IT ENDS WITH US BOOK+MOVIE REVIEW

 SPOILERS ALERT ⚠

I recently watched " It Ends with Us, "the book adaptation movie, and as someone who has read the book, I can be a biased but accurate judge of it.

First of coming to the book I read last year around the same time in bits and completed it in a month or so. The story had an interesting plot that revolved so much around high school butterflies in the stomach feeling and then the letter to Ellen DeGeneres that was very fun to read as if we were reading our own diary. Lily's sudden encounter with Ryle the extremely handsome and absolutely hot neurosurgeon and then the flow of the story and their romance with twists of violence can make the reader dive into the story. The flashbacks in between with Atlas add depth to the characters. I personally felt the writer wanted to make us biased for the character Ryle cause whatever bad thing he did it still made me want Lily to be with him despite all the abuse. But then her leaving him at the end made the readers feel proud and gave a way that it is possible to take any kind of stand if it's for themselves even if they love that person with everything.

The plot was good but the writing of Collen Hover could have been better. It is an easy read like a book for 7th graders. So if you are someone who loves to read but finds it tough to understand a lot of grammar then go for it. However, this book was overhyped when I was in school so I never read it when I had free access to it in my school library.

Now coming to the movie, In one word I'd say I was not satisfied and I say this for all the adaptation movies I don't understand why can they not make movies feel similar to the books. They never satisfy our imagination. The actor who screenplayed Atlas was not at all what I had imagined in my mind as was Lily. 

I know it's tough to have everything concentrated into a 1hr40min movie but they shouldn't have left the lines that Atlas said to her" When life gets you down you know what to do, just keep swimming Lily" These lines added the essence to the her and his character. The intimacy that they shared was not shown or rather felt in the movie. Although the flower shop was very accurate and the scenes and locations were very pretty better than my imagination.

If you have time in hand and you like to read these kinds of drama/romance books then go for it but if you want a lot of depth then it's not going to give you that. Watch the movie only if you have read the book (that's just my opinion cause there are many good movies so why waste time on a mid-movie Or you could be a Blake Lively fan then that's justifying cause she was amazing with her skills, She's always been, her acting made me forget how she was completely different from Serena in Gossip Girls. 

P.S. I was a fangirl for Serena in 2020.