Reviews
NO. If I could slap some sense into the female lead I would and what the fuck was up with the weird step sibling relationship shit?? A baby?! Big balls!? Brotha eurgh⊠I finished this in 2022 and it still haunts me.
Miles Archer deserves whole world, yâall donât even dare to touch him
even worse shit
Iâm not crying, youâre crying!!!! Being able to read Milesâs past and fully understand his reasoning for the wall he puts up was enlightening!! This is such an emotional read that Iâm having a hard time putting it into words!! But it was soooo freaking good!! Definitely recommend!!
Ugly Love had me ugly crying! đ
Written with a present day POV from the FMC and a past POV from the MMC with a few present day from him at the end. This felt weird in the beginning bouncing back and forth but it really helped me understand Tate and Miles so much better. Keep in mind when reading the Miles chapters that he is a teenager in them and it will make more sense.
Miles holds so much pain in his heart from his first relationship and Tate can see this from day one and falls for him despite it. She is his anchor and he definitely needed her. I thought for certain the strictly sex only deal was going to be a hard to sell love story for me but somehow it all worked.
The Rachel chapter did me in. đđđ I think I needed to see her happy just as much as Miles did.
Love really is ugly but it has its beauty too. Itâs pain and happiness felt with equal parts. Doesnât make it easy but it is worth it. I loved this book!
Trigger and Spoiler
Infant loss đ
âwe both laugh at our sonâs big ballsâ
This book was so beautiful. I teared up multiple times and I can't wait for the movie
This book was so beautiful. I teared up multiple times and I can't wait for the movie
** spoiler alert ** Not the best but I also hated how quickly tate forgave him after the moaning Rachel's name scene like it honestly gave me the ick, it was an okay book and I wish there was kind of trauma with tate rather than her being perfect and him being troubled.
Liked, didnât love. The last 3 chapters were the best in my opinion. It felt very longed out. But still, was a good read just took me longer than usual.
** spoiler alert ** This was such an amazing book and it was so fun to read and really good as a long read. Personally I love how itâs written in multiple perspectives and it gradually tells the backstory of Miles and it adds up so you have to carry on reading to understand the rest of the book.
The cover⊠It all makes sense now BYE IâM CRYING
2.5
wtf. i knew what I was getting myself into when I picked this up butâŠ. wow. this was just so bad. basically soft porn every 3 pages and a fucked up story line (the last being intended- i know its not supposed to be a âfeel goodâ book). still- the writing style; the out of the blue unhinged things they say; some veeery problematic scenes.
at least the ending kind of made up for it, maybe? still a no thank you from me
(also i predicted the âplot twistâ very early on, only from tates commentary and the book cover so⊠patting myself on the back? hm)
What an amazing and easy read! I finished it in half a day and read continously for hours and hours. The spice is *chef's kiss* and the characters are complex and real.
Will take a while to process đ
would give it a zero if I can.
Uff! I have been thinking about this review for some time... And to be honest I don't know if this book deserves 4 stars. The backstory was super interesting and I was really invested in it, however the present was confusing and frustrating. I don't like when toxic relationship is romanticised and unfortunatly this one is one of those... I recommend this to people who like this author and/or the series After.
Go to hell Miles Archer.
1/5 "My God, Rachel," My God, why did I read that?
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I devoured this book in one sitting. I was hooked from the start. This broke my heart in a way I was not expecting to have my heart broken.
Highlights
Thank you for this baby," she says from the backseat. "He's beautiful." only thing he got from me was his balls." «They're so big." I laugh. You're responsible for the beautiful part, Rachel. The She laughs. She laughs hard. âOh, my God, I know," she says. We both laugh at our son's big balls.
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«God gives us the ugliness so we donât take the beautiful things in life for granted.»
He mouths, â You look pretty. â
in a world of boys, miles archer is a gentleman.
â Love isn't always pretty, Tate. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping iĆ„'ll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way. "
so real.
You never want to love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.
If I were capable of loving someone ⊠it would be you.
»It's the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.«
When you like to kiss someone because of who she is, the difference isn't found in the pleasure.... the difference is found in the pain you feel when you're not kissing her.
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...and put on just enough makeup to make it look like I didn't put on any makeup at all. And fix my hair to make it look like I didn't fix my hair at all.
Hahaha, literally me, 24/7
Sometimes my silence is saying.....I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what your thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting from your very first one.
The guy who figures this out about me and know me this well, will be the man I fall for.
I can't see anything where she won't be my everything
No, Miles. I follow. Thatâs how it is with us. Youâre solid, Iâm liquid. You part the waters, Iâm your wake
âHeâs gay, honey.â
Nah he ainât
He's touching me everywhere, nowhere, not at all, all at once.
âI hope you taste like orange juice again.â
âWell, youâre definitely not gay,â someone says from behind us.
Iâm not Tate when Iâm near Miles. Iâm liquid, and liquid doesnât know how to be firm or stand up for itself. Liquid flows. Thatâs all I want to do with Miles.
Flow.
Itâs funny how he refuses to make eye contact during sex yet canât seem to keep his eyes off me the rest of the time.
âIf you don't want a sarcastic answer, don't ask a stupid question.â
âDon't ask about my past. And never expect a futureâ
âYou make it so hard to breatheâ
âWhen life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them inâ