Ugly Love

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by: Colleen Hoover

Description:

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.

They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.

My Review:

Ok, so after reading and LOVING Verity, I was excited to read another book by Colleen Hoover. And maybe having a whole collection by her in my future without having to research what book to read next for a while. So I picked up Ugly Love and was excited to get started. I did a little digging on the internet to try and decide which of her books to read next and while there are some hard-core fans who love all of her books, I found some mixed reviews on her books in general. Several mentioned that Verity was the only halfway decent one so I slightly questioned whether I would enjoy another book by her but I went in with an open mind.

Ugly Love is about…nothing. Well, I take that back. It’s about sex. There is also a fairly deep and potentially interesting story hidden on a page and a half or two pages every other chapter, but the chapters in between are 8-10 pages of leading up to, during, after and reminiscing about sex. The main female character is a nurse who supposedly works all the time and according to the description of the book “doesn’t have time for love” yet she is never actually at work in the book and seems to have plenty of time for “other things”. The only way I remembered she was a nurse at all was the occasional mention of her wearing scrubs (usually because they were being removed) and I don’t get the impression that she doesn’t want a relationship at all in the actual book. This is the extent of the depth of her character. Oh, besides the fact that she falls for a cute guy that flat out tells her he only wants one thing from her and she decides it’s ok to let him use her because he’s super cute and apparently she doesn’t respect herself at all. I find it disturbing that so many young women and even girls are reading this book not only because of the sexual content, but because of the weak, shallow female main character. There is a pretty bow that is a ridiculous turn of events plopped on the final chapter and then as if that weren’t enough the epilogue delivers an equally predictable yet unrealistic cherry on top. I know many people love this book, but I was pretty bored and only read through it as quickly as I did so that I could move on to something else.