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Ugly Love
by Colleen Hoover
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was not what I was expecting. I picked up this book as a “BookTok” recommendation. I was really excited to start this and let me just say: BOOKTOK LEFT OUT A PRETTY BIG DETAIL.
Colleen Hoover is raved about constantly and continuously praised for her work. Although the ending was satisfying, I have a few gripes about this one. Tate is constantly talking about being an independent woman who’s super busy and devoted to her career, but without Miles she has no other personality traits. She didn’t develop as a character at all and reading a female character actively say she’s going to ignore red flags was annoying.
Miles is insufferable. His “love” with Rachel is just straight up infatuation and the way his point of view was written drives me insane. I understand what Hoover was doing and that this was his “poetry” in a way, but I just found him annoying. It was supposed to be sweet and romantic, but <spoiler alert> it can’t be that when they’re step siblings <spoiler alert>. Now, I understand they met before they knew their parents were together but, they still actively pursued that. Them being step siblings was a completely unnecessary plot device that was just being used for drama. I think the tragedy that happened to Miles and Rachel would have been enough without them being step siblings.
Overall, by the time I got to the darkest part of the book, I needed to finish it. A lot of this book just feels like filler and it’s way too small to need filler. I didn’t care for the main characters. The miscommunication trope is the worst and if a man ever called me another woman’s name during the ~*dirty*~, he would be gone. He would never see me again. This was just ridiculous.
Colleen Hoover is raved about constantly and continuously praised for her work. Although the ending was satisfying, I have a few gripes about this one. Tate is constantly talking about being an independent woman who’s super busy and devoted to her career, but without Miles she has no other personality traits. She didn’t develop as a character at all and reading a female character actively say she’s going to ignore red flags was annoying.
Miles is insufferable. His “love” with Rachel is just straight up infatuation and the way his point of view was written drives me insane. I understand what Hoover was doing and that this was his “poetry” in a way, but I just found him annoying. It was supposed to be sweet and romantic, but <spoiler alert> it can’t be that when they’re step siblings <spoiler alert>. Now, I understand they met before they knew their parents were together but, they still actively pursued that. Them being step siblings was a completely unnecessary plot device that was just being used for drama. I think the tragedy that happened to Miles and Rachel would have been enough without them being step siblings.
Overall, by the time I got to the darkest part of the book, I needed to finish it. A lot of this book just feels like filler and it’s way too small to need filler. I didn’t care for the main characters. The miscommunication trope is the worst and if a man ever called me another woman’s name during the ~*dirty*~, he would be gone. He would never see me again. This was just ridiculous.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Incest, Car accident