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P.S.: I Hate You
by Lauren Connolly
There will be spoilers in this review.
I feel like I should start this off with something positive as I always try to do but to be very honest with you nothing comes to mind rn.
Now, in theory, the idea of two exes having to come together to fulfil the last wish of their brother/best friend sounds like a good story. In practice, however, it wasn’t.
I’ll admit that at first, I was entertained. It was easy to read, the pacing was good. I’m always intrigued by second chance romances, I just can’t resist them for some reason. And I thought Maddie was kind of fun and relatable with her standoffish behaviour at first. That didn’t last very long, though, let me tell you.
Because she was awful. Like the most annoying, rude and childish character I’ve read about in a long time. She felt so sorry for herself and treated everyone so terribly, especially Dom. And I feel like the book tried to justify her behaviour with the fact that her brother had just died, which made me so angry. Like she wasn’t the only one hurting and grieving, and even if that doesn’t give her the right to act this way. I’ve seen children deal with their emotions better than she did.
Now consider that this book has 400+ pages written entirely from her POV and you know why this was a struggle for me.
As for the romance, it also didn’t work for me. For one, they weren’t even exes?! They had one singular hook up like 10 years ago, and then he decided to marry his actual ex THE NEXT DAY because he found out she was pregnant.
And that’s just not something I could forgive. He very literally chose another woman over her one day after they fucked and stayed married to that woman for years (even though there wasn’t even a kid because she had a miscarriage).
It also came across as kind of pathetic for her to still be this upset about it. Like, instead of hating him so much, she should have been glad that he showed his true colours early on and just moved tf on. Like I would never take this dude back, wtf.
Also there were some really weird things in here that just bothered me sm:
-Dom’s brother tells a room full of people at Josh’s funeral that Maddie was in his teenage spank bank (this is a direct quote) and she found this funny? And not at all weird or gross??
-Maddie and Dom spread some of the ashes at a beach in like knee-deep water, like right at the beach?! But the ashes don’t sink, so she freaks out and starts to press them underwater with her hands, standing right in his ashes. Am I supposed to find this funny or…?
Just very weird all around.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in exchange for an honest review.
I feel like I should start this off with something positive as I always try to do but to be very honest with you nothing comes to mind rn.
Now, in theory, the idea of two exes having to come together to fulfil the last wish of their brother/best friend sounds like a good story. In practice, however, it wasn’t.
I’ll admit that at first, I was entertained. It was easy to read, the pacing was good. I’m always intrigued by second chance romances, I just can’t resist them for some reason. And I thought Maddie was kind of fun and relatable with her standoffish behaviour at first. That didn’t last very long, though, let me tell you.
Because she was awful. Like the most annoying, rude and childish character I’ve read about in a long time. She felt so sorry for herself and treated everyone so terribly, especially Dom. And I feel like the book tried to justify her behaviour with the fact that her brother had just died, which made me so angry. Like she wasn’t the only one hurting and grieving, and even if that doesn’t give her the right to act this way. I’ve seen children deal with their emotions better than she did.
Now consider that this book has 400+ pages written entirely from her POV and you know why this was a struggle for me.
As for the romance, it also didn’t work for me. For one, they weren’t even exes?! They had one singular hook up like 10 years ago, and then he decided to marry his actual ex THE NEXT DAY because he found out she was pregnant.
And that’s just not something I could forgive. He very literally chose another woman over her one day after they fucked and stayed married to that woman for years (even though there wasn’t even a kid because she had a miscarriage).
It also came across as kind of pathetic for her to still be this upset about it. Like, instead of hating him so much, she should have been glad that he showed his true colours early on and just moved tf on. Like I would never take this dude back, wtf.
Also there were some really weird things in here that just bothered me sm:
-Dom’s brother tells a room full of people at Josh’s funeral that Maddie was in his teenage spank bank (this is a direct quote) and she found this funny? And not at all weird or gross??
-Maddie and Dom spread some of the ashes at a beach in like knee-deep water, like right at the beach?! But the ashes don’t sink, so she freaks out and starts to press them underwater with her hands, standing right in his ashes. Am I supposed to find this funny or…?
Just very weird all around.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in exchange for an honest review.