ARC received via Simon and Schuster UK for an honest review

I have been impatiently waiting for Ugly Love to be released, green with envy of the people who had received and advanced copy, so when presented with the opportunity to read my own ARC copy, I may have done a huuuge happy dance (though there is no evidence of such dance, so that means it didn't really happen!!)

Colleen Hoover is a master of the emotional read. Every book I have read of hers so far (and I admit I haven't got to all of them yet!) has left me an emotional wreck.

And Ugly Love is not exception.

From the first minute you meet Miles Archer you just know that he is going to break your heart one minute and make you swoon the next.


And he sure as hell does that.

When Tate Collins moves in with her brother, she didn't expect her life to change as dramatically as it does when she meets the beautiful blue-eyes stranger outside her brother's apartment. As annoyed she is with him, she is intrigued.

Miles is a complex, complex man. Beautiful smiles hide a broken man. Emotionally shut down, he can't help but be attracted to his best friend Corbin's sister. His mood swings are enough to give a girl whiplash. There is a strong attraction between Miles and Tate, but as much as they don't want the attraction, they can't fight it.



“It’s not that I don’t like you, Tate… I just don’t want to like you. I don’t want to like anyone. I don’t want to date anyone. I don’t want to love anyone.”


Ugly Love is told in dual POV’s and also in past and present tense. As the story from Miles' past gets told, his present begins to make more and more sense. While I was reading the past tense, I was nervous. I needed to know what happened, but I was dreading it at the same time. I had a ball of tension in my stomach every time it switched to past tense.
And boy, it does make us understand the man Miles has become, and why he is so shut off to love.


Tate is such a strong woman to put herself through what she does for Miles.

“I’m so screwed. Everything he says should send me running, but instead it makes me want to wrap my arms around him and give him whatever it is he’s willing to take from me. I’m lying to him, and I’m lying to myself, and I’m not doing either of us any good”

She is fighting a battle between her head and her heart and neither of them seems to be winning. My heart was always being ripped apart, only to be put back together and ripped apart again.

The first 75% of the books seemed to be the same thing - let's be friends, sex, push her away, let's be friends. Lather, rinse, repeat. I wanted to slap Miles for being such a douche to Tate, and slap Tate for putting up with his BS But OMG the last 25% of the book really ramped things up and brought on the tears.

There are some great secondary characters. Love Tate's brother Corbin, even with all his hypocritical big brother posturing! And their friend Ian, I would have liked more about Miles and Ian's friendship.

And then there is Cap - the elevator operator at the apartments. He is the Yoda of this story, with all his wisdom and seemingly unrelated, out of place comments all falling into place later.

"You ever heard that expression, 'When life gives you lemons...?'"
"Make lemonade," I say, finishing his quote.
Cap looks at me and shakes his head. "That's not how is goes," he says. "When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in."

Sage words, Cap!

Ms Hoover has done it again, left me an emotional wreck at 2am after reading her stories. Can't wait for the next one!