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The Hating Game
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.
Published: August 9, 2016
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780062439604
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Feb 8, 2026
4.5 rounding up.
I can't believe I slept on Sally Thorne for so long. But on the other hand, now I have a new back catalog to go through!
I almost didn't even get into this one, because TBH I generally can't stand the 'he's so big, she's so little' trope and all that goes with it. But the angst and UST in this one overtook that for me (though I do wish we could have had slightly less harping on about their relative sizes - and Lucy being afraid of him? That was weird especially in the back half of the book and the reason for the half star knock) I enjoyed the 'games' they had in the office, and how ridiculous they were.
Anyway, this one is actually hard to review because while reading it I thoroughly enjoyed it, but as I type this, there were things that bother me looking back. Lucy was probably the most clueless person ever literally EVERYONE else can see Josh's feelings for her and it takes her 300+ pages to believe him?
But, I'm going off enjoyment in the moment so my 4.5 stands. I do wish we got total clarity on the results of the interview a the end, maybe a quick little epilogue about their trip to her parent's farm (to celebrate) because its a romance HEA is a given, still... I wanted to see it.
I can't believe I slept on Sally Thorne for so long. But on the other hand, now I have a new back catalog to go through!
I almost didn't even get into this one, because TBH I generally can't stand the 'he's so big, she's so little' trope and all that goes with it. But the angst and UST in this one overtook that for me (though I do wish we could have had slightly less harping on about their relative sizes - and Lucy being afraid of him? That was weird especially in the back half of the book and the reason for the half star knock) I enjoyed the 'games' they had in the office, and how ridiculous they were.
Anyway, this one is actually hard to review because while reading it I thoroughly enjoyed it, but as I type this, there were things that bother me looking back. Lucy was probably the most clueless person ever literally EVERYONE else can see Josh's feelings for her and it takes her 300+ pages to believe him?
But, I'm going off enjoyment in the moment so my 4.5 stands. I do wish we got total clarity on the results of the interview a the end, maybe a quick little epilogue about their trip to her parent's farm (to celebrate) because its a romance HEA is a given, still... I wanted to see it.