Reviews with content warning for Cancer - Ugly Love

As my first Colleen Hoover book, I didn’t really have any expectations before going into it. I loved Hoover's writing style, especially in Miles’ chapters. I like how she wrote his chapters from the past in poetry format, then wrote his present chapters normally, but went back to the poetry format for the epilogue. Hoover also reused scenes, which I enjoyed as you could easily compare the different scenes she change/reused. I loved how we got a Rachel chapter as well, it really brought closure and it was nice to see what happened in Miles’ past from her perspective.

Cap was my favourite character by far, his humour brought lightheartedness to the end of some emotionally intense chapters, but he also gave great advice to both Tate and Miles. I felt really bad for Tate with how Miles was treating her throughout the book, almost leading her on but without him knowing it, which then made me hate Miles a little bit. However, after reading and finding out what happened in his past, I understood Miles a little more, but I still didn’t like the way he treated Tate throughout their friends-with-benefits relationship.

Overall, Ugly Love gets 4 stars, I loved the writing and the majority of the plot but it felt like something was missing.

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dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.25

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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

2.5

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emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

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

5.0

This is my new favourite book.
Everything made sense, the ending was just perfect and you could really experience the growth of the characters. The story gave me butterflies as well as several streams of tears running down my face. Colleen Hoover never disappoints. Hopefully, I‘ll always remember my first time reading this.

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