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Ugly Love

 

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Title: Ugly Love
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Romance
Published in: 2014
Age suggestion: 18+
Spice-o-meter: 3 out of 5
My rating: 1 out of 5


My thoughts:
So this is going to be a controversial one because I know this book is loved on BookTok and in the romance book community (at least by the CoHo fans). If you like this book, please don't be offended, but I hated this one. I almost didn't finish it. I was close to putting it down because I hated it so much. I really wanted to like it because of all the 5 star ratings on TikTok and Instagram, but I was really disappointed in it. I thought the characters were boring. I hated the poetry format used in the Miles chapters. It was ridiculous to me as someone who loves poetry. I literally skimmed through about half of this book and still understood the whole story, so that just shows how much of this was unneeded filler in my opinion. This was just another overhyped BookTok book to me.

This book was about a woman named Tate who moves in with her brother, Corbin, in San Francisco. She meets his friends but ends up developing feelings for his friend and next-door neighbor, Miles. Miles and Tate end up making a deal - to have a no strings attached relationship where they can sleep together but not be in a relationship or fall in love. Tate, of course, falls in love. Miles fights her every step of the way. In literally the last couple chapters, you find out why Miles is so guarded, and it finally makes some sense, but it still doesn't really make up for him being a jerk for most of the book. Sorry, my personal opinion got mixed up in the summary.

All in all, this one was a flop for me.

This book may be for you if you like:
  • Acquaintances to lovers
  • Pregnancy trope
  • One-sided love
  • Not super in depth spice, but still spice
I hope you have more luck with this one than I did if you read it. If you like it, that's fine! This one just wasn't for me. I'm definitely taking a CoHo break after this one. I literally only have one CoHo book that I own (Verity) and I'll probably read that in a few months. I just need a break.
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