Bria Lou Reviews

After falling for neurosurgeon Ryle (Justin Baldoni) at the same time her first love, Atlas (Brandon Sklenar), comes back into her life, Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) finds herself in a relationship that mimics her childhood trauma. I reviewed the book this film is based on HERE , and after reading the book I was really excited to finally see the film. All in all, I had mixed feelings about the movie. For a start, I was sceptical about some of the casting choices before seeing the film, and while I do feel like all the actors did great in their roles, some of them probably should have been more accurate to their book descriptions. I also felt that a lot of the cast was underused. Yes this is a story about Lily, Ryle and Atlas, but there are a good few supporting characters that didn't have the importance they were given in the novel. And this is even true of major characters. For example, I thought the present-day relationship between Atlas and Lily was really watered down in compariso...

After falling for neurosurgeon Ryle at the same time her first love, Atlas, comes back into her life, Lily finds herself in a relationship that mimics her childhood trauma. Most of the descriptions of this book don't mention anything about the character's trauma but I wanted to include it because otherwise, the book seems like an open-and-shut love story. But there's a lot more to it. I've owned this book for a while, but I only felt the urge to pick it up after seeing the trailer for the film adaptation, which has just come out. I really wanted to read it before seeing the film so I bumped it to the top of my list. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I had heard a lot of bad things about Colleen Hoover books, and as this was the first of hers I'd read, I went into it sceptically. And while the book wasn't amazing, it was better than I expected it to be. I didn't immediately connect to any of the characters, particularly because the dialogue was cringey...