Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Ugly Love, by Colleen Hoover

16 reviews

thelibraryofanolive's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

really good book i just think it got kind of repetitive and colleen hoover makes me want to rip my eyes out

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cursing, Child death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Incest, Sexual violence, Blood, Cancer, Sexism, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Violence

lazybooklover's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, and Infidelity

Minor: Cursing and Death of parent

s_elsted's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, and Car accident

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Abortion, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, and Violence

channershea's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Infidelity

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A devastating, gorgeous, heart-wrenching story of love and loss, this book broke my heart. The characters are loveable, the plot line is completely believable, and the ending is immaculate per usual. Colleen did it again. Home run. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Toxic relationship

travelthrupages's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, and Infidelity

deanenicole's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Death, and Infidelity

iamsherlocked's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

the writing style,- was exquisite, that's one arena where colleen hoover never fails to exceed one's expectations. the book is about Tate and Miles, and is told from a dual pov- present day from Tate's and flashbacks to six years in the past, to miles' previous relationship which has shaped him into the cold, detached person Tate meets, enters into a fwb (and falls for). the way the story unfolds, it' almost impossible to put it down, in some bits it's like watching a car crash or another disaster, almost impossible to look away.

the side characters, Corbin (Tate's overprotective big brother and miles' best friend) and Cap, the man who operates the elevator in their building are ICONIC. I need Corbin to have a standalone novel of his own because the Corbin content I got in this book was simply not enough. and cap, what to say of him, he's that ''I told you so'' bestie and has some of the best (and wisest) quotes.

onto what I did not like- the two main characters were well written, yes- they are real, flawed humans who make mistakes. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean they did not annoy me. I spent a good chunk of the time I was reading this book being very close to pulling my hair out of frustration looking at the amount of bad decisions both of them made. Tate, you know what he's offering will never be enough for you, SO WHY KEEP GOING ALONG WITH IT? (esp when you acknowledge it yourself that you should stop) and Miles, what to say of miles, man could put a malfunctioning traffic light to shame with those mixed signals he kept giving away, and so, so erraticaly (totally deserved those punches he got).- that being said, he too was extremely traumatised with what happened to him and did show some growth by the end of thr book, I just hope he's in therapy, he needs it.

Spoiler

  the Rachel hate is something I don't understand or condone, yes,  she was a little wrong to never reach out to miles even after she was somewhat okay? but she was also very young and lost a child, their two-day old Clayton and the way she processed that grief is not really something anyone should blame her for, even if she was a LITTLE at fault for how she left. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Minor: Infidelity

cluckieduck's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-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

4.0

“Love isn’t always pretty…Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it’ll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you’re back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”

Ugly Love was utterly captivating and once I started, I just couldn’t put it down and finished it in one sitting. The alternating POVs with the past (Miles) & present (Tate) really rounded out the story/narration. It’s absolutely heartbreaking, but I was happy with how it ended for both Tate & Miles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Child death, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol and Infidelity

everythingordinary's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity