This was amazing. I'm just going to leave it there. Nothing I can say can do this any type of justice. I loved the songs, I loved Ridge, I loved everyThis was amazing. I'm just going to leave it there. Nothing I can say can do this any type of justice. I loved the songs, I loved Ridge, I loved everything about this book....more
So, let me say this. Ugly Love had all the potential in the world to be a 5-star book.
To make what could be a long ass review short, I'll be quick andSo, let me say this. Ugly Love had all the potential in the world to be a 5-star book.
To make what could be a long ass review short, I'll be quick and to the point, unlike the events in this story.
Tate? Annoyed me. That's the problem I have with every single one of Colleen Hoover's books. I always have issues with the love interests, which on every single occasion, has been the girl. Seriously. After all of the "'Colleen Hoover is Queen!'", and other various forms of ass kissing I've read and have seen, I've failed over and over again at trying to find out the why.
Perhaps it's her addictive writing style? Yes, it's addicting. And Colleen can write a kick-ass book with major feels and a relatable, deep character, and I'll give her that. But she only manages to make me love the guys in her books. All of the females are either too annoying, too whiny, too bitchy, too emo, or simply too flat like Tate was.
That is not okay.
When I read fiction, I like to be whisked away and forget I'm reading a book about fake people in a fake environment surrounded by fake things that would never happen to real people. This book reminded me over and over that this was a book filled with all things fake and so unrealistic, it hurt.
In every single one of the four books I've read by Colleen Hoover, I've only rated one of them four stars. She is definitely a hit-or-miss author for me. I suppose I should be okay with that, but I can't be. I feel like she goes wrong in the same exact place every single time, and I don't feel that that's acceptable. Especially with all of the potential she displays in all of her books.
If Ugly Love had been written in Miles's point of view throughout, or at least had 99.9% less ten-thousand page long Tate chapters, this would have been a much easier pill to swallow. I wanted more Miles. Tate was just flat, and she had no substance or attributes to her, so it must have just been some out of this world vagina with magical mind-controlling powers.
Because other than that, Miles would have had no reason at all to even want to speak to her. She was boring, she was weird, and she was very insensitive, self-absorbed, and oddly naive for her age. Tate was like Sky from Hopeless (Another example of a book brought down by poorly handled sensitive subject matter, and a horrible female love interest.)
Don't get me wrong, this book got to me, but did not make me cry, which I wanted to, as weird as that may seem. I was ready to be destroyed and then brought back together again by the love of two strong characters, but that wasn't the case here. The chemistry between Miles and Tate was extremely mediocre and hard to buy.
Nice try, but no. Just...no.
The three stars are purely 100% for Miles. I liked him. I felt like he was cheated by only getting small chapters, when he deserved a much larger voice throughout the story.
All in all, if you are going to read this, don't expect a strong female character with substance; you simply won't get it. Although, Tate had me going in the beginning, I quickly got hip to her one-sided personality and got bored with it.
Let me start by saying that I was looking forward to reading Second Chance Boyfriend soooo very much. 1 Burnt Marshmallow Star.
I-I-I...I can't. Nope.
Let me start by saying that I was looking forward to reading Second Chance Boyfriend soooo very much. I finally purchased an eBook version of the book and read it in about two days tops. I did not read it that quickly because I was happy to finish it, I was anxious to finish it. Reason being is because I didn't want to believe that this book was actually the sequel to one of my favorite New Adult books I've read in a while. But, alas, it was.
Now, Second Chance Boyfriend picks off where book one, One Week Girlfriend left off. Book one left me in a happy place. I loved Drew, I loved Fable; I was Team Drable for the win! But when I came around to reading book two....
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This was my face pretty much during the entire novel. I was very very veryyy disappointed. I felt like something was wrong. Maybe I got the wrong book by the wrong person? But nope; that was just wishful thinking.
So there were numerous amounts of things wrong with SCBF that were not predominantly wrong with OWGF. I know, weird right? Guy asks some random chick that he presumes no strings would be attatched to, asks her to be his fake girlfriend for one week, pays her, she says yes. Badah boom, they of course don't just end things after the week, you guessed it. But. Monica Murphy defied the odds and actually got me to like the first novel. And alot of other readers. Props, props.
But you know when an author publishes a book and when you're done reading it, you're like, "Hey, that was actually pretty satisfying. If she did not make another book, I'd probably be okay!" Yeah, that was me! But when I saw Monica was publishing a sequel, I thought why not? Especially after the bomb that was dropped at the end of OWGF.
So going in to SCBF Fable was hellbent on avoiding Drew and she continuously questioned if her and Drew were ever a "real thing." Fable. Of course you were not a "real thing". That was kind of the whole point of the one week girlfriend thing.
But get this. After a night of "delicious sweet sex" according to Fabes, they are a couple again.
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*claps*
(Now since this is book two, you must have read book one so this shouldn't be a spoiler.)
But I kept on wondering just why Drew decided to sleep with his stepmother exactly. Like come on, I get you were young, but she didn't force you whatsoever. Sorry, not buying it Drew. He even said on multiple occasions how he liked and did not shun away Adele's admittedly gross sexual behaviors. I'm not saying what they did was right, Drew just needs to be honest about it and stop making it seem like a one sided situation.
And, might I add, the so called "poems" Drew wrote for Fable were complete and utter shit.
I noticed Fable and Drew picked up this habit quickly during the span of this novel. They both did not face either of their majorly fucked up problems until about the last fifty or so pages, if that. They just screwed and screwed and continued to "pretend" they were in a "normal" relationship. Why pretend?
I found it funny that Drew is this supposed big shot footballer, and we hear nothing mentioned about football until the last twenty-ish pages. Heh.
On another occasion, Drew had said "My brain fries when I'm with her." Nah, son. I think there's nothing in it due to you skipping classes even after you taking a "lighter load" anyways. To go play house with Fable of course.
Everything and I mean everything made Drew hard. "Oh wow, Fable is breathing, I'm hard as steel." Might want to go see a doctor about that there, sir.
Now everyone knows that crazy psycho girl in the horror movies that are completely obsessed with some guy. Every page or so, Fable was talking about how Drew is hers, hers, hers. Okay, hon. Got you loud and clear, shut up.
Now later in the story, Fable's house gets ransacked by her no good mother, everything is gone, blah blah blah; and Fable's fourteen year old brother Owen is left there to discover the house like that and guess where she is? With Drew. If Owen has no one else to look up to besides Fable, I feel really bad for that kid. And plus, he was always conveniently at his friend Wade's house 99.9% of the book.
So Drew goes to his shrink and tells her all about the incident with Fable's mom. How is that any of her business? We will never know.
I had zero sympathy for Drew and Fable throughout this entire novel. She treated her brother like shit, all in the name of Drew Freaking Callahan. And Drew was caught all up in Fable; I honestly read nothing but their dramatic, anticlimactic excuse for a relationship. I wish the story hadn't went on like it did, but unfortunately you get what you get.
Well wasn't this book a pleasant surprise? I must refrain for playing with the title to make something like, "We"Be a little kinder than you have to."
Well wasn't this book a pleasant surprise? I must refrain for playing with the title to make something like, "We Were Mindblown" or "We Can't Even Right Now."
I went into this book completely blind, and I read the synopsis more than once. Next thing I know, I'm 100 pages in, and I still didn't know what this book was even about!
It was the best feeling ever, because the writing was fantastic, and it was more than enough to sustain me until the Big Reveal happened. And I promise I wasn't even expecting it.
But the actual story itself was very vague and mysterious, I won't go further into it. The pages turned themselves and I couldn't stop reading because, again, the writing.
I can see how people wouldn't like this book, however. If the writing doesn't captivate you right away, you're screwed basically. I'm smiling while writing this review because it was such a great book and I can't stop thinking about it. Everyone should read this!
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