Review: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

4 stars for Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover.

It has been almost 8 months since I last read a New Adult contemporary romance. Since many of the New Adult novels come across very much like reading a young adult novel with characters that are very juvenile, I have a tendency to procrastinate reading this particular genre even after enthusiastically adding the book onto my list of to-be-read.

Reading Ugly Love does not feel like perusing a New Adult novel even though the main characters are in their early to mid twenties. Instead, I find myself burying deep into a world where the characters' well-reasoned actions not only speak for their behavior, but also tells of a painful past.

The female protagonist, Tate, a strong-headed 23-year old girl pursuing her master's degree in nursing to allow her to administer anesthesia, is doing whatever she can to avoid relationships. As it goes, fate has it that the man of her dreams is so not on the same page as Tate and there is pretty much nothing she can do to improve her position; she wants so much more than what he is giving her and he wants so much less than what she wants to give him. The situation is made worse when she is neither allowed to ask about his past nor to expect a future.

The story is smooth flowing and well written with a storyline that pulls at my heartstrings and stays with me for the rest of the day. The only grievance I have is that where the story is narrated by the man, the words are arranged in center text position, making it extremely reader unfriendly.

All in all, a beautiful heartbreaking story that centers around letting go of the past and learning to love all over again.

Publisher: Atria Books
Publication date: 5 Aug 2014

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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.

*Blurb from Goodreads*

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