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From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him and It Ends with Us comes a hauntingly seductive tale of love, control, and the devastating secrets that can destroy it all. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly. Read more
Publisher : Atria Books
Publication date : August 5, 2014
Edition : Standard Edition
Language : English
Print length : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1476753180
ISBN-13 : 88
Item Weight : 9.9 ounces
Dimensions : 8.25 x 5 x 0.9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,039 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #30 in New Adult & College Romance (Books) #32 in Contemporary Women Fiction #33 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
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Format: Kindle
Tate is moving into her brother’s apartment in San Francisco while she is finishing school, she wasn’t looking for love or a relationship, just a place to live while she focuses on her career. Miles wasn’t looking for anything. He was barely existing. Focused on his career as a pilot and not much else. When Tate encounters the man slumped in front of the door, blocking her way she never imagined that she’d be making a deal with him weeks later, a no-strings arrangement. But the more see is around Miles, the more she wants to know about him. But Miles isn’t willing to reopen those wounds. ========== This is not your typical love story of hearts and flowers. This is a love story that is tarnished with the heartbreaking moments, the dirty parts the ugly side. The parts of love that make you want to guard your heart at all costs to avoid ever hurting that much. But... it’s also the story of finding a way to want something beautiful even after knowing how ugly it can be, how much it can destroy you. It’s about finding something that makes all that pain seem like it didn’t exist, because in those moments where it feels so good, you feel like nothing can touch you. That nothing else existed before. I fell in love with Miles instantly. There was no way to protect my heart from the destruction that I knew was coming, there was no possible way to read this without letting him seep into you completely. He wasn’t supposed to give you hope for more, but he gave it to you every time he opened his mouth. This was a different type of CoHo read for me, but I have to say I loved every second of it. The dual POV were so starkly different. With Tate you got the present, in a normal narration kind of way and with Miles you got his past. Six years ago, the story that led him to where he was today... And it was poetic, beautiful and absolutely haunting. With a title like Ugly Love, you expect that you won’t escape this read without shedding tears and although you assume bits and pieces of Mile’s past – nothing is going to prepare you for the reality of it. That moment. It was soul crushing. It’s been a little over 24 hours since I finished and just thinking about it has me in tears all over again. About the Miles POV chapters. I loved these. I loved that they were written this way. It was beautiful, it was innocent and it kept me from falling in love with a different love story, one that had its own place, but wasn’t the one that we were supposed to fall in love with. And Cap. An eighty year old man nearly stole the show. Colleen Hoover did not disappoint with this story. I have loved every single book she has written but Ugly Love holds a special place in my heart. I can’t say that it is my favorite, because honestly, all of them are my favorite, but this one is just stood out in its own way and this story is one that will stay with me for years to come.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014 by Michelle New
Format: Kindle
Ugly Love Was Tragic Ugly Beautiful. Before starting my journey with Ugly Love, I must admit, I was absolutely terrified. Terrified because, based on the reviews and teasers I had already read, I knew this book would probably rip my heart out and give it back to me in pieces. My fear was justified after reading Ugly Love because my heart was indeed ripped apart, overflowed with emotion, and handed back to me as an emotionally tired and aching mess. When writing a book review, the book you are writing the review on should be on your mind, that’s not a bad thing, but Ugly Love has infiltrated my mind so completely that it’s almost distracting. I don’t even know what to write about or where to start because I just keep on thinking about the story, the characters, the conflict, the writing, the ugliness and beauty that is Ugly Love. What I love about Colleen Hoover’s writing is that she leaves no emotion untouched and you feel every single word, paragraph, and page. Ugly Love was no exception. I felt everything from hate to love, and lust to absolute agony. Ugly Love placed a huge weight on my heart and soul, which I felt, and still feel, in every fiber of my being. It’s only been an hour since I finished reading it and I’m already contemplating a re-read. THAT is how amazing this novel was. Ugly Love is rough and gentle, tempestuous and calm. Ugly Love is like that time you went to the beach when you were younger and dived into a wave, but the wave is rougher than you thought it would be, so you get caught in it. By the time you get out of the wave your hearts pumping like you just ran a marathon, and you don’t know whether you just had the greatest thrill of a lifetime or the greatest heart attack. Miles Archer. Miles Archer broke my heart and put it back together. His story was devastating and tragic and reading it was like a shot to the heart. Miles is a mystery that you are just dying to unravel and he is definitely book boyfriend material. I found Miles Archer’s character to be almost a combination of Will Cooper (Slammed series) and Dean Holder (Hopeless series). His chapters showed us a sweet and poetic side, much like Will, and he also had a mysterious, sensual side that just screamed Holder. “Don’t ask about my past,” he says firmly. “And never expect a future.” Tate Collins didn’t hold anything back. She had no filter and I loved every second of it. My heart felt every emotion alongside Tate and oh did she have to go through some heart-wrenching moments. Falling for a guy like Miles Archer is no easy thing to go through, but I honestly think she handled every moment and situation as best as she could. “I’m not Tate when I’m near Miles. I’m liquid, and liquid doesn’t know how to be firm or stand up for itself. Liquid flows. That’s all I want to do with Miles. Flow.” These characters were flawed. They were not perfect, and to me, imperfect characters create for a perfect story. I could go on and on about how much I adored this novel and describe in detail why and what scenes I loved, but this is one of those stories where going in blind, and head-first is the best approach. Ugly Love will leave you breathless, gasping for air, frustrated beyond belief, and wanting more. Every sentence in this novel had me addicted and captivated. Ugly Love left no emotion untouched. It was intense, emotional, heart-wrenching, and also steamy as hell! This is Colleen Hoovers sexiest novel yet, and dare I say…possibly her best? I wouldn’t want to make Will or Holder jealous so I’ll keep that opinion to myself. ;) Ugly Love was one of my most anticipated novels for year and it is another 6 STAR, MUST READ by Colleen Hoover!! It’s one of those books I wish I could undo from reading just so I can read it and experience it again for the first time. Ugly Love will have you shedding tears and flying in love.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014 by Giselle (Hopeless Book Lover)
Format: Kindle
Many of us have heard or seen the idea of 'friends with benefits' played up in popular media. There are magazine articles about the rules of being a friend with benefits. There are movies like No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits that focus on the subject. And then, there are books like Ugly Love which bring a fresh perspective to the topic and make everyone else's work look mediocre in the process. Yep, I said it. You will probably read very mixed reviews of Ugly Love. I think it's a book that is easy to fall in love with, but it definitely has its shortcomings. Here are the five reasons why I gave Ugly Love 4 out of 5 stars: ★ PLOT If that synopsis didn't intrigue you, then you're just doing everything wrong. Having read some of Hoover's other works, I know that her books tend to deal with heavy subject matter. So, going into Ugly Love, I expected that, at some point, things would become serious. I definitely don't want to give anything away, because Hoover tends to add unforeseen plot twists to her stories, and Ugly Love is no exception. But, I will say that this book is about so much more than frivolous sex. Miles' secretiveness about his past is a big part of the book and probably the most interesting aspect of the plot. I was able to put the pieces of Miles' secret together before it was actually revealed. If you pay close attention to the hints Hoover drops, you'll probably be able to figure it out, too. Ugly Love is a great read that is real and honest. The familial aspects will make you smile, the ugly love will make you cry, and the romance will warm your heart. ★ HOT, STEAMY ROMANCE...AND SEX, TOO Someone call the fire department because this book is hot. That was terrible. But, seriously. Considering the New Adult genre and the plot, it's understandable that this book contains a lot of sex scenes. I would not give this book to my 15-year-old sister to read. ( I mean, she doesn't like to read anyways --GASP! -- but still...) However, what I love about Colleen Hoover's writing is that the sex scenes never feel smutty. She keeps things classy. Simple and point blank, it's good writing. ★ HOOVER'S WRITING All of Colleen Hoover's writing is good writing. That is all. ★ LENGTH & PACING I tend to find that, with some books I read (like The Raven Boys, which I am currently reading and have been reading for almost 4 weeks), the pacing is terrible. The book is too slow and I begin to lose interest. Then there are some books that are too fast (I felt this way with Legend by Marie Lu); there's not enough world building, or there is not enough time for readers to make connections with characters, so the book suffers. And then there are books like Ugly Love which I literally couldn't put down because there was never a dull moment. The pacing also allowed me to connect with the protagonist and therefore care about the outcome of her story. Hoover knows how to leave a reader intrigued without exhausting them with a bunch of questions. There are two main questions in this novel, and they are all you need to carry you through: What secret from Miles' past is haunting him? Will Tate and Miles end up together? It's a simple as that. Ugly Love was a really quick read for me considering all of the school work I had to get through while I was reading it. It was the perfect length, but I loved it so much I wish it had been longer. I hope there is a spin-off novel featuring Tate's brother Corbin or Miles' friend Ian. ☆ THE SHORTCOMINGS...THERE ARE A FEW It is a truth, universally acknowledged that insta-love is a big no-no in book writing. Any book blogger or BookTuber will tell you. (FYI: "insta-love" is when a character looks at another character and falls in love with them. Some examples would be Romeo & Juliet [and we know that ended] or Bella and Edward in Twilight.) Sometimes, an author uses insta-love in a story, and it's not too terrible. That was the case with Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi. However, that was not the case with Ugly Love. In Miles' chapters, which talk about his past and his relationship with a girl named Rachel, we are presented with the concept of insta-love. He fell in love with her the moment he met her. What was so terrible about the use of insta-love in this instance was the fact that Miles' love seemed to border on obsession. Maybe that's why I didn't really like Miles' chapters. His chapters all talked about how much he loved Rachel. And, they were all written in verse, which I also didn't enjoy. Finally, I didn't like that Tate went into the sexual relationship with Miles, knowing that she would develop feelings for him and hoping that she could change him. There were times when she would complain about how detached he seemed with her, when he told her from the very beginning: "Don't ask about my past, and never expect a future". I was just really annoyed by the fact that Tate cried and whined about how she and Miles' relationship wasn't progressing when he told her that there would be no progression. Although I had these problems with Ugly Love, I still really enjoyed this book. I was able to overlook some of these shortcomings. But, others might not be able to. *** Colleen Hoover has officially become one of my favorite authors. She is also the reason why I have fallen in love with the New Adult genre.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2015 by Teisha
Format: Kindle
I have sat on this book and my thoughts now for more than a month. I was fortunate enough to win this book in a "Scavenger Hunt," at Book Bash 2014. I also, waited close to a month to read it. I wanted to make sure I could give all of my attention to Ugly Love, and the characters that evolve in this book. So without further ado, here are my thoughts.... Colleen Hoover is the Mastermind of Fictional Literature. She has a way to manipulate your heart, a way to manipulate your mind, and most importantly your mind. Her words shake you to your core, but in the best way possible. She makes you FEEL absolutely everything. It isn't just a reading experience, it is a "Colleen Hoover Experience." Tate and Miles, are a pair of characters that, left me breathless. They are each in their own minds. They are both trying to choose their path in life, without disrupting anything. Basically, they are two people who are Workaholics. Two people are finding their way in life. But they aren't just that, they are passionate about their lines of work. They pour themselves into their work, and their interactions really show this. However, I feel Miles did more than Tate did. He has his reasons, in which we learn throughout this whole novel. It is slowly poured into the pages of who Miles is, and why he is the way he is. Miles is a man of few words, he's hot and cold. He has his head on straight. But he keeps himself guarded; even more guarded than Fort Knox. And Tate is more of any open book, looking to excel in life. Both Tate and Miles are similar, yet different. They want the same end game in life, but they also want more in terms of "comfort." Their comfort is like a rapid blazing inferno, sweeping away everything in its path. It is hot, it is sexy, and it makes me tingly just thinking about it. They have a hot desperate passion, they connect, but they also don't see eye to eye. I liked that they weren't able to see eye to eye though. It helped to develop more of their 'relationship.' It helps define them as characters. By defining, I mean, it helps us as readers to see them better. They each have their own walls, their own issues. But they both battle that inner demon. Colleen didn't write her usual, fluffy, hardly any sexual interactions, in Ugly Love. This book is raw, filled with intense feelings and passion, it is terribly heart-breaking, and extremely sexy. She poured that heat into her words. That heat, is one of those feelings I mentioned above. It is hot. It had me all sorts of discombobulated. Colleen has written her characters, that us readers can connect with. Most of her readers are adults, most readers have or are in these situations that come to light in this book, and most of her readers, including me, love passion. Colleen really outdid herself with this book. I have yet to read one of her books and become unhappy. I honestly feel that with each book, we get more of her. She sheds herself into these characters. It isn't just her heart and soul, it is something bigger than that. Miles and Tate will definitely show you this. They will give you so much. And this so much, will tear you up inside and out. With each book that Ms. Hoover releases, I fall more in love with her. Her writing style, especially in UL, is brilliant. She changes it up a bit with each story she gives us, but it is always that quality that leaves me wanting more. Each of her book possess a semblance of life. Ugly Love is an example of that. A HUGE example of that. Go into this book with your eyes wide open, absorb her words, let it resonate with you, and then slowly dissect the pages in front of you. If I had more then five stars to rate this book I would. It is more than freaking fantastic, it is mind-numbing, blowing, and superior to her other books that are out. This is a book that I will carry in my heart, forever.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2014 by L. Rutledge
Format: Paperback
This review can be seen on www.Chillreviews.blogspot.com I was planning on reading this, just not as soon as it came out but I got a call from my friend and she was all, YOU HAVE TO READ THIS NOW! She had read it and needed someone to talk about it with. I mean when your friend calls and is so in love with a book she's begging you to read it, you do it. I wasn't disappointed, at all. I've loved all of Colleen Hoover's books, I was expecting the same with this one and it surpassed my expectations. Tate is moving in with her brother Corbin, just until she gets her own place. It perfect really, he's a pilot and is gone a great deal of the time so there isn't a rush on her finding somewhere to live right away. After driving for six hours all she wants to do is get something to eat and go to bed. Just one little problem, well a big problem, a man is passed out leaning against Corbin's door. She calls Corbin and asks him what to do and after some craziness she finds out that the man is Miles, the next door neighbor. She gets him in the apartment and on the couch to sleep it off. She's attracted to him but with her in school and working she doesn't need the distraction. He cries in his sleep and calls out for Rachel.. Yep, doesn't need that whole mess. Miles doesn't let people in. He meets Tate after his night on the couch and he's not sure what's going on. She's beautiful and is making him want things he just won't let himself have. His life is not a normal 24 year olds life. He remember's her rubbing his head while he cried and her telling him everything will be alright. His past haunts him and it has such a powerful hold on him; and he lets it rule him. Starting this thing with Tate was probably the worst idea on the planet but he can't help it, he has to be with her and she agreed to his terms, no asking about his past and no expecting a future. They aren't friends so it won't mess up anything. Slowly Tate sees changes in Miles. She agreed to his rules but she's having a hard time sticking to them because she's starting to feel for him.. Feel more than being his sex buddy. She desperately wants to know about his past but if she even hints at him opening up he shuts her down and shuts her out. Finally at her breaking point she explodes, and then leaves. She doesn't see him and she moves out. Then Miles talks to Cap.. CAP! I loved this guy. He's the doorman of the building and he's become Tate's friend. Cap tells Miles something that finally sinks in. “I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you. It terrifies every man. But sometimes we don’t do it for ourselves. We do it for the people we love more than ourselves." I know its not much and he said soooooo much more but really to share anymore than that with you would be giving away all the things. You really have to read this book. I couldn't put it down. I inhaled it with in a matter of hours and I texted my friend at all the spots that gave me chills, that made me laugh or want to cry. This book, THIS BOOK! It gives you all the feels. It makes you mad and happy, sad and joyous. You can't take my word for it, read it. Go on. I'll just be sitting here basking in this glorious story. What are you still doing here?!!?? GO READ IT. Then tell me, hell tell everyone what you think. Leave a review for the author. I'll definitely be buying this book for my bookshelf. I'll leave you with this little bitty tidbit... “Tate,” he whispers. “I miss you.” Whoa. I was absolutely not expecting to hear those three words, but they just became my new favorite words. I and miss and you. “Say it again, Miles.” “I miss you, Tate,” he says immediately. “So much. And it’s not the first time. I’ve missed you every single day we weren’t together since the moment I met you.” Go read it. I promise, you won't regret it. You will probably need tissues though.. I'm just sayin.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014 by agrutle
Format: Kindle
"The difference between the ugly side of love and the beautiful side of love is that the beautiful side is much lighter. It makes you feel like you're floating. It lifts you up. Carries you. The ugly parts can't lift you up. They bring you down. They hold you under. Drown you. You look up and think, I wish I was up there. But you're not. Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren't even worth it. Without the beautiful, you'll never risk feeling this. You'll never risk feeling the ugly." Wow! The wording throughout this book brings goose bumps! Colleen's writing is so incredible that you feel the intensity of every feeling and depth of emotions. This book will have your heart racing and breaking. Miles is sexy, sweet, fierce, and....haunted. He is so tormented and scarred that every time he begins to feel anything other than pain, he immediately puts up that wall around his heart. "Don't ask about my past and never expect a future." Miles is trying hard not fall for Tate. Tate is putting fissures in Miles' wall and he doesn't know how to deal with it. "You make it so hard to breathe." "I felt like I was floating. Her skin and her hair and her lips and the way she looked like an angel while I stood there and watched her brought back so many feelings that had become foreign to me over the past six years." "But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me...or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life." He doesn't want to feel anything other than pain. I loved the way Miles' points of view were written of his past. The words were so strong & poetic. You could feel how powerful the love was between the two and all of the emotions through each step of the way. The love, the pain. And when we finally get his perspective of the present, the internal battle he is going through. The struggle is so great...how strong his feelings are, how scared he is. "But when you like to kiss someone because of who she is, the difference isn't found in pleasure. The difference is found in the pain you feel when you're not kissing her." When Miles finally broke, I was overwhelmed for him. When he finally confronts his past, my heart broke for him, but at the same time, a weight was lifted and the feeling was breathless. The writing of this story is absolutely beautiful! "I didn't fall in love with you Tate. I flew." Tate is falling for Miles and is struggling with his moods. She just wants to be with him, understand him, help him. "I'm not Tate when I'm near Miles. I'm liquid, and liquid doesn't know how to be firm or stand up for itself. Liquid flows. That's all I want to do with Miles. Flow." The amount of love she had for Miles and the walls she was breaking with him was beautiful. "His lips against mine feel like everything. Like living and dying and being reborn, all at the same time." You could see through Colleen's writing that she had the kind of love that we see Miles had when we get glimpses of his past. The kind of love that is all-consuming, so overwhelming, you'd do anything not to lose it and just take and accept whatever you could get from him. She has so much hope. I had so much hope. "That's how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He's nowhere, then suddenly he's everywhere, whether you want him to be or not." I love Cap! He was such a joy and added so much. I love how he intermingled throughout the story and was such an inspiration to both Miles & Tate. "Love isn't always pretty, Tate. 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." "I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you. It terrifies every man. But sometimes we don't do it for ourselves. We do it for the people we love more than ourselves." I loved this story. It's an incredible journey about finding your way, allowing yourself to love and be loved, to feel something other than pain. The writing is powerful and the flow back and forth from past to present and the way it intertwined was perfect. (Just a note...when you read The End...don't stop, there is an epilogue.) "And I realized...just now...that God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted."
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Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2014 by Melanie C
Format: Kindle
“If I were capable of loving someone… it would be you.” Colleen Hoover is a genius, plain and simple. I’ve read Slammed/Point of Retreat/This Girl and Maybe Someday/Maybe Not and I’ve loved them all, but after reading Ugly Love I can easily say that this was my favorite CoHo book that I’ve read so far! This woman has such a way with words, her writing is just a joy to read, even when she’s tearing your heart out. I don’t know how she does it, she doesn’t use big fancy words or complicated prose, these are just ordinary everyday words but the way she puts them all together is simply magical. It’s hard for me to describe, but if you’ve read any CoHo books I think you know what I’m talking about. All of her stories are so unique and amazing but one thing they all have in common is Colleen Hoover’s gift with words. I know exactly what I’ll be getting when I pick up one of her books in terms of writing and quality, but I am always surprised with the direction her stories take. It’s always an incredible adventure and I love going along for the ride. I loved how this book was narrated, it’s told from dual POVs, alternating every other chapter between Tate and Miles. The thing that made this book unique is that Tate’s chapters were set in the present day and (with the exception of the last few chapters) all of Miles’ chapters were set 6 years earlier. So we essentially get two separate love stories that are both wonderful and beautiful that come back together in such a great way. I loved getting Miles’ backstory in the form of these flashback chapters, first off they were so amazingly written, they just flowed like poetry and I found myself lost in these simple words: ‘My new favorite flavor is Rachel. My new favorite thing is Rachel. I want Rachel for my birthday. I want Rachel for Christmas. I want Rachel for graduation. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel. I’m gonna fall in love with you anyway, Rachel.’ Secondly, in Tate’s chapters Miles really is an enigma and without his current day POV you really don’t have much clue what’s going on behind that wall he’s put up: ‘Still no smile, though. Jesus Christ, this man. Does he now realize that facial expressions are supposed to accompany speech?’ But reading his flashback chapters really helped understand what Miles’ potential to love was. Before you find out what happened to him in the past that caused him to be so closed off you get to see what a huge heart he has and his great capacity for love. This book was just as much Miles and Rachel’s love story as it was Miles and Tate’s story, you’d think that as a reader you’d have ill feelings towards the “other woman” because you know you should be rooting for Tate but there’s none of that. I felt Miles and Rachel’s story just as fully as I did him and Tate. Colleen Hoover’s characters are always so well written, they are well developed, incredibly detailed and 100% relatable. I totally loved Tate, she was a riot and she said and did things that I could see myself doing in those situations and I connected with her right away. I loved her inner musings as she tried to figure Miles out or tried to soak up any little scrap of hope he threw her way: ‘“You look pretty, Tate.” I want to plaster those four words on a billboard and require myself to pass it on my drive to work every day. I would never take another day off work again.’ There were some times when Miles would do something where Tate totally should have walked away, but I think she reacted how many women would react and I know that she didn’t give up completely on Miles because she knew what was happening between them was real even though he would never admit it. Miles intrigued me from the start and from their first meeting where she witnessed his very private breakdown I knew that I was in for a doozy when his past was revealed. I knew he must have endured some horrible event(s) that caused him to swear off any form of love, and wow was he dedicated to his rules: “Don’t ask about my past,” he says firmly. “And never expect a future.” I’ve never seen a character hold so steadfastly to rules like he did. We got to see moments, tiny glimpses of actions or a slipped word that gave us some hope but just as quickly as we grasped that hope he snatched it right back. I was so sad for him and falling so in love with him at the same time (much like Tate, only with the added bonus of seeing what a wonderful guy he was six years earlier when he was still full of life and love) and I just wanted to hug him. My heart completely broke for him as his full past is finally revealed, and I will say that what actually happened was not at all what I was expecting. But I love how once we hit that point the story shifts to all present day and it’s seamless and I love how it put my heart back together again and wrapped up in a totally believable and satisfying way. In addition to Tate and Miles I loved all of the secondary characters. I’ve already mentioned Rachel and I did really love her. I also loved Corbin and his friendship with Miles and his protectiveness of his sister. I also liked seeing Ian and Miles’ relationship both in the past and in the present day. My favorite secondary character however was Cap, I LOVED Cap! I love how Colleen Hoover can throw in a quirky random character like this and make you totally fall in love with them and have them end up being so important to the overall story. I read this book over the course of a few hours spread out the day, I simply could not put it down. I struggled though because I wanted to read as fast as I possibly could to find out what happens next but at the same time I wanted to slow down to savor every single word on the page! In the end speed won out but I think I highlighted half the book with passages I wanted to always remember! I’m going to have to re-read this book someday because I don’t think one time is enough for something written as well as this was. I’m sad I don’t have more time with Miles and Tate but I am so glad that I was able to spend one wonderful afternoon/evening in their world with them and I know I will never forget this amazing, beautiful, ugly love story! 5+++ stars! ‘But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me… or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.’
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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2015 by JBenoit
Format: Kindle
I started out really enjoying Ugly Love. I read through it pretty quickly, but somewhere around the 60% mark it's like a veil was lifted. I was no longer starry-eyed, and I suddenly opened up to all the flaws and imperfections in this book. They were there all along, but I only just started acknowledging them. I literally think I recoiled a little and thought to myself, “Do I really like this?” ==== Miles: the mysterious guy I feel like Miles was a girl’s interpretation of “mysterious”. It’s the kind of mysterious that’s supposed to be all hot and sexy, but really it was just kind of blank.. The guy had no personality, he never smiled, he never laughed, and he refused to talk about his past. I feel like we were supposed to get off on this “mysterious” persona, but it was a little too empty for me. Is it really attractive if a guy NEVER smiles? Is that where we’re at these days? ==== Miles: the poet All of Miles’s flashback chapters are from his point of view and they’re so poetic and deep. So was most of his dialog during these flashbacks. I didn’t think much of it at first, but after a while it just hit me all at once. A guy doesn’t talk like this. Okay maybe I’m generalizing. Guys can be poetic. But I read his “poetry” and his deep dialogue and it didn’t feel real or natural to me at all. All I could think of was, “I’ve never met a guy who would talk like this.” Quote: "Rachel .....Rachel ..........Rachel, Rachel, Rachel. She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel." // End quote These are Miles’s thoughts. It was actually written in that format too. Is this how guys think in their heads? ==== Tate — who are you? Why are you special? Miles describes Tate as, “the only girl who has been able to reach me in more than six years”. But I kind of had that feeling of WHY? Why is Tate so special? The problem here is that Miles and Tate don’t have a relationship rooted in personality or discussions or anything like that. All they do is have sex. All Tate thinks about is Miles. She doesn’t have much of a life or personality outside of him. So I felt like: who is this girl? How can she have affected Miles so strongly if she doesn’t even have a personality or interests outside of him? All she does is go to work, come home, have sex. Even as a reader, we didn’t get to see a whole lot of her personality. Every thought in her head was just about how delicious Miles is, how she misses Miles, how every word out of his mouth is her new favourite word, etc. If you were to take Miles out of her life, she’d practically be an empty shell. So why is she so special to him? ==== Tate: the clingy, annoying girl So Miles comes outright and says: “Don’t ask about my past,” he says firmly. “And never expect a future.” He’s always SO upfront with her. He basically says, “I will never love you. I will never give you hope. You and me will never happen. It’s just sex.”. And yet Tate is the annoying girl who agrees to the terms and then tries to make him fall in love with her. "I’ve been holding out hope that if I take it slowly enough with him, he’ll eventually break through whatever it is that’s holding him back." Does anyone else find that annoying? It’s like she’s saying: “Okay I promise we won’t have a future…. yet *wink wink*“. As if there’s some inside joke that they both know he’ll change his mind eventually. Who does that? ==== Overall There are so many things I took issue with, but I still kind of enjoyed Ugly Love. That’s why I gave it three stars, which is still a decent rating. Even with all these problems and annoyances, I can’t deny that I was into Ugly Love for a huge portion of the book. And even after I started noticing the problems, it was still un-put-downable for me. I guess that has to count for something.
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