![]() Forced proximity keeping them together and timely conflict keeping them apart, check. But with every scene perfectly notched on the romcom arc, with not a single surprise to jolt the seasoned romantic, the book is, in a way, its own cliché.Ĭharacters with a meet-cute and sizzling attraction, check. The book reads like a film – and probably will become one soon, starring Emma Stone-Lawrence-Aniston-Bullock and Ryan Gosling-Gere-Clooney-Reynolds. Too good at their genreįor Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the writing team behind this perfect and perfectly frightful romantic comedy, it is a feather in their literary cap that they have so skillfully mastered their genre. It never hogs the remote or skips a shower or looks adorably and organically rumpled with its midnight fingers in the pickle jar. This book is so spot-on slick, so well-done, with every hair in place and every scripted beat executed to perfection, that it lacks soul. ![]() ![]() You know that gorgeous, too-good-to-be-true guy? The one you never bothered talking to, because his physical perfection likely fronts a hideously shallow personality devoid of human authenticity? Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren is the literary version of that guy. ![]() Dating You Hating You by Christina Lauren ![]()
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