The Hating Game: A Novel

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The laugh blasts out of me like bah.I’m breaking one of my rules by grinning at him, but I can’t seem to stop. And because I don’t want to spoil anything I’ll write my thoughts about the ending in a spoiler tag. Believe me it’s best for you. ;-P At least if you still want to read the book. Well, anyway: My original review of this is from 2016, and contains many Disney GIFs and mentions of myself grinning and also open yearning. Además, si me conocen, saben que yo me muero por los personajes como Josh que, en la superficie, parecen súper fríos y calculadores, pero que, en el fondo, son un unicornio de peluche muy abrazable. De verdad, necesito un Josh en mi vida, sobre todo porque también es obscenamente alto y eso me parece muy sexy, jajaja. Perdón por ser así.

This is still a cute-adjacent book. We follow Lucy, who is tiny and has a lot of hair, and Josh, who is very large and very handsome. I just finished reading this book for the second time and aklsjdlakjsa. It was SO GOOD. Lucy and Josh are literally the cutest and I listened to the audiobook this time (which was absolutely fantastic by the way) and ALKSJDLKAJS. THIS STORY IS SO CUTE. I had a smile on my face the entire time I was reading and I love their witty banter and the fact that they work in publishing together and just EVERYTHING about this book makes me happy. I think I'm going to plan to reread this every couple of years, it's just so great! This is a romance. It's no spoiler that things DO change between them. Love and hate are a fine line, after all. Both invoke a lot of similar mental and physiological responses. So when the line blurs between these two and all that pent up aggression between them becomes filled with the promise of a non-destructive outlet, whoa. If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong. There’s a fragility in this kiss I would have never expected. It’s the same as the knowledge that one day this memory will fade. He’s trying to make me remember this. It’s so bittersweet my heart begins to hurt.

After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth-shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she's got Joshua Templeman all wrong.

I found the last third of the book to really drag on. Everything I had previously disliked only intensifies. Josh is endlessly reassuring Lucy that she is valued and liked, while she has one freak out after another. It's exhausting to read and think about. And instead of their usual banter, their dialogue switches to the most mushy saccharine language, leaving even me (a hopeless romantic) cringing with discomfort.Lucy and Joshua soon realized they may have gone too far with the game as they start to question if their feelings for each other are real or if it is just part of the game. As they both try to navigate their feelings, they have to deal with the stress of the position of becoming a publisher that is up for grabs while having the tension between them. In the climax of the movie, they both realize that they have fallen in love with each other and decide to put an end to the game and in the end; they both get the publisher position, and as well as they both start a new chapter in their lives together. We have also good news that BCDF Pictures turned this amazing novel into a movie and it’s in post production now. I don’t know the probable release date but I’m excited to see Pretty Little Liars’ Lucy Hale as Lucy Hutton and Austin Stowell as Joshua Templeman! This is just one of the worst romance novels I've read. Office rom-com my ass. I found nothing funny about this. Where was the comedy? There are also hardly office scenes besides the two staring at each other the entire time. There is really no humor in this whatsoever. Josh and Lucy's banter was not in any way funny. I don't get it man.

The smut in this book is unparalleled in terms of me being able to read it without blushing and skipping to when it’s over (and I’m no prude - I just truly hate reading words including but not limited to girth / member / length / etc.). And I do have gushy heart-swell-y moments while reading it. I was torn between the two, but this is indeed a pretty accurate explanation of what was ratting in my head during this book. Re-read 3/17/20: This book never fails to ease my anxieties and I love it with all of my heart. Forever indebted to this book for making me smile through the roughest times. Also, Lucy and Josh can both, like, get it I mean, the plot is one of those that most of us have either seen or read already several times because it follows the usual romantic comedy storyline, yet the way everything is narrated is so fun that I didn't even mind the fact that I knew how things were going to be, I was so trapped in this story that I was simply lost in this world. The Hating Game is bursting at the seams with love (and hate) and heart‘ Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners

The Hating Game Audiobook – Novel Details And Review:

Sally’s third novel Second First Impressions is released AU/NZ 31 March 2021, and US/CAN 13 April 2021.