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Twisted Hate by Ana Huang

33 reviews

b00kl0v3rastro's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual content, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Violence

Minor: Car accident, Deadnaming, and Stalking

essie__reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

4.5 stars

⚠️⚠️⚠️This review contains spoilers!! Spoilers below ⚠️⚠️⚠️



Somehow, each book in this series continues to get better!

I thought for sure this book because it is enemies to lovers, and that is typically not my favorite trope, wouldn't be my favorite Twisted book. But so far, I think this is. Ana Huang might be becoming a new favorite author for me.

I love that these books have strong friend groups, enjoyable steamy scenes, but also captivating plots aside from the romance.
I felt for Jules and Josh as they navigated their traumas and daddy/mommy issues and how they ultimately made those hard decisions and handled things, in order to help them grow and be able to move on without letting those truamas control them. I also enjoyed seeing more of the softer side of Alex and how he and Josh talked and worked on repairing their broken friendship. Jules acknowledgment of growing up and how it feels to be an adult and have less time for friends and friendships changing as people marry was so relatable and described very well. 

I would definitely recommend this series! It can be a bit corny at times, but so can any romance book, but these books leave me hugging the book against my chest and believing in love. They also make me reflect on my own friendships, parent relationships and traumas- in a good way I think- and I think that says a lot about the author's ability to write relatable and complex life-like characters/relationships. 

And I love how Ana tied in Christian- the love interest in the next book-into this series as well. I am definitely intrigued to learn more about Stella and Christian!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Grief, Abandonment, Violence, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Car accident, and Gaslighting

sbordo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Medical content, Blood, Car accident, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Panic attacks/disorders

destinynichole11's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Blood, Death of parent, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Grief, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Murder

conniejones's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual content, Alcohol, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Murder

eleek0609's review against another edition

emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Minor: Car accident and Murder

zadsavage's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Grief

Minor: Stalking

karalara's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Grief

Minor: Car accident and Stalking

cdoubet's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

plumpaperbacks's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

The biggest plot twist  is that Alex is my favorite of the guys in this series so far. And that he continues to grow on me. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Overall, this was fun. I’d say it’s tied with Love for my favorite so far. I like Jules more than Ava, but Alex more than Josh. I think J+J’s relationship arc is more realistic, but A+A’s dynamic is more entertaining.

The best part, though, hands down, was seeing the stage set for the next book, which is unabashedly the reason I’ve read the others. Christian is so whipped already and it’s delightful. ( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)

Current series ranking:

1. Twisted Love/Twisted Hate
2. Twisted Games

Representation:

• fat protagonist
• Chinese-American protagonist & side character
• multiracial side character (Japanese, Black & Puerto Rican)
• lesbian side character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Medical content, Death, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, and Drug abuse

Sexual content is explicit but always consensual. Sexual harassment is of one protagonist by a side character, in the form of using a sex tape as blackmail. There are mentions of death, near-death situations and child abuse from the protagonists’ pasts, and of blood and various injuries due to one of them working as an ER doctor. Things tagged minor are the methods of various deaths mentioned over the course of the book. It’s also mentioned that a side character was almost drowned as a child.