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Hate Story
by Nicole Williams
Three and a half stars.
I really liked the sound of this book, a woman who marries a man for $1 million so that he can get his green card.
Whilst I enjoyed the book, I didn't feel that it lived up to the blurb. Specifically,.
Max Sturm is a German day trader living in Portland. He forgot to renew his visa and now needs a green card marriage to stay in the USA. Having been burnt by love before he is looking for a no-strings, no attachment, no commitment three year business arrangement.
Nina Burton has spent her twenties looking after her grandmother, she gave up dreams of college and now works as a dog walker during the daytime and in a coffee shop in the evenings. She is facing the loss of her grandmother's home unless she can find some serious cash. She never knew her father, her mother walked out the door one day and never came back - she doesn't believe in love and marriage.
This all started very well, Nina is naive and Max is sophisticated, he is used to issuing orders and likes to make decisions on her behalf (eg orders her a whisky when he doesn't even know what she likes to drink). Nina may be poor and desperate but she isn't a push-over - she tells him off good and proper. I liked that.
But midway through the novel it became more of a love story and less of a hate story, I still enjoyed it but I didn't feel it was as alternative as it could have been.
But overall, good story, some great snark and an author I will look out for in 2017.
I really liked the sound of this book, a woman who marries a man for $1 million so that he can get his green card.
Whilst I enjoyed the book, I didn't feel that it lived up to the blurb. Specifically,
Spoiler
the prologue says this isn't a love story, this is how she comes to hate the man she married, which isn't true, she comes to love himMax Sturm is a German day trader living in Portland. He forgot to renew his visa and now needs a green card marriage to stay in the USA. Having been burnt by love before he is looking for a no-strings, no attachment, no commitment three year business arrangement.
Nina Burton has spent her twenties looking after her grandmother, she gave up dreams of college and now works as a dog walker during the daytime and in a coffee shop in the evenings. She is facing the loss of her grandmother's home unless she can find some serious cash. She never knew her father, her mother walked out the door one day and never came back - she doesn't believe in love and marriage.
This all started very well, Nina is naive and Max is sophisticated, he is used to issuing orders and likes to make decisions on her behalf (eg orders her a whisky when he doesn't even know what she likes to drink). Nina may be poor and desperate but she isn't a push-over - she tells him off good and proper. I liked that.
But midway through the novel it became more of a love story and less of a hate story, I still enjoyed it but I didn't feel it was as alternative as it could have been.
But overall, good story, some great snark and an author I will look out for in 2017.