Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

357 reviews

lauremartinn's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Spicy, heartbreaking, frustrating, cute. This book allows so many different emotions to be felt and allows you to get lost in the story. 
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aiden2003adamson's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful relaxing sad 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

4.5

I just finished this and I am gutted I can’t give any higher than 4.5 stars. But there was a few things that I just couldn’t get over.  
I cannot understand why reviews say miles is an ass. He is anything but, he’s a guy with flaws. So is every one of Colleen Hoovers guys.  I also cannot understand why people on booktok and booktube say page 275 is emotionally destroying. As a person who cries at everything I was expecting to sob throughout the entire book not just at Clayton’s death, miles meeting Claire and the epilogue.  Also what the actual hell was miles on in chapter 32? He went from sounding like an adult to sounding like a 5 year old and then back to sounding like an adult!
aside from those three issues I enjoyed the book, and it was a nice easy read even if I wish I hadn’t read some of it on public transport. Sadly this is not my favourite Colleen Hoover I much preferred the Slammed trilogy over Ugly love which appears to be a controversial opinion 
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kingal's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad fast-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

4.75

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sim_uno666's review against another edition

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emotional 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

3.75

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petal_01's review against another edition

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dark hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.25

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signenagle's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

0.25

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littleacorn10's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

SPOILER REVIEW: 

First Colleen Hoover book. Figured it was time to see what all the hype was about. I certainly wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. 

Although the writing itself, minus the explicit content, could be considered YA in dialect and style, I didn’t find myself too distracted by it. I was invested in the story, not the writing.

The switching POVs was enjoyable and kept the plot moving at a good pace as it allowed for time gaps between chapters. I also enjoyed the prose inspired chapters. Some might say it was a tad overdone, but I liked it because it got to the *point* of those moment. It told us exactly what we needed to know without buffering it with unnecessary details.

The happy ending was a tad corny, but I wouldn’t have liked a non-happy ending. I just personally didn’t think we had to see the proposal or any of that, it could have been open ended.


Finally, I did like the message of the book
that love is worth the pain.
That part resonated for me and will certainly stick with me.

All in all, I enjoyed my day binge-reading this book. Maybe I will pick up another Hoover book sometime in the future.
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avie_j's review against another edition

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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

0.25

For all the "I can change him" girlies. No you can't, this isn't realistic. You deserve better.

Tate was a complete and utter door-mat.
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yourmom_12's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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allyssa30's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

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