Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

16 reviews

__helena__'s review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Car accident

Moderate: Cancer, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

everythingordinary's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity

avocadoontoast's review

1.0

This book is so full off bullshit, and no I don’t mean the 

unrealistic, misogynistic sex scenes. No I mean the whole plod. Tate is the main character but really this book is just a biography of Miles Archer. 

By the way she is also perfect in her job, in nurse school and has a beautiful slim body even though she just eats shit and makes no sport, I know very relatable, right. But really she doesn’t feel like a person, because she has no self-driven actions she just does everything Miles wants her to do.

 

Miles is just using her at his needs and is constantly braking her only rule and plays with her feeling for him. So Tate is in a toxic or even abusive relationship with him, where he is punishing her with distance and passive aggressive anger. Even whose she feels responsible for his mood swings. There is scene where she literally let him rape her, so that he can feel better. In what world do we live in???? And she is always forgiving his for his behavior and is patiently waiting until he wants to be with her.

 

And Rachel is only described as beautiful and pregnant. What is she? An object? And also she was 17. Miles never asked her if she even wants to be pregnant he just says “we”, yes “we” will get through this. I mean easy to say for HIM. Also Colleen Hoover just left the part out where she is obviously pregnant, because as a teen this must be horrible. Imagine what her classmates will say about her behind her back and name her. She gets the shame because she is exposed with it.

 

This book should be forbidden. It romanticizes rape, sexism, stereotypes and many more.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence

readwithmo's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Sexism, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

trulyori's review

fast-paced

2.0

Has a sex scene where consent is iffy. Procede with caution if it may trigger you <3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Sexual content, and Child death

dorinha's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Infidelity