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Good romance well written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2021

I like the story here and the characterisation. Well written, nicely paced and interesting. I read this after reading It Ends With Us as I really enjoyed that and wanted to read more by the author. However……and I appreciate I may be in the minority here but - it had too much sex in it! I felt that the sex actually took over from the story in parts - and the story was good enough. I like sex scenes in books like the next person but it got a bit “boring” in the end. I could just read erotic books or porn for that lol! I understand it was to show the difference in their “relationship” to lead to why but was overdone. Really want to read more by the author - but with less sex!

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Michelle L

NOT THE COVER ADVERTISED

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2021

I love this book (I’ve read it on kindle) but I’ve been holding off buying it until I could get the American cover. I thought I’d hit lucky when I placed this order but unfortunately I wasn’t sent the cover they’re advertising, I was sent the horrible UK version. I would never have bought it if it had the correct image.

My star rating reflects the service/advertising, the book itself is a 4 star read for me.

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Michelle L

NOT THE COVER ADVERTISED

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2021

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G. Jones

Good romance well written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2021

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Charlotte Bailey

Good book, not as amazing as 'It Ends With Us'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2021

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This was my second Colleen Hoover book, and after hearing so much hype about it, I thought I'd give it a shot. The first book I read by Colleen Hoover was 'It Ends With Us', which I absolutely adored. Overall, I think I preferred the storyline of 'It Ends With Us' as there was more of a plot going on. 'Ugly Love' is also really good, with lots of spicy scenes, but this did get quite repetitive after a while as there wasn't much of a storyline besides this. Overall, a good book, but wouldn't absolutely rave about it. If you're debating whether to read this or 'It Ends With Us', I'd suggest the latter!

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Victoria Pamela

Late to this party!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2018

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Wow. How have I never met Miles Mikel Archer before? Seriously how?

Ugly Love has not only stolen a little piece of my heart but maybe the whole damn thing. I was completely swept up in Miles and Tate's amazing story. I fell in love with the way Colleen completely shattered my heart and then slowly pieced it back together, I love that I lost myself in all that was unfolding before my eyes and like a starved animal, I devoured it all. Every. Last. Word.

The story is so perfectly balanced, it's angsty, beautiful, ugly, honest and completely raw. There is no sugar coating the pure emotion and the chemistry is off the scale. Whatever you feel from what you read, you will will feel is completely and while heartedly.

No good love story is simple, where would the fun in that be? It has more ups and downs than a rollercoaster, it has the power to break your heart and make you pray that love is strong enough to conquer whatever life decided to throw in its path. Ugly Love has this magical way of combining all of the above and making you hang on to top the very end to find out how it ends. It doesn't help that Miles is well just gah! I love him, all of him! He may be a little messed up, he may be closed off and he may be an absolute tool sometimes but he's a tool I would happily have!! And Tate. Isn't she every one of us women? We have all been in that situation. Hoping that by sticking it out and holding on, no matter how much it kills us, we will eventually get what we want not matter how impossible it seems. The feelings, emotion and decisions, what woman hasn't been there. I certainly have. I think that is what makes Ugly Love able to steal its readers hearts.

I am off to find me more CoHo to read and immerse myself in.

But for those of you who haven't read Ugly Love? Get to it! You won't be disappointed.

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FantasyDimension

I liked Miles, but I found myself caring more about ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 September 2017

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This was the first book I read from the author. The writing is sharp and to the point. It was not breath taking considering is a romance, but it was okay. Unfortunately in my humble opinion, I found issues. I struggled to care about Tate. I liked Miles, but I found myself caring more about Miles and his ex than Miles and Tate. Tate was attracted to him. There was no love as they barely knew each other. So I can't really understand why she put herself through all that humiliation. I didn't think it was believable Miles not having sex for so many years because he didn't want to get attached. Men don't fall in love because they have sex. Also, I couldn't see why he would fall for her to the point of Tate being the one breaking through his wall. He barely knew her. I thought the story needed more than just sex to make both fall for each other, considering their issues.

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Carley

Queen CoHo can do no wrong

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 November 2021

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💙 𝕌𝕘𝕝𝕪 𝕃𝕠𝕧𝕖 💙
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"𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝"
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Queen CoHo has done it again and managed to make me feel so many emotions all at once. I think everyone knows how much I adore It Ends With Us and Ugly Love is right up there on the pedestal with it for me. An absolutely stunning read that I know will stay with me for a very long time
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I don't know what it is about Colleen's writing but I don't just read it, it actually crawls under my skin and straight into my veins. I just can't walk away once I've started, which is why Ugly Love is now the 4th book by her that I've devoured in a day
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The story is flawlessly told from both Tate and Miles' POV, Tate in the present and Miles in the past. Miles' past was so full of pain and the more I read the more I could actually feel it deep in my soul and when the source of his pain is revealed it is gut wrenching. It breaks you, but it also makes the tender moments with Tate - the small smiles, the stroke of a thumb or a stolen glance, so powerful and meaningful. Tate is willing to be the woman in Miles life with no strings attached, quickly agreeing to his two rules of "never ask about my past" and "don't expect a future" but of course she quickly let's her heart hope for "more" and oh how I wanted MORE for both of them too
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If you're thinking of picking this one up let me tell you that it is worth every single emotion you will feel because when all of the broken pieces are put back together it is truly wonderful - you just need to be prepared to embark on the journey to get there. Its not easy, it's broken, it is indeed 𝐔𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞

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Kim H

A super passionate love story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2022

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So I finally read my first Colleen Hoover book, and I either got very lucky with my first pick, or the hype is 100% real!

This has to be one of the most passionate and emotional romances I've ever read AND there was spice 🔥 A romance between a Pilot and a Nurse where the chemistry is off the charts? Yes please. Everything about their story felt so raw and real and each character's voice was so different.

I loved that we got Tate's point of the view in the present and Miles' point of view in the past. I adored both characters equally.

I'd seen other reviewers say that the cover and title make sense when you read the story so I'd partially guessed what had happened to Miles in the past, but the story as a whole was so much better than I expected.

Consider me a fully-fledged CoHo fan.

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Jessica Leigh

beautiful yet heart-breaking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2022

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This book was five stars but I'm leaving four due to receiving the wrong book cover which completely ruins the book.
Colleen Hoover has such a way with words her writing is one that can break your heart into a million pieces but slowly piece them back together as it goes on. Ugly love is so beautifully written moving story that really tugged on my heart strings I love to annotate my books and I honestly think I went overboard highlighting the majority of the book. Ha. I felt all the emotions reading this book the pain, the heartache… I laughed, cried and at times cringed too.
The whole plotline of this book was captivating and the characters felt real their story was so broken and raw at times I had to put the book down to take a breather and compose myself. My heart ached for Tate she couldn’t stop herself from falling for Miles even though he warned her he could never love her back due to his past. Miles was such a great character and I loved him but at some points I really did want to jump into the book and give him a good slap for the unintentional hurt he was causing Tate due to his tortured past.
I loved the dual povs and especially Miles’ chapters that would jump from past to present giving us a better idea of why he is the way he is. I also especially adored Tate’s unconventional friendship with Cap the 80 year old lift attendant their bond was beautiful and I absolutely loved it. This book is honestly one that you shouldn’t by pass by its equal parts beautiful and gut wrenching and will have you crying both happy and sad tears.

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JVG

I needed more of Miles and Tate together

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2022

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This was my second book i've read from this author, the other was ‘it ends with us’, and i did actually prefer this book more as i felt more angst and pain in this read than i did with the other.. i cried with this one and i never did with it ends with us.

I really liked Miles, i adored his love story with his first love and found myself anxious to get to his chapters where he shared his past with rachel as i knew it must’ve been something so awful to pull them apart, that i wasn’t actually sure if i wanted to find out what it was that happened between them to end what they had.
He was seriously smitten with her and she really was his everything.
They both had a rare kind of love that hurt to think Tate would never get to experience that beautiful side of what Miles’ had to give, and even though she got something back from him in the end, we know it never really compared to what he gave to rachel. That side of his love, sweetness and romance seemed to be reserved for Rachel and Rachel alone, even Tate and Miles’ ending confirmed that for me and i don’t really know how i feel about that…
I felt like Rachel and their baby still overshadowed Tate in everything she eventually got to share with Miles😞

Something in Miles’ and Rachel’s love died and it brought darkness and resentment that in their young, slightly naive and immaturity (due to their age and life experience) i don’t think they would have ever been able to heal together and did prove to be something that needed to be worked on apart before they where able to give each other the closure they both needed and deserved.
I didn’t really want to fall for the love story of Miles and Rachel because i knew they weren’t going to be end game but i really couldn’t help it. The more i read about them the more guilty i felt that i adored what they had ( i kind of felt like i was betraying Tate in a way, for thinking more of his other love story than i did for miles and hers) I really didn’t want to see that side of Miles and what he was capable of being like while in the present day he was disrespecting Tate so badly.
I do feel like if Rachel was still an option, Miles would’ve always stood by her. That’s not to say that probably their love would never of turned to something dark and toxic based on the grief and anger they shared (rachel’s anger towards miles and miles’ anger towards himself) but i do believe that he still would’ve always stuck by rachel, even if what they had did turn to something unhealthy, he would’ve passionately loved her till the very end.
It was Rachel who took the option of them ever moving forward together off the table.
I wish we had more sweeter moments in miles and Tate’s build up. It was just all pushing and no pulling… Tate pushing for more with Miles and miles pushing away Tate.. until it was just Tate pushing and miles finally stopped pushing back and just started to except what she had to give.
Even on their wedding day.. we didn’t really need to know he didn’t cry with happiness, that still could’ve been saved for the day of their baby’s birth but his happiness didn’t need to be down played in order to hype up his feelings for his arrival of baby number 2.
i felt like the little we got of Tate and miles’ happy ending all got down played for that one moment at the end and they welcomed the baby arrival.
Like the proposal was sweet but that’s all it was… sweet.
i felt so much more emotion and passion in what he had to give to Rachel, it was sad we never got to see that with Tate too. We never got the emotional moment of appreciation towards Tate making him a father again, how it felt to see her as a first time mum in that moment, but we sure got all of that during Rachel and Miles’ moment in the hospital together.
we got so much from the birth of his son and all we got from the birth of his daughter was him holding back yet again.
just highlighting yet another special moment of admiration and appreciation he had for rachel that he seems to have just reserved for her alone and the type of relationship she had with him that Tate would never get a taste off.

Miles seemed to be Tates first everything that truly matters in life, her first love, first marriage, first to experience the path of parenthood together.
The wedding being something that was just theirs.. an experience just for them and something special between the two of them should’ve been so much more… especially if the birth of their first child together was going to be less personal to them and just another thing that gets over shadowed by his past and Rachel.
Tate would’ve been feeling so much during that moment too, knowing he was holding back again during another intimate moment of theirs.. was just a bit crappy and it’s sad that he wasn’t the one to give the reassurance during that time when he gave rachel so much of it during their first baby’s birth😞 it was Tate yet again talking him round to allow himself to feel the moment.
He had so many special moment with his first born, that was special to just him & Rachel, why couldn’t tate have that too?
i just never felt that passion, admiration and happiness the second time around.
He just always gave Rachel MORE..
more when they met
more when they fell in love
more when they became pregnant
more when they became a family
and finally more when they reunited for her to give him the much needed closure in order for him to be able to give himself the permission he thought he needed to even give Tate a chance.

Even though i really did love this book..
just like Tate deserved, i feel like we deserved and needed more of them together!
and maybe a little less of Rachel and Miles
but 100% more of Miles and Tate
because in the end i felt more sorry for what Rachel and miles lost than happiness for what Miles gained in having Tate🥺
i felt like the author was so careful to not downplay what Rachel and Miles shared and experience that she downplayed too much of Tate and miles’ relationship and that’s such a shame because after what Miles went through.. his happy ending deserved to be so much MORE too❤️

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Sarah Jane

Not as good as I thought it would be based on reviews

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2022

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Bought this book (kindle edition) even though it was a higher price than I would usually pay, especially as my first read of the author, but I was going on holiday and it sounded like a great beach-read reading the reviews, however I was disappointed. I almost did not finish the book, however I persevered partly due to the price I'd paid and I did want to find out the story with Rachel. I found Tate hard to imagine or relate to, and the cheesy unrealistic relationship with her brother (in my opinion) was unnecessary and unexplained. The Miles/ Rachel story had so much more to it, likeable characters, and I actually enjoyed that side of the book. The ending was very cliche and would have been much nicer if Tate had been more realistic.

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