pick“Love and hate are visceral. Your stomach twists at the thought of that person. The heart in your chest beats heavy and bright, nearly visible through your flesh and clothes. Your appetite and sleep are schredded. Every interaction spikes your blood with adrenaline, and you're in the brink of fight or flight. Your body is barely under your control. You're consumed, and it scares you.”
3/100
Finally completed this today!
#thehatinggame #sallythorne #goodreads #readingchallenge2025 #readinggoal #bookstoscreen
so-soThis was the 1st romance we‘ve done on Book Interrupted and honestly I‘ve read better. I usually love the hate to love narrative being a huge P&P fan, but it was just okay. The movie wasn‘t good. They casted Josh all wrong and ruin the best scene in the book: the elevator. But, the podcast discussion was super fun. We talked about pick-up artists, incels, bad guys and does adding some crime to the romance make it more enjoyable?
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pickA super cute, slow burn, enemies to lovers. I really enjoyed this one and loved both main characters. Such a fun read and a great palette cleanser.
“Books were and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.” #TheHatingGame. #BookQuote. #CurrentlyReading
pickYou might think people hate you and be wrong about it. Joshua Templeman is just so irresistible! People can definitely go from hate to love.
@Kimberlone @Ruthiella after loving the book I am enjoying the adaptation you recommended (while I do my taxes at almost the last possible moment lmao)
pickThe Hating Game is a very steamy take on the enemies to lovers trope. I thoroughly enjoyed it the whole way through. ❤️
pickI truly did not want to like this as much as I did, I don‘t even like contemporary romance books, I read it because it was on someone‘s list for having THE hurt/comfort scene (yeah it was really good), the FMC is the smallest small girl with tiny baby bird bones which got a bit grating, & it did at times become ridiculous in general but it hit a lot of high notes. A little in love with it.
pickLoved this pick for next month's Romance Book Club ❤️
An office rivalry turns into an office romance.
I was along for the ride 100 percent.
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1. It‘s a toss up between 😘 and 🤣
2. The tagged book is the first one that came to mind.
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pickOh, this book. I loved it. The banter between Lucy and Joshua was hilarious. I mean, laughing while reading on the train.
pickPassion. I ended up looking up the definition, and it stated as “a strong and barely controllable emotion.” The passion that goes into hate and love are perhaps too similar that sometimes, it could be frightening. This book definitely represented it well. A light summer read!
pickThis was adorable. Definitely spicy. But I loved how the relationship evolved.
#spicy #romcom #officeromance #office #romance
pickThe rainbow floaty Szn is a go!Report cards are finished ✔️ this was delightful and I‘m thankful to the litten who mentioned Sally Thorne as the better choice when wanting a rom com to read
Matching my toes to my book 🤣 it‘s report writing Szn so I need extremely light reading material. It‘s my first time writing report cards in many years ( I‘ve been a sub for ages ) I keep promising myself treats if I survive
pickGreat book. Started off a bit slow for me but then picked up quickly.
A bunch of books I got today. Look forward to read them eventually.
I typically avoid watching movies based on books until I've read the book, but recently I realized there are SO MANY movies I've missed out on because of this arbitrary rule of mine, because there are SO MANY books I'm realistically never going to read, even if im interested in the movie. For example, LOTR, which I still haven't read OR SEEN. So screw it, watching The Hating Game on a whim since I rarely read romance 🤷🏽♀️
pickLucy & Joshua are executive assistants 4 co-CEO‘s, & they hate each other. When they start to see each other outside of the office, they discover their feelings are quite the opposite.
The hype was right for this book. I liked the characters. I really enjoyed not having a 3rd act break up. However, I didn‘t like how Joshua just started intimately touching Lucy w/o her full permission 1st. I felt kind of uncomfortable just listening to it.
Hands down, this is my favorite #enemiestolovers romance!
#loveathon2023
#loveathon
#EnemiestoLovers is my favourite romance trope and I loved this book 🥰
#Loveathon
pick🎧 I loved the story but Lucy was annoying on & off. Good narration. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickJust came back on litsy after years.🙈
Started the year with this one, and of course the internet recommended it to me. Personally, I really enjoyed the book. The dynamics between the protagonists, the silly banter and the progress, I loved it all. As much as I liked the book, the movie just didn't cut it for me. Any other Sally thorne recommendations?
4/5🌟
I‘ve found that a fluffy romance is a good palate cleanser between longer heavier books.
I haven‘t looked into more than the brief summary & it seems to be a light rom-com.
This signed special edition came from FairyLoot. The edges are yellow on top, pink on the bottom & ombré between. The white hardcover has gold foiling on the spine and a girl/guy facing each other across a table behind laptops on the front.
“He‘s the one she loves to hate.”
FINALLY got around to watching this and it wasn‘t the train wreck I was kind of expecting (which is my default level of expectation for adaptations of books I loved reading)
BUT THEY CHANGED THE BREAKFAST SCENE!!! and that is a crime (there was also extensive time line change ups which made it feel a bit shallower IMO and nudged it into instalove territory)
pickI listened to this on the recommendation of my #booksister @HOTPock3tt and absolutely loved it.
Funny, ridiculous, cute, and sexy all at once. Everything you want in a romcom. 😍
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Off to watch the movie!
pickI really enjoyed this enemies-to-lovers romance. I related to Lucy as a small woman who just wants to be taken seriously. Her banter with Josh and their childish office games were fun to watch play out. I love a grumpy guy who's secretly a big softie. I also watched the movie version and was pleasantly surprised by the adaptation, it was mostly true to the book.
pickWow! What a surprise this book ended up to be! An enemies to lovers rom-com is something I never thought I'd read, so imagine my utter delight when I fell in love with this book! All the characters were extremely likeable (except Josh's boss and dad, obviously). The narrator was spectacular! Her voice is adorable, and I loved how she voiced Lucy's boss. It reminded me of Eva Gabor's Lisa on Green Acres. Book 40 is one of my favorite books of 2022!
This is the second book I've read recently where the girl stands up for the guy against his disrespectful family like a badass and I am all for it.
📚 Not a big Contemporary/Romance reader, but this one surprised me
📚 🧚🏻🧞♂️🧜🏻♀️🧝🏼♀️🧙🏻♂️🧛🏻♂️🧟♂️🥷🏻🤴🏻🪄🖼️⏳
📚 I love the feeling of entering a whole new world and just getting lost in it.
📚 Definitely cover art...😍
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pickFinished this on the road just after visiting the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest in Arizona.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cute. Funny in places. Predictable ending. Quick summer read. Reminded me of You‘ve Got Mail, but more “adult” - some eye-rolling here with those scenes, and the writing was cringe-worthy at times, but it was entertaining otherwise.
#BookMoods
This one was top of mind for #BecameAMovie as I just finally watched the movie this past holiday weekend. It‘s been so long since I read the book that I can‘t speak to how closely the movie followed it, but it was a fairly cute rom-com.🤷🏻♀️
pickI really should‘ve written my review for The Hating Game right after reading it because I really did enjoy it. However I have since watched the movie and I feel it has maybe tainted my original view because now I can‘t separate them.
I would definitely recommend the book to anyone who enjoys enemies to lovers- 100%. The movie is also an ok rom-com but just not how I interpreted the book really.
🌟🌟🌟🌟
pickProbably the BEST book-to-movie adaptation I have seen in a long while. Highly recommend both book and movie.
Payday means book mail 🤣🙈 trying to expand into romance as a genre this year and wanted some light summer read 🥰
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️?
A cute office romance with fun chemistry. Clichés abound. ?
bailedUgh. Bailing at 46%, I‘m just not feeling it. This was recommended to me (and now makes me nervous for the other books this person recommended). I honestly don‘t care about seeing them get together. I‘m also so distracted about where this is set… set in a city, but they need a car and the country is far enough for a flight.
This was my #bookspin book 🤷🏻♀️
I was reading this so I could watch the movie on Hulu. Maybe I‘ll watch it anyway.
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