Reviews with content warning for Vomit - The Hating Game

I made the mistake of watching the movie first. I usually like to read the book before watching the movie, but I really wanted to watch the movie & I kept putting the book off. & then the movie really made me want to read the book.
I really loved the book! The chemistry between Lucy & Josh is amazing! I really wish I didn’t know when certain scenes were coming, or what was gonna happen before I started to read it. But that’s the price i paid for watching the movie.

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psliz's review against another edition

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lighthearted 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

1.0

thought it was okay but upon further inspection, it's terrible because its characters are horrible people

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joensign's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.5

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allidone's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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malloryhill10's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
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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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

I have been seeing this all over the book community and my best friends kindly got me this for my birthday and I decided it was finally time to read this. I enjoyed this book; I was just hoping for more and waiting for more.

This book is based around Lucy Hutton, she is the baker of cakes, she is an outstanding assistant and professional nice girl. She is waging war. She's got the whole office on her side – except for tall, dark and charmless Joshua Templeman he’s been nothing but hostile since the moment they met and now it feels like nothing matters as much as taking him down. They are tapped together under the fluorescent lights, they become obsessed with this addictive rivalry. There's the Staring Games, The Mirror Games, the HR Games. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything, especially when there is a huge promotion up for grabs. She is going to destroy the man she can’t seem to get out of her office, the man she hates, the man who’s taking up far too much space in her head. If Lucy wins, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. The race is on – but the real games have only just begun.

I liked this book. I think Lucy was hilarious and her smurf addiction was so funny even if it was only touched on for a moment. I was expecting this book to be more of a slow-burn, like one touch and they were nearly combusting and it wasn’t really like that. It was like they kissed, they realized their feelings, they both get jealous, they both kick off and then smut end of. I wanted more of the office tension, I wanted Josh to stay on the job and to hear who actually got the interview. I would have loved to see them make out in the office after everyone expected they loved each other. I thought the story like was a great idea, I just wanted more of the slowburn, enemies-to-lovers trope. I think what would have elevated it would have been Josh’s point of view throughout the whole book and maybe started it when the merger happened. The timeline kept jumping and it wasn’t clear at times.

Overall it was a good book, I was just wanting more and was expecting more.

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lizzye33's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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danajoy's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I didn't expect to love this book. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly I was totally invested in this relationship.
I'm not generally a hate to love fan. I think it really helps in this case that as a reader you can see the way things have been misconstrued and misunderstood by Lucy without needing to swap to Josh's perspective.

Does it get to a borderline saccharine place by the end? Perhaps.
Did this book keep me wonderfully distracted, invested and engrossed even though I read two thirds of it in a hospital emergency department, waiting? Yes.

There was just something so addictive about it.

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