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dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS! Everybody has to read this book at least once in your life. It was so entertaining, and kept me wrapped around its finger. This book i call home.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Incest, Car accident
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Right off the bat, Miles and Tate's "no strings attached" fling starts with two rules. One: don't ask about the past, and two: don't expect a future. Spoiler alert: it's all gonna go out the window.
I don't think that any book of CoHo's is going to do it for me the same way that Verity did, but all the same, this woman's books are addictive and I eat them up with every new one I get. This one was...A LOT, in a lot of ways, but as always, I'm going to start with everything I liked about "Ugly Love."
This book has the same addictive and readable quality that the rest of CoHo's books have. The pacing is really good, and picking this book up never felt like a chore even though I have been feeling a little slumpy lately. I thought that Miles, though a questionable person in my opinion, was a really interesting character and I enjoyed the chapters that unraveled his past for the reader, a past that Tate, for most of the book, is unable to know. I didn't quite understand why they were written the way they were written, but I don't think that was a bad thing. I also thought that the parallels between Miles' chapters chronicling his past were really interesting. They weren't too in your face, but they also weren't so subtle that you couldn't pick up on them. The themes around love being messy and complicated, ugly - if you will, but still being worth it to have the beautiful aspects that come along with it, really resonated with me. Oh! Also, loved the Character of "Cap."
My negative thoughts are this: Tate. Too much Tate. She just kept repeating herself and it made me tired. I also got so frustrated with her at times even though it might have been unfair. She was already in love with him when they made their arrangement, and still went along with the arrangement, and I understand that sometimes if you want someone to love you, you'll do things that you never thought you would, but being in her head while she went THROUGH IT was really draining at times. I also didn't care for how misogynistic and annoying her brother was, like, bro... The culture of "Keep your hands off MY SISTER!" while well meaning, is so toxic and misogynistic. Like, she's a grown up, dude. These are just petty annoyances that I had within the narrative - it's still a decent book and I can see why it's so beloved among CoHo fans. My next CoHo romance will be It Ends With Us....pray for me lol
I don't think that any book of CoHo's is going to do it for me the same way that Verity did, but all the same, this woman's books are addictive and I eat them up with every new one I get. This one was...A LOT, in a lot of ways, but as always, I'm going to start with everything I liked about "Ugly Love."
This book has the same addictive and readable quality that the rest of CoHo's books have. The pacing is really good, and picking this book up never felt like a chore even though I have been feeling a little slumpy lately. I thought that Miles, though a questionable person in my opinion, was a really interesting character and I enjoyed the chapters that unraveled his past for the reader, a past that Tate, for most of the book, is unable to know. I didn't quite understand why they were written the way they were written, but I don't think that was a bad thing. I also thought that the parallels between Miles' chapters chronicling his past were really interesting. They weren't too in your face, but they also weren't so subtle that you couldn't pick up on them. The themes around love being messy and complicated, ugly - if you will, but still being worth it to have the beautiful aspects that come along with it, really resonated with me. Oh! Also, loved the Character of "Cap."
My negative thoughts are this: Tate. Too much Tate. She just kept repeating herself and it made me tired. I also got so frustrated with her at times even though it might have been unfair. She was already in love with him when they made their arrangement, and still went along with the arrangement, and I understand that sometimes if you want someone to love you, you'll do things that you never thought you would, but being in her head while she went THROUGH IT was really draining at times. I also didn't care for how misogynistic and annoying her brother was, like, bro... The culture of "Keep your hands off MY SISTER!" while well meaning, is so toxic and misogynistic. Like, she's a grown up, dude. These are just petty annoyances that I had within the narrative - it's still a decent book and I can see why it's so beloved among CoHo fans. My next CoHo romance will be It Ends With Us....pray for me lol
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Medical content, Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Incest, Excrement
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Incest, Death of parent
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Ugly Love is a novel that certainly feels like its publication date of 2014. Competently written and quickly paced, both to the novel's benefit and detriment, the novel is best for someone wanting a quick romance that dips into melodrama. Which, if it were not for some of the problems I had with the novel, I would have appreciated that.
However, the characters felt extremely bare and stereotypical even for the genre. There is Tate, the nice girl, Miles, the icy love interest with a mysterious past, Corbin, the overprotective big brother (who is hypocritical considering his stated [never shown] revolving door relationship with multiple women), and Cap, the wise old man who occasionally says something weird. The characters never felt especially real, and often had a feeling of dolls being clumsily moved around a carpeted floor.
And I can get behind melodrama. But the biggest two pieces of melodrama, that Miles' past one true love, Rachel, was his step-sister andthe tragic death of their TWO DAY OLD son in a car accident felt over the top. His relationship with Rachel, and its pseudo to fully incestuous nature after their parents finally marry, doesn't really even have any consequences. After they reveal Rachel's pregnancy by Miles and the parents flip out, in the very next flashback chapter everything is okay. There literally would be nothing different if Rachel had been just some random neighborhood girl. It would have been entirely more interesting and poignant if their forbidden love had been because of something else instead of this nonsense. Additionally, the death of their son just felt so over the top. This may have been mostly due to how Miles's flashbacks are structured, admittedly .
Also, I just hated how Miles's flashbacks were structured. They had a free form poem-esque structure and form that felt out of place. It certainly heightened how young and juvenile Miles was, but probably not in a way Colleen Hoover wanted.
Ultimately, it was a fine book.
However, the characters felt extremely bare and stereotypical even for the genre. There is Tate, the nice girl, Miles, the icy love interest with a mysterious past, Corbin, the overprotective big brother (who is hypocritical considering his stated [never shown] revolving door relationship with multiple women), and Cap, the wise old man who occasionally says something weird. The characters never felt especially real, and often had a feeling of dolls being clumsily moved around a carpeted floor.
And I can get behind melodrama. But the biggest two pieces of melodrama, that Miles' past one true love, Rachel, was his step-sister and
Also, I just hated how Miles's flashbacks were structured. They had a free form poem-esque structure and form that felt out of place. It certainly heightened how young and juvenile Miles was, but probably not in a way Colleen Hoover wanted.
Ultimately, it was a fine book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Incest, Car accident
Minor: Cancer, Death of parent
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I don’t really understand why this book is so popular.. also Tate is so boring, I feel like she didn’t have a personality.
This book had some cute moments, but the « emotional » parts didn’t were not written very well in my opinion.
This book had some cute moments, but the « emotional » parts didn’t were not written very well in my opinion.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Incest, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment
Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Tra i libri che ho letto di recente dell'autrice è quello che mi risulta MENO problematico, e ciò non vuol dire che non lo sia.
Il modo di comportarsi dei due personaggi principali nei confronti dell'altro sono quantomeno questionabili, la relazione che Miles ha avuto con la sorellastra risulta discutibile sul piano morale e l'iperprotettività del fratello di Tate è semplicemente malsana e ingiustificata.
Inoltre, il fatto che Tate si sia imbarcata in una relazione di solo sesso, quando si aspetta, o almeno desidera, qualcosa di più di essa e poi si risenta del fatto che la relazione non comprenda nient'altro e non evolva, mi risulta comprensibile, ma non giustificabile.
Come tutto ciò non bastasse, a tratti questo romanzo è semplicemente noioso, soprattutto per quanto riguarda i primi capitoli dal punto di vista di Miles.
Il modo di comportarsi dei due personaggi principali nei confronti dell'altro sono quantomeno questionabili, la relazione che Miles ha avuto con la sorellastra risulta discutibile sul piano morale e l'iperprotettività del fratello di Tate è semplicemente malsana e ingiustificata.
Inoltre, il fatto che Tate si sia imbarcata in una relazione di solo sesso, quando si aspetta, o almeno desidera, qualcosa di più di essa e poi si risenta del fatto che la relazione non comprenda nient'altro e non evolva, mi risulta comprensibile, ma non giustificabile.
Come tutto ciò non bastasse, a tratti questo romanzo è semplicemente noioso, soprattutto per quanto riguarda i primi capitoli dal punto di vista di Miles.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Incest, Car accident
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Incest
Minor: Infidelity