Ugly Love

rating- 2.5/5

this review contains spoilers.

2.5 stars only for cap:) and because it made me cri. i.e, evoked emotion which is a good sign.
I HATE that this was marketed as a book with two people who are with each other only for sex, and i had to read a convoluted pov with a really immature voice for like 70 % of the book.
The Miles-Tate dynamic completely undermined miles' tragic backstory and his issues with dealing with his grief. This was Miles' story. Tate had zero contribution to the plot whatsoever, except for letting Miles walk all over her until he sorts his issues out.
Something else that bothered me was how different Mile's pov chapters in the past were in comparison to the rest of the book. his inner monologue was just VERY weird? like it's not only the centre alignment. (which i think was supposed to make it seem like a poem?? idek at this point.) Like it's literally just a normal pov writing but centre alignment. RachelRachelI'm talking to her.I tell her my name is miles. (that. but in centre alignment. almost his entire pov is centre aligned. I don't know why that's so weird to me, but like the waste of space for absolutely no reason, bothers me.)
Apart from this, his past pov was also weird to me because it seemed like the author was trying to portray him as a kid/ immature somehow. I remember there was something about them ‘playing house' which was just plain weird. They're 17 i think? i don't know if Colleen Hoover was trying to be poetic / metaphorical, it just ended up making me feel super uncomfortable. Like okay? she's pregnant, they live together and they're young. i get it. but ‘playing house'??...

The past plot was pretty okay (except for the incestuous and pro-life tones) but the writing was just not it, for me. While, the present Tate-Miles plot was trash but I liked the writing in this case (because she wasn't trying to be poetic/centre alignic)

This was my first Colleen Hoover book and i see why people like her so much, the emotional impact of the book was definitely there?.. Although the writing style wasn't my favourite, I do have a few other CoHo books on my tbr i want to read, so we'll see how that goes:')