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Twisted Hate by Ana Huang

66 reviews

noellelovesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content, bullying, violence, grief, anxiety, death, murder, misogyny, abandonment, torture, blood/gore, and medical trauma. Mention of: child abuse, child neglect, child endangerment, grooming, sexual assault, predatory behavior, rape, coercion, toxic relationships, parental abandonment, stalking, kidnapping, blackmail, revenge porn, and suicidal ideations.

Ever since I read, and loved Twisted Love, where we get to see a few fiery interactions between Jules and Josh I knew I needed to read their book. We get enemies to lovers between Ava’s [the MC of Twisted Love] BFF and older brother and it is steamy.

Seven years ago Jules befriended Ava and Josh has been against the friendship ever since. Only seeing Jules as a bad influence who’s prone to trouble Josh doesn’t want his younger sister anywhere near her and has been very vocal about it.

A lifetime of people disregarding and making assumptions about her has led Jules to despise anyone who looks down on her especially overconfident, and rude, future doctors like Josh Chen.

Both Jules and Josh are positive they know exactly who the other is…and hate them. Little do they know when forced together they may find they’re not that different after all.

I was not prepared for how good this book was. A fan of enemies to lovers and the BFF’s brother tropes I knew I was going to enjoy reading this book I just didn’t anticipate how much. Not only do we get great tropes between Jules and Josh but we also get to see Josh handle his severed relationship with his father and his ex-BFF Alex. Getting to see both characters face their pasts and overcome them had me cheering for them individually as well as together.

Knowing nothing about book four, which will feature Stella and Christian, I’m excited to see what happens. I feel like we’ll finally get more information about the stalker Stella dealt with, and since Christian is in security maybe she goes to him for help…really curious to see their love story unfold.

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dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

At first, I gave the book 4 stars because I enjoyed 75% of the book. I don’t normally read enemies to lovers but the writing style had meeeee. However, three act break was very hurtful and I think it should not have been forgiven as fast as it did.

After Jules confesses everything to Josh. He told he forgives her and starts having sex with her. During their intimate time, he finally says that he actually lied. He also tells her this is a goodbye fuck and her best quality was her vagina. Now this was Jules’ biggest insecurity and she just took back her power from a man who was telling her the same thing. For a man she loves to say had to be the worst thing ever. I feel like after the third act, there should have been more done to right that wrong. I think more could have been done say readers that it is not okay for your partner to use your insecurities against you just because they are in pain. Well, time did past on that incident, I just wished for more

. It was a solid book despite that major issue. I think it would have been 4.5 or 5 without the third act break up.

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