Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Published 2014 · 72,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Romance
How hard is Ugly Love to read?
Ugly Love scores 18 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 15 out of 100
- Simple everyday vocabulary. Poetic fragments in Miles's chapters.
- Sentence structure: 18 out of 100
- Abstraction: 15 out of 100
- Emotional and physical. No intellectual abstraction.
- Information density: 25 out of 100
- Lean narrative focused on two characters.
- Narrative indirection: 22 out of 100
- Miles's backstory deliberately withheld and revealed in fragments.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Flight and falling as recurring motifs.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- Tate is self-aware but never detached.
- Resolution withholding: 28 out of 100
- Miles's trauma withheld until the climactic reveal.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Dual timeline with contrasting prose styles.
How Ugly Love is regarded
Ugly Love holds a literary regard score of 18 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.