Ugly Love: A Novel

feel like crying? need to release a "bazillion" emotions at the bands of a Colleen Hoover read... well idk exactly what you're looking for but Ugly Love did it for me . I cried, laughed, became angry, and fell in love w these characters. Emotion , sexy , funny read that becomes this book its so great . I had wanted to read this for months but was always hesitant. and continuously it put it off. I am kicking myself for not choosing to read this sooner over the other books I read before this one. I must say and confirm that Ugly Love was my first read by Colleen Hoover and grand it was . I read Ugly Love from beginning to end . not wanting to put it down . I made it known when I finished having had to stay up all night . it's been awhile since a book has made me tear up as much as this one. and the cover is beautifully done. the significance of the water and blue tone represents all this book can be. very symbolic and pretty. well done!! I wasn't at all expecting what was thrown at me while reading this. and a lot was. Ugly Love's recent events are told from the perspective of Tate. our main character, a 23 yr old nursing student recently moved to live w her over protective brother Corbin , in San Francisco. meets Miles . Miles is basically described as a man who doesn't know how to love. why ?? stay tuned, everything is revealed. no cliffhanger, all questions are answered. right here. in these 300+ pages. like losing my tears and sanity in a book isn't traumatic enough!! ;) no sequel is needed and I hope Colleen doesn't write one, being that I've noticed it's difficult to feel the same magic for a second book as you did w the first one. the whole story focuses around two facts.... Two rules: "Don't ask about my past, and never expect a future." Whatever that means, later we learn the reason of Miles' pain and sadness and refusal to love someone other than who he wanted. Tate and Miles' relationship is absolutely beautiful. they seem to have it all . if only they'd stop lying to each other . They truly have it all... good looks, great friends. hot sex.. yes sexy, and this book was indeed that. it's more than a great storyline .. being my first Colleen Hoover read I had no clue what to expect with her writing style going into this. I learned so much. I don't usually read the type of books with an obvious man afraid of commitment as Miles was. there was something different about Ugly Love that kept my interest. obvious attraction maybe. but definitely full of wanting to know what was yet to come. Ugly Love is really a story that'll stay with you for awhile and haa earned a place in my personal favorites . im currently suffering from a major book hangover, many more books to read on my to be read list and after finishing this they haven't at all crossed my mind!! Every other chapter (basically the even numbered chapters I've noticed) the POV changes between past, and present. which I must say was really confusing at first . Then it quickly grew on me, the way Miles describes this relationship w his previous girlfriend Rachel, 6 years ago is practically art. it becomes painfully obvious of his attraction and love directed towards this girl. "Rachel, Rachel, Rachel. She's like poetry. Like prose of love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel." .... now, THAT is poetry!! these chapters from a younger Miles, is pure poetry. and I personally loved it! as easily as you fall in love w Tate and Miles you fall in love w Rachel and Miles too. you feel Rachel and Miles' connection towards each other jump off the pages and directly into your heart... with every chapter their story keep you guessing and wondering what happens next. I, however, was not at all prepared for what really does happen. Sympathy, compassion, grief, and sorrow .... cue the tears and the "ugly love" . because things do indeed turn very Ugly. hence the title of the book and the whole reasoning behind Miles and Tate's relationship. I was expecting a love story with a typical storyline.... boy likes girl . girl likes boy. they kiss they hook up fall in love the end. I wasnt at all expecting what I got. I cried, laughed, became angry, and fell in love w these characters and the whole concept and story. soon to become a movie I cant help but be glad I finally managed to read this before then . that is really something i'll be keeping my eyes and ears open for . all i can say is Hollywood ?? PLS dont eff it up !! pls kno a review for a book like this is hard to write without revealing too much away of what's to come. there weren't any unnecessary fillers of information that didn't become of relevance later. everything flowed together perfectly. even w the transitions of past and present. which worked perfectly!! just know you're in for one heck of a ride and one heck of a pool of emotion and love for the character as well as their feelings towards each other. just know by reading this book alone I've learned that Colleen Hoover is a genius and mastermind the conjure up a story as beautiful as this. I commend Colleen for wanting to tackle and write about a level of pain many ppl refuse to believe exist. for this to be my first read by her I will definitely be reading and looking for more recent reads. word of advice .... keep tissues handy !!

"The difference between the ugly side of love and the beautiful side of love is that the beautiful side is much lighter. It makes you feel like you're floating. It lifts you up. Carries you. The ugly parts can't lift you up. They bring you down. They hold you under. Drown you. You look up and think, I wish I was up there. But you're not. Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren't even worth it. Without the beautiful, you'll never risk feeling this. You'll never risk feeling the ugly." Wow! The wording throughout this book brings goose bumps! Colleen's writing is so incredible that you feel the intensity of every feeling and depth of emotions. This book will have your heart racing and breaking. Miles is sexy, sweet, fierce, and....haunted. He is so tormented and scarred that every time he begins to feel anything other than pain, he immediately puts up that wall around his heart. "Don't ask about my past and never expect a future." Miles is trying hard not fall for Tate. Tate is putting fissures in Miles' wall and he doesn't know how to deal with it. "You make it so hard to breathe." "I felt like I was floating. Her skin and her hair and her lips and the way she looked like an angel while I stood there and watched her brought back so many feelings that had become foreign to me over the past six years." "But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me...or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life." He doesn't want to feel anything other than pain. I loved the way Miles' points of view were written of his past. The words were so strong & poetic. You could feel how powerful the love was between the two and all of the emotions through each step of the way. The love, the pain. And when we finally get his perspective of the present, the internal battle he is going through. The struggle is so great...how strong his feelings are, how scared he is. "But when you like to kiss someone because of who she is, the difference isn't found in pleasure. The difference is found in the pain you feel when you're not kissing her." When Miles finally broke, I was overwhelmed for him. When he finally confronts his past, my heart broke for him, but at the same time, a weight was lifted and the feeling was breathless. The writing of this story is absolutely beautiful! "I didn't fall in love with you Tate. I flew." Tate is falling for Miles and is struggling with his moods. She just wants to be with him, understand him, help him. "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." The amount of love she had for Miles and the walls she was breaking with him was beautiful. "His lips against mine feel like everything. Like living and dying and being reborn, all at the same time." You could see through Colleen's writing that she had the kind of love that we see Miles had when we get glimpses of his past. The kind of love that is all-consuming, so overwhelming, you'd do anything not to lose it and just take and accept whatever you could get from him. She has so much hope. I had so much hope. "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." I love Cap! He was such a joy and added so much. I love how he intermingled throughout the story and was such an inspiration to both Miles & Tate. "Love isn't always pretty, Tate. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way." "I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you. It terrifies every man. But sometimes we don't do it for ourselves. We do it for the people we love more than ourselves." I loved this story. It's an incredible journey about finding your way, allowing yourself to love and be loved, to feel something other than pain. The writing is powerful and the flow back and forth from past to present and the way it intertwined was perfect. (Just a note...when you read The End...don't stop, there is an epilogue.) "And I realized...just now...that God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted."

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