Blog Tour: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love
By: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: August 5, 2014
Publisher: Atria Books
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GR's Summary:

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 Thoughts:

Ugly Love was such a profound story about life, love, and loss.  There is something so special about Ms. Hoover's writing style.  She has the ability to completely pull me in to each story she writes, I get completely invested, and feel every ounce of pain and joy that her characters feel right along with them.

In Ugly Love, we get Miles and Tate's story.  Tate is an RN, and moves from San Diego to San Francisco to live with her older brother, Corbin, while she gets her Master's Degree in Nursing.  When she arrives at Corbin's apartment, she meets Miles (Corbin's across-the-way neighbor, and good friend.)  The two don't exactly hit it off, but Tate finds Miles extremely attractive.  The more time that Tate and Miles are around one another, the more that their attraction and sexual attraction grows.  Miles approaches Tate about having a sex only, no-strings attached relationship, and has only two rules.  The first rule is that she is never to ask him about his past, and the second one is that she is never to expect or hope for a future.  Tate readily agrees, and thinks that they can both keep everything light and fun between each other.

However, Tate finds herself falling in love with Miles.  Yet, it is obvious that he has some serious issues.  Miles is a shell of a person, and hasn't had a girlfriend or sex in six years.  This story is told by Tate in the present time, as well as Miles as we get the story of what happened to him six years ago to make him the shell of the man that he is today.  I completely felt for Tate, and understood that even though it was tearing her up inside, she didn't want to leave him.  It was also obvious that Miles was a good person, but that he was emotionally scarred.

Ugly Love was about the fact that when we love someone deeply, we become vulnerable.  Is it worth it to love someone, and risk the possibility of feeling tremendous pain as well?  Ugly love made me experience a large array of emotions.  I felt excited, hopeful, angry, sad, relieved, and happy.  This story touched so much on real life, and how painful it can be, as well as how joyful it can be.  I highly recommend Ugly Love.  It is another exceptional story written by Colleen Hoover.  

My Rating:

I give Ugly Love, by Colleen Hoover, 5+ Heartbreaking, Beautiful, and Hopeful stars!  This story was so beautiful!  It really touched my heart.  I can't imagine anyone reading this, and not shedding tears.  This story was written in Ms. Hoover's signature writing style that I have come to treasure and love; character's came to life, Miles and Tate's feelings were palpable, and I was completely immersed in their exquisite love story!   

My Favorite Quote:

"...I've wondered how someone could be so beautiful if there wasn't a God.  I've wondered how someone could make me so incredibly happy if God didn't exist.  And I realized...just now...that God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted."  (ARC, Loc. 142)

~Miles 

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About Colleen Hoover:

I love music. LOVE music. Namely The Avett Brothers, Lumineers, Pink, Eminem. I have eclectic taste? If you have any recommendations, send them my way! I'm addicted to diet pepsi and could tell you in a taste-test which restaurant it came from. It's a serious addiction, I tell you. I get stoked whenever I get a message from goodreads saying I have a new friend request...so request me, dang it! If you want to know when I have new books out or just want to be inundated by random, pointless blog posts, follow me at www.colleenhoover.com Avoid my Twitter at all cost. It's propaganda.

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