Hachette The Hating Game: Tiktok Made Me Buy It! The Perfect Enemies To Lovers Romcom

I just love this book and loved the movie even more. The reason I love the movie more is because I’m a TV lover primarily. Also, I keep gifting this book to literally everyone I know because I want them to share my joy and love.

This was a funny and steamy contemp. romance and it got me out of a reading slump as I read it within a day. I also adore the little details that the author placed on reversing certain minor tropes (in terms of gender). HOWEVER, my only criticism of this book is that towards the end it fell into a bit of a stereotypical ending. I would recommend this book to anyone from beginners to reading, to bookworms.⭐

I bought this after being bombarded with it on Instagram book reels. I'm not usually a person that reads romance novels and so I'm not sure if all of them have a similar way of being written. Some of the lines were so unbelievably cheesy that I felt like dying from second-hand embarrassment. Overall, the story is a light read. Plot was just so-so. I liked that the male lead's hidden side which was nice to read about as compared to usual male leads. Personally, it wasn't worth the hype though.

The book came slightly damaged on the sides and one of the pages was folded which is a bit of a pet peeve of mine but other that the book is on a good condition

Good for some light reading

I loved this book from start to finish. I couldn’t put it down for a second it was just so good. This is like the holy grail of the enemies to lovers trope and I don’t think I’ve ever read anything with this trope that’s written so well. The characters, the plot, the style *chefs kiss*

Principalmente compré este libro porque lo vi tan bien de precio que dije pues por probar tampoco voy a perder tanto. Con lo que no contaba era con todo lo que iba a ganar. WOW. Sigo sin superar este libro, de verdad. La forma que los personajes y la historia te atrapan y no te dejan soltar el libro. Sí que es verdad que al principio el enemies es llevado a un extremo que te quedas ????? Tampoco hace falta. Pero muy rápidamente se rompe la barrera y aunque sigue esa rivalidad se va viendo como los personajes van cayendo (o habían caído ya antes sin darse cuenta 😉) y es algo maravilloso. La forma en la que Josh y Lucy se complementan, se conocen tan bien, como se han dejado absorber por esa rivalidad que realmente era mucho más. Increíble, 100% recomendando. Tanto la lectura como la compra. Si sois fans del romance, del enemies to lovers, este es vuestro libro. Además no es muy difícil de entender (por ser en inglés, que quizá eso pueda tirar para atrás) y el ritmo es muy dinámico y pasan los capítulos que ni te enteras. Los últimos capítulos uf, menuda montaña rusa. Shortcake 🍓♥️

Das war so ein gutes Buch. Ich war erst etwas skeptisch, weil ich den Kleinkrieg der beiden nicht so positiv entgegengeschallt habe aber am Ende war die Umsetzung super. Die Charaktere fand ich beide so toll und die Persönlichkeiten sind super klar geworden. Natürlich war es klar, wie es ausgeht, weil es eben Romance ist, aber die Umsetzung und der Weg dahin ist so gut gelungen. Auch Josh Vergangenheit konnte ich super nachvollziehen. Ich hatte echt das Gefühl, dass ich genau verstehe, wie es ihm geht. Das Buch hat mich so gut unterhalten! Ich will es gleich nochmal lesen :D! An Deutsche, die sich unsicher sind, auf englisch zu lesen: Ich fand die Sprache sehr einfach. Kalt versteht man einige Dinge vielleicht nicht richtig, aber aus dem Kontext wird dann immer alles klar.

it starts off pretty slow but towards the middle gets really juicy. i would give it a 3.5 stars because of how it dragged on a lot until it got into their final connection or communication.Cute ending tho.

The Hating Game is on my favorites for this year. I read it in one day, one sitting, and I was utterly obsessed 20 percent in. Lucy and Josh work in an office together, and thanks to a merger, they have to sit across from each other and compete for the same job. As a result, the competition and hatred is at an all-time high. They throw witty, dark insults at each other while both being great at their jobs. Things change when Lucy discovers that maybe the hate is not so hatey after all. Lucy and Josh’s banter is sexy and dark and the games they play…*fans self*. You guys, these two are CHAMPIONS at not showing their true feelings. It’s a true battle of minds and wits. At first I wasn’t even sure I was on board because they are SO mean. But then things change. Sally Thorne really pushes the slow-burn in this novel, giving us pages of banter, flirting, and incredible mining of two psyches. It’s intoxicating. Yes, Lucy is pretty naive. Yes, Josh is socially awkward. The characters are weirdos, but by the end of the book, they were MY weirdos, you know? I finished this book feeling like my heart had expanded two sizes, and with that incredible, satisfied feeling…that quickly turned into a desperate need for a reread. I had to indulge that whim only a week after finishing. Yeah, that’s right, guys, I read The Hating Game two times in three weeks. AND I bought a hardcover copy. If I have one qualm, it’s that occasionally, I found it hard to tell who was talking. The author has a very strange way of tagging the characters, and sometimes the dialogue was confusing – especially when they are banter-y. That said, the slow-burn is so great in this and the characters so strong, funny, and just REAL, that I basically forgave everything. Please note that The Hating Game does have some steamy, graphic love scenes that may burn up your ereader/hand/other parts. Guys, if you haven’t already put this on your wishlist, I implore you to do so immediately. And then come back and gush with me.