It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

I love everything about airports. I love the busy travelers, rushing with excitement. I love the wine that you can order, even with brunch, without judgement. And I love the bookstores. When I was in high school it was tricky to wait to buy a book at the airport, but now every airport has a bevy of impressive titles to choose from. As I made my way through several airports this fall, I kept seeing this book: "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover. What looks like a best-selling, popular fiction novel turned out to be something much deeper. The spark for the novel came from the author's own life, and her abusive father. She took the pain she suffered as a young adult, and wove it into her heroine, Lily Bloom. When I read Blake Lively will star as Lily in the film version of the story, I was intrigued even more. After growing up in Maine and watching her dad abuse her mother, Lily is determined to go to college and make a new life for herself in Boston. When she opens her own flower shop, and falls in love with a surgeon named Ryle, she thinks she has finally set her life on a course for success. However, the pain she has witnessed in her past, she soon discovers, can be found in other people beyond her father. I read this entire book during a weekend in Seattle, and could not put it down. Airports are great places for page-turning books, and this one is a winner. To buy this book on Amazon click here.