I counted: Rachel’s name showed up 294 times in this book that’s, for your own context, 324 pages long. Not only does he occasionally say “you” before drifting back into his own thoughts and experiences - thereby making the perspective not quite first person and not quite second person (but some murky area in between) - but he says and thinks the name “Rachel” about a million times. Miles’ perspective is, for some reason, presented as some sort of speech or monologue towards Rachel. Nothing was more annoying to me in this book than the melodrama of Miles’ perspective (which, by the way, is at total mind-boggling odds with the present-day Miles from Tate’s chapters). While Tate’s POV was alright for me, I absolutely could not tolerate Miles’ POV. Throughout Ugly Love, we get a dual POV that switches between present-day Tate and past Miles (from years ago when he met Rachel). As we learn from the very first chapter, Miles has a former flame named Rachel whom he seems to be struggling to move on from.

So needless to say, I was nervous for just how ugly this love story would be.Īnd man, was it ugly. Because having read All Your Perfects, November 9, Confess, and Maybe Someday prior to starting Ugly Love, I consider ALL of those books to be cases of severely ugly love. I was skeptical about Ugly Love from the very beginning because of the title. She tends to fall into two tropes so far: (1) make a deal of some sort in which a rule is the two can’t develop romantic feelings - then make the man the only one able to uphold that role and in turn breaking the heart of the woman OR/AND (2) cheating cheating cheating.Īs both of these tropes make me angry and frustrated (and are by far NOT my favorite by any means), I haven’t enjoyed many Colleen Hoover books I’ve read in the past. She tries to make it real, but in trying to do so, all of her stories end up being complicated and full of betrayal or heartbreak. Having read five Colleen Hoover books now, I’ve noticed she likes to do her best to encapsulate the good and the bad, the pretty and the ugly side of relationships. Unfortunately, Ugly Love still wasn’t a book for me. Goodreads With four Colleen Hoover books already under my belt (and all four carbon copies of one another with very menial alterations to plot and character), I expected much of the same with Ugly Love.įortunately, most of my assumptions (and intense worries) were proven wrong.

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