:INFO The Book I Return to When I Need Something I Know Will Work The Hating Game is an enemies-to-lovers office romance about two assistants to co-CEOs who share a desk and despise each other with enormous creativity. Sally Thorne writes romantic tension with the precision of a watch mechanism: every chapter tightens what came before. I have read this book five times. I know exactly what happens in every scene. I still feel the pull of the tension in the scenes that build to the resolution and I am not embarrassed by that. :COUNTER.half 384 Pages | :COUNTER.half 5 Times Read :QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Sally Thorne] I want you to want me to want you. That is not an unreasonable thing to ask. :JOURNEY Rereading The Hating Game 5 Immediate tension 5 Pure pleasure 4 Real vulnerability 5 Delivers fully :DURATION 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z 2024-09-15T00:00:00Z :NOW On my sixth read, same annual comfort, same tension in the same scenes, and I remain entirely happy about this pattern.