Antonia Bernardin

The 42nd book I read this year was Loathe to Love you by Ali Hazelwood, a nice little romance read on my holiday!

A vague summary

This is a book made up of three different novellas, each following one of three girls in a friendship group.

The first is a forced proximity, enemies to lovers tale, where an environmental engineer is left half of a property in the will of her supervisor, only to discover that the other half is owned by her nephew, a blunt (but hot!), big oil lawyer. Their hatred turns to a truce, which turns to friendship, which eventually becomes more.

The second follows an environmental engineer, flashing between the present, where she is trapped in a lift with the hot, nordic partner in the competing architecture firm in her building and the past, when they hooked up. She hates him because she believes he betrayed her but as they are stuck together in the lift, she discovers that maybe she was mistaken.

The final story follows a Nasa engineer, who finds herself working with a guy she almost hooked up with a few years ago and now he’s blocking her project at every turn, or so she thinks. The story flashes between the present, where she is stuck in an icy crevasse, after going out in unsafe weather to test her prototype in the arctic and her (so called) nemesis is the only one prepared to rescue her, to the past, detailing their original encounter and their ‘feud’ when working together.

What did I think?

These are cute, short and sweet novellas. They have the classic ‘third act misunderstanding’ of romance novels but it’s not too protracted or drawn out due to how short the stories are. I liked the whole ‘steminist’ angle and I think it added a bit of depth to what would have been very shallow stories.

These are super cute, they are what they are say on the tin, they are nice, fluffy romances.

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