'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 rating- 4.5 stars
Genre- New Adult, romance, contemporary
Review- Non spoiler until there is a spoiler warning
This is my second Colleen Hoover book, I read Slammed back in April and really enjoyed it, since then I've been meaning to pick up another Hoover book. Slammed, in my opinion, was more young adult than Ugly Love- which is predominately new adult. I feel like I'm a little conflicted about this book, I finished it this morning after I started reading it a couple of days ago, I wasn't gripped straight away, but after a while I couldn't stop turning the pages. There is an element of mystery in this book and I was absolutely desperate to know the answers, as a result I couldn't put this book down.
I really liked Ugly Love, Tate and Miles were such well put together characters and I was hopelessly shipping them through the whole book. My only problem with this book was that sometimes I lost interest in some of the scenes, which I will go more into in the spoiler section of this review.
Another reason why I'm a little conflicted is that I'm not a huge fan of 'instalove' which was quite evident from chapter two in this book. Maybe its just me being cynical but I'm not the hugest fan of this popular trope in books.
This book is told from two perspectives, Tate in 'present day' and then Miles 6 years before. At first I wasn't a fan of this setup, but after a while I grew to really enjoy it, it meant that I felt closer to Miles and it developed his character drastically. I think I preferred Tate's chapters, her voice was really fun to read and I really liked her character, she was such a good perspective to read from! I also absolutely loved Miles, him and Tate were swoon-worthy.
I would definitely recommend this book, but not to the younger side of the YA audience, it is definitely for a more new adult audience. If you have enjoyed Colleen Hoover previously or have wanted to pick up one of her books, then I would definitely recommend it, she is a very good writer and I think she is perfect if you want to explore the new adult genre.
Spoilers
I feel like a lot of people are going to judge this book by the upcoming movie. After watching the teaser trailer I was a bit alarmed that it seemed so different to the book. It felt like they were trying to rip off Fifty Shades of Grey, which is seriously not the style of Ugly Love. I hope they don't go in that direction, but I won't judge the whole film from one teaser obviously.
Ugly Love made my heart hurt a little bit. I wanted so much to just reach into the book and hug Miles when I found out about his past, it was so heart breaking. I just have to put it out there that I loved the end of the book, when it turned to present day Miles' perspective and we saw him propose to Tate, then we got a snippet of the wedding and then them having their baby. I think it was my favourite part of the book and made the novel for me.
Sometimes I felt like there was a bit of repetition in this book and that sometimes the same things were re-used, that was a slight problem for me, but getting past that I'd say that there weren't too many problems with it.
Cap was one of my favourite characters in this book and I loved the friendship that built between him and Tate. Another nice twist was how Miles had been confiding in Cap the whole time as well, it definitely made me smile. I loved Cap.
I also really enjoyed Corbin's character, he fit the role of the protective big brother perfectly. The whole way through the book I was thinking that I would love to hear Corbin's love story. He reminded me alot of Belly's brother from The Summer I Turned Pretty for some reason, I really liked both of their characters though.
I liked how Tate wasn't too typical of a character, she was a little older than the characters in books I normally read, which was quite refreshing. She was actually pretty human, different to lots of charactes you can come across.
I am definitely going to be reading more Colleen Hoover, I fly through her books. Her books deal with more serious topics which makes them feel extremely real and are so well written. And on that note that is the end of my review, if you've stuck through it then I hope you enjoyed this post, I will have one up tomorrow for another day of Blogmas,
-Darcy
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