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joensign's review against another edition
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Minor: Vomit
victor200122's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.75
Reading this book was painful, I hated how immature and childish the characters were, they weren't convincing at all, just two grown ups behaving like toddlers. I was tired of the height comparisons (how tall and fit he was and how tiny she was) it was like every plot hole was filled with this. I think their relationship throughout the whole book was toxic and I hated that it was highly romanticised all over the book. I just enjoyed the last two chapters of the book. I can understand the hype of this book, but I reckon this is not a good book at all, there are way better books on Booktok
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying and Body shaming
bectothebooks's review
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Medical content, and Sexism
Moderate: Body shaming, Vomit, and Fatphobia
Minor: Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail
shanodo's review against another edition
So much fatshaming already.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Body shaming
jules_c's review against another edition
dark
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
fast-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? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Gaslighting
Minor: Stalking and Vomit
becausebrenna's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Read this book because I enjoyed the movie. That was not the best decision, but at least it was a fairly quick read.
The plot was fine but there are numerous slurs used, fatphobia throughout, and some characterization that edged on bio essentialism. Just of the most cishet books ever created.
The plot was fine but there are numerous slurs used, fatphobia throughout, and some characterization that edged on bio essentialism. Just of the most cishet books ever created.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Sexual content
Moderate: Ableism, Vomit, and Racial slurs
Minor: Body shaming and Alcohol
elyssathelibrarian's review against another edition
1.0
DNF after 50% because I couldn't tolerate the constant harping about how Lucy is sooo tiny. The tiniest. It was becoming a little creepy, really. Plus there was quite a bit of blatant fatphobia—Lucy literally calls her boss "Fat Little Dick"—among a slew of other problematic things.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Stalking, Fatphobia, and Body shaming
Minor: Racial slurs
micaela_ru's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
Toxic, sexist trash that casually includes ableist and racist slurs, jokes about the deaths of sex workers, fatphobia, toxic masculinity, rape culture and nonconsensual acts played as sexy. DNF @ 20%. The MC is an entitled childish brat who has internalized sexism and possibly homophobia and transphobia. The love interest is embodies textbook toxic masculinity. Clearly I'm not the target audience here. I don't think feeling physically threatened by a man three-times a woman's size is playful or sexy. Not to mention the stalking. They also have no chemistry and the book is boring and childish. This is the crap that is popular?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Stalking, Ableism, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
monaws's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
Their were many things about this book that I did dislike. In fact, they overpower the things that I did like about this book.
First, it fixates on the main characters appearance. It fixates and focuses on how tiny she is, how little she is, how little her hands are, and how everyone loves this. It’s fetishization of her being tiny. It’s pedophilic. It’s weird. It makes me insanely uncomfortable to the point where I had to skip over those parts. how he’s constantly saying how he loves how tiny she is. That’s fucking weird. And it made me extremely uncomfortable to the point where, if they didn’t include those segments in the book, maybe I would have liked it more.
secondly, this is not the enemies to lovers thought it was. They liked each other from the beginning. They had romantic interests and affiliations from the beginning. There was not that intense, brooding, and passionate enemies to lovers.
The dialogue was unrealistic. You’re telling me that these are conversations that mature, working adults have every day? No. It’s giving Wattpad.
Also, everybody has flaws. Everyone has a little things wrong with them, and that’s what makes life beautiful. They’re acting as if these characters are flawless. Not to mention their is no diversity.
I could’ve given this book a lower rating, but the only thing that justified it were the last 70 pages. I know they weren’t the best, they did bring the book justice.
First, it fixates on the main characters appearance. It fixates and focuses on how tiny she is, how little she is, how little her hands are, and how everyone loves this. It’s fetishization of her being tiny. It’s pedophilic. It’s weird. It makes me insanely uncomfortable to the point where I had to skip over those parts. how he’s constantly saying how he loves how tiny she is. That’s fucking weird. And it made me extremely uncomfortable to the point where, if they didn’t include those segments in the book, maybe I would have liked it more.
secondly, this is not the enemies to lovers thought it was. They liked each other from the beginning. They had romantic interests and affiliations from the beginning. There was not that intense, brooding, and passionate enemies to lovers.
The dialogue was unrealistic. You’re telling me that these are conversations that mature, working adults have every day? No. It’s giving Wattpad.
Also, everybody has flaws. Everyone has a little things wrong with them, and that’s what makes life beautiful. They’re acting as if these characters are flawless. Not to mention their is no diversity.
I could’ve given this book a lower rating, but the only thing that justified it were the last 70 pages. I know they weren’t the best, they did bring the book justice.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content and Stalking
Minor: Body shaming
jencolumb0's review against another edition
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.5
I had a hard time getting over the irony of hate reading the Hating Game. I watched the movie and was struck by the general creepiness of Josh, the main guy. Friends who read the book told me the book was funny and it read less creepy. I decided to read it to find out.
Ugh.
I think I chuckled a total of three times in nearly 400 pages. Their relationship is waaaaaaaay more toxic in print than in the movie and the whole thing just made me hostile, like the sort of stuff that dominated all but the last 20 pages is okay and should be tolerated in the hopes that the final apology actually happens. There are also frustratingly large gaps in Lucy’s character “development” in the book that were, blessedly, smoothed over in the movie. There’s also a lot of body image talk in the book that (blessedly, as well) got left out of the movie and that could be hard for folks.
Basically, the movie clocks in at 3 stars, at best, and it manages to be a vast improvement on the source material. I’m so relieved to be able to read something else now.
Ugh.
I think I chuckled a total of three times in nearly 400 pages. Their relationship is waaaaaaaay more toxic in print than in the movie and the whole thing just made me hostile, like the sort of stuff that dominated all but the last 20 pages is okay and should be tolerated in the hopes that the final apology actually happens. There are also frustratingly large gaps in Lucy’s character “development” in the book that were, blessedly, smoothed over in the movie. There’s also a lot of body image talk in the book that (blessedly, as well) got left out of the movie and that could be hard for folks.
Basically, the movie clocks in at 3 stars, at best, and it manages to be a vast improvement on the source material. I’m so relieved to be able to read something else now.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming