I don’t think I need to say much about this – you’ve either read the two Colleen Hoover books in this series, or you never will. I’ve read both (the first one is “It ends with us”), and I loved them. I was utterly captivated by the love story and its characters. But I am not sure why. I read rom coms when I get overwhelmed with life and want a quick, mindless read that puts me in a world of happy endings so I am not new to the genre. But these books are…different? They really are captivating, and I am not surprised that she has made such a killing with her writing.
(Fun fact: did you know that it was Tik Tok that made her famous? She had published “It ends with us” years ago, and it just never caught on. But when TikTok discovered it, her popularity exploded. And it was really Tik Tok requests (demands?) that made her write this sequel. She thanks the TikTokkers in the acknoweldgments 🙂 )
What the Leopard Trail taught me
July 10, 2026
In late June 2026, just after some of the most destructive floods the area had ever seen, I walked the Leopard Trail, in the Baviaanskloof. I’ve written a logistical roundup of the trail here. That was easy to write: facts, facts, facts. But the experience of the trail cannot be
