{"id":54,"date":"2026-04-09T06:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:36:01","slug":"looking-back-at-ugly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/looking-back-at-ugly-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at Ugly Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ugly-love-large.jpg\" alt=\"ugly-love-book-cover\" class=\"wp-image-55\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6250134887234272;width:225px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ugly-love-large.jpg 250w, https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ugly-love-large-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Even though it\u2019s been two years since I read this, I can still clearly remember the feeling of binging it in just two days. It\u2019s one of those rare bestsellers that actually lives up to the hype, mostly because the emotional turbulence is so addictive. It\u2019s not a &#8220;hidden&#8221; find by any means\u2014everyone knows Colleen Hoover\u2014but the way this specific story hooks into you is unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When I first put this on my Reviews page, I talked about how it keeps your heart active from start to finish. Looking back on it now, that\u2019s still the best way to describe it. It\u2019s a raw, messy experience that doesn&#8217;t try to play nice. The whole &#8220;no questions about the past&#8221; setup creates this constant, underlying tension that makes you want to see how it all crashes down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It\u2019s definitely for the reader who wants a story that demands to be finished in one sitting. It captures that heavy, realistic ache better than most, and even though it\u2019s been a long time since I turned the last page, that &#8220;messy but beautiful&#8221; vibe is what still sticks with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it\u2019s been two years since I read this, I can still clearly remember the feeling of binging it in just two days. It\u2019s one of those rare bestsellers that actually lives up to the hype, mostly because the emotional turbulence is so addictive. It\u2019s not a &#8220;hidden&#8221; find by any means\u2014everyone knows Colleen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novel-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readonarrival.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}