A review by buttonsandbooks
If You Hate Me by Helena Hunting

4.0

Helena Hunting has always been an auto buy author for me. Her light, sexy romances always hit the mark. I was surprised when I saw this on Audible and I hadn't heard of it before. 

Down on her luck, Beatrix is stuck moving in with her professional hockey playing brother and his fellow pro hockey playing best friend. She's only there until she finds a new job and can rent another place. She can't stand listening to her brother screwing random pick bunnies all the time and is also on edge because his BFF Tristan hates her, a mutual feeling. The two can barely be in a room together without fighting. There's a thin line between love and hate though and what her brother doesn't know can't hurt him. 

Read if you like:
✅ Enemies to lovers
✅ Hockey romance 
✅ Brother's best friend
✅ Forced proximity 
✅ 🌶️🌶️🌶️
✅ Googling the difference between English cucumbers and the regular kind 😂 (iykyk)

This was spicy AF, in a good way. I don't know that I'll ever look at cucumbers the same way. The amount of issues Tristan had was intense, but man Bea was patient. I think most would be over his crap. Obviously, there's a lot of backstory there. 

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