Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

34 reviews

chelle22's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Outing, Violence, Car accident, Alcohol, Death of parent, Blood, and Child death

madalina0_0's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Child death, and Death

hansii's review

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Toxic relationship

shadymist's review

emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

4.0

After hearing this being recommended. I decided to give the author another try. Previously I read this girl and it was rated 3 stars. I was surprised at how well written this is. Its slow to begin with but gets better a quarter of the way through. Not my favourite author but pleasantly surprised.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol and Violence

katkinslee's review

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.75

I enjoyed it but I did find myself laughing at just how dramatic everything was and also at how stupid Tate and Miles were at times

like they agreed to have a no strings attached situation but immediately they both began acting like a couple in secret. The only thing that actually was no strings attached was how miles would pretty much kick her out after sex.

I loved Cap, he was the only one talking any sense!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Violence

ankiaisreading's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Incest, Child death, Grief, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol, and Mental illness

e11e_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

From beginning to end, this book was beautiful. It absolutely gutted me while also making me believe in what true love can actually accomplish. This book has touched my soul and I will forever cherish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

Minor: Car accident and Violence

lovealwaysadi's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Cancer

Minor: Violence

thelibraryofanolive's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

really good book i just think it got kind of repetitive and colleen hoover makes me want to rip my eyes out

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cursing, Child death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Incest, Sexual violence, Blood, Cancer, Sexism, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Violence

withlivjones's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

1.5

I have never wanted to throw a book across the room as much as I did reading this book. 

The writing lacks maturity and there are so. many. cringeworthy lines. There are quite a few instances of things I’ve seen in other CoHo books (plot points, characters, tragic backstories etc.) which makes the story fairly predictable. I’ve read worse smut, but that’s definitely not to say that the smut in this book is good. Miles is a walking red flag (which Tate literally says herself!) and the prose-poetry style of his chapters comes off as clever for maybe two pages before quickly becoming exhausting to read. We’re seriously meant to be rooting for this guy? Not to mention that his insta-love obsession with his STEPSISTER reads as extremely creepy (and in the immortal words of Shane Madej, “anytime you have to say ‘it’s not incest technically’ that’s not great”). 

In short, the only reason I read this book in two days was because I wanted to be done with it that badly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Child death

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Death of parent, Incest, and Violence