Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

107 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

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

fiercereadsfiction's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Alcohol

kotashomelibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child death, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

c_marie226's review

emotional inspiring sad tense medium-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

1.75

I don’t think this author is for me. I found the guy insufferable and the girl barely written. There is a lot of trauma and it feels like it is done just to make the book more dramatic. 

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Content Warnings

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

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

lbooch24's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Alcohol and Incest

hrichards's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

Everything was great, the off and on and the emotions where awesome 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Cursing, Car accident, and Gaslighting

rosamaria's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child death, and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol

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