Reviews - The Love Haters: A Novel

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The Love Haters: A Novel

Katherine Center

3.92 AVERAGE

magdaleneaf's review against another edition

3.5

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Center's books always promise a silly, goofy time, and this one delivered! It wasn't my favourite of hers, maybe just because it felt too similar to some of her past books. Most of her leading men have few strong character traits other than being perfect, and that was the case here too. Katie's main struggle is self-confidence and her body image, which she works on throughout the book in a believable way, and I appreciated how it was portrayed. It was just missing that extra oomph I usually feel from her books.

mahardy37's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Another winner by Katherine Center. Her books are described as "deep rom-coms" - laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down, and how we get back up. This one has a lovely romantic love story (not at all steamy) - in addition to other little love stories between friends, siblings, and parent figures. The best love story in this book is the one between the main character and herself. She learns to look upon herself with kindness and grows to love herself for who she is. Which is a pretty great message in this supermodel social media obsessed world we live in.

Light, fun, a real feel good read with an HEA.