Welcome back to my blog- all about reviewing and recommending books!
This week's blog post is a review all about Sally Thorne's novel, The Hating Game.
The Hating Game is a romance-fiction book written by Sally Thorne and published in 2016. The Hating Game follows Lucy Hutton, a book obsessed assistant to a publishing CEO, and Joshua Templeman, a fellow assistant to the company's second CEO and Lucy's number one enemy. Lucy and Joshua never see eye to eye after the merger of the publishing houses they work for, creating ways to make life difficult for the other, and now the two of them are competing for a new promotion, which will lead to one of them becoming the other one's new boss. As each of them campaign for this new position and attempt to tear the other one down along the way, we begin to see the two of them slowly start to fall for each other. However, this becomes a slight problem when the two of them realise that someone will have to take the job, but will it come at a cost? Will the two of them find a way to be together or will the job come between them?
Having read this book I would rate it 3 out of 5 stars. I would say that this is a pretty good romance novel, it has an enemies to lovers trope, which can always be seen as an eye-catching read. This book is perfectly average, it is a quick read if you are someone who doesn't have a lot of time for reading and is keen on romance books. I wasn't completely hooked from the start it does take a while to get into the swing of reading this book. The book has its moments that have you on the edge of your seat, however, there are also a few chapters that do drag out quite a bit can make the book a bit boring.
The Hating Game was adapted into a film in 2021. The movie stars Lucy Hale as Lucy Hutton and Austin Stowell as Joshua Templeman. This movie may be seen to a few as quite a cringey chick flick, but as far as book to movie adaptations go, I believe that they did the book justice. When creating book to movie adaptations, those who have read the book prior will always keep an eye out for key parts of the book that may be overlooked, small details that some may miss, but without these details from the book the movie would seem incomplete. For example, towards the end of the book there is a key scene in Joshua's apartment that solidifies their feelings for each other through a very niche detail and the movie managed to capture this well. Overall, I think that this movie was pretty decent, it wasn't the most exciting book to movie adaptation, but they followed the book very closely, which is always great to see.
Hope that you guys enjoyed this review!
Pippa
