I personally loved it. At the end of the day, all I wanted to see was Atlas and Lily together and happy and that's exactly what happened. It didn't need plot twists, it didn't need drama, it didn't even need to be a full book, and it was perfect (imo of course).

@SummerShepherd-4

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Yes totally agree! If you read the acknowledgments she wrote it for the fans you just wanted to see more of Atlas and Lily happy so she didn’t really want drama between them!

@SummerShepherd-4

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Who just **

@siobhan4318

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@@SummerShepherd-4 Exactly! She also said in the acknowledgments that she never wanted a sequel because she didn’t want to put them through more pain so the fact that she kept the sequel nice and simple was perfect. I didn’t want to read about them in more pain either so I’m so, so, so grateful she kept it the way it was!!!

@coconutanddvanilla

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Yes yes yes!!!!! I feel the exact same way 🥰

@kaybranco

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totally agree!!!! just needed that wholesome closure

Thank you for always being so honest about your opinions and not letting the hype affect your rating!

@tasneem2013

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i agree, even though i really liked the book and gave it five stars it's interesting to see other people's opinion and I actually enjoy seeing negative reviews on books that i love cause it keeps things fun and either i realize that they are making valid points or it just reaffirms why i love the book

I rated this 5 stars, I think this was the ending they deserved. It definitely could have been messier or more exciting but I think they deserved a happy family that could learn how to cooperate with each other! It was a lot slower but I kinda liked it!

for me, this book is a classic CoHo. She brings up an important theme and somehow, even though she portrays the problem perfectly, her solution to it is just incoherent. i 100% agree that if she was just going to be bring up Ryle and his problems, this could’ve been the perfect opportunity for her to show men in therapy working through his problems and not essentially blaming women for everything. And like yourself, i was not a Atlas girlie, so i was ready for this book to be the moment i was going to fall in love for the adult Atlas (it wasn’t) As a classic CoHo, the ending was just rushed. We got from point A to B in like 2 chapters. I was not expecting a great, amazing book but I am still kinda disappointed with this. It was also a 2 stars for me.

@AA-xm9zr

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I agree the ending was rushed. I wanted to see the proposal!

I love this style of reading vlogs!! Non spoiler and spoiler section were on point. You killed it.

The ending was so rushed and I felt like CoHo could have gone deeper with a lot of things. Being so, I’m happy that Atlas and Lily got together. I definitely got frustrated at a lot of moments with some characters.

Your opinion is so valid! I gave this book 5 stars but not because it was the perfect romance that we were all expecting but because I really enjoyed reading about the process of them healing and moving forward. I agree the romance was rushed towards the end but I was so happy for them that it didn't bother me too much! Don't apologize for your opinions!!! Loved this video and getting to hear about a different reading experience for this book :)

I don’t think there was much of a plot or much character development, but I still loved it. I feel like it is a very true story to DV, I get why Lily was still scared for Ryle to find out and he needed to be in this book because he will always be in Emmys life. A lot of women are too scared to tell police due to the man’s social status.

you’re so valid for wanting ryle to be found on that beach

(Spoilers) I enjoyed the book. I gave it 4 stars. I also found some of the book to be a bit rushed definitely the ending. I wanted to know when and where Atlas proposed. And the date of the wedding. Like I know some others are going to wonder too. The wedding and the vows are a bit turbulent if you ask me. Considering the chapter before the wedding.

@michelle9524

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Right?! I would’ve loved to read about the proposal and wedding

I just finished it and ended up loving it. I loved the “plot twist” with found family and I loved Lily and Atlas’ journey together. Classic CoHo yes. But I’m a fan.

hey I loved it. Not cause it was good but because I missed these characters. I love your opinions and your videos💛

*spoilers below* i loved the josh storyline 🥺 and i love that atlas and lily and josh and emerson get to have a little life together as a blended family

@siezvzoou

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we NEED more people like you!! thank you for putting the spoiler warning and making some space to make it invisible 💗

you're doing the lords work destiny! would love more spoiler reading vlogs from you!!

I loved this book! I was happy lily and atlas got that loved they deserved. Atlas is now my dream man 😂💙 idc if the book felt rushed I wasn’t looking for drama or anything negative but everything with happiness with coming out a toxic relationship

Yay! I was hoping you'd do this! I finished It Starts With Us earlier and I absolutely loved it but I have been obsessed with Atlas since day one 😍 Loving your recent content though, Destiny!!

ALREADY? you’re so quick!! so much appreciation for your hard work

Perfect timing cuz I just finished the book! I 100% agree with you because I thought it was boring and unnecessary. I gave the book 1.5 stars

I read it yesterday as soon as it came out! Best book ever. Took me 4 hrs.

I honestly loved the book. It was so great to see Lily finally get her happy ending with Atlas. And Atlas was so great to Lily the whole book, he was amazing. I can’t see the bad in this book🤷🏻‍♀️😅

I completely see this side of the book. Personally I rated it 4.5 but the 0.5 was because there wasn’t any plot!! I feel like it was more of an epilogue than a “novel” if that makes sense. Idk, it was a weird one.. I liked it though and I appreciate your opinion

you're an ICON for getting this up to quickly! i loved the book, but loved your review too! i think, for me, it really tied up the ending and brought me healing, if that makes sense lol

i absolutely love your attitude toward ryle and alyssa. it was so funny and full of sass

Thank you for posting this today Destiny, you’re one of my favourite booktubers and I really needed this. Today I have to put my 15 year old dog down and she’s the love of my life. Tomorrow is also my birthday and I’m just not in the best of moods but I wanted to say thank you for making me smile when I saw that you posted❤️

@baddieandabook

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So sorry for your loss❤ and Happy belated birthday 🦋💜

@tayler2957

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@@baddieandabook thank you❤️

it was good timing that your vlog came up as soon as i finished this book and i stand by how disappointing the sequel was. i was hoping that this book wasn't a continuation of all these situations from the first book only because it feels that it's repetitive enough that i'm not learning anything substantial from lily and atla's relationship; and unfortunately, i found out this book continues from the last scene of "it ends with us." i understand having to bump up a rating for the sake of other readers (i faced that too and it's tough) but your honesty really shines in your review and i'm sure other ppl, like myself, wholeheartedly agree with your feelings and thoughts

The reason they didn’t tell Ryle he needed to go to therapy is because in the first book, he tells us that he has been in therapy since he was six years old. He clearly needs to take it more seriously though 💁🏻‍♀️

I finished this book and really enjoyed it! I loved the journal entry's personally. I felt it reminded me of myself and then it made sense that the first "person" she wanted to go to was "ellen" because she just got done having a traumatic event and that's who she turned to when she was a kid for comfort and to feel safe. So it made sense for her to turn to that safety net right away. (In my opinion.) I really loved Theo and all his one liners and I appreciated seeing Atlas's side of abuse and getting to work towards that and give something to his brother that he wasn't given himself. He was Josh's Lily. And that; the whole book makes my heart happy.

just got it today and i started it but i’m gonna start this video cause i love your content and then finish it once i’m doneeee

"please don't be Ellen" LMAO

Okay but I literally feel the EXACT same. I love CoHo and her books dearly but this one just fell a little short for me )),: , I loved that we got a chance to see Lily and Atlas blossom, but it just seemed so underwhelming and it just didn’t match up to the idea of what we all thought ):

so i rated this 5 stars but i understand where you’re coming from. i just loved it for the characters.

just finished the book, i enjoyed it. gave it 3 stars as i also agree with the ending, it felt so rushed and we could’ve gotten a few more chapters to know how it rolled out, but overall i thought the book was pretty good

i feel the same when you said you were waiting for something to happen. but i think that was colleen’s goal.. for it to be like light but i was bored at parts!

oh my gosh I would absolutely love if you started a book club next year a book a month that we could read and follow along with you .... I'd be 100% in 🤗

thank you for an honest review of this book and for not falling into the hype!!!!. i feel like colleen was a bit lazy with this book, if I'm being honest, and it's frustrating that we barely got to see lily and atlas together and the actual progression of their relationship and them getting to know each other again. i don't know if i would want a bunch of drama because i want lily and atlas to have some peace, but we get barely any glimpse into their relationship!!! as you said, she should've had more of their modern-day relationship in the book. this book was just so underwhelming.

Completely agree, I was happy to spend some more time with Atlas as I loved him but I feel like it was a long Epilogue xx

I completely agree that the pacing was terrible

I loved this book because it was all i needed Atlas and Lily happily together + Josh and Emerson

I love your reading vlogs ❤️ they are my favorite!

You are litterly my favorite KZreadr ur the cutest person ever and i love how excited you get, keep up the good work(easy to say i look up to you)

I rated it 5 stars but I wish we could have gotten more out of the last chapter.

THANKS FOR THIS! i liked how it ends with us ended so I wasn’t too excited for this!!

I watched the spoiler-free part, but I will be back after ordering this book and reading it! lowkey scared now.

I absolutely loved the book and the development of atlas. He’s such an amazing character. They deserved a happy ending. x

I am so glad that you did a reading vlog for this book💖 I always love your reading vlogs 💖

tbh when i first got to know that she was launching the sequel to it ends with us i wasn’t that excited bcs atlas wasn’t that interesting in it ends with us , unless yesterday when i saw came cross this post on instagram and i got super excited and read it in two sittings. it was kind of hard to pick up in the start bcs it had been so long i read it ends with us but when he get lily lunch OMGSHSHDH I WAS SCREAMINGGG 😭ahhh anyways it was a good book and i think we needed this after what we read in “ it ends with us” , it was nothing like the previous book although in first book i couldn’t hate ryle , i hate sympathy for him but in this book she totally changed ryle’s character and turned him into this manupulative, gaslighting person ahh i hated ryle in this book and atlass omgg I . WANT . ATLAS , and i dont think im getting over atlas anytime soon 😩 also i didnt like how it ended i mean he was reading his vows i just felt like the ending was missing something maybe she could end it when he was writing those vows or when they come back home as a married couple and see emmy and their child idkwhdhs idk but i didn’t like how it ended

i feel like with Ryle he is never going to change and even with therapy and that stuff it kind of was made clear he wouldn't change, and i feel like he just stopped masking in the book because everyone knew who he truly was as a person.

I respect your opinions. I felt almost the same exact way- except I loved the dynamic between atlas and josh/theo. rated it 3stars

I personally loved that Atlas's brother was in it...him and Theo added so much for me. I think if it was solely about Atlas and Lily's relationship it would've been pretty boring lol. But I respect your opinion I loved it tho...I do agree that the ending was rushed though.

Watching the Amazon driver through the window like a stalker is honestly me 😂 if I'm particularly excited about what I'm waiting for I even resort to stalking them through the security cameras

a video uploaded by destiny on my birthday? best gift ever

Never clicked a video so fast..

I do understand where you're coming from but I personally really liked it! I was definitely not disappointed at all. Love you, Des

Your content is so great. Love when you put out a new video!

Am I gonna read this book? No. I think it is the most unnecessary book ever made and she will ruin the entirety of what she wrote in it ends with us without even trying. Will I still watch this vlog? Yes. Why not. Still pretending that thing doesn't exist, hopefully nobody will spoil it for me ever cuz I have a whole different story in my head of how it could keep going after the first book. And you know what's that? Ryle getting therapy in order to be a good father to his daughter. Like of course I am never wishing for him to be with Lily again. But that girl deserves a father, and for some reason I feel like CoHo will brush through that problem and make him a villain without any depth just for the sake of atlas who, guess what? Was never supposed to matter in the story except to give some sort of a happy ending. Sure Ryle kind of is the villain of the story, but damn that man has a daughter noe and I feel like CoHo just can't bring any depth to that. Idk, I just always knew this was a bad idea. It was literally made for the tiktok girls who obsessed over a man who had 5 minutes in a book, loved him for one stupid quote and ignored the fact that this was never about him. Sure it wasn't like that for everyone, but you can't tell me that everyone who never cared about Atlas ever wanted this book.

I loved it it was a good book and I liked the side story’s and stuff but I get your point of view bc it should have been atlas and lily but I think it was a 3-4 star book

I gave it 2 stars. I just don’t think this needed to be a book. The only thing that we didn’t know would happen was Josh and I don’t necessarily think that added much. Atlas already had his journey and overcame is battles as a child, we saw that with his successes and he was able to make something of himself on his own. We already knew that lily and atlas would be together eventually, that ryle would be a dick about it and that he would continue to be difficult over the years. I just don’t think this necessarily needed to be a book.

Well I preordered this book months ago & now I have to wait about 2 weeks for this book to deliver so in the meantime the non-spoiler vlogs will do.

Destiny, love your videos! Will you be doing another livestream in future?

legit I never hands down just automatically click tubers' videos the second theyre released buttttt yours takes no thought

thank you! I had the same experience with this book. it just left me wanting more :(

I don’t know the book felt like the publisher had their hands in it too much. It went off topic in certain areas that had no point to the story. I don’t feel like CoHo has done that in other books so makes me wonder if the publisher required certain topics to be thrown in. I wasn’t a huge fan and skimmed a lot of the second half. I gave ⭐️ ⭐️

where did you get your chair in the spoiler free review

Is your bookshelf still colour coordinated? x

I thought some of atlas chapters were boring and the ending came fast but over all I enjoyed it

Should I re read it ends with us if I read it at the start of the year before reading it starts with us or just go into it starts with us?

@jadanicole.

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I would suggest watching her recent video of her re-reading it ends with us. It was a great refresher for me without having to reread the book myself :) hope that helps

I really liked the book but not for the romance. I think the premise was to bring light to how difficult it is to escape abusive relationships. I also feel the ending was rushed but I still loved it!

I WANT TO READ THIS SO BADD!! I also just began starting a booktube hope it goes well 🧁( new booktuber alert!)

The only way this book would’ve been even remotely tolerable is if Ryle didn’t exist

I loved it. Spoilers? A little? Maybe I understood Lily’s hesitanition because I’ve been in an abusive relationship. It’s far more than avoiding confrontation. It’s avoiding being hurt and in the hospital again. It’s fear for your life.

I ordered mine months ago and just yesterday Amazon told me it needed a "payment revision"?

I feel the EXACT same way omg I thought I was nuts 😂

the crazy in me likes hearing the spoilers

Loving it 🎉loved your vlog!

woah im so early - cant wait to watch this video!!!

Marshall and Allysa book 3 yes please

Thank you for the spoiler review! Was very on the fence about rather or not I should read this, because i really couldn’t imagine this going anyway I’d like, and it seems that that was true. Thus I don’t need to waste my time on this

Girl the fastest delivery time for me is a week how do you guys get them in one day

Also I loved Theo. He is hilarious

I personally loved this book but I completely get what your saying like there’s no huge plot twists or crazy stuff it’s just a love story for atlas and lily. I feel like ryle was in the book for the girlies who are ryle apologist to make it extra known that he’s messed up and unlikeable😂

AAHHHHH IM SOOOO EXCITED TO READ IT

I have 100 pages left and it’s so boring I can’t even finish it. I had high hopes for this one, probably the only COHO book I don’t like.

I don't think that's a toxicity. Why should a person have to put up with those kinds of behaviors or feel guilty for not wanting to be bothered. Sure forgive them, but that doesn't mean you should put yourself or your safety at risk for something that would make someone else feel comfortable. Especially when they're wrong.

I like your reviews you aren't scared to rate a popular author low and not rate it 4/5 stars for the sake of it and no people pleasing. I rate COHO books very similar to you. At thats why I always comeback to your channel.

I completely agree with everything you said ❤

Thank u for this I was curious but didn't want to read it hahaha

@LV-bk4it

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Wish I hadn't wasted the $12.

It was definitely the ending we deserved in terms of Atlas and Lily finding their way back to each other but the writing and execution of the book was flat!

The ending was so rushed it felt like I didn’t have the chance to even be happy for them

THIS REVIEW 🤭❤️

While I loved the book and gave it 4.5 stars I also agree with everything you said so idk what that means lol

5:08 NOT MILES DONT HURT MILES LEAVE HIM OUT OF THIS

lily’s still writing letters to ellen at her big age?! colleen could’ve left that out and i promise we’d of been fine without it. with that being said i agree with your thoughts. i loved seeing more of atlas and lily but the book just feels pointless. DARE I SAY A CASH GRAB??? I’m so sorry

It's a five stars for me :)

Omg I binged It Ends With Us and It Starts With Us and uploaded my video today too! It was insane reading it all in one sitting but I loved it😍!!

my first reaction to this book was... it's fiction why couldn't coho just make him die 😭 so i understand what you mean about writing him off lmfao

This book was entirely too long, a 320 page epilogue if you will.

I was expecting more of a plot twist or at least some form of conflict

i completely agree with your opinion. colleen made this book too woke IMO. also i could care less about atlas and his brother... i came for lily and atlas and i felt like i got so little of them

I found this book kinda underwhelming. 😂 I gave it 3 stars.

I'm definitely not super loving parts of it so far. Atlas is perfection but the intro was so trite it physically pained me lol