Ugly Love: a novel
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From Colleen Hoover, the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy.
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn’t think it’s 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 realise 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 realise almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Paperback Original edition (5 Aug. 2014), Simon & Schuster UK |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 352 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1471136728 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1471136726 |
| Dimensions | 13 x 2.3 x 19.3 cm |
by Chynna
This is maybe the third or fourth book of Coleen’s that I’ve read now. It was a great read and I felt the strong chemistry between the main characters which sometimes isn’t always a strong in some romances I have read. I know people rave about “It ends with us” & “it starts with us” both of which I have throughly enjoyed however i did feel the chemistry between the two main characters of Ugly love shone through more so than those other stories. So much so I finished this book in less than two days! I know some people do not enjoy first person present tense but when it’s written well it’s great and this was written well. I’m now on the hunt for my next Colleen Hoover book!
by Sian Davis
Really enjoyed the back and fourth between present day and the years previous. A very good build up between Tate and Miles… A bit heavy on sex scenes which I ended up skimming over in the end to get back to the plot. No twists and turns or suspense but enjoyed reading Miles’ story unfold. No need for a sequel for this one. It’s no verity but it’s a good read.
by JVG
This was my second book i’ve read from this author, the other was ‘it ends with us’, and i did actually prefer this book more as i felt more angst and pain in this read than i did with the other.. i cried with this one and i never did with it ends with us.
I really liked Miles, i adored his love story with his first love and found myself anxious to get to his chapters where he shared his past with rachel as i knew it must’ve been something so awful to pull them apart, that i wasn’t actually sure if i wanted to find out what it was that happened between them to end what they had.
He was seriously smitten with her and she really was his everything.
They both had a rare kind of love that hurt to think Tate would never get to experience that beautiful side of what Miles’ had to give, and even though she got something back from him in the end, we know it never really compared to what he gave to rachel. That side of his love, sweetness and romance seemed to be reserved for Rachel and Rachel alone, even Tate and Miles’ ending confirmed that for me and i don’t really know how i feel about that…
I felt like Rachel and their baby still overshadowed Tate in everything she eventually got to share with Miles????
Something in Miles’ and Rachel’s love died and it brought darkness and resentment that in their young, slightly naive and immaturity (due to their age and life experience) i don’t think they would have ever been able to heal together and did prove to be something that needed to be worked on apart before they where able to give each other the closure they both needed and deserved.
I didn’t really want to fall for the love story of Miles and Rachel because i knew they weren’t going to be end game but i really couldn’t help it. The more i read about them the more guilty i felt that i adored what they had ( i kind of felt like i was betraying Tate in a way, for thinking more of his other love story than i did for miles and hers) I really didn’t want to see that side of Miles and what he was capable of being like while in the present day he was disrespecting Tate so badly.
I do feel like if Rachel was still an option, Miles would’ve always stood by her. That’s not to say that probably their love would never of turned to something dark and toxic based on the grief and anger they shared (rachel’s anger towards miles and miles’ anger towards himself) but i do believe that he still would’ve always stuck by rachel, even if what they had did turn to something unhealthy, he would’ve passionately loved her till the very end.
It was Rachel who took the option of them ever moving forward together off the table.
I wish we had more sweeter moments in miles and Tate’s build up. It was just all pushing and no pulling… Tate pushing for more with Miles and miles pushing away Tate.. until it was just Tate pushing and miles finally stopped pushing back and just started to except what she had to give.
Even on their wedding day.. we didn’t really need to know he didn’t cry with happiness, that still could’ve been saved for the day of their baby’s birth but his happiness didn’t need to be down played in order to hype up his feelings for his arrival of baby number 2.
i felt like the little we got of Tate and miles’ happy ending all got down played for that one moment at the end and they welcomed the baby arrival.
Like the proposal was sweet but that’s all it was… sweet.
i felt so much more emotion and passion in what he had to give to Rachel, it was sad we never got to see that with Tate too. We never got the emotional moment of appreciation towards Tate making him a father again, how it felt to see her as a first time mum in that moment, but we sure got all of that during Rachel and Miles’ moment in the hospital together.
we got so much from the birth of his son and all we got from the birth of his daughter was him holding back yet again.
just highlighting yet another special moment of admiration and appreciation he had for rachel that he seems to have just reserved for her alone and the type of relationship she had with him that Tate would never get a taste off.
Miles seemed to be Tates first everything that truly matters in life, her first love, first marriage, first to experience the path of parenthood together.
The wedding being something that was just theirs.. an experience just for them and something special between the two of them should’ve been so much more… especially if the birth of their first child together was going to be less personal to them and just another thing that gets over shadowed by his past and Rachel.
Tate would’ve been feeling so much during that moment too, knowing he was holding back again during another intimate moment of theirs.. was just a bit crappy and it’s sad that he wasn’t the one to give the reassurance during that time when he gave rachel so much of it during their first baby’s birth???? it was Tate yet again talking him round to allow himself to feel the moment.
He had so many special moment with his first born, that was special to just him & Rachel, why couldn’t tate have that too?
i just never felt that passion, admiration and happiness the second time around.
He just always gave Rachel MORE..
more when they met
more when they fell in love
more when they became pregnant
more when they became a family
and finally more when they reunited for her to give him the much needed closure in order for him to be able to give himself the permission he thought he needed to even give Tate a chance.
Even though i really did love this book..
just like Tate deserved, i feel like we deserved and needed more of them together!
and maybe a little less of Rachel and Miles
but 100% more of Miles and Tate
because in the end i felt more sorry for what Rachel and miles lost than happiness for what Miles gained in having Tate????
i felt like the author was so careful to not downplay what Rachel and Miles shared and experience that she downplayed too much of Tate and miles’ relationship and that’s such a shame because after what Miles went through.. his happy ending deserved to be so much MORE too❤️
by JULIA HARGREAVES
Immediately invested in the characters which is a sign of this brilliant author. Found this such a difficult subject to become involved with, and read it far too quickly.
by Char
This was my first ever Colleen hoover book I’d ever read and I’m so glad it was!
I tell everyone that this was the first book to ever get me into reading romance because it was and now I’m a lover for smut / dark romance, but this is book where it all started!
This book had my gripped THROUGHOUT I never got bored! I loved the twists and turns, always something happening that was unexpected but OMG the main character ???????????? need I say less. The character development was incredible. And the end! Wow.
I have decided to purchase this for a friend who has now gotten into reading again. Cant wait to see what she thinks. Thank YOUUU colleen ❤️