Hating the Player
2022 • 305 pages

Ratings5

Average rating3.8

15

I really liked it. I love enemies to lovers and while exes to lovers or second chance romance is not my cup of tea, I enjoyed this book. I KNEW, I knew that the Bailey drama was not as simple as it seemed to be, but I'm disappointed with the execution of it. I dislike that the author waited until the last moments to reveal the truth, and only to Gavin.
Vi deserved a chance to hear it and react to it. I hate that she learned about it “off-screen”, while that was the reason she hated Gavin for so long, and avoided the jocks for so long. She should have been told right then and there (or eavesdropped even). She deserved to have a chance to rage against Bailey and come to terms with that in the novel. I hate that we'll never know how she reacted or what she felt while learning the truth, that all of her hate and mistrust towards Gavin was unfounded for so long. Violet deserved to have a chance to come to terms with - now it feels like she never got that closure, even if we, as an audience, can figure she was told “off-screen”.

The epilogue was cute and I LOVE that they named their child Austen!! I love that! Though I have to agree with Daisy - The Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice is far more superior.

When he takes care of her when she is sick is so >>>>>>
I LOVE that!
4/5. Could be 4.75/5 if there was a resolution for Violet, Gavin and Bailey, but since Violet never got the chance to learn the news - not that we saw that -the rating is lower.

August 28, 2023