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It Ends With Us《以我們告終》Colleen Hoover
★ 2024/8/30 改編為同名電影上映，由 Blake Lively 主演 ★
我們深愛的，往往帶來最痛的傷。
Lily 出身緬因州某處小鎮，憑藉長久以來的努力，終於移居大城市波士頓開了一間屬於自己的花店，離自己的夢想又更靠近一些。在新家頂樓，Lily 遇見神經外科醫生 Ryle，兩人很快被彼此吸引，展開戀情。然而，隨著這段關係的進行，Ryle 開始展露 Lily 無法接受的一面，並讓她想起過去父親的家暴所帶來的創傷。Lily 深怕自己步上母親的後塵，卻又深陷對 Ryle 的愛無法自拔，令她苦惱不已。與此同時，Lily 越來越常想起初戀 Atlas，那個總是保護、支持自己的人。意外的是，Atlas 正巧在此時再度出現在 Lily 面前，讓 Lily 和 Ryle 的關係陷入膠著。
故事中的 Lily 反覆地在愛、原諒與自我療傷之間掙扎，不過最終她明白，只有愛不足以維持一段健康的關係，而是有更深層的東西要考量。
作者 Colleen Hoover 透過日記帶出 Lily 的過去，從小孩、青少女和成年女性的視角去看家庭暴力，藉由鋒利的筆觸令讀者和 Lily 一同學習直視現實 – 那些確確實實發生過的事、造成的傷害，並從中得到離開有毒關係的勇氣，與療癒自己的韌性。
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true.
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. 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.
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. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.
