Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

1230 reviews

lauraelovesbooks's review

emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Reread in 2024. A compulsively readable, messy story of the ugly parts of loving someone and letting them love you back. I will admit I found myself more frustrated with this book the second time around, particularly with Miles and the dissonance between his words and actions (which is the entire point of this book, but it just didn’t land the same way for me re-reading it) 

I would have really loved to see more of Miles working on himself outside of the relationship and working with a professional. Everything wrapped up so magically and cleanly here.

All that said, I still really enjoy reading this book and the part of me that relishes reading about messy relationships is certainly satisfied (The “just finish” scene lives in my brain rent free) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail

becks444's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

dianazheng's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

this book was like weird as fuck. colleen hoover’s weirdest book fs. also i feel bad for miles’s dad (and lisa)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

violetduckie's review against another edition

3.0

This book was good but I had some big problems with that I had to deduct points on. Interesting/unusual plot, but I prefer both parties of a relationship to grow. 
I keep giving excuses for the problems that I had but hard to decide if the book deserves them. 
I have a friend who thinks of her boys’ ability to love like Miles but I found him to be unrealistic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

kastockton's review

dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Child death

taylaglass's review

emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Grief, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Death

ninaleeray's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, and Cursing

Moderate: Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

tierraskye's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Death, and Pregnancy

allerssi's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Incest, Stalking, Cannibalism, Child death, Abortion, Bullying, Miscarriage, Death, Child abuse, Addiction, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, Car accident, and Abandonment

devonsonnessa's review

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was not only a love story, but a complicated love story that makes your heart ache. As much as you want to hate the main guy, you can’t because you also understand him and love him as a character. This book had me close to tears. Has a happy ending that made me tingly.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death