Ugly Love - Colleen Hoover
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My idea of a good book is when the two main characters meet in the first two chapters. It might seem like it's a lot to ask for, but I get bored if it happens differently or if the story takes too long to build up. However, it's exactly what happens between Tate and Miles in this book, even though they meet under slightly strange conditions. So within the first chapter of this stand-alone novel, I already knew I was gonna love it.
Tate meets Miles the day she moves into her brother's apartment. Drunk, sad and broken, he lies in the middle of the hall against her door. She lets him in under her brother's instructions, takes care of him for a couple of hours, and eventually they part ways when he goes back into his own apartment, just across the hall.
Tate meets Miles the day she moves into her brother's apartment. Drunk, sad and broken, he lies in the middle of the hall against her door. She lets him in under her brother's instructions, takes care of him for a couple of hours, and eventually they part ways when he goes back into his own apartment, just across the hall.
The whole novel is told in two points of view: Tate's and Miles'. Tate's point of view is in the present, whereas Miles' takes place six years prior. Unlike most novels where you find out about the character's damaged past at the same time as the other characters, you get to see the evolution of what broke Miles in every other chapter, and you see the result from Tate's point of view.
It's a deep, personal, and emotional novel that doesn't have too much content to it – in a good way. Most of the story is based around the two main characters and focuses on their feelings instead of their surroundings. There's a lot of smut, but it's not overused. Colleen Hoover uses their sexual relationship to reflect their feelings, because it's the only moment where Miles allows himself to be a little vulnerable.
Overall, it was a very personal read in which I found myself developing feelings towards the characters. You don't get a clear image of anything except of how they feel, so it's easy to lose yourself into the book. They don't go through the normal stages of a growing relationship, but despite being slightly too dramatic and unrealistic at times, the characters are truer to our current generation.
I loved this book. I loved everything about it except the overly dramatic moments, and for some reason, I pictured Lily Collins as Tate and Misha Gabriel Hamilton as Miles, and I loved every bit of it. And if you're looking for smut, this novel is perfect for you because it's filled with sex. Sad sex, cute sex, friendly sex, scrubs sex... Loved it!
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