Ugly Love
Ratings325
Average rating3.4
✧My first Colleen Hoover Book Review ✧
Official Rating:⭐⭐
I'm giving this 2 stars because I like what this book could have been. It could have been a story about emotional healing and learning to love again. But I guess a healthy book is too much to ask from CoHo.
This book is a mess. I don't understand how people can find Ugly Love romantic. I wish people, including Colleen Hoover, understood that it's not up to romantic partners to solve a man's emotional problems.
My main issues with Ugly Love:
- What is with the weird ass step-sibling romance? Like CoHo what was going through your mind?
- Tate had no self-respect for the entire story. There were times when I couldn't read anymore because she just had no backbone.
- Miles desperately needed THERAPY. NOT “LOVE”.
- Most of the book is just depressing sex. I saw absolutely no actual chemistry/romance between Miles and Tate.
- Miles sucks. Tate sucks. I don't know why I should like either of them. They're just two sad, pathetic people.
Uff! I have been thinking about this review for some time... And to be honest I don't know if this book deserves 4 stars.
The backstory was super interesting and I was really invested in it, however the present was confusing and frustrating. I don't like when toxic relationship is romanticised and unfortunatly this one is one of those...
I recommend this to people who like this author and/or the series After.
Como la sinopsis explica, el libro se trata de una joven llamada Tate que se traslada al departamento de su hermano por un tiempo mientras termina sus estudios universitarios. Durante el primer capítulo ella conoce a Miles, un hombre ahogado por su pasado. Entre ambos hacen un pacto para mantener una relación sin compromiso, solo placer y diversión; pero como en muchas situaciones, el trato no funciona y los sentimientos entre ambos se intensifican.
He investigado, y al parecer no ha muchas personas les ha gustado este libro; todo lo contrario a lo que yo pienso.
Antes de empezar a explicar porque este libro me pareció fantástico, quiero apuntar algunas cosas que me agradaron del libro que podrían ser aspectos extra que hicieron de la lectura mejor para mi satisfacción.
Cuando Tate se muda al departamento, esperando al ascensor, se encuentra con Cap. La teoría que el explica sobre las manchas de nacimiento y las vidas anteriores me parecieron fascinantes y verdaderas, ahora cada vez que veo una, pienso en eso; y tengo que apuntar que eso lo logran los libros que te hacen pensar.
Los detalles en el libro son esquicitos. Soy de la clase de lectoras que les encantan los detalles en todo, especialmente en las emociones y sentimientos, y este libro está lleno de ellas.
Podríamos entrelazar lo que dije en el párrafo anterior con el ejemplo de los capítulos en los cuales Miles narra su pasado. Ese Fashback no me atrae, no es de mi agrado, no obstante la forma en cómo escribe en prosa, casi simulando poesía es magnífico y original.
La novela nunca para de ser graciosa y de sorprenderte. Mayormente, al leer los libros, tengo la habilidad de adivinar con exactitud el final de cada personaje y del libro en sí, sin embargo Ugly love fue la excepción. Todo el libro fue inesperado y tortuoso; nunca en la vida hubiera esperado ese final, y me paralizo de tal manera que la resaca literaria duró casi una semana.
No sé qué tiene de maravillosos este libro, pero a mí me encanto y lo devoré con locura. Recuerdo que cuando lo empecé era de noche, y me desvele leyéndolo y luego al otro día mi madre me saco la kindle y casi muero de la ansiedad. Sí tienen la oportunidad (lo dudo) de hablar con mis compañeros de curso, ellos sabrán corroborar mi sufrimiento.
Sin más que agregar, comenten su opinión y acepten la mía. ¡Saludos!
My first Coho book. I dnfed this book at 178 pages it just wasn't my cup of tea , and the premise didn't sit right with me. I know some people love this book but I personally don't see the appeal
I read this book based on the recommendation of several acquaintances. Umph...it was a awful! I finished it to the end because I was waiting and waiting for the “soooo good” part. Never happened. It's all sex, emotional abuse, low self esteem ick. It's just not for me.
Contains spoilers
Honestly I felt it was a pretty toxic story line.... Women should never feel they need to "fix" a man or sleep with him in hopes one day he falls in love.
I'm sorry but I literally couldn't stand any character in this book except Cap... And also the whole getting your step-sister pregnant thing just...
Has a pretty standard romantic story line but overall it's enjoyable. If you didn't like Verity I wouldn't recommend this book as it's quite similar is ways but without the mystery storyline
Nuet het beste boek van Colleen, maar zeker ook niet de slechtse! Leuk dat er 2 POV'S waren en dat we bij het verleden van Miles begonnen. Jammer dat de POV van Miles alleen maar van 6 jaar geleden was. Ik had ook best vanuit zijn POV nu willen lezen. Mooi afgerond verhaal, al duurde het wel erg lang voordat we wisten wat de gebeurtenis van 6 jaar geleden was... en daarnaast was Tate ook heel makkelijk in alles accepteren. Dat vond ik wel jammer ofzo (een beetje tegengas had best gemogen).
Schrijf is gewoon top en plottwists (al waren die niet mega mindblowing dit boek) ook!
I expected to hate this book. Instead, I found it relatively enjoyable. If you can separate enjoyment from moral message.
The author has a pretty good and engaging writing style, she knows how to write attraction (and is great at helping women develop some very unrealistic expectations). I also liked the pacing - made it so easy to read. And the dual timeline was very well done - the desire to know what occurred in the past, helped me read the last 60% of this book in one sitting. And the trauma Miles suffered delivered quite the gut punch. I was impressed.
What bothered me was the unhealthy over-attachment that both main characters were exhibiting. Especially Miles. The chapters from his pov were damn near concerning. Not to mention his entire persona seemed so over the top, that the story lacked believability.
Tate, on the other hand, was just delusional. I found her inert and boring, just going with the flow of what others choose to do. All we saw from her were some pretty cringe-inducing thoughts and no action.
All supporting characters were either textbook cliches or rom-com placeholders.
All in all, I wouldn't call this a masterpiece, but the 20-year-old me would be eating this up and drawing all the wrong conclusions.
So, if you're looking for some angsty, unrealistic, wishful thinking trash, with some steamy scenes, this is the book for you.
Un libro que se lee super rápido y te atrapa desde el principio. Este es el segundo libro que leo de Collen Hoover, y la verdad que está a la altura de It Ends With Us. Incluso me atrevería a decir que éste me ha enganchado mucho más. También entiendo a la gente que no le haya podido gustar, ya que es verdad que tiene sus cosillas, pero para mí ha sido bastante entretenido y eso es lo que cuenta, a mí parecer.
After a busy December, I was happy to find time to indulge in another [a:Colleen Hoover 5430144 Colleen Hoover https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1464032240p2/5430144.jpg] book. [b:Ugly Love 17788401 Ugly Love Colleen Hoover https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1632597571l/17788401.SY75.jpg 24878172] takes ‘friends with benefits' to the next level. Like all her books, she focuses on a strained relationship and an unlikely resolution.The female protagonist, Tate, when attempting to move in with her brother in San Francisco, finds Miles passed out drunk against her brother's apartment door. She can't get in without moving him and he's too heavy and unconscious to move. The 80-year-old elevator operator can't help, but he turns out to be Tate's good friend. Especially when she finds out Miles is her brother's friend, loathe to commitment, and wants a sex-without-strings relationship with Tate.The majority of the book leaves Tate in the dark about Miles' aversion to showing love or being loved. But the reader gets glimpses of the problem when Miles' memories from six years before are revealed in chapters interspersed throughout the book.Maybe it's just me, but I enjoyed Tate's ponderings of how she might break through Miles' lack of attachment and then how she finally convinces herself that no matter how much she loves him, he will never let her in. Hoover is a master at toxic relationships, and Miles and Tate seem to have an extremely potent one. It only exacerbates the problem that they are ideal together in bed.I didn't think the ending would be realistic or satisfying, but I was happy to be wrong.
predictable but cute, the ending hit me, had to cry a little ngl. i liked the text formatting for when Miles was happy vs sad
Definitely a sexier book but the story line was really good. Actual tears towards the end. The only reason it's not a 5 star is because there were parts of the book that felt immature for the story, but overall it was pretty good! I'll be reading more from her for sure.
My girl Colleen did it again and completely destroyed me in the process!
I now wonder if there is a Colleen Hoover book out there that won't make me cry?
I spent a good 70% of the book equal parts absorbed but also confused and frustrated, the writing style for the past chapters was a choice and I just couldn't get on board with Miles and his inability to show any feeling. Yes after the reveal I get why but it was a bit much at times.
Then that scene happened. You know. And everything changed.
Uma das coisas que mais amei no livro foi a personalidade real deles. Quando a Tate dizia “you don't have to tell me”. Na minha opini??o foi muito real porque ele j?? tava a passar por muito e a Tate tem a no????o que lembrar/falar sobre d??i ainda mais. E ele ainda n??o tava preparado para falar sobre o passado e os sentimentos dele.
This book started out so ordinary... I was not expecting this book to COMPLETELY wreck me!
My only complaint is how neatly everything wraps up in the end. For such a complicated book the ending was very much the opposite