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The Hating Game: A Novel

A Novel
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By Sally Thorne (2016)
USA Today Bestseller Debut author Sally Thorne bursts on the scene with a 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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Priya Mehta
Priya Mehta
4.9
I finished it at 1am and immediately texted three friends.

The slow burn chemistry in this novel is genuinely exquisite and I say that as someone who has read enough romance to know instantly when an author is just stalling and when they are actually building something. This is the latter. The banter is sharp without being performatively witty, the emotional backstory is handled with real delicacy, and the payoff — the actual moment when everything resolves — completely delivers on every page that preceded it.

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Fast
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Emotional
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