Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

36 reviews

molly_rose's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Child death, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

neaky__'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Things I liked: 
• The parallels between the past relationship and the current relationship. 
• The structure of how the past relationship is set out in the chapters. 
• I actually liked the development of the past relationship more than the current relationship. 

Things I didn’t like: 
• The main lead and love interest spent no time together aside from sex before deciding that they loved each other. 
• Neither character was really special, I felt like I had read the character a million times. 
• Love interest treated the main lead like shit and was forgiven completely in the end just because of his revealed back story. 
• I’m sick of books using “tortured tragic male with horrifying backstory” as a main leading plot device. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Grief, and Sexual violence

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

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

hollers007's review against another edition

challenging funny tense slow-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

3.0

 It took me a while to even get into this book as much as I got into It Ends with Us. I’m glad I kept pushing through though because I absolutely loved the last 100 pages of this book. Miles is so sweet by the last 25 pages it makes my heart hurt!!!! I wouldn't recommend it because the only reason I finished this book was because I was too stubborn to want to like it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

nickgalentine's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

2.5

I'm giving Ugly Love a (pretty generous) 2.5 stars. I didn't like any of the characters. There were a few moments I smiled at, but for the most part I'm just concerned about the relationships CoHo puts her female MCs in. Miles was awful. I don't care about his past. He sucked. Tate was a moron. Honestly, Rachel was my favorite character.

I do not recommend Ugly Love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting