I have a love/hate relationship with Colleen Hoover. 
 Her books have way too much drama, they either destroy me in the best possible way (Slammed) or they don't make me feel a thing -except maybe hatred, I'm looking at you Miles - (Ugly love, Maybe someday, Hopeless). They are extremely unrealistic and because of that I struggle way too much to connect with her characters. 
 But with In ends with us, Colleen Hoover has upped her game. 
 She addressed a very important theme - (view spoiler)[domestic violence (hide spoiler)] - and she didn't shy away from the ugliest aspects of it. 
 I bring my hands to my face and I sob, because I feel more pain for that man out there, knowing what he went through as a child, than I feel for myself. And that doesn't make me feel selfless or strong. It makes me feel pathetic and weak. I'm supposed to hate him. I'm supposed to be the woman my mother was never strong enough to be. 
 She created a realistic main character -Lily - that I adored and cared about. I cried with her, I laughed with her (and I swooned over Atlas with her, lol). She's far from perfect, but I loved her nonetheless. 
 Colleen even managed to create a perfect balance, she addressed the theme with the seriousness it deserved but added the right amount of humor the book desperately needed. 
 I don't even know what else to say except for go read It ends with us, Colleen Hoover's best work to date.