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A review by blurrypetals
99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
4.0
Well, not nearly as good as The Hating Game, but that would have been quite a feat, for Sally Thorne to write two books as good as The Hating Game in a row.
The biggest pitfall of this book, honestly, is just what I've described to you. It's written by Sally Thorne but it isn't as good as The Hating Game, which was a remarkable debut in that it was funny, sexy, cute, romantic, checked all the right boxes in all the right ways. This was all those things, but it just wasn't quite up to the same par.
I think the biggest thing that made me not enjoy this as much is that, in The Hating Game, Josh and Lucy's chemistry is damn near explosive, and here, Darcy and Tom's chemistry is at a steady simmer. Hell, even just the cute The Hating Game epilogue that was included at the end of the audiobook was filled with far more chemistry than the whole of 99 Percent Mine. I didn't love the way that Darcy and Tom basically had to spell things straight out for one another. After a certain point, I felt like it had crossed from cutesy will-they-won't-they into just plain annoying, and I never like that feeling.
But that said, the scene where the two of them go to the bar onward to the end of the novel is pretty damn good stuff; it really picked up the slack from the rest of the book and picked up the pace to get me jogging to the finish line rather than crawling (or worse, fast-forwarding) to it.
This was enjoyable enough but Thorne set the bar super high right out the gate, so my expectations are going to be set there until she can either meet or, somehow, I don't know how, surpass them by somehow writing a better book than The Hating Game. Until then, though, I'm content enough reading her B-material. Solid effort.
The biggest pitfall of this book, honestly, is just what I've described to you. It's written by Sally Thorne but it isn't as good as The Hating Game, which was a remarkable debut in that it was funny, sexy, cute, romantic, checked all the right boxes in all the right ways. This was all those things, but it just wasn't quite up to the same par.
I think the biggest thing that made me not enjoy this as much is that, in The Hating Game, Josh and Lucy's chemistry is damn near explosive, and here, Darcy and Tom's chemistry is at a steady simmer. Hell, even just the cute The Hating Game epilogue that was included at the end of the audiobook was filled with far more chemistry than the whole of 99 Percent Mine. I didn't love the way that Darcy and Tom basically had to spell things straight out for one another. After a certain point, I felt like it had crossed from cutesy will-they-won't-they into just plain annoying, and I never like that feeling.
But that said, the scene where the two of them go to the bar onward to the end of the novel is pretty damn good stuff; it really picked up the slack from the rest of the book and picked up the pace to get me jogging to the finish line rather than crawling (or worse, fast-forwarding) to it.
This was enjoyable enough but Thorne set the bar super high right out the gate, so my expectations are going to be set there until she can either meet or, somehow, I don't know how, surpass them by somehow writing a better book than The Hating Game. Until then, though, I'm content enough reading her B-material. Solid effort.