“Both love and hate are mirror versions of the same game and you have to win. Why? Your heart and your ego. Trust me, I should know.”
The Hating game is a debut romance novel by Sally
Thorne. Which actually kind of surprised me, because for a debut novel, the writing is really great. Meet Lucy Hutton, our lovable protagonist who is a nice, quirky, office
darling and love to wear red lipstick and cheerful clothes. Then meet Joshua
Templeman, Lucy's cold, joyless, uptight, arrogant co-worker, who—according to his subordinates—is pretty much the "military
commander" in their office. Both of them work as executive assistants to
co-CEOs of a recently merged publishing company, Bexley and Gamin. Both of them
sit across each other. Both of them hate each other. And both of them have no
problem displaying their hatred toward each other in a series of ritualistic petty, childish, and passive agressive games.
Now competing
for the same promotion to become a COO, their game has come to a new stage as
both of them refuse to back down. But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has
also elevated into a steamy boiling point. As their game escalated, both of
them discover that maybe they don’t hate each other. Or maybe this is just a
new dangerous deceptive level of their hating game.
