Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

240 reviews

thatgirlgeorgia's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

jessw17's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

3.0

Tl;dr I think the man was supposed to be likeable, he just wasn't. He needed therapy but depended on the women around him to provide it. He felt a little dangerous. If you've ever been in an emotionally abusive relationship, don't read this. Sex scenes were good though. 

It was okay. The story was sad and it definitely kept my attention. I'm just tired of the "women will fix men" storyline. 

The book starts out in Tate's point of view and it seems like she's going to be the main character. Then it switches to shorter chapter that are Miles' pov. But miles was very clearly the main character. He's a troubled guy, a successful pilot at the ripe age of 24.. he's even promoted to captian during the story. 

Meanwhile we barely learn anything about Tate. That's fine, it's just not my cup of tea to have (who I perceive should be) the main character be so 2 dimensional while the love interest's character is so fleshed out. 

Also, they're 22 and 24 and established in their careers which feels unrelatable.

Anyway, the entire time, Tate is hoping Miles falls in love with her and he's emotionally unavailable and has been for 6 years. You don't find out why until nearly the end, when you find out he'd had a child with his high school sweetheart, got in a car accident while Miles is driving them home from the hospital, the newborn dies, and the girlfriend leaves. 

So Miles cuts himself off from love and happiness but of course, things change when he meets Tate.

Honestly, he treats Tate pretty terribly, even if it was just a hookup situation. He does things that scare her and you kind of assume he doesn't realize he's doing them, until the end when you get his present day POV and you realize he's not clueless. He can read her, he just doesn't care. He doesn't mind intentionally being mean or intimidating to her. 

 

so in the end, he thanks Tate for "waiting for him." Which is valid for her and was her choice to wait for him. I'm just tired of that storyline if "if you wait long enough, you can fix him!" And he also had to find the high school sweetheart, shows up at her house so she can console him. He literally just shows up in her life in an entirely new state, not caring what that would do to her or her family. She didn't tell him where she was, he found her and just inserted himself so she could give him free therapy. It was cringe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Grief

Minor: Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Blood

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 death, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol

shadymist's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

4.0

After hearing this being recommended. I decided to give the author another try. Previously I read this girl and it was rated 3 stars. I was surprised at how well written this is. Its slow to begin with but gets better a quarter of the way through. Not my favourite author but pleasantly surprised.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcohol and Violence

maiak23's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship

ksett267's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was absolutely amazing. It made me have all the emotions especially in the last about 100 pages. I was bawling my eyes out at the end so grab tissues. The cover of the book is so traumatizing now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Abandonment, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Incest

gingersnap17's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

gingerspark_96's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual content, Cancer, Pregnancy, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Child death

ayodougie's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

It took me legit a whole month to fight through this book. This was a buddy read and an intro to this world of reading. I was appreciative of the fact that it was a simple read and understandable. Absolutely hated the story plot though. It gives 2 POV's, one in the present (Tate the doormat) and one in the past (Miles the closed off one from a messed up past of mishaps). It was just odd and irritated me to where I would put the book down and go on about my day. Even the spice was not spicing for me *eye roll*. Young and dumb all I got from it. Only thing that helped me through was my buddy kept begging me to fight through it cause she LOVED it! Mehhhh... The end it oddly picks up and turns around which peaked my interest and kept me reading, but also hmm too little toooo late Miles. 2.5 ** Stars this way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Minor: Child death