Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

28 reviews

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

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

Minor: Abandonment and Alcoholism

idailf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful relaxing slow-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent

eri_and_zelda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, and Car accident

josiie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

The only problem i find with this book is how much of a pushover Tate is after claiming she wouldn’t put up with the same bs her friends go through. It kind of made her character less believable to me because her actions totally contradicted what were meant to be her thoughts every. single. time. Miles screwed up. And he did. A lot. Even Madi from Euphoria got sick of it eventually.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

bookwormaj's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I dont even know what to say for this book. Read at your own risk. <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Pregnancy, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment

maryyylorraine's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcohol and Cancer

lascorrigansgf's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Another of my favorite CoHo books. I’m just saying that this book has my heart, I never expected the plot twist and the love stories was everything were beautiful. This book is so beautiful, I’d recommend you read it. For me this book is a 4 stars because I would’ve liked more a slow-burn romance but I felt like it happened so fast although, they didn’t fall in love instantly, they did started a relationship based in sex very fast.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Grief, and Child death

Minor: Abandonment

roseamillerg's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.0

 I don’t really understand why this book is so popular.. also Tate is so boring, I feel like she didn’t have a personality. 
This book had some cute moments, but the « emotional » parts didn’t were not written very well in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment and Emotional abuse

Minor: Child abuse and Domestic abuse