Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

86 reviews

allerssi's review against another edition

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

xri's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, Sexual content, Child death, Death, and Emotional abuse

naomiwinograd's review against another edition

challenging 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

3.0

I read this book in one night. Probably because it felt like a long Wattpad story. No hate to Colleen Hoover’s books,  (only her personality)but this was A LOT of smut. Over the top. I admittedly enjoyed it, probably why it was such a quick read for me. I stayed up to about 1 am for this book. But, too be honest, this was straight up emotional abuse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

It might not seem like it, but the emotional abuse was big. Just dig a little deeper. It is right up front.

chandra_kiran's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

2.5

like all colleen hoover books..... it's gripping, enticing, made me sob like a baby, but it's also overflowing with sexism, toxic relationships, pregnancy tropes, and is often described as "trauma porn" which I have to agree with. I seem to keep reading her books out of morbid curiosity and end up with the same result each time- I cry a lot, I have to find out how the story ends, and I'm usually livid by the time the book is over. Also, I need to know WHY the step sibling forbidden love plot was necessary. It added absolutely zero substance to the story and just made it slightly nauseating to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Death, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Child death

rosedustgirl's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

0.25

Absolutely dull. I really don't understand the hype. Predictable plot, lack of emotional turmoil, themes are lacklustre regarding main characte, typical gaslighting and emotional tropes. I only finished as it was a group read.

Couldn't care less what happened to all characters involved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Medical content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

rosiesbookshelf's review

Why did they talk about their son's big balls

AND THEN HE DROWNED IN A FUCKING LAKE????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, and Child death

Moderate: Car accident

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

krpearl's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

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

asundstrom's review against another edition

emotional 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse