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A review by smalljillian
Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren
3.0
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A super quick read for me, but honestly I was just kind of bored. It has some Hating Game vibes for sure, but whereas I found THG to be really hard to put down, I didn’t feel that way about this book.
It’s definitely a fun book! The banter between Evie and Carter is great! And I liked having a FMC who was a few years older than the MMC. The romance between them kind of missed the mark for me.
But I didn’t love the setting (Hollywood) and I didn’t love the careers (talent agents) and I don’t find either character particularly relatable, so I struggled to bond with them.
The bad guy I kind of saw coming from pretty early on, including what he was doing. And characters like the bad guy just infuriate me to no end, it’s hard to read a book where a guy is like so demeaning to women and no one just pushes back against that? Not that it doesn’t happen in real life (spoiler: it does) but as a woman in corporate America I see that enough that I don’t want it to make its way into my fictional escapes (lol).
Christina Lauren is such a fun author duo (and SO NICE) and I’ve really enjoyed their later, more recent works! But I haven’t been as much of a fan as their older works.
A super quick read for me, but honestly I was just kind of bored. It has some Hating Game vibes for sure, but whereas I found THG to be really hard to put down, I didn’t feel that way about this book.
It’s definitely a fun book! The banter between Evie and Carter is great! And I liked having a FMC who was a few years older than the MMC. The romance between them kind of missed the mark for me.
But I didn’t love the setting (Hollywood) and I didn’t love the careers (talent agents) and I don’t find either character particularly relatable, so I struggled to bond with them.
The bad guy I kind of saw coming from pretty early on, including what he was doing. And characters like the bad guy just infuriate me to no end, it’s hard to read a book where a guy is like so demeaning to women and no one just pushes back against that? Not that it doesn’t happen in real life (spoiler: it does) but as a woman in corporate America I see that enough that I don’t want it to make its way into my fictional escapes (lol).
Christina Lauren is such a fun author duo (and SO NICE) and I’ve really enjoyed their later, more recent works! But I haven’t been as much of a fan as their older works.