It Starts with Us is a romance novel by Colleen Hoover, published by Atria Books on October 18, 2022.[1] It is the sequel to her 2016 best-selling novel It Ends with Us.[2] The novel continues from where It Ends with Us ended and centers on the relationship between Lily and Atlas.[3] It alternates chapters between the first-person narration of Lily and Atlas.[4] The sequel was first announced in February 2022.[5] It became Simon & Schuster's most pre-ordered book of all time.[6] Hoover wrote the novel as a "thank you" to fans of the first novel.
It Ends with Us is a book that follows a girl named Lily who has just moved and is ready to start her life after college. Lily then meets a guy named Ryle and she falls for him. As she is developing feelings for Ryle, Atlas, her first love, reappears and challenges the relationship between Lily and Ryle.