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A review by inesdalmeida
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
emotional
sad
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
2.0
I really wanted to like this book. I mean I heard so many good things about it SO my expectations were also quite high.
Sincerely, this could be better if only the main character - Tate - was better developed and more rounded. I do not blame her for getting involved with an emotionally unavailable guy (that would be quite hypocritical). However, every time the author would describe Miles' problems and pain, as well as the mystery he somehow represented to Tate, I could not help but think "What do I even know about Tate anyway?". So, she has a brother, a mother and a father. She is a nurse and student. She has a friend/study group peer named Chad. Yeah, nothing else. It's like she didn't exist before she met Miles and didn't have her own set of traumatic experiences.
Anyway, I also didn't enjoy that he didn't seek therapy and is using her as his coping mechanism to work through the pain of losing his child. It's not fair and it's quite selfish.
Finally, it might be a me problem, but the sex scenes make up too big a portion of the book. I would like to have seen their relationship develop outside of the sheets a bit more.
Sincerely, this could be better if only the main character - Tate - was better developed and more rounded. I do not blame her for getting involved with an emotionally unavailable guy (that would be quite hypocritical). However, every time the author would describe Miles' problems and pain, as well as the mystery he somehow represented to Tate, I could not help but think "What do I even know about Tate anyway?". So, she has a brother, a mother and a father. She is a nurse and student. She has a friend/study group peer named Chad. Yeah, nothing else. It's like she didn't exist before she met Miles and didn't have her own set of traumatic experiences.
Anyway, I also didn't enjoy that he didn't seek therapy and is using her as his coping mechanism to work through the pain of losing his child. It's not fair and it's quite selfish.
Finally, it might be a me problem, but the sex scenes make up too big a portion of the book. I would like to have seen their relationship develop outside of the sheets a bit more.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Child death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship