Tune in for Arthur’s opinions on It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, author of numerous books like November 9, Ugly Love, and Verity. Following 23-year-old protagonist Lily Bloom as she falls in love with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid, Hoover’s 2016 New Adult contemporary romance is an empathetic and heart-wrenching navigation of the cycle of domestic violence and the reasons why someone would stay with their abuser. This episode also addresses the unpleasant qualities of Ellen DeGeneres as a person, the unrestrained corniness of Romance Moments like taking someone’s heartbeat during sex and telling someone they’re the most addictive kind of drug, and a minor plot point that evokes one of the creepiest scenes in the Fifty Shades Trilogy (and that’s saying a lot, considering almost everything between Anastasia and Christian falls on varying levels of the Icky Scale).
TW: domestic abuse, sexual assault, mention of suicide, flashbacks to an age-gap romance between a 15-year-old and an 18-year-old
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4dhqJoHsyZhl7rrOyySSn9?si=V_Ig34LYSWCbx8OPI8EOJA
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