The book It Ends With Us by Collen Hoover is already one of my favorites. The story starts while you are still curious and feels like you are just walking into the story. At first, I was confused, but as the story went on, I started to enjoy being able to make my own inferences about characters and upcoming stories. Ultimately this book is a love story- A girl finds a guy on the top of a rooftop and tells him every last ounce about her life. She finds out he is learning to be a neurosurgeon and is extremely wealthy- although he doesn’t say it. Not only did this help me learn about the character but it also helped build the story. While they are talking, the girl (Lily) tells the boy (Ryle) that she has dreams of opening an amazing flower shop. The story picks up 6 months later when she is handed the keys to her new shop. On the first day, some girl around Lily’s age walks into the store asking if she needs help with anything. One thing leads to another and Lily and her (Allysa) become best friends. After some hard work trying to transform the flower shop, Lily falls off a chair and hurts her ankle. Allysa calls her husband, but as he is too drunk to help, he hands the phone to Allysas brother who is apparently a doctor. When they walk in Lily can’t believe who is there.

The Loop, by Ben Oliver, takes place in the future where one man and the government control everything about people’s lives. The book follows a 16 year-old named Luka Kane who’s been wrongly imprisoned in a nightmarish prison, called the loop, where the prisoners are tested on horrible experiments, brutally tortured, and in solitude everyday until they die. But shortly after being in the loop for two years, things begin to change, and the daily routine of the prisoners begin to change.

Where I’m at in the book, a lot of action is happening. Luka returns to the facility and frees the 2 A.M. club, a group of people that Wren trusted and would let out at 2 A.M. when the security systems were down. they then debate on whether they should leave or free the other prisoners so that they don’t die. they eventually decide to free the others, but after opening a door with an insanely strong prisoner, they quickly flee and decide to free another prisoner, who is very violent, in order to defeat the strong one. after they free the violent prisoner, Tyco, orders the group to stay and the cell while he fights him off. After a while, Tyco returns but now he wants to kill Luka, we learn that Luka supposedly murdered his younger brother and now wants revenge. The group decides to team up against Tyco and they eventually beat him up and lock him back up in his cell.

The book is amping up the action and it is getting very interesting now, I highly recommend.

The most complex character in this book is Ead. She does a lot of things in order to protect the Queen, but she is also against many of her ideals and beliefs. Many of her motivations are unclear so far, but her backstory is slowly being revealed. There are political conflicts and history that also adds to each character’s points of view, as many of them come from different parts of the fantasy world. One example is when Ead is told to tell a story about the founding of their kingdom, and when she decides to tell the story the way she had heard it where she grew up, the Queen becomes offended. The characters different perspectives contribute to the tension building in the story because some of them are pinned against each other, and you never know what to expect from some of the characters.