It Ends with Us: A Novel Audiobook by Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us follows Lily Bloom through a whirlwind romance with a brilliant, volatile neurosurgeon and the return of the first boy who ever loved her right, a novel about the pull between the relationship you want and the one you know how to survive.
Why the audiobook wins
Olivia Song narrates It Ends with Us with a warmth that makes Lily Bloom's early chapters feel genuinely like falling in love, which is exactly what makes the turn into the book's harder material land so hard. Song doesn't play Ryle as a cartoon; she lets his charm sound real in the moment, so that the shift in how you hear him creeps up on you the way it does on Lily.
At around eleven hours, this is an immersive one-sit-if-you-can listen, well suited to a long drive or a weekend where you don't want to put it down. Song's control over Lily's voice, curious and self-aware even when she's making choices the reader wants to shout at, is what keeps the novel from tipping into melodrama in the ear the way it sometimes does on the page.
Hoover's novel became one of the defining book-club and BookTok reads of its moment, and Song's performance is a big part of why the audio edition has its own devoted following. One Audible credit covers the full eleven hours.
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