fun story good narration

I enjoyed the story and thought it was performed well with a clear distinction between characters

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SOMuchBetter than the blurb would have you believe

I read the hating game and did enjoy it (enough that I committed myself to getting 99 percent mine once it came out) however I wouldn't say THG made my favourites shelf.

This little beauty however has cemented it's place in my solid favourites. It's the romance novel for the women of today. Darcy Barrett is a fantastic character she is this incredible relatable, strong, feminist, bad ass who deviates from the norm of your average air head plastic instagram model type as far as it is possible to bend. She drinks too much, her life is a mess and she's raw and vulnerable and just a joy to read, relate to, fall in love with and ultimately root for.

The compelling main character aside I constantly caught myself thinking the book itself was brilliantly written. Everything from the introductory chapters that set the scene to the fights that the characters get into are engaging and heart wrenching but above all I feel like it's very real. Too many times in this kind of genre the author just creates obstacles to keep the love interests apart for the sake of adding sexual tension but it is never usually done this well. It always ends up reading like filler and can get very boring very quickly but not here. I cannot praise the author enough. I don't want to give away spoilers so to summarise:

Real, relatable, laugh out loud funny and heart wrenching. I will be re reading soon 💛

As a side note, the narrator does a fantastic job. I think she was cast PERFECTLY because her voice matches with the image of the character I have in my head brilliantly. A well deserved 5 Stars.

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Delightful, funny and sometimes emotional

99 PERCENT MINE grabbed me in with Darcy love from the off, she's an absolute feisty female with a weakness that makes her strong. I admired her attitude, her unfiltered mouth, her inner 'oh s$$t' and her outer 'don't mess with me'. That said, it really did take 20% in for me to really get fully enmeshed into the story. The 5 star rating comes from everything that overwhelmed me and took over my life from there.

Darcy Barratt is a twin, the weaker runt and her twin Jamie, well let me say, I hated that guy and his influence on the characters in this story (even though I suspect there's a story that could come from him). Darcy and Jamie had another half to them, Tom Valeska, unofficial adoptee into the Barratt clan. Darcy has loved him forever but their life has been missed opportunities and it has always been easier for her to up and leave.

Tom Valeska (I can't help saying his names together, forgive me) is solid in the friendship stakes, a support, a protector, a wannabe saviour. He comes to renovate Darcy's grandmother's house and therein starts the literal magnetism between these two. Holy chemistry, I cannot explain the draw between them and I felt right in the middle of it, like iron filings. This was a burn of slow proportions but the absolute furnace it created, blew me away. I could not put this book down, nor would I want to. It is very unlike me to feel drawn back to a book immediately but I just know I will have to read and immerse myself once again.

Sally Thorne has followed up The Hating Game with something totally different and entirely as good. No one writes dialogue like Ms Thorne and she has amply shown her diversity and also her consistency. Sorry for the glow-y-ness but I am still riding high on feelings here and I hope you will be too.

Re-read by audio June 2019 was a delightful experience. The narrator was perfection and really brought Darcy's character to life. I loved revisiting the story.

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LOVED IT!

Don’t be put off of this! This is very different to The Hating Game but that’s a very good thing. Thoroughly enjoyed the brutal honesty of the love between the characters. Loved this as much as THG!

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I tried so hard to like this...

I really wanted to enjoy this book because I enjoyed The Hating Game by this author, and I wanted to ignore the early negative reviews for this book. However, this just missed the mark for me. There were too many negative dynamics between characters and it left a negative feeling in me because of it. There was a lot of promise, and it was well written, but it was the interactions between characters that let it down. There was enough good stuff about the story for it to be 3 stars though, and at times so thought I might give it 4 or 5. Sadly, by the end, that wasn’t the case.

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Another cracker from Sally Thorne

Oh my word, Sally Thorne writes brilliant characters.
The narrator really brought this story alive and I was completely hooked.
One of my all time favourite audible listens!

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so lovely

I love Sally Thorne books, such nice slow burning romances. really good to have a leading lady so feisty but fragile nd her story about railing against over care, in her opinion. very sweet.

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A good follow up

I loved The Hating Game, so was expecting great things from the follow up. Whilst I don’t think this has quite the story...it is an enjoyable book both to read and listen to.

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The difficult second book (total fail)

Selfish, whiny heroine that specialises in the pity party. Two dimensional characters. The wit and chemistry between the characters in The Hating Game is replaced with cringey Twilight-style prose. A waste of time and money.

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I felt sorry for the narrator

There were flashes of humour that upped the rating but in the main it was dull, whiny, unenjoyable, unsexy, one dimensional with forgettable supporting characters, the brother/sister duo were bottom dwellers….. I get that they grew and came good at the end but the journey, i.e. the book, was a ground out chore. Give it a miss. Sorry Sally Thorne. You can do and have done way better

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