Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

348 reviews

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

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

4.0

He has a past, it’s dark and he doesn’t want to ever experience anything like that again. So he will not date or be involved with anyone in a romantic way, because that leads to love and he can’t do that again either. But when Tate moves in across the hall he can’t stay away. So they agree to a situationship, just sex, no talking about the past or the future. 
This book was good!! I love a story that makes me feel something and this one broke my heart and pieced it together again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Pregnancy, Medical content, Death of parent, Death, Cancer, Alcohol, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

gvstyris's review against another edition

funny 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

1.5

We both laugh at our son’s big balls. 

I reckon Imma read Mere Christianity next, because I need Jesus after that. 

A couple main issues here: 
- the glorification of teen pregnancy 
- the glorification of pregnancy in general
- the unnecessary borderline incest? 
- the weird overprotective (and violent) brother 
- the obsession with pilots?? 
- the writing style. please someone take the centre spacing and italics keys away from CoHo’s keyboard. 
- the anti-choice undertones
and a generally emotionally abusive relationship. oh man. 

At least I finally put my CoHo money where my mouth is…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Grief, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Minor: Physical abuse

lauraelovesbooks's review against another edition

emotional tense 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

4.0

Reread in 2024. A compulsively readable, messy story of the ugly parts of loving someone and letting them love you back. I will admit I found myself more frustrated with this book the second time around, particularly with Miles and the dissonance between his words and actions (which is the entire point of this book, but it just didn’t land the same way for me re-reading it) 

I would have really loved to see more of Miles working on himself outside of the relationship and working with a professional. Everything wrapped up so magically and cleanly here.

All that said, I still really enjoy reading this book and the part of me that relishes reading about messy relationships is certainly satisfied (The “just finish” scene lives in my brain rent free) 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail

taylaglass's review against another edition

emotional sad tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

ninaleeray's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring lighthearted sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, and Cursing

Moderate: Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

tierraskye's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Death, and Pregnancy

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

jasminezammit's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

2.5

An easy read, typical romance book with a gut-wrenching ending. I felt that the ending seemed very dramatic and was too far-fetched for my liking. Such a build up just seemed to be ran into a brick wall at the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Sexual content

robynslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

5.0

"𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆… 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖."



This book is both the story of Tate Collins and Miles Archer. The book flips between Tate's present-day life and Miles's past, revealing the secrets that have kept him closed off from love and relationships.

 

I enjoyed the chemistry between Tate and Miles it was not only slow-burning but both sweet and intense. I had tears in my eyes at certain points in the book, this is not a fluffy or cute romance. This book takes your heart and stomps on it a few times. It's official, this book is in my second favorite CoHo book!

 

If you are a romance novel lover that has an emotional punch. This book is for you. It is definitely a fast read, I could not put this book down as it had me on the edge of my seat as I wanted to know what was going to happen and what secrets would be brought to light.

 

 

 

Genre: Romance

Age Rating: Mature Adults aged 17 and over (contains adult themes, including both tragedy and sexual content)

Trigger Warnings for Ugly Love: death, grief, car accident, and many more

Tropes: friends with benefits; no strings attached; second-chance romance

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, and Grief

queenbeelyn's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Child death

Minor: Car accident