Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

26 reviews

abbyreadsbigbooks123's review against another edition

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Child death, and Gaslighting

bethy_joy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Child death, and Car accident

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cancer, Medical content, and Violence

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Car accident, Child death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

abbie_lever's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

The characters in this book are so well developed as the book continues. The main character miles starts off so closed off and distant and it’s hard to really build a connection with him, you begin to think do you like him or hate him, but as the book continues his character unwraps as the author develops the character. The book for sure is a very sad, heart wrenching story and it can hurt to read at times, but the overall theme is hope. And overcoming mental struggles and flaws. I love how the booked ended, hopeful but also honest. It doesn’t give you a fairy tell ending because it’s not picture perfect but it’s perfect enough to be satisfying and beautiful to end on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Death, Child death, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

Moderate: Sexual content, Abortion, Grief, and Infertility

helinyologlu's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, and Death

giuliaathenalombardo's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

This book genuinely broke me. 
Miles backstory was so emotional and the contrast between his behaviour in the past with Rachel and his attitude in the present with Tate is so clear that you could tell he had lived through something extremely traumatic. I don't condone the way that Miles treated Tate, with so much much disrespect, but I am aware of the complexities of his character and situation and so I am sorry to say that I am a Miles apologist. I thought his ending was very satisfying and the closure he got was important to his character development and his relationship with Tate.

The fact that throughout the flashbacks with Rachel his thoughts were written in a poetic structure, which then disappears when he loses his child, and then in the final chapters written from his perspective, when his relationship with Tate is salvaged, this poetic structure returns and the reader is reassured that what he feels for Tate is just as strong as, if not stronger, than what he felt for Rachel. That made me feel a lot more secure to be honest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

arys_library's review against another edition

3.0

Not my favorite Colleen Hoover book but it was still decent. It was a fun read at first but as you think a little more the more you realize it wasn’t as great as you think. I just feel like the character traits and growth was inconsistent and that really messed with the plot. For example, (no spoilers don’t worry) Miles, one of the main characters used grief and panic as an excuse for many many things that shouldn’t have an excuse. Grief is very prominent in this book but other characters simply forgave and moved on. It was never addressed as how badly certain actions hurt others or how people and actions/things needed to change. And this book would have been liked more if that had changed. Other than that I like the two main characters relationship towards the end. But in the beginning again, their relationship felt uncomfortable. Like somehow manipulation or gaslighting was involved, even though it was never directly stated or somewhat brought up. Maybe it was just me that felt uncomfortable by parts of their relationship, but I didn’t like many parts of it which made my liking for the book go down. It wasn’t a horrible book, just don’t one of my favorites. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Cursing, Medical content, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment and Alcoholism

jordanlin's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Child death, Cancer, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

roblotreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

read this book on Libby and i still am thinking about it. this is a book i would buy a physical copy of for the sole purpose of letting other people borrow it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

everythingordinary's review against another edition

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