Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

7 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

random19379's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Car accident, and Rape

_sina's review

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Rape, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, and Alcohol

diana_tatarenko's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual content

juju_underhill's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-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

2.75

For some reason this book just didn’t do it for me. Perhaps because of all the good reviews I had high expectations and it definitely fell short. I think this book just seems a little bit too unrealistic. With everything ending happily ever after I just felt like i couldn’t relate and really get to love this book. I also  agree with most people that this story lacked female empowerment and that the love the characters felt for one another seemed unrealistic. Don’t get me wrong i definitely liked this book as a lighthearted holiday read, but I certainly wasn't invested and probably won’t re-read or recommend to friends.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Rape

avocadoontoast's review against another edition

1.0

This book is so full off bullshit, and no I don’t mean the 

unrealistic, misogynistic sex scenes. No I mean the whole plod. Tate is the main character but really this book is just a biography of Miles Archer. 

By the way she is also perfect in her job, in nurse school and has a beautiful slim body even though she just eats shit and makes no sport, I know very relatable, right. But really she doesn’t feel like a person, because she has no self-driven actions she just does everything Miles wants her to do.

 

Miles is just using her at his needs and is constantly braking her only rule and plays with her feeling for him. So Tate is in a toxic or even abusive relationship with him, where he is punishing her with distance and passive aggressive anger. Even whose she feels responsible for his mood swings. There is scene where she literally let him rape her, so that he can feel better. In what world do we live in???? And she is always forgiving his for his behavior and is patiently waiting until he wants to be with her.

 

And Rachel is only described as beautiful and pregnant. What is she? An object? And also she was 17. Miles never asked her if she even wants to be pregnant he just says “we”, yes “we” will get through this. I mean easy to say for HIM. Also Colleen Hoover just left the part out where she is obviously pregnant, because as a teen this must be horrible. Imagine what her classmates will say about her behind her back and name her. She gets the shame because she is exposed with it.

 

This book should be forbidden. It romanticizes rape, sexism, stereotypes and many more.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence

readwithmo's review

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