Victoria Alexandra
Written on Aug 28, 2022
From Colleen Hoover, the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy.
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's 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 realise 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 realise almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
- ISBN10 1471136728
- ISBN13 9781471136726
- Publish Date 5 August 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Edition Paperback Original
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English
Reviews
Leigha
Written on Feb 9, 2018
Several years ago, I went through a New Adult reading binge. While I picked up Ugly Love during this time, I never read it until now. To be completely honest, I didn't quite finish reading it now. I skimmed the book around the 85% mark just so I could claim it done. And, oh boy, I was so glad to be done with it.
I hated this novel. The relationship between Miles and Tate is incredibly shallow. In generally, Tate is a character without a lot of depth. She is meant only to help Miles grow as a person. Lots of details are given about her - her career, her family, her education - and yet none of those details gave her much personality. The entire book revolves around Miles' personality and character development. I need both people in the relationship to be well-developed in order to enjoy the romance.
Let's talk about trauma. This book is built around overcoming Miles' trauma. Traumatic events are not necessarily a bad catalyst for great character moments, but I'm so incredibly tired of it as a device in this genre. Not every young adult needs a traumatic back story!!!
tl;dr An unbalanced love story focused on one man's trauma.
Laurie
Written on Jan 12, 2017
lauriesbookshelf
Written on Jan 12, 2017
leelu92
Written on Aug 22, 2015
cornerfolds
Written on Mar 26, 2015
Something you might already know about me is I don't review many contemporary romances. If I do, they're always going to be adult or new adult romances - I just can't handle YA romance with no fantastical elements! Even so, these reviews are few and far between. New adult romance, in particular, has a certain characteristic that seems to apply to almost all of them. They all have a ridiculous amount of unnecessary angst and drama. I mean, I get why, so maybe it isn't entirely unnecessary, but it's at least unbelievable. What I'm trying to say is, Ugly Love was a little out of my comfort zone. Seeing it all over Instagram for months finally broke me, though, and I gave it a try. And then I had to sit on it for awhile to decide how I really felt.
Ugly Love is pretty much your typical NA romance. Girl meets boy, girl has tons of drama, boy has tons of drama, they fall in love, they can't be in love, but they are anyway, etc. In this way it was totally predictable and unsurprising.
Tate and Miles are the main characters of this angsty romance. Miles is an airline pilot with a dark past that makes him extremely undatable. Tate's life is significantly less dramatic. She's mostly just really busy with school and work and doesn't seem to have the time to make a relationship work. But these two meet and sparks fly all over the place. What's a couple to do? As you probably gathered from the synopsis, they work out a deal that involves physical feels only - no hearts allowed! And, as you probably gathered from the synopsis, this doesn't quite work out.
Tate is an alright gal. I liked her for the most part although there were several moments when I wanted to knock some sense into her. Miles, on the other hand, I really couldn't get down with. I'll never understand what it is with book characters who think they have the right to treat everyone around them like crap just because they have a rocky past. It's really not okay. And this is where the book lost me.
Similarly to Beautiful Disaster and Obsidian, Ugly Love's main man is a total jerk to the female love interest of the story. And for the same reason I couldn't stand those two books, I really had a huge problem with Miles. Not only was he an ass to Tate on a regular basis, but his "deep dark secret" wasn't believable as something that would make him swear off women forever. At least in my opinion... There was some character growth by the end. Miles does finally let go of the chip on his shoulder, but really Tate never should have stuck around as long as she did.
The writing was also really weird in this book. Granted, I did listen to the audiobook. But I did go pick up a physical copy just to see. Colleen Hoover attempts to do some kind of weird (really freaking weird) poetry thing with Miles' flashbacks and it just really doesn't work at all.
In summary, the premise of the story was a little unbelievable to me, the male lead was behaved like a jerk for the majority of the book, and the writing was really strange. I didn't completely hate it because I did enjoy Tate the secondary characters in the book, but I really don't see what all the fuss was about with this one. I might go see the movie just to see if they do it any better in that medium, but I'll probably wait for some reviews first.
Notes on the Audiobook
I did enjoy Grace Grant and Deacon Lee as narrators and would certainly listen to something else by them!
Sam@WLABB
Written on Feb 24, 2015
Bianca
Written on Jan 10, 2015
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.
Berls
Written on Jan 9, 2015
4.5 stars
**This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.**
I've been meaning to read Colleen Hoover for quite a while, but when I started reading reviews for Ugly Love I knew. Knew that this was the one I couldn't resist. The title appealed to me, promising a book that would break my heart. And what more can you want from a book right? Yes, I am a masochist when it comes to my books.
Well it totally shattered my heart, but not at all in the way I expected. I mean, there was the obvious pain, but the real shattering moment was almost too much. I had been reading Ugly Love all day, non-stop. It was soooo good. But at that moment I stopped (until the next day), because I couldn't take it. I hadn't seen it coming and it destroyed me. I couldn't cry at first, because of shock - and then I cried the ugliest tears I think a book has ever produced in me. It was rough.
Ugly Love will make you feel - but not just sadness. I laughed my ass off early on in the book. I smiled with joy and my heart was warmed. It was the full range of emotions - the good, the bad, and yeah - the ugly.
The characters are really well written - how else could I feel so much, right? The way Colleen Hoover alternates between points of view and time frames is executed beautifully and really connects things in unexpected ways.
I have two minor complaints - and they're interconnected. In the bits that take place 6 years in the past, we get a fairly healthy dose of teenage angst, spurred on my some seriously bad - self-involved, blind - parenting. I can handle both of these things to an extent, but there was a bit more than I like and I didn't feel it really was necessary. It wasn't head enough to make me dislike Ugly Love, but its worth noting and docking half a star.
Beautifully written, Ugly Love won me over immediately as a fan of Colleen Hoover. If you feel like an emotional book, look no further! And, as a bonus, I've recently discovered that Ugly Love is being made into a movie! Score! Let's hope they don't mess it up!
Linda
Written on Jan 1, 2015
Full review soon.
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