Ugly Love: A Novel
by Colleen Hoover
From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, aheart-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 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.
stevia –
I’ve been on a Colleen Hoover kick lately and I’m pretty sure she’s currently my second favorite author now! All the feels that I got from this book were indescribable!
Tate Collins decided to temporarily move in with her brother, Corbin, an airline pilot, while she saves for her own place and goes to school for her Masters in Nursing. On her first day at her brothers apartment complex, she finds a drunk man sleeping in front of the door and blocking her entrance to her brothers apartment; as she attempts to go around him to get inside, the man then wakes up and tries to get in too. Tate panics and closes the door on his hand. Well, apparently this man, turns out to be a friend/co-worker of her brother and was locked out of his apartment right across the hall. Airline pilot, Miles Archer – has a past that he can’t get away from and because of it he refuses to ever allow himself to love again. And although Tate almost broke his hand, the attraction between Miles and Tate is undeniable. Since neither of them are interested in a relationship, they both settle on being friends-with-benefits. They both have their own rules to be applied to this agreement, but somewhere along the lines, the rules begin to get muddied and confusing as feelings develop. Will it ever be possible for Miles to deal with his past so that he can finally have a future? Will Tate be able to stick around long enough while Miles deals with his demons?
“Every time I’m with him, he fills my heart up more and more, and the more it’s filled with pieces of him, the more painful it’ll be when he rips it out of my chest as though it never belonged there in the first place.” – Tate. I absolutely loved Tate and her character; as much as she wanted Miles, she was controlled in her actions, she didn’t come off as pathetic and needy. She lived in the reality of things – on one hand, she knows she wants more than what he’s able to give her and on the other hand, she can’t help but stick around for what she can get even though she knows it won’t end the way she hopes.
“I’ve never met anyone who can say so little when they speak. He’s definitely perfected the art of evasiveness.” – Tate. Has anyone ever dealt with a person who answers your questions in such an evasive way but you have no choice but to accept the answers being given, even though you need to hear more?
The writing in this book is so powerful, Colleen Hoover is an expert at ripping my heart out in a book and then somehow she manages to mend it back together again. She writes the story as a present day view of Tate, viewing the way that their relationship takes off; as well as the past of Miles, so you feel the depths of the pain that Miles experienced, leading him to the hardened, closed off way that he is today.
“It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.” By the end, you truly understand what “Ugly Love” really means.
*Side note – there was a movie made based on this book, starring the sexy Nick Bateman!! Which is now on my list of “must see” movies (insert fangirl scream here)! 🙂 ❤
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jef holman –
I am late to the Ugly Love party, but I am SO GLAD that I got on this train! I never thought I’d spend $8 on a book, but I decided to give it a chance after reading some other reviews and I am so glad that I did! This book was absolutely amazing, and I could not put it down. I read it in a single day, in between parenting. I would have otherwise read it in a single sitting!
Miles is so unbelievably broken and hardened. He doesn’t think that he deserves to be happy or have joy in his life. But when he meets his friend’s little sister, Tate, for the first time in six years, Miles feels something again. But all he can offer Tate is a physical relationship. At first, that’s enough for the nursing student, but it’s not long before Tate wants his emotions and heart as well. But since Miles told her that the two rules to their friends-with-benefits agreement was to not ask about his past and to not expect a future, things get complicated and messy!
I loved everything about this story. The characters were rich, the friendships were solid, the hints into Miles’ past and why he became the man he is now were amazing. I laughed and I cried. And I went back to re-read sections again. Absolutely amazing.
sara22 –
I like the story here and the characterisation. Well written, nicely paced and interesting. I read this after reading It Ends With Us as I really enjoyed that and wanted to read more by the author. However……and I appreciate I may be in the minority here but – it had too much sex in it! I felt that the sex actually took over from the story in parts – and the story was good enough. I like sex scenes in books like the next person but it got a bit “boring” in the end. I could just read erotic books or porn for that lol! I understand it was to show the difference in their “relationship” to lead to why but was overdone. Really want to read more by the author – but with less sex!
kate –
Wow. How have I never met Miles Mikel Archer before? Seriously how?
Ugly Love has not only stolen a little piece of my heart but maybe the whole damn thing. I was completely swept up in Miles and Tate’s amazing story. I fell in love with the way Colleen completely shattered my heart and then slowly pieced it back together, I love that I lost myself in all that was unfolding before my eyes and like a starved animal, I devoured it all. Every. Last. Word.
The story is so perfectly balanced, it’s angsty, beautiful, ugly, honest and completely raw. There is no sugar coating the pure emotion and the chemistry is off the scale. Whatever you feel from what you read, you will will feel is completely and while heartedly.
No good love story is simple, where would the fun in that be? It has more ups and downs than a rollercoaster, it has the power to break your heart and make you pray that love is strong enough to conquer whatever life decided to throw in its path. Ugly Love has this magical way of combining all of the above and making you hang on to top the very end to find out how it ends. It doesn’t help that Miles is well just gah! I love him, all of him! He may be a little messed up, he may be closed off and he may be an absolute tool sometimes but he’s a tool I would happily have!! And Tate. Isn’t she every one of us women? We have all been in that situation. Hoping that by sticking it out and holding on, no matter how much it kills us, we will eventually get what we want not matter how impossible it seems. The feelings, emotion and decisions, what woman hasn’t been there. I certainly have. I think that is what makes Ugly Love able to steal its readers hearts.
I am off to find me more CoHo to read and immerse myself in.
But for those of you who haven’t read Ugly Love? Get to it! You won’t be disappointed.
julia –
I read many of the reviews before I read this book. Only a few were negative, one citing that Tate was somehow insecure and pathetic. She wasn’t. She was in love. For the first time in her life. She was confident enough in herself to let herself love someone who she knew was flawed and hurt beyond what she could understand.
This was an amazing read. I would even call it perfect.
I started with two paper backs written by Colleen Hoover that my adult daughter brought home for me to read. She is a corporate flight attendant and reads a lot when she is in hotels so I have been reaping the rewards of her growing collection.
I started with Verity and then read November 9. Obviously I was blown away by the author’s versatility.
So I bought this one for my kindle reader. I read it in a day. A day that I worked 9 hours. This may be the best book I will ever read.
I don’t like to leave info about the book in a review because…you have probably read the author’s synopsis. Also, I think that when a book is written this well, each person’s take away is probably somewhat based on where they are “at” as much as it is about what they read.
If you are in a book slump as I was, this is the book to read.
Now I need to go because I have another 22 books to read by Colleen Hoover. ❤️ Happy reading!
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