Ugly Love: a novel

It was great, start to finish, sad, happy, frustrating, it was all in there, very enjoyable read, thank you very much

This was a beautifully written poignant, heart-wrenching love story that really tugged at my heart strings. I'm almost ashamed to admit that this is my first Colleen Hoover read. I've heard so much about this author's books and she's been on my TBR list since forever. When I spotted this book on sale on Amazon a few days ago I grabbed a copy and I'm so glad I did. Now I understand the hype, and I totally get it. I ADORED the writing. Gosh, I was highlighting so much I just gave up in the end. May as well just highlight the entire book. Lol. The best part of this book was the skillful way the author elicited emotion from the reader. I felt EVERYTHING alongside Miles and Tate. All the pain and the heartache and the hurt. I cried and I laughed and I cringed. Miles was in so much pain that it was difficult to read at times. I knew his treatment of Tate came from the issues in his past, but he was really horrible to her at times, and it was challenging not to scream at Tate to walk away, because he trampled all over her. However, she was tenacious and determined to cling onto her hope that he would come through and realize what they had. I liked the way this book was written in dual perspective, switching from present to past. It didn't take much to figure out what had happened six years ago so I can't say it was a major shocker, but it was very emotional all the same. I enjoyed getting Mile's current perspective at the end. I loved how protective Corbin was of Tate though it was a little OTT at times. My favorite secondary character, without a shadow of a doubt, was Cap. He was awesome and so full of wisdom. He always knew the right thing to say, the right way to act. I had a few minor issues with this book, but not enough to merit a mention or a reduced rating. All in all, this was a really great read and I look forward to checking out more of this authors work. This review will be posted to my blog in due course: My YA NA Book Obsession Some favorite quotes: "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." "His lips against mine feel like everything. Like living and dying and being reborn.." "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." "I don't know if I can do this, Miles. I don't know if I can follow rule number two, because I suddenly want to climb into your future more than I want to climb into the backseat."

I really hate to give a CoHo book anything but 5 stars, but, it is what it is.. For starters, I really did end up enjoying the story. It took me a while to get there, with a lot of frustrations and irritations along the way, but by 70% or so I found myself zooming through the pages, dying to know where the story was leading to. It's just unfortunate it took nearly three quarters of the book to get there.. For a lot of the book I felt like it was going to be your typical friends with benefits story that will ultimately lead to a relationship and everybody would live happily ever after.. yeah, I couldn't have been more wrong. Upon meeting there is an undeniable attraction between Miles and Tate. They both want each other, but neither of them want anymore than that. No strings sex is their agreement, with only two rules to follow. "Don't ask about my past, and never expect a future." Of course Tate agrees to this, never believing that it would come back to bite her on the arse. I found it pretty repetitive at times. There's only so many times you can read about two people sneaking around, having sex, denying their feelings and repeating.. I know I should enjoy the build up, the anticipation, but for whatever reason it just felt too much here. Miles was keeping major secrets about his past from Tate, which explain why he is so against love and relationships, but I was getting fed up waiting to find out what they were. I felt like I needed to skim/skip to get to the juicy parts, which happened around 70%. Once we got to that part I was hooked and couldn't stop reading until I finished. Those last chapters are what stopped me rating this book only 3 stars. They were brilliant. Beautifully written and so emotional that I was in tears. It was what I had been waiting for throughout the whole book. "If I were capable of loving someone.. It would be you." My biggest dislike throughout the book was the writing style. It's not the fact that it's written in dual POV or that the book is told in both past and present. My issue was the way in which the past chapters, in Miles' POV were written. I have no idea the real term for it, but I will just refer to it as 'poem style writing'. I do not wish to read a book written with words on random lines. So, I guess I am crap at poems, but that was exactly how the book was written in my eyes. I found his chapters so distracting being written like that and it really put me off the book. I didn't enjoy them at all, which is a shame because Miles' past was the most interesting aspect of the story. I just couldn't connect to him with the writing as it was. Overall I did enjoy this book, even though it took me a while, I would just prefer to read books in a normal writing style in future.

Good

This is a really good book! I'm going too read it again at some point!

Goed en vlot leesbaar boek. Mooi en aangrijpend verhaal!

This book is a sad story that follows a girl named Tate. I cannot say more. Buy it.

Good book