They Hate Each Other
Ratings11
Average rating4.3
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Ratings11
Average rating4.3
High school is hard enough without falling for your worst enemy. A heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age romcom for fans of HEARTSTOPPER, Casey McQuiston and Adam Silvera! Jonah Collins and Dylan Ramírez hate each other. Jonah views Dylan as a spoiled, arrogant golden boy, whilst Dylan has Jonah labelled as an attention-seeking show-off who never shuts his mouth. Their friends are convinced Jonah's and Dylan's mutual disdain is just thinly veiled lust - a rumour that surges like wildfire when the two wake up in one bed after homecoming. Horrified, the pair agree to use the faux pas to their advantage: they decide to keep up the fake dating ruse, then end their 'relationship' in a massive staged fight, proving their incompatibility once and for all. But the more time they spend together, the more they begin to question their true feelings. Could there be a fine line between love and hate after all? *** Readers love THEY HATE EACH OTHER! 'Delightfully funny' Reader Review 'An incredible queer romcom with such depth' Reader Review 'Brilliant, messy, complicated' Reader Review 'Heartwarming as well as heartbreaking' Reader Review 'The next big book in queer romance' Reader Review
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Woody wrote 3 dimensional 17/18 yr old main characters. I like how they created the romance and the fake dating scheme sounded believable in this situation. The boys, both of them had do deal with parental neglect. Jonas especially. You could see why they hated each other and it wasn't a mere miscommunication but how their home life impacted how they saw one another. I love how Woody talked about mental health, anxiety and panic attacks. That parental relationships can heal with time and work but sometimes there's not else what can be done. Going back to this romance feeling realistic, I love how Dylan and Jonas started to trust each other and opened up. Jonas ‘s stress to provide for his younger sisters , being poor and Dylan ‘s panic attacks. The book needed those 350 pages that took place over the span of 8 months. How they hate each other is baking romance undercover
The best way I can sum up this book is: absolutely no notes.
Everything this book set out to do, it did. Diverse rep? Check. Rivals to lovers? Check. Yearning? Check. Beginning to deal with and heal from trauma? Check. This book was exactly what I expected it to be and I mean that in the BEST way. I went in with expectations and it met every single one, like when you order your favorite dish from a restaurant that you haven't been to in a while and it is just as good as you remember it to be.
The conflicts in the main character's backstories were both handled beautifully, in my opinion. I was able to relate to both of them at multiple points in the story, which is unusual for characters with such different personalities. I especially loved the anxiety rep in both of them, but especially in Dylan. The descriptions of panic attacks were spot on and the way Jonah both helped him with them and reassured him that they didn't make him a burden almost genuinely made me cry.
There's really nothing else to say except this book did what it was meant to do flawlessly. Beyond some mild second-hand embarrassment I can't think of a single complaint. I needed a queer romance to set me right and I got it. Will definitely be checking out the author's other works!
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