Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

16 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

bookishchaos's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-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

4.25

Get the tissues ready when you read this one. The ending was so touching and beautifully vivid. It was like watching a movie. I did love the story, however there was a few flaws. (Minor spoiler ahead but not bad). Like Miles is very complicated and I still can't decide if he even deserves to be forgiven after being super toxic this entire book. And Colleen Hoover keeps writing female protagonists with zero self respect like as much as I loved the ending I kinda wish Tate let Miles go and moved on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Sexual content, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism and Grief

Minor: Cursing and Pregnancy

eliana_benyam's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

chacha2902's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy

lauryn_04's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

bookishbabbles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I don’t know how to feel about this book!! It was good but I can’t get over some of the triggers in this book!!  

The fact that they are technically step siblings and the MMC calls the FMC by another woman’s name. Idk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Incest, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Gaslighting

cainsreads's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Alcoholism

gothmiku's review

emotional hopeful sad 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

1.5

This book… it’s not very good… people on booktok are filthy liars, never taking another recommendation from them again. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child abuse

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Death of parent, and Outing

emmafishhh's review

emotional relaxing sad medium-paced

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

2.5

I thought that this book was incredible at first, but I have come to not like it. I liked the evolution of Miles’ character and thought that his dynamic with Tate was perfect, but obviously have some issues. It was really good having the different perspectives throughout the book, and I liked how they showed the pain in Miles past, and the pain in Tate’s present. I could not get over the cringey Facebook humor that was used in this book, and I was definitely weirded out by the “sons big balls” line. I do not think that I will be reading this again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Minor: Alcoholism

arys_library's review

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