| Title | : | Ugly Love |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1471136728 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 978-1471136726 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | August 5, 2014 |
Ugly Love Reviews
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I hated the message that this book sent. It's the story of Tate, reasonably intelligent woman in her 20s who agrees to have a sex only relationship with Miles, a pilot in his 20s. They have sex and he won't look at her. After the sex she has to leave his apartment. This happens repeatedly and Tate feels increasingly hurt. She wants love or at least some expression of emotion. She starts to rebel about the relationship until she sees him again. Then she turns 'to water.' He's the ship cutting through the water and she's the wake following him. She also experiences self hate over her weakness. So it's the story of a young woman with no self confidence or self respect who jumps in bed whenever Miles wants her. We learn why Miles is the way he is. But we're supposed to believe he has a sudden epiphany, resolves his teen misery, and suddenly opens up to Tate. And she of course accepts him back. The only positive is that the writing is decent.
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Very rinse and repeat. Dude with a tragic past cant let anyone in or love him blah blah blah Girl who falls in love with blah blah blah Rolled my eyes 52 times! Tate had a lot going for her but she was too stupid to put an end to her and miles 'relationship' becausewait for it. Big surprise.. She was falling in love with him even tho he made his feelings CLEAR! She would've been better off ditching him cuz she could've done a lot better then some whiny angsty guy but then again as i mentioned before she was just too stupid. I'm not an author and never will be but this book was just too much. Good day and good night.
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I’ve been on a Colleen Hoover kick lately and I’m pretty sure she’s currently my second favorite author now! All the feels that I got from this book were indescribable!
Tate Collins decided to temporarily move in with her brother, Corbin, an airline pilot, while she saves for her own place and goes to school for her Masters in Nursing. On her first day at her brothers apartment complex, she finds a drunk man sleeping in front of the door and blocking her entrance to her brothers apartment; as she attempts to go around him to get inside, the man then wakes up and tries to get in too. Tate panics and closes the door on his hand. Well, apparently this man, turns out to be a friend/co worker of her brother and was locked out of his apartment right across the hall. Airline pilot, Miles Archer – has a past that he can’t get away from and because of it he refuses to ever allow himself to love again. And although Tate almost broke his hand, the attraction between Miles and Tate is undeniable. Since neither of them are interested in a relationship, they both settle on being friends with benefits. They both have their own rules to be applied to this agreement, but somewhere along the lines, the rules begin to get muddied and confusing as feelings develop. Will it ever be possible for Miles to deal with his past so that he can finally have a future? Will Tate be able to stick around long enough while Miles deals with his demons?
“Every time I’m with him, he fills my heart up and , and the it’s filled with pieces of him, the painful it’ll be when he rips it out of my chest as though it never belonged there in the first place.” – Tate. I absolutely loved Tate and her character; as much as she wanted Miles, she was controlled in her actions, she didn’t come off as pathetic and needy. She lived in the reality of things – on one hand, she knows she wants than what he’s able to give her and on the other hand, she can’t help but stick around for what she can get even though she knows it won’t end the way she hopes.
“I’ve never met anyone who can say so little when they speak. He’s definitely perfected the art of evasiveness.” – Tate. Has anyone ever dealt with a person who answers your questions in such an evasive way but you have no choice but to accept the answers being given, even though you need to hear ?
The writing in this book is so powerful, Colleen Hoover is an expert at ripping my heart out in a book and then somehow she manages to mend it back together again. She writes the story as a present day view of Tate, viewing the way that their relationship takes off; as well as the past of Miles, so you feel the depths of the pain that Miles experienced, leading him to the hardened, closed off way that he is today.
“It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.” By the end, you truly understand what “Ugly Love” really means.
*Side note – there was a movie made based on this book, starring the sexy Nick Bateman!! Which is now on my list of “must see” movies (insert fangirl scream here)! 🙂 ❤
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At the heart of the story is pilot Miles Archer who has a tortured past that prevents him from moving on and falling in love again. Enter nurse Tate Collins, who comes to temporarily live with her brother Corbin in his apartment building. This is how Tate and Miles meet, Miles lives in the apartment across the hallway.
Miles and Tate are attracted to each other but Miles is reserved and aloof. He admits to Tate that he hasn’t been with a woman in six years. He makes her a proposition however, they can get into a sexual relationship, no strings attached. Tate agrees but as hard as she tries not to get emotionally attached she can’t help but start to fall in love with him.
The story is told in alternating chapter flashbacks from Miles’ past. I liked the flashbacks, one chapter would end from six years ago, leaving a little cliffhanger, then the next chapter would go onto the present time with Miles and Tate.
Miles’ heartbreaking past is slowly revealed and I have to admit I teared up a little.
I’m big on book settings, one thing I did not like is that I didn’t feel the San Francisco setting here. I would have loved a few vivid descriptions thrown in here and there. Aside from that minor qualm, Ugly Love was good, it was really good contemporary romance. The steamy scenes between Miles and Tate were perfect, they had great chemistry. The dynamic between them worked, Miles needed someone to rescue him and Tate was that person. She had alot of patience for him.
Sometimes love bites but the main theme in Ugly Love is that it is worth it nonetheless.
I have read her before and Colleen Hoover has a way of writing that just draws you in. She makes her characters seem like real people and she makes you care about what happens to them as she tells you their stories. I recommend Ugly Love if you enjoy new adult contemporary romance with characters who have haunted pasts. -
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. -
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 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 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. -
I Loved this book. Read it in less than 24hrs.
I thought both the main characters were really good,
Tate seemed like a genuinely lovely person who was desperate for Miles to love her like she obviously did him even to the point of forgiving him for saying another woman's name (she's better than I am lol) & Miles..My heart went out to him. With a lot of men in these sort of books they have a tortured past but his was a little different and it was heart wrenching so while you knew he was falling for Tate, when you found out his back story you could understand why it was so hard.
My only criticism was that when he did finally get closure and admitted his feeling it seemed to rush to the end then so you never really got to see them as a couple for than a few pages although even right to the end the author made your heart pull for him as he looked at his future.
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So after getting my emotions together I can finally write a review on this book.
Ahhhh the feels, the feels.
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I absolutely love Ms Hoover and in my humble little opinion she can do no wrong, however I know that this new book of hers has had a mixed bag of reviews, some hated it and some loved it, I fall in the latter category, I loved it a lot!!
The story is told in 2 different POV a little like Maybe Someday However the male POV, Miles (I shall get to him later) is telling the story from a different time in the past.
Tate has moved into her brothers apartment and is training to be a nurse, she hasn't got time for herself, let alone a relationship, and likes it like that thank you very much!
Miles lives across the hall, he is a pilot.
Anyway Miles won't /can't have relationship either, in true CoHo style the 2 of them meet, but then decide to come to an arrangement to suit them bothsex!
So they have a friends with benefits relationship but Miles will not open up to Tate, and she starts to feel than friends.
I won't give any spoilers in this review but oh boy I was NOT expecting the story to unfold as it did.
My little heart was shattered in a thousand tiny pieces, the characters are so strong and even the back characters are fab, you just wait till you meet Cap!
She is still a brilliant writer and one of my favourite authors, I ♡ this book.
A big 6 ♡ read. -
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 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 than just sex to make both fall for each other, considering their issues.
