Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

93 reviews

jodieworton's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was the last one I read in February. And I bloody loved it. 

🔆Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover 🔆

Review
Ugly Love is a romance novel and follows the story of Tate and Miles. It is the classic story, I’m sure we’ve all read before, the tortured male trope that can’t and won’t be loved. 

Miles is the best friend of Tates brother and they meet when Tate comes to live with him. What follows is a sexy love affair, Tate falls for Miles and whilst it is obvious Miles is falling for her too he keeps a guard up. 

You learn why Miles is the way he is, and actually it is pretty devastating. 

The book is also written from the POV of Tate and Miles, each chapter it switches.

This was a super quick read, took me less than a day and was a good end to the month! Read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Minor: Emotional abuse

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

arys_library's review against another edition

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: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Abandonment

jordanlin's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Pregnancy

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

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

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

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

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

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

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

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