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A review by kfalsreads
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
2.0
Ohhhhh, this book! It took me DAYS to get past it, and as my review will show, I still get pretty upset thinking about it.
In the beginning, this book had a lot of things going for it: dual POV, past and present timelines, a secretive romance, lots of steam, characters I was rooting for…until about halfway through, and then it became a struggle for me just to finish it with regard to the present day storyline.
Here’s why (with some spoilers):
Let’s begin with Miles—the most toxic MMC I’ve encountered yet in a romance. Miles treated Tate like absolute trash, and I hope everyone who has read this book will reevaluate the pedestal he’s been put on. It doesn’t matter how traumatic his past was or the “rules” he laid out with Tate ahead of time, in no way did that give him the right to treat Tate—HIS BEST FRIEND’S SISTER—the way that he did. AND he never apologized for his actions! Instead, he justified it and THANKED Tate at the end for putting up with it.
As for Tate, I felt protective of her in the beginning, and then I felt bad for her, and then I just became irritated with her. She was one-dimensional, she had no friends (save for an old elevator man), no glimpse into her life outside of this toxic “relationship”, and she had inexplicably no self-worth at all—and she never got any. I really struggled the whole time to understand what she even saw in Miles.
The present-day side characters brought nothing to the story—for at least 95% of it.
Their “relationship” had no depth and was nothing but sexual encounters that became so cringe I struggled to get through them.
Their “love story” went from 0-100 in the last quarter of the book. At first, I swooned over the ending, and then I realized, NO, this is way too much, way too fast. They literally didn’t know ANYTHING about each other, and they got THAT ending. I get how it wrapped up Miles’s story nicely, but he didn’t deserve her, and I don’t think they should have ended up together. Yep, I said what I said.
In the beginning, this book had a lot of things going for it: dual POV, past and present timelines, a secretive romance, lots of steam, characters I was rooting for…until about halfway through, and then it became a struggle for me just to finish it with regard to the present day storyline.
Here’s why (with some spoilers):
Let’s begin with Miles—the most toxic MMC I’ve encountered yet in a romance. Miles treated Tate like absolute trash, and I hope everyone who has read this book will reevaluate the pedestal he’s been put on. It doesn’t matter how traumatic his past was or the “rules” he laid out with Tate ahead of time, in no way did that give him the right to treat Tate—HIS BEST FRIEND’S SISTER—the way that he did. AND he never apologized for his actions! Instead, he justified it and THANKED Tate at the end for putting up with it.
As for Tate, I felt protective of her in the beginning, and then I felt bad for her, and then I just became irritated with her. She was one-dimensional, she had no friends (save for an old elevator man), no glimpse into her life outside of this toxic “relationship”, and she had inexplicably no self-worth at all—and she never got any. I really struggled the whole time to understand what she even saw in Miles.
The present-day side characters brought nothing to the story—for at least 95% of it.
Their “relationship” had no depth and was nothing but sexual encounters that became so cringe I struggled to get through them.
Their “love story” went from 0-100 in the last quarter of the book. At first, I swooned over the ending, and then I realized, NO, this is way too much, way too fast. They literally didn’t know ANYTHING about each other, and they got THAT ending. I get how it wrapped up Miles’s story nicely, but he didn’t deserve her, and I don’t think they should have ended up together. Yep, I said what I said.