This reminded to SJM books *cough* you all know how she loves to say how male someone is or how male this situations is lmao and include scents to every single male character that appears in those books. I'm genuinely worried that it's ruined other hate-to-love books for me for a while, as I've never read a hate-to-love done this well, and I've read quite a few great ones! Her boss is not a nice person, he is sexist and misogynistic, and clearly, Lucy doesn’t think Josh is a nice person either, this is lazy and damaging writing.

But the hate vibes worked for me in a lot of other ways: it was easy to see how Lucy could hate Josh with as frustrated and small as many of his comments and actions made her feel.This story is quite conventionally a romance with its use of well-known tropes – enemies-to-lovers, bring-a-fake-date-to-a-wedding and office-romance. Yet when Josh would try and be nice to her, ugh, my heart hurt because I was begging for her not to freak out. I have to say that his over-protectiveness and jealousy did annoy me, and I think he snapped wayyy too easily at times, but I actually did quite like his character. Both his eyebrows ratchet up, and he opens his mouth as his eyes go completely black, but he does not seem to be able to say a word.

Lucy narrates how nice it is to feel smothered by a guy who’s a foot and a half taller than her and built swole, and all I felt was suffocated — like, cool if that’s your kink but it was presented as what every red-blooded girl wants. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I can’t speak for that lived experience, but it’s like made into a big thing and so this was just a little thing that bothered me because I didn’t even find out how tall she was exactly until like 3/4 through. I liked the characters well enough and really felt for them during some scenes, but I just never 100% committed to them. The Hating Game was definitely one of the best books I read this year with a truly funny, sweet and entertaining romance!Honestly, to wrap up my feelings, it is somewhat astounding to me that people find Twilight problematic (it is) but love this. Stuff like "this desk is very manly, leather is very masculine and manly, this is very male, your bedroom is so feminine. And in this passage she compares "scary-looking woman" with the fortune teller, so that clearly depicts how Lucy sees them. Now a film starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, globally bestselling author Sally Thorne's hilarious workplace comedy is all about the fine line between love and hate. I’m waiting for a girls night to watch it with my friends and I’m hoping that it is fabulous *fingers crossed*.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.And she played up the whole “little kid” aspect of being small so much that it was a bit weird at times (almost as weird as her obsession with Smurfs…).

And while that could be seen as a bad thing, to some people, it gives their relationship, that turn between love and hate, a very grounded feel. But in the meantime, the vomit conquering hero will wipe our heroine’s fevered brow, he will hold her as she gasps and ptaptapta spits, then he will change her sheets giving her fresh crisp new ones which every reader knows will be a 50000 thread count Egyptian number which she finally will fall into for an exhausted and fitful sleep as he gently (and not at all creepily) watches her. Now they're up for the same promotion and Lucy, usually a determined people-pleaser, has had enough: it's time to take him down. After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong.And then she begins to describe Joshua's and she says he has blue Post-Its and that his desk is the very male version of hers. Trapped in a shared office together forty (ok, fifty or sixty) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. From Lucy's hilarious inner dialogue to Joshua's sharp retorts, the chemistry between them is irresistibly adorable-and smokin' hot. In the midst of heightened emotions, the games continue: the staring game, the HR game, the word-tennis game.