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The highly-anticipated trailer to “It Ends With Us” dropped Thursday, giving viewers a first look at the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s bestselling book of the same name.
Starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, “It Ends With Us” tells the story of Lily Bloom (played by Lively in the film), and follows her loving yet tumultuous relationship with husband Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni).
The new screenplay is based on Hoover’s 384-page novel, which was originally published in August 2016 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. The paperback has since returned to number one on the charts following the film trailer’s release. The book is also on sale for 50% off for a limited time on Amazon.com and Target.com.
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It Ends with Us: A Novel
While Lily and Ryle’s relationship is explored throughout the book, “It Ends With Us” also introduces the character of Atlas Corrigan (played in the movie by Brandon Sklenar), who is said to be Lily’s first love. When Atlas discovers that Lily may be caught up in a cycle of abuse, he rushes to her aid — only for both of them to be confronted by a jealous Ryle.
While the themes of abuse and jealousy are woven throughout the plot, “It Ends With Us” is ultimately still billed as a “romance novel.” Publisher Atria Books describes it as a story about “a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance who can’t stop thinking about her first love.”
“As questions about [Lily’s] new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind,” reads the publisher notes. “He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.”
You can read “It Ends With Us” online by purchasing the book on Amazon.com and Target.com. You can also listen to the “It Ends With Us” audiobook online for free right now with this free trial to Audible. The audiobook has a runtime of just over 11 hours and is narrated by Olivia Song.
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Following the success of “It Ends With Us” (which reportedly sold more than a million copies worldwide), a sequel to the book was released in October 2022. Titled “It Starts With Us,” that book is currently also on sale on Amazon and at Target.
As for the movie version of “It Ends With Us,” the Lively-starring vehicle hits theaters on Aug. 9.
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