It Starts With Us
A Novel
Readers rate it 3.5 (641 on Hardcover)
352 pages · Released Oct 18, 2022 · Atria Books
Content report card
It Starts With Us parent’s guide: what’s inside
LGBTQ+ themes
What it offers
Educational value
A note for parents
This is a mature new adult romance that deals directly with domestic violence and its aftermath. While the book emphasizes healing and second chances, it includes emotional trauma, jealousy-driven conflict, and adult romantic/sexual content. It's a sequel that assumes familiarity with the previous book's heavy subject matter and is best suited for older teens and adults who can process complex relationship dynamics.
Analyzed by AI · 1 month ago
Read it with your kids?
Rate it and suggest an age to help other parents.
From the publisher
Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us. Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil... Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us. Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life. Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).
Shelved under
- Contemporary
- Romance
- Friendship
- Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction
- collectionid:nyt2020s
- American literature
- contemporary romance
- new adult
- domestic violence
- second chance romance
- forbidden love
Books in the It Ends with Us series
Full series in order →
Share this guide
ISBN 9781668001226 · Atria Books