Ugly Love

by Colleen Hoover

[Berls]

This review appeared first at Fantasy is More Fun.

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!