Reviews

Better Hate than Never by Chloe Liese

coffeeandapileofbooks's review

challenging emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

amandalynnhuffman's review

Gave this a few chapters and I can already tell it’s not my thing. I’m rolling my eyes every other paragraph.

They have been enemies their entire lives—literally says he met her when she was born—and somehow they are supposed to fall in love. Her entire family loves him and he has been in her life consistently and at no point until now has anything even remotely resembling a connection sparked? The unlikely nature of this is not going to go over well with my analytical brain.

And not only that, but she is insanely aggressive towards him and rude. She admits to lying to her family right out of the gate. She jumps all over him and accuses him of wealth hungry business practices—when she knows nothing about his business that literally does the opposite of her allegations. She rejects his gesture to walk her home because “she can handle herself” in the dark of night, listening to headphones, with a beat up shoulder…right. Feminism is fine until you just look like an idiot trying to prove a point for no reason.

Honestly, I am bummed. I really enjoyed the first one and Chloe’s writing style seems right up my alley.

DNF

yarydoll's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

asnyder331's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I've liked her stuff before but this was just meh. The constant nicknames and pet names got to me. Also small pet peeve but I love a progressive cause as much as the next person but I've yet to find a book that references it smoothly and all of them here felt clunky

jennjennx3x3's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

mthomsen14's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

hannahbee12719's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

alexatthelake's review against another edition

4.0

While I definitely enjoyed this book, it won't be my favourite Chloe book and I don't think it'll be super memorable either. The first in this series didn't super vibe for me either, but I still very much enjoy Liese's writing. I will say that I loved this one more than the first in the series because of the communication that clearly improved from the last. LOL. I do think that maybe my opinion is a little swayed because I've read so many amazing romances lately. 

lilys_librqry's review

funny hopeful informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

annikayadah's review

MMC is a playboy in a small town. Seriously when men don't want relationship in romcoms they still manage to find regular one and done hookups but the women in the story just skip out on sex for long periods of time? (Who are these guys sleeping with! Those women never get their deserved romances)

I stopped reading around 30%. I enjoyed the basics of the conflict set up so far but disliked the  political issues it tries to deal with. I don't disagree with what's been said in the book so far but am uninterested in seeing the possibilities of an ethical hedge fund as a plot thing. And well only 30% in this seems to be a thing that they're going to talk about a lot more than id like

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