Laura Charanza wrote 'Ugly Love' as a two-time survivor of narcissistic abuse. In her book, she shows how living with a narcissistic person follows a specific pattern and how anyone could fall into their trap. In the last quarter of the book, Charanza discusses how you can get help and support from narcissistic abuse, utilizing her own experiences to show that it is possible to leave and rebuild your life.
While I found that Charanza had a lot of great information and input from professionals, I feel like this book was marketed differently. The cover says that it is a "Survivor's Story on Narcissistic Abuse" but only includes a few examples from her personal experiences. I guess I thought this book would be more of a memoir and less of a textbook outline of narcissists. I also found her ways to take back your life section to be lacking and relying too heavily on religion, faith, and spiritual healing. I would like to see more research on how this is helpful to someone who just left an abusive relationship. Again, Laura Charanza had some really interesting information but I found it more lacking than informative.

THis book is all about a woman's experience living wish a Narcissist and dealing
with the constant abuse and manipulation that he placed on her. It was heartbreaking to listen
to how he made her question her own judgement on things that she knew to be true. I can't
imagine having to live under that constant bagering it would drive anyone crazy. THis book
really opens the readers eyes to things that are not right in relationships and helps shine
the light on things that abusers would rather have left in the shadows. I'm glad I got to
read this book because its very different than other books of its kind. It gives you information
however it doesn't flood your brain and it also gives you a story along with it. Nice read.
I think the part that I liked the best about this book had to be how informative and compelling
the information was. I couldn't put this book down in the beginning, each chapter was like a little mini novel
with all new information. What I didnt like about this book was I found the flow of it very
choppy it had my going back to see if I was missing pages becasue the ideas were all over
the place. Overall not bad but the flow was just to much and took me right out of the story
itself.

This is definitely a book that every person who has been in an abusive relationship should read. It is filled with good advice and help on how to take your life back after toxic relationships. It is also told from the point of view of a survivor who is very relatable. I highly recommend this book.

Wow! A must read for anyone who has been or is in an abusive toxic relationship, or anyone who has a loved friend or family member in one.

It opens your eyes to many things and a lot of behavior that we shouldn't be okay with.

Must read!!