2018: changing my rating to 2 stars. This novel has homophobia and abuse is written as romantic.

I had a hard time getting into this book. I just kept putting it down for the whole month. Finally, I picked it up and finished it. I really enjoyed the last 200 pages because everything was coming together. I felt like it was really slow up until then. I liked how it ended, too.

I really like when the title is understood in the book. I was wondering what the point of 'Ugly Love' was until I read the last 50 pages and it all came together.

Miles did annoy me SO MUCH and Tate at times too. But, my favorite character was Cap, he was very wise and witty and he helped Tate and Miles by listening to them and giving them the advice they needed. He was a great addition to this book.

I rarely read about older characters and I liked that about this book. It was very different.

Spooky and definitely gave me some scares. Coraline was an interesting character who showed resilience and bravery. The other mother was a character that made me really uneasy. This was a very interesting storyline.

Read this on audio & it’s fantastic.

A cute, spooky read. Reminded me of Casper! Excited to see what comes next in the series.

This was so cute and I loved the illustrations. I loved seeing the equality and acceptance toward Sebastian. Though, I wish the story had been longer and more character development. I absolutely loved Frances storyline, too.

I appreciated the #ownvoices representation in this novel and Dimple's ambition to be a web developer. I also related to Dimple and her anxiety. I was able to learn more about the Indian culture i.e. arranged marriage, food, and Hindi language. However, some of the language was hard for me to understand with the lack of descriptions or English translation. For a majority of the words I had to Google to translate, if they weren't already described.

The novel is written in dual POV of Dimple and Rishi...in third person. This caught me off guard and I had a hard time grasping the first few chapters. Rishi quickly became one of my favorite characters, he was so sweet and family-oriented. I also liked seeing the development of Rishi's relationship with his brother, Ashish.

However, I found this novel problematic with Dimple's character, especially. Dimple was very wishy-washy and manipulative toward Rishi. I could never understand whether she actually liked him or not...since she couldn't make up her mind. I also felt like their relationship was really rushed. She also would constantly physically abuse him by hitting him in the ribs and Rishi just accepted it. There is also an instance in the novel where she mentions her friend, Celia looking like a movie star and Dimple says she wanted to hate her.

Personally, I would recommend this if you want to read a diverse, #ownvoices novel but to be cautious as there is problematic content when going into it.

Easily this could’ve been a 5 Star because I loved it SO much. But in terms of a being a little mermaid retelling, it lacked the mermaid aspect. Overall, I adored the message of not having a voice & Ockler wrote a setting that felt so real that I wanted to go there and the characters were awesome. The diversity was another huge aspect that I enjoyed. Great contemporary and perfect summer read! Definitely reminded me of The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han.

I went to see the Miss Peregrine's movie having not read the book and saying "oh I don't have the time, whatever" little did I know that after loving the movie I would spend the next three days devouring this book? I'm so glad I read this and will be continuing on in the series. I loved the characters and the fantastical elements of this story.

Ransom's writing is very funny as he writes Jacob and all the other peculiar children. I was laughing and flipping pages unconditionally until the very end. I'm not a huge Fantasy reader, but I did really love this book.

Really, really enjoyed it.