The Hating Game

“I love him so much it's like a thread piercing me. Punching holes. Dragging through. Stitching love into me. I'll never be able to untangle myself from this feeling. The color of love is surely this robin's-egg blue.”

The Hating Game is about Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman. Two co-workers who hate each other. Lucy is the girl who can't say no. Joshua is the boy who only says no. There's a huge promotion coming up, and each person wants to beat the other. They both agreed to resign if the other co-worker wins.

Joshua is an asshole, but all girls love assholes, right? No. Lucy has made it very clear she wants a nice guy, and Josh assures her that will never be him. There's tons of built-up tension between the two, which leads to Josh “testing” something in the elevator.

If you thought the tension before that was heavy, you are in for a ride. Lucy cannot stop thinking about Joshua. I wouldn't either, to be honest, that kiss was hot. But Lucy begins second-guessing her feelings for Joshua.

They have playful banter. Which is supposed to make it seem like they hate each other... girl where?

Joshua comes up with the brilliant idea of a paintball match between all their co-workers. On the battlefield, both Lucy and Josh go out of their way to protect the other. Lucy gets sick, Josh stays at her apartment to help out, and that's when we see Josh's soft side. Stuff goes on from there.

And I love it when Josh gets soft. You see him be an asshole all the time and then he looks at Shortcake and his hearts swell. So cute. Anywho, things get awkward between the two.

Danny comes in, Lucy likes him because he's nice but we all know she's trying to get over Joshua. But she just can't stop thinking about him. Neither would I.

No one told me there would be S E X in this book... I was very unprepared but perhaps I liked it. Possibly. I thought it would be that one time but after the first time, the book keeps going on with those “gentle touches” and “sweet kisses” and I kept wondering where the plot went.

UGH but Joshua is so soft for his Shortcake and I love them both so much.