Ugly Love

Title: Ugly Love
Author: Colleen Hoover
Rating: 4 stars
Genre: New Adult, Romance
Number of Pages: 337
Publication Date: 2014
Publisher: Simon and Schuster


I have only ever heard praise for Colleen Hoover and after reading Ugly Love I can understand why...Hoover is a truly incredible writer.

Ugly Love follows the heartbreaking beautiful tale of Tate and Miles. I loved how the chapters alternated between narration of the two characters. Tate tells the ugly love story that herself and Miles share, while Miles' chapters are from his teenage years and meeting his first love. I loved the story line for this book and how it showed just how ugly love can be. I especially loved how it showed that love doesn't have to stay ugly but can become beautiful and that people can be saved.

The characters in this book are phenomenal, you truly feel for them and want nothing more than for them to find their happily ever after; but ugly love isn't the only thing holding them back. Hoover has created an amazing ugly past to contest with their future and weaves it stunningly into the development of the characters. Tate and Miles are forced to confront and face the ugly demons of their relationship and decide just what it is that they both want. To move forward or stay locked in an ugly past. And I have said ugly way too many times...ugly...ugly...ugly!!

I also enjoyed how this book didn't revolve entirely around the characters falling in love. While Hoover managed to create a believable love tale she also created a believable story line. The past is not something that can be forgotten, and never should be, as this book shows, instead it is something we must come to live with.

This book gives a whole new meaning to the good, the bad and the ugly and I give it a solid 4 stars. I cannot wait to read another one of her books.