Review: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Title: Ugly Love

Author: Colleen Hoover

Publication date: August 5, 2014 

Genre: NA

Format: Paperback  

pages:  322
Rating: ★★★★★

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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 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. 

This was my first Colleen Hoover and since it was my first i didn't know what to expect. I read this book with absolutely no problems, you know those books that captivate you from the very beginning and are just flawless? Yep that's how I thought this book was, absolutely flawless. I couldn't stop thinking about ugly love after i finished reading it because the way Colleen Hoover wrote those characters were absolutely beautifully written. 

This book has touched my heartstrings, I was emotionally drowned whilst reading it and especially from Miles point of view. There were some lighter moments to the book as well. This book has made me ugly cry and also laugh and if a book can make you do both of those things than i reckon you have yourselves a winner! 

The book starts of with Tate moving in with her brother who is a pilot, just like Miles. Miles is taciturn. He seems flat, but there is something to him that intrigues Tate. 

"I have no idea what’s going through his head. 

He never smiles. 

He never laughs. 

He doesn’t flirt. 

His face appears as if he keeps a constant veil of amour between his expressions and the rest of the world." 

Miles really likes Tate. But the last thing he is looking for is love. Their attraction and chemistry is too strong to deny, so they go with the whole ‘friends with benefits’ thing. As long as Tate can follow Mile's two rules, they can be together in that way.

“Don’t ask about my past,” he says firmly.  “And never expect a future.”  




Tate is so enamored with Miles; she’ll take him any way she can get him. She’s never felt this strongly about a man. She feels so much when she’s with him, she can’t get enough.

Miles is the way he is for a good reason. The book is dual POV's so from Miles POV we see his past and why he has those two specific rules and why he can't ever fall back in love. When you get hurt in such an ugly way, you want nothing to do with love. No matter how beautiful it may be. From Tate's POV we see the present time and how things have changed for Miles. But that doesn't stop Tate from developing feeling for Miles, even though she knows she can never act on it because she is too afraid of losing the one guy that has meant that much to her. 

Miles is a character that absolutely tore my heart out with the amount of pain and sorrow that was within him and something that he couldn't close his eyes without seeing. Whilst reading from the dual POV's you could see the difference in Miles and that made me wonder what had happened in his past to make him the way he is in the present (I had theories all of which were wrong) But once I found out what it was, I wished that it was something little and stupid but obviously that wouldn't happen. As i was reading that scene I was crying so much that I couldn't see the book, it came to the point where I had to put the book down and calm my self enough to at least be able to continue reading, but every time I thought about it, it made me cry like literally those big ugly crying.

“The pain will always be there.

So will the fear.

But the pain and fear are no longer my life. They're only moments.” 

For my first Colleen Hoover book I am excited to say that I love her writing style and everything in between, her writing is so beautiful and captivating from the very first page. She just made this book one of my all time favorites so thank you Colleen for this amazing and beautiful written book! 

“It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.”