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Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

45 reviews

haleybug2024's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

teamlauren11's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

lanaw's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I honestly loved the book but and would’ve given it 5 starts,but i hate how it had the “stander” female role of low self love and being blinded by lust they let the guy walk all over them. But i loved Miles and reading about their story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Incest, Child death, and Abandonment

natgoe's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Car accident, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

alexismil's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

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

kayleejanes's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

gabi_w21's review

slow-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? It's complicated

1.0

This is my first CoHo book, and I am completely and ridiculously simultaneously bored, underwhelmed, and disgusted. 

Tate was the dumbest, most pathetic main character I've read about. She has no self-worth, self-esteem, or self-respect because, despite knowing how she feels about Miles, she agrees to a casual sex relationship and then turns around and whines about it. Over and over, she tells the audience how she’s a “strong, independent woman who doesn’t let men treat [her] badly,” yet she goes to insane lengths to excuse Miles’s behavior. 

No matter what he did, she stuck around even while she acknowledged how her feelings were being hurt. She’s passive to the umpth degree, allowing Miles and Corbin to control her life, and we never learn anything about her. She’s a nurse and she likes orange juice and she’s not a virgin. That’s it. Oh and Miles. I didn’t understand her obsession with this guy who made it clear up front that he didn’t want a relationship. She was so pathetic that she hung around, hoping and wishing he’d change his mind on relationships, so how is she mad that he keeps her at a distance? She agreed to the friends-with-benefits arrangement so she has no room to be angry! Why stay? Is she that desperate for Miles that she lets him walk all over her? The answer is yes. 

The amount of double standards and sexism in this book was insane. Corbin being over possessive over Tate left a really bad taste in my mouth especially since he sleeps around. He sees no problem with this yet has a conniption over any man sniffing around Tate. And the one instance that Tate calls this out, we get no response from the idiot. And why are they all warning Tate away from Dillon? If he’s such an awful person, why are you all friends with him? Tate never calls this out either, and the only reason he gets booted out of the group is—gasp!—he touched Tate’s hip. Also Corbin pulling the “you don’t get to tell me not to be mad! You aren’t a brother!” when he finds out about Miles and Tate made me want to VOMIT. Why would be friends with someone you don’t want your sister around? Hmmm. 

Colleen Hoover couldn’t write herself out of a paper bag, let alone write something that doesn’t come across as trauma porn with overdramatic reveals thrown in for the sake of drama. Her style is mediocre, simplistic, and really, really childish. I could care less about Rachel and Miles and Tate, and while all the Booktok girlies were bawling their eyes out over oh my god, Rachel, mine were decidedly DRY. The drama was contrived, the characters unlikeable and bland, and the sex scenes were flat-out laughable. 

Ugly Love is more like a bad sitcom only there’s no comedy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion and Death of parent

lovealwaysadi's review

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 against another edition

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