The Hating Game: A Novel

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The agreement being that the one who doesn’t get the promotion has to resign so the stakes are high.

Lucy says this: "The investigators will see my fishnets and heavy eye makeup and assume I'm a hooker. I truly expected something else when I started this book, not all of these problematic quotes and words. Even the offer for a promotion – apart from one sentence wherein Lucy mentions having more scope to implement initiatives – becomes another game.We’re expected to feel sorry for him because he’s so hot, but actually shy and with self-esteem issues which, in this bizarro world, are valid excuses for men (and it’s always men) not to try to behave like decent human beings. Which comes near the end, before a completely ridiculous set piece where she tells off the source of Josh’s misery. They both had a sincere weirdness about them that you do not often see in rom-coms, especially where the main girl is “omg so quirky and random. The entire premise of The Hating Gamerides on the back of the kindergarten playground advice given to young girls: “He’s mean to you because he likes you. He seemed to have so much going on under the surface and I desperately wanted to know all of his thoughts.

As much as she bent over backwards to please the people who did like her, she is cold and cuts off those who don’t take an instant liking of her.

Her parents own a strawberry farm which seems really quite lovely to me but, apparently, everyone else she mentioned it to thought it was the most laughable thing on the planet. From the opening page, readers will know the outcome of Lucy and Joshua's relationship, but what happens in between is magic.