Morgan

NO SPOILERS There's no way to describe this book but a weird, mental, desperate measure for cash. I should've known that it was going to be horrible when I noticed that the beginning was THAT beautiful compared to the length of the novel. Red flag number one. It started off beautifully, with vivid description of obsession, complicated feelings, and an air of mystery. However, it then morphed into something way too deep way too fast. It felt like the beginning was something Hoover had in her drafts and then decided to write the rest of it a year later in order to get some quick money. The emotions described at the end were absolutely meaningless and shallow. They were too dramatic without any real thought in them. Additionally, the weird trope between Miles and Rachel in the beginning was made insignificant at the end when it played a huge part in the beginning. You can't have a trope like that that meant so much to the book and then diminish it into nothing. Not a single character had a personality in this book. Tate especially. We learn literally nothing about her, and her entire "personality" was based off of her obsession with Miles. She is frail and weak, which is a bad take for Hoover being a woman herself. She has no boundaries and crumbles when Miles simply blinks. The ending was absolutely atrocious as well. Hoover spends the whole book building up the moral that love is ugly (literally the title of the book) when the ending shows the exact opposite. If "love" (which in this case, is rather obsession) could suffice through the dramatic situations the characters faced, doesn't that prove it to be beautiful rather than ugly? If it can suffice through everything, isn't an extremely beautiful thing, rather than ugly? The book shouldn't of ended that way if Hoover wanted to have the moral even the TITLE is all about. If she wanted to keep the ending, she should rename the book "A Perfect Obsession" or something. I'm no writer. However, it is inherently clear, no matter what language you speak, that what you spend the whole book working up to and the title of the novel to align with the ending. This book is a disaster and should be pulled off the shelves.