FILMIt Ends With UsIn theaters August 9Sulphur Springs native Colleen Hoover, whom Texas Monthly profiled in the June issue, is one of the best-selling novelists of the twenty-first century. Her sixteenth book, It Ends With Us, is a huge part of that success, helping the former social worker outsell Dr. Seuss and John Grisham in 2022. Now comes the movie adaptation, which Hoover cowrote, starring Gossip Girl alum Blake Lively as a florist named Lily who grew up in an abusive home but hopes to build a better life in Boston. When she falls for mercurial neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni, of Jane the Virgin fame, who also directs the film), her happily-ever-after darkens as his behavior begins to echo that of her late father. Overcoming childhood…
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