4.5 stars! 
 Colleen Hoover is arguably one of my favorite authors. I adored the Slammed series and really enjoyed Hopeless. Then came Maybe Someday which broke me as a I read it. I hadn't cried so hard in a book in a long time. Her characters have just always managed to consume me. 
 This book just proves how her writing continues to flourish. 
 Ugly Love centers on Tate, a 23 year old nurse from San Diego trying to get her life together. In an effort to save money, she moves in with her older brother in San Francisco. What she doesn't expect is to find her brother's hot friend literally on his doorstep her first night there, drunk and passed out. What she thinks is merely an inconvenience turns into so much more. While he belligerently apologizes to her, calling her Rachel, Tate recognizes that the man has issues. Well, she wants to take on those issues. 
 Once she finally gets to know Miles on a deeper level, she learns he's a pilot just like her brother. He lives life in the sky, barely breathing and moving just day by day. He has no desire for romance, but what he does want is sex. 
 Specifically, sex with her. 
 His only rules are that she doesn't ask about his past and she cannot expect a future. 
 Right away she knows it's a mistake, but she can't help but agree. She's consumed by him and she hopes to change him. 
 Oi. 
 Idiot. 
 Hey, I've been there. I think all of us have had that one person we think we can change, that we think will one day feel for us what we feel for him. When that person proves to us how wrong we are, we feel stupid and used. 
 Yet we still go back. 
 Miles' character is rough. He's handsome, quiet, intimidating, and hides a past that broke him. What happened to him is awful and we learn it through his point of view from six years prior. It's written in prose, like poetry, and I didn't mind that. Maybe it's because I am so familiar with Slammed, which is about slam poetry, and I expect it from Hoover. It was certainly different from other books that I've read. 
 My only grievance with the book stems from the ending. Sigh. I was loving everything about this until the ending kind of happened a little too fast. I felt like his tragedy was summed up far too quickly and didn't give the audience a chance to do more than react to it. That's it. We got to read it and not hear more about it. I would have liked an additional chapter or two to sort it out. Same with his love story with Tate - it just ended suddenly. Another chapter or two would just been the cherry on top of an excellent sundae. 
 Overall, I am impressed with Hoover's writing which continues to grow. Miles was a great addition to my list of fictional book boys. (But he's no Ridge.)