Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

89 reviews

kathrinellis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is my new favourite book. 
Everything made sense, the ending was just perfect and you could really experience the growth of the characters. The story gave me butterflies as well as several streams of tears running down my face. Colleen Hoover never disappoints. Hopefully, I‘ll always remember my first time reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Alcoholism, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Blood, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

molly_rose's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

dropshift5568's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Medical content and Pregnancy

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

roblotreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

read this book on Libby and i still am thinking about it. this is a book i would buy a physical copy of for the sole purpose of letting other people borrow it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

neaky__'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Things I liked: 
• The parallels between the past relationship and the current relationship. 
• The structure of how the past relationship is set out in the chapters. 
• I actually liked the development of the past relationship more than the current relationship. 

Things I didn’t like: 
• The main lead and love interest spent no time together aside from sex before deciding that they loved each other. 
• Neither character was really special, I felt like I had read the character a million times. 
• Love interest treated the main lead like shit and was forgiven completely in the end just because of his revealed back story. 
• I’m sick of books using “tortured tragic male with horrifying backstory” as a main leading plot device. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Grief, and Sexual violence

gaebriel's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, and Sexual content

danisbookcorner's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

everythingordinary's review against another edition

dark 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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity

ajoyn1201's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Car accident