Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

39 reviews

taylahhhh's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense fast-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

I know the colleen hoover controversy but this book got me out of a reading slump years ago and is still my go to easy read, The writing style is very juvenile and truthfully the plot could be better developed but it is what restarted my love for reading. Plus i am a sucker for brothers best friend! One thing i hated was the time jumps between miles and Tates chapters I didn't feel like taking us back to miles past helped the development of the story because it was poorly executed, she may have well as just done one chapter on it and it would have hit the same. Overall, colleen hoover will never be a favourite writer of mine HOWEVER I do enjoy her storylines and almost wish the plots had been executed a different way as she does cover very important topics in her novels  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

sandse2's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

2.25

I just do not get why people like colleen Hoover books. It’s like watching a daytime television  soap opera, the plot twist were obvious the traumas were so extreme. The characters were kind of just unbelievable. The girl was just OK not knowing anything about this guy, but she just had such a strong connection to him anyway? Right… And Miles was miraculously cured of his trauma and clearly ptsd   after he spoke to his ex? None of this is realistic and it’s not even a remotely fun unrealism. It’s just kind of outlandish and silly and since the characters never actual connect emotionally it’s hard to connect to them emotionally as a reader. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

mllemos's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual violence

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: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

gmbooks11_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

elisemarie5's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol

cayleybp's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Graphic: Child death

Minor: Mental illness

ankiaisreading's review against another edition

emotional 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

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jellyh23's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Child death and Mental illness

Male character has ptsd

nesxreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

1.25

Very toxic romance as usual from CoHo, a bad exemple, I wouldn’t recommend this to a teenager 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child death and Car accident

Minor: Incest