very nervous because it was a departure from what I usually write,” she said. Hoover also opened up about the public response to It Ends With Us. I hope readers take away that people deserve respect in relationships. So she texted me and said that for 35 years she wondered if she had made the right choice by leaving him.

Hoover continued, “She called after she finished it. I fashioned the main characters, Lily and Ryle, after them, and the first time he hits her is actually what happened between my parents.” The author’s note at the end explains how the story related to my parents. “The book was based on her relationship with my father she divorced him when I was about two years old. “I was inspired by my mother to write it,” Hoover says. In an interview with Publishers Weekly in 2017, Hoover explained that It Ends With Us was based on the relationship between her mother and father. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened,” the book’s description reads. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan - her first love and a link to the past she left behind. “Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his ‘no dating’ rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. The book follows Lily Bloom, a college graduate who moves to Boston, where she meets handsome neurosurgeon, Ryle Kincaid, and reconnects with her old boyfriend and first love, Atlas Corrigan. It Ends With Us, which was published in August 2016, is an adult fiction novel by Colleen Hoover, who has also written best-selling titles like Verity, Ugly Love, All Your Perfects and Reminders of Him.

Since the It Ends With Us film was announced, readers and BookTok followers have been desperate to who’s in the It Ends With Us cast and which actors will play Lily, Ryle, Atlas and more characters in Colleen Hoover’s book adaptation.
