A lively Colleen: A review of 'It Ends With Us'

Now, I know I’m being facetious, but this movie does herald Blake Lively, AKA Mrs. Ryan Reynolds, taking on the lead role in the first-ever film adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel. The hoped-for box office success of this week’s cinema release, It Ends With Us, will demonstrate that the transition from Lady Deadpool to Drama Queen can be achieved.

Now, I know I’m being facetious, but this movie does herald Blake Lively, AKA Mrs. Ryan Reynolds, taking on the lead role in the first-ever film adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel. Plus, it opens only weeks after Deadpool & Wolverine opened, so it could be interesting to find the couple lording it over the box office revenues of this coming weekend in two separate films.

The 2016 Hoover novel has sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into over twenty languages, so it’s a proven commodity that global audiences will be familiar with, especially the female movie-going public. Stirring some controversy when it was published, it tackles domestic abuse and violence in marriage and relationships within the context of a romance novel. Hoover has declared the novel autobiographical in parts, and the main character, Lily, is a complex protagonist, having witnessed domestic violence firsthand when her father abused her mother.

It’s what keeps her wary when entering relationships of her own. Opening her own flower shop in Boston named Lily Blooms, Lily is courted by Ryle (Justin Baldoni, who also directs the.