Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

6 reviews

destinynichole11's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Grief, Cursing, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Cancer, Car accident, Blood, Child death, and Alcohol

caitlindoesntread's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

(SPOILERS !!)

Okay... so... the first like 70% of this book was... not good. sorry. But so much of it was just sex and the story wasn't progressing at all, we weren't learning anything about Miles' character and I was more interested in the Rachel storyline than the Tate one. I really really hated Miles throughout most of this book. He had no respect for Tate, he was rude asf, and he literally sexual abused her multiple times??? I didn't feel the chemistry between them, their dynamic was fucking strange. Did I cry for an hour straight reading this book? Yes, I did. Did I internally scream when Rachel revealed the name of her daughter? Yes, I did. Loved the ending but I can't get over Miles' character in the beginning bc it was incredibly strange and gross and misogynistic and IK ITS BC HE HAS TRAUMA but I can't get over it - he had no respect for Tate and I constantly felt like he was exploiting her for sex? bc he was. However, I gave it 4.25 stars bc I really liked the ending and Miles getting his closure. Okay.

xoxo, gossip girl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Car accident, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Bullying

clevelandbookgirl's review

emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

To whoever reads this book, please do NOT ever let anyome treat you like this. This is the second CoHo book I've read and I'm getting really sick of her romanticizing toxic relationships.

What I liked:
🛩️ Cap made this book
🛩️ Fast-paced
🛩️ Family drama / decent backstory for Miles

What I didn't like:
🔻 Miles treats Tate like a doormat
🔻Tate bends to Miles' will 
🔻Mike's has a good backstory but NO personality
🔻THE ENDING 😡 like after all that, why?!
🔻Writing style (a good portion of this book is written like poetry, it's very random)
🔻"Say ox" 🤢 and how many times CoHo used the word liquid

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Child death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Blood and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Chronic illness

maddysoup's review

emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Blood, Abortion, Cancer, and Chronic illness

_rae6021's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Fucking brilliant the mixed povs really have a good perspective on how they must feel and it was so beautifully written actually made me sob 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Toxic relationship, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Death of parent, Incest, Chronic illness, and Cursing

Not really incest but it low-key is but isn’t

hollyfitton1's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

absolutely incredible, beautifully written. takes you on a rollercoaster of emotions. amazing plot twists

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Minor: Chronic illness, Abortion, Alcohol, and Blood