Book Lovers Day 2024 is marked on August 9. And if you are a book lover, you have probably entered a bookshop in recent times, and seen Colleen Hoover’s name plastered across the bestseller list. You have most probably seen the cute romance-centric cover of scattered flower petals on a wooden table, with a quaint purple font of .

So you definitely know that they decided to turn this highly The makers decided that the best time to release this book was on the occasion of . Having read the book to understand if it was deserving of the discourse, I had a fair warning of the topic of the film. I also knew I had to watch it, to see how they adapted the novel to tackle some key issues.

So here are five ways movie steers away from the book - for the better. Before we get into the nitty gritty - a few things to remember: The first time I read I had to stop at the first chapter. While the fact that Ryle is introduced with a violent scene of chairs being broken was a not so subtle foreshadowing and seemed too much, that was not the reason I stopped.

Something about a girl being named Lily Blossom Bloom and a guy being named Ryle Kincaid seemed like a badly written fanfiction or a spoof. The movie took a lot of liberties to change this entry scene to make this conversation flow. So much so that we can see the instant chemistry and comfort between Blake Lively’s Lily and Justin Baldoni’s Ryle.

They have solid conversations, instead of directly jumping to revealing each other’s ad.