Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

238 reviews

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

c_marie226's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad tense 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

1.75

I don’t think this author is for me. I found the guy insufferable and the girl barely written. There is a lot of trauma and it feels like it is done just to make the book more dramatic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Grief, Child death, and Car accident

hannag4's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Pregnancy

marionlundqvist's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child death, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

lemistral's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

hrichards's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

Everything was great, the off and on and the emotions where awesome 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Cursing, Car accident, and Gaslighting

addssubract's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

1.0

kys

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Toxic relationship

69toaster69's review against another edition

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

0.25

Ew

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

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

makenzee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

The beginning of the book was a tad slow for me. It felt a bit dragged out. It was my first book with different POVs and one was very more interesting and juicy than the other one. Finished the book in 4 days and the ending was pretty heartwarming :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Incest

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

Minor: Abandonment