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Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

14 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

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

tucker3696's review against another edition

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

1.0

I didn’t hate this book. I didn’t hate the characters and I did end up finishing it. I just don’t think that love needs to be ugly quite like this. I don’t believe that you can love someone back to life, and I don’t believe that men should be given any free passes for their behavior because they are damaged emotionally. I also know how unhealthy it can be for women who are in romantic relationships with damaged men to think that if they just love him enough that he will change. I didn’t hate this book, and I don’t judge those that love it, but I didn’t find this plot line to be romantic, and I wish she had dumped him and never returned.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

fatimaarif's review against another edition

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Incest

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

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

eve_reads's review

emotional funny sad fast-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

2.75

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ The love story of Miles and Rachel was so much stronger than that of Miles and Tate. I know the major conflict of the novel is Miles' internal struggle to let love into his life again after Rachel, but what love even exists with Tate in the first place? The entirety of their developing relationship consists of horniness and bickering.

⁕ The rampant, benevolent misogyny presented by the male characters had me rooting against every single one of them except the doorman. There are a lot of examples I could reference, but in general, why is Tate made responsible for the emotions of every dude that breathes the same air as her?

⁕ At least this book was fast-paced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Child death, Car accident, and Misogyny

caitlindoesntread's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-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

4.0

(SPOILERS !!)

Okay... so... the first like 70% of this book was... not good. sorry. But so much of it was just sex and the story wasn't progressing at all, we weren't learning anything about Miles' character and I was more interested in the Rachel storyline than the Tate one. I really really hated Miles throughout most of this book. He had no respect for Tate, he was rude asf, and he literally sexual abused her multiple times??? I didn't feel the chemistry between them, their dynamic was fucking strange. Did I cry for an hour straight reading this book? Yes, I did. Did I internally scream when Rachel revealed the name of her daughter? Yes, I did. Loved the ending but I can't get over Miles' character in the beginning bc it was incredibly strange and gross and misogynistic and IK ITS BC HE HAS TRAUMA but I can't get over it - he had no respect for Tate and I constantly felt like he was exploiting her for sex? bc he was. However, I gave it 4.25 stars bc I really liked the ending and Miles getting his closure. Okay.

xoxo, gossip girl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Car accident, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Bullying

channershea's review against another edition

emotional sad tense 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: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Infidelity

dice_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Misogyny, and Incest