Colleen Hoover - Ugly Love

Colleen Hoover - Ugly Love 

4⭐

Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance 

Pages: 337

Format: Paperback 

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK 

Date Published: 5th August 2014

Book Blurb: 

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows 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.

My Review: 

Here we go again…Continuing my love affair with Colleen Hoover books. Well, what can I say about Ugly Love? It was okay but it was not the best. It just didn’t do it for me. I didn’t get the vibe and hype about it and I didn’t feel the amazing love story that it was supposed to be. It is weird but with all the hyped-up Colleen Hoover books, I find them just okay, whereas her more underrated books I find loving them. However, maybe it is my weird taste and expectations.

So, this story follows Tate, who moves with her pilot brother Corbin. Once Tate has moved in, she meets a gorgeous stranger called Miles, who is also Corbin’s friend and a pilot too. Tate and Miles find instant attraction towards each other; however, Miles doesn’t want a serious relationship. Tate agrees to just be friends with benefits with him but slowly starts falling in love with Miles. Miles, however, strongly guards his heart against anyone, because of what happened to him six years ago when his heart got broken into a million little pieces and since when he is unable to love anyone. Tate, however, is determined to find out what happened to Miles to make him this way and hopefully find a way to make him fall in love with her…

As always, I adored Coho’s writing. The way she writes just keeps the tension going and you want to read more and more. She connects her words and plotlines with the tension and the reader perfectly. I can’t fault that at all. However, the story and characters in this book had some red flags for me.

This probably going to be such an unpopular opinion but I didn’t like Miles until the last 80% of the book. I thought he was quite nasty, disrespectful and mean towards Tate, as well as he led her on so much without telling her much about himself. Only at the very end, I realised why he did that, but still, for me, it doesn’t make it right how he treated Tate for most of their ‘relationship’. Also, I found it strange that his POV chapters only featured him falling in love with another girl, although it did give some slight light (especially in the later chapters) on why he is traumatised and doesn’t want to love or be loved.

Tate’s characters…well, I liked her and then I didn’t. I didn’t like how she let Miles treat her like garbage at times. Although I did appreciate that she realised that throughout the book. I just wanted her to stand up for herself a little bit more throughout the story.

There was barely any real romance, apart from them having loads of sex and then Tate falling in love with him. It was more like Tate’s struggles to get Miles to love her like she deserves to be loved, whilst alongside we see Miles falling in love with someone else six years ago. The only real romance between Tate and Miles happened in the last 10% of the book and in Miles's POV chapters.

The twist in this book wasn’t as strong as it usually is in Coho books. It was not predictable but it didn’t explain fully why Miles was afraid of love. It just felt like some details of that were missing to get the whole picture and the reasons why.

Overall: Love Coho’s writing and the brilliant ways she has with words, but this story was not the best story of hers by far. It is a good book to read but it's not as deep as her other books are. The relationship Tate and Miles had was very unhealthy at times and Miles was very disrespectful towards Tate for most of the book too. Recommend if you like an easy read and some spicy moments. 

About the Author:

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels and novellas. Hoover’s novels fall into the New Adult and Young Adult contemporary romance categories, as well as psychological thrillers. 

Colleen Hoover is published by Montlake Romance, Grand Central Publishing and Atria Books. Colleen also has several indie titles, including Heart Bones.

In 2015, Colleen’s novel CONFESS won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance. That was followed up in 2016 with her latest title, It Ends With Us, also winning the Choice Award for Best Romance. In 2017, her title WITHOUT MERIT won best romance.

Colleen founded The Bookworm Box, a charity subscription service and bookstore, with her family in 2015. The Bookworm Box is a subscription service that provides readers with an exciting opportunity to receive signed novels in the mail each month from authors all over the world. All profits from the subscription service are donated to various charities each month. To date, The Bookworm Box has donated over $1,000,000 to help those in need.

https://www.colleenhoover.com/about-coho/