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“But because the universe is a cat, and I am but a fuzzy ball of string”

Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren

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This is a case of its me, not the book. I see all the positive things in this book that have made it so well reviewed here at Cannonball Read but I still just can’t get myself to settle in and enjoy it. After nearly a month off and on I’ve given myself permission to walk away for now. I might come back to it at some point – I really do like the characters and plot framework the authors are working with – but now is not that time and there are too many other books perched on my […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Cute contemporary, bantery, love to hate to love romance.

Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren

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This book isn’t normally my genre (contemporary, or contemporary romance). But I make exceptions if I’ve read and liked books by the author before, or if someone whose tastes that are similar to mine says a book is worth checking out. Dating You / Hating You fits into both categories. I loved this author duo’s YA book Autoboyography when I read it last month, and this book in particular was a favorite of y’all here at the CBR romance reading hivemind when it first came out. So I picked it up. And it was fun! This wasn’t a perfect read […]

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6/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:71 |

It’s no Beautiful Bastard, and that’s a good thing

Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren

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Christina Lauren is pretty popular around these parts, and Dating You / Hating You seems to top most lists. The only book I’ve read from the collection is the one that started it all, Beautiful Bastard, and let’s just say I wasn’t a fan. So I broke up with CL and the Beautiful series, and didn’t give it another thought, until Dating You / Hating You was free on the library website, and since all of you guys seemed to like it, I thought I’d give it another shot. And it wasn’t too awful. Carter and Evie are both talent […]

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12/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

Robert Gottlieb and the New York Times Book Review Can Kiss My Romance Reading Ass

Dating You Hating You by Christina Lauren

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This may be more rant than review. Go buy the book, it’s good. I had this whole other review written and I expected to publish it Wednesday morning. It talked a little bit about how great Cannonballers are and some #BlameMalin jokes. I reviewed the book. I was debating a spoiler section at the bottom where I could talk about what I really loved. And then I read a tweet from The Ripped Bodice about Robert Gottlieb’s fabulously condescending “round up” of Romance books. I’ve definitely read Gottlieb’s roundup many more times than it deserves. I’m not sure why I’m […]

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9/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:95 |

Simply put, Evelyn Abbey is my former almost-girlfriend-turned-archnemesis-turned-tentative ally whom I would now very much like to permanently seduce

Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren

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4.5 stars Carter Aaron and Evelyn “Evie” Abbey (nicknamed Evil by Carter shortly after their first meeting due to her nefarious and wicked laugh) meet at an early Halloween party. They seem to be the only single people in a sea of couples, and both drift towards a corner of the room away from the “marrieds”, discovering that they coincidentally both came in Harry Potter costumes. Hitting it off instantly, their enthusiasm towards one another wanes a bit when they find out they are both celebrity agents, working for rival agencies in LA. Dating people within the business is never […]

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7/5/2017 's CBR9 Review No:63 |


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