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ISBN: 0062439596

ISBN13: 9780062439598

The Hating Game

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Book Overview

"I want to live inside Sally Thorne's brain." --Emily Henry

Now a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne's hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love.

Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.

2) A person's undoing

3) Joshua Templeman

Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. Lucy can't understand Joshua's joyless, uptight, meticulous approach to his job. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy's overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and Pollyanna attitude.

Now up for the same promotion, their battle of wills has come to a head and Lucy refuses to back down when their latest game could cost her her dream job...But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has also reached its boiling point, and Lucy is discovering that maybe she doesn't hate Joshua. And maybe, he doesn't hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.

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Not my cup of tea

Published by Yeslek , 1 year ago
Firstly this book is really advertised as a "enemies to lovers" where you're expecting the one-uping shenanigans to go on for a while, but they literally start having feeling by page 60 in a 300 page book then it just devolves into annoying drama. I don't want to say this is a bad book, but the Romance felt childish and cringey and it wasn't for me.

Love

Published by Heaven , 1 year ago
Obsessed with the book and movie, couldn’t put it down!! I was sad when I finished the book!! But I loved the ending!!

All love no hate

Published by Yvonne , 2 years ago
Such a fun read. Love the dynamics between Lucy and Josh, the shenanigans and the building anticipation through this story! I couldn’t put it down.

I love to Hate

Published by Letty F. , 2 years ago
such a great book, brought me out of a reading slump wanting and begging for more. This book had all the feels ..look forward to more from this author

Read the book then watch the movie

Published by Sa , 2 years ago
I loved this book but it felt unfinished. I watched the movie and got all the answers I needed.

Hate to Love Work Place Romance

Published by TinaLovesToRead , 2 years ago
This is a Hate to Love Work Romance. There is so much tension throughout this book, and the ending was so great. I love the characters, and I really loved this hate to love thing these characters have going on. I laugh so hard at times while reading this book. There are also some hot steamy times in this book. I have read this book two times, and I enjoyed both times I read it.

Now one of my top favorites

Published by Mallory , 2 years ago
I really loved this book. I read in in a day and the next day i read it all over again. I couldn’t get enough of this enemies to lovers story.

Good could be better

Published by sa , 3 years ago
I stumbled upon this book and decided that it was something i may like based on that Lucy hale was in the movie. One thing that really bothered me about the writing was that they would be having a conversation and you will be lost to who was actually talking. I had to reread a few parts and that didnt help after reading a few paragraphs i finally knew who was saying what. That was really irritating. I loved how she revealed every twist and turn. Im not much of a romance reader and i skimmed over the long pages of one simple s*x scene my goodness it was overkill. But i loved the other parts. I feel as though it ended abruptly and could have had maybe two more chapters to really round it off. Somethings never answered and that were talked about a lot through out the book. i hope that the movie answers the rest of the questions and really ends it well. I do recommend this book because i still enjoyed the characters.

Really liked this book

Published by Anne Grime , 3 years ago
Entertaining style, engaging characters- I enjoyed this enough to keep it.(which is sadly more than I can say for Ms Thorne’s next).

Sub-par Romance

Published by A , 3 years ago
Enemies to lovers is one of my favorite things to read... Except they never stopped being enemies. She never really stopped hating Josh and he was honestly a jerk. I don't care what his backstory or reasons are, if a guy is a jerk, I don't want to watch someone fall in love with him.

This is one of my favorite books!

Published by tee , 4 years ago
The book was so cute and it made me laugh. I love a good enemies to lovers book, and I have no complaints.

Cute

Published by Loriann , 4 years ago
I enjoyed reading this.

One of the best ever written.

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 5 years ago
So great! I’m a little embarrassed to say, but I listened to this as a book on tape, 4 times. It’s cleverly written to the point I would stop and tell Siri to write funny quotes in my notes.

My favorite read of the year!

Published by KayDee , 6 years ago
This book was a quick read because I couldn't put it down! I was not expecting to LOVE this book like I did but it left me wanting more of Josh and Lucys story!

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