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The Hating Game: A Novel

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Neither is going to back down from the competition, but at that precise moment, Lucy begins to get to know Joshua better.

I was a little creeped out by the weirdly blurry line between murder impulses and lust; there are a couple of times when Lucy imagines killing Josh that seemed kind of hyperbolic and easy to overlook, but there are also a couple of times when she says Josh is looking at her with “serial killer eyes” and she’s actually afraid he’s going to hurt her. so it's not surprising that after hours she climbs into colorful fictional worlds of her own creation.Once, I did, the pace definitely picked up and I was invested in the outcome and the characters’ lives/relationship. Especially since from the second chapter on, it seemed like Josh was jealous of Lucy’s niceness to other males, when all she gave him was hate. Usually it’s the woman in fiction who worries about her appearance and doubts that the man will like her enough, etc. She is too nice to say no or be firm and authoritative when necessary which leads people taking advantage of her niceness. Last week, having begged my work library’s lovely and conciliatory acquisitions staff whose desk was piled way-high with books, to dig out my reservation, I indulged myself in a procrastiread of author Sally Thorne’s debut novel The Hating Game.

This is the first book in many years which I have read which I needed to reread within minutes of finishing it. It is her debut novel that has sold in over twenty-five countries and is being made into a major motion picture, directed by Peter Hutchings and starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell.The smut scenes were plentiful, but were all written well and weren’t cringey or cliche in any way, which is a hell lot better than what I can say for many other books. Deciding after a school field trip at age 11 that she wanted to work in Publishing, she did everything she possibly could to make it happen. My favourite author is Cassandra Clare and I also enjoy books by Rick Riordan, Sarah J Mas, Marrisa Meyer, Marie Lu, etc etc. But the harder Lucy works to one-up Josh (or at least keep the score even) the less sure she is about the ultimate goal of the hating game, especially when she begins to realize Josh might have a different goal in mind.

I love a book that leaves me with a huge smile on my face and being sad to reach the end of the story. The two are competitive and polar opposites to each other resulting in antagonising office relations. Her nemesis Joshua Templeman is the brooding, regimented executive assistant to the business-side boss, Richard.But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has also reached its boiling point, and Lucy is discovering that maybe she doesn't hate Joshua. Mortal enemies and now in competition with each other, they are fighting for a lucrative promotion both literally and figuratively. Lucy is conceited, Lucy is mean to people who don not adhere to her aesthetic sensibilities (including juvenile fat-shaming of the co-CEO which coloured her as narrow-minded and mean yet unable to see the faults in her own attitudes to people).

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