Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Ugly Love, by Colleen Hoover

27 reviews

shaylee_n_20's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, and Abandonment

proudtobeabookaholic's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

5.0

When Tate Collins moves in with her brother Corbin, the first person she meets is Miles Archer. Let's just say he doesn't make a good impression... But with time a strong attraction develops between them, and they make an arrangement. Miles isn't interested in love and Tate doesn't have time for love, so sex without any emotional ties should suit them fine. As long as Tate doesn't break Miles' two rules:

Never ask about the past.

Don't expect a future. 

That should be easy, right?

WOW! Talk about an emotional roller coaster! I've been gasping, gritting my teeth and often had a silly smile on my face. I've been sighing (in a positive way) over the tender sex scenes, and closed my eyes before the grief (like that would help). I don't think I've ever been as captured by a book without any real story line; it's the characters that afflict you.

The book changes between now and then (6 years earlier), and between Tate's and Miles' perspective. Slowly we get to know what happened to Miles 6 years ago, and why he hasn't had a relationship since - and doesn't plan to ever have one. Without revealing too much I can only say that it's pretty brutal - and heartwrenching. I'll definitely remember Tate and Miles for a long time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Pregnancy, and Death

brynhayes's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Alcohol, Child death, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

_caitlin_doesnt_read_'s review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

(SPOILERS !!)

Okay... so... the first like 70% of this book was... not good. sorry. But so much of it was just sex and the story wasn't progressing at all, we weren't learning anything about Miles' character and I was more interested in the Rachel storyline than the Tate one. I really really hated Miles throughout most of this book. He had no respect for Tate, he was rude asf, and he literally sexual abused her multiple times??? I didn't feel the chemistry between them, their dynamic was fucking strange. Did I cry for an hour straight reading this book? Yes, I did. Did I internally scream when Rachel revealed the name of her daughter? Yes, I did. Loved the ending but I can't get over Miles' character in the beginning bc it was incredibly strange and gross and misogynistic and IK ITS BC HE HAS TRAUMA but I can't get over it - he had no respect for Tate and I constantly felt like he was exploiting her for sex? bc he was. However, I gave it 4.25 stars bc I really liked the ending and Miles getting his closure. Okay.

xoxo, gossip girl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Car accident, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Bullying

hiddenwritings's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol and Toxic relationship

Minor: Grief, Alcohol, Child death, and Medical content

caoimhsx's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

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

cannesi's review against another edition

fast-paced

1.0

I always have to give a star because any published author deserves to get some points back by just writing. All I have to say is it's beyond bizarre and I hated how some of the chapters were constructed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Medical content, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Death, Cursing, Child death, Car accident, Blood, and Alcohol

boundforinfinity's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

A darn hard book to read. It made me shocked, a year 8 had been reading it in class and I'd said 'is this good? I'm thinking of reading it next'. God bless her this was not safe for work. It was smutty at its finest.

What I didn't expect was that you hated them both one for being in a toxic relationship and the other for being in an incestous one with his step-sister. And then they pull a hard-fast one at you at the end that cause you to fall in love with them.

I laughed, I cried, I gasped, I teared. 

Cons:
Too much incest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Child death, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Car accident, and Death

bethy_joy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/injury detail, Alcohol, Cancer, Medical content, and Violence