Dating You, Hating You: the perfect enemies-to-lovers romcom that'll have you laughing out loud

by Christina Lauren

'You can never go wrong with Christina Lauren!' Paige Toon

A laugh out loud, enemies to lovers romcom about two high-powered agents who learn that all's fair in love and war . . .

Despite a meet-awkward at a mutual friend's party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realization that they're both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn't enough to smother the flames.

But when their two agencies merge - causing the pair to vie for the same position - all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirty-something professionals - so why can't they act like it?

When push comes to shove and love fights with hate, will these two ever get their fairy tale Hollywood ending?

Find out why readers LOVE Christina Lauren:

'Pure, irresistible magic from start to finish' Emily Henry

'Witty and downright hilarious . . . perfect feel-good romantic comedy' Helen Hoang

'Pure joy' Sally Thorne

'What a joyful, warm, touching book! This is the book to read if you want to smile so hard your face hurts' Jasmine Guillory

'A sexy, hilarious rom-com . . . Perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory and Sally Thorne' Booklist

• ISBN10: 0349417520
• ISBN13: 9780349417523
• Publish Date: 18 January 2018 (first published 6 June 2017)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 25 March 2023
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Piatkus Books
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[pagingserenity]

I enjoyed reading it but it made me miss Olive and Ethan from The Unhoneymooners. Evie and Carter reminded me of them but just less... fun. And while there was some nice comedy and romance, none of it was quite able to balance out the horrific misogyny and hostile work environment that took place in the office.

[Linda]

3.5 stars
Dating You / Hating You was a good story, but I felt like something was missing in a way. I enjoyed Carter and Evie, but it sure did take them a long time to figure things out! Both when it came to office politics and their personal lives...

[Hillary]

I must confess something. Before tell you must pinkie swear that you will not laugh at me.

 

Ok Ready??

 

This is my very first Christina Lauren book at the ripe old age of 38.

 

Yeah, I know, what a tragedy. A huge part of me wants to blame my college English professor who told me I was "too smart" to read chick-lit. At the time I LOVED everything chick lit. One day I was reading a chick lit book before class where I would be forced to pick apart  F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald needed some heavy duty meds if you want my humble opinion. But I digress.

After the professor had it drilled into my chick lit brain, it would be two decades before I picked up another novel such as romance and chick lit. And what was that book called?

Dating you/Hating you!

I have seen soo many people in the book blogosphere raving about Christina Lauren, and after I saw that Scribd has what looked to me all her books, I downloaded Dating you/Hating You as that was a stand alone

, I had not taken the time to see what the books were all about, but I am all for taking chances so onto my phone it went as it was an audiobook. I have to admit that I was wary as I have only recently started liking romance book of any kind.

How I came to love the romance genre

It seemed as if Christina Lauren book had nothing but praise heaped on them and that posed another problem. What if the book was was way overhyped, and everyone was engaging in groupthink? Being the newbie who has only in the last year and a half were able to understand human speech I decided to go with the audiobook as the novelty of being able actually to understand human speech has yet to wear off.  I downloaded it onto my phone, and I was hooked!

I could relate to Evie so hard. She was awkward in high school and had extensive knowledge about movies and what makes them tick..most of the time. Ok Ok her boss Brad is fond of pointing out the one film that flopped instead of all the money and clients that Evie has brought in.

This book also sheds light on what modern feminism is. Evie wants to be able to keep her job, but her boss is forever looking for ways to have a good reason not to renew EVIE contract.  There was no outward sign that  Brad has done anything illegal... yet... I thought he glossed over the whole feminism thread. It would have beefed up the story if Evie ever actually DID something that would have made Brad even meaner. LOL

There were parts of the book that I thought NOW we will read about the actual feminist men during the '60s but nope the overall tone ket it lights and airy making this a PERFECT beach read. Unless you are like yours truly and you bring a book by Tomas and spend the whole summer attempting to make sense of the tome.

I loved this book.  And now I have a new favorite author, so it is a win-win.This review was originally posted on Adventures in Never Never Land

[jamiereadthis]

It’s no Hating Game, but it’s thoroughly cute.

[ross91]

Meh

[Leah]

Dating You/Hating You is my first ever Christina Lauren but it won’t be my last – and not just because I have Autoboyography on my Kindle waiting to be read. Christina Lauren are super prolific, mind, so I have quite the back catalogue to get myself into… Dating You/Hating You is billed as their first stand-alone romance, and reminds me a little of the premise of The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (which I haven’t read, but is also ironically published by Piatkus, like Dating You/Hating You), with the premise that two people meet, have crushes on each other, and it turns out they’re both Hollywood agents, their companies merge and boom! Suddenly, they’re competing for the same job.

It actually takes a while to get to the competing hi-jinks in Dating You/Hating You, but it did make me chuckle when Evie and Carter got down and dirty with each other (and not in *that* way), I particularly liked Carter being decaffeinated without knowing it and Evie ending up with fake tanned hands because of her hand lotion obsession. I just love the concept of love/hate relationships because done right they can be so satisfying and I loved Evie and Carter separately and together. This is very much a quick and easy read – told from both Evie and Carter’s perspectives and the pages really do just fly past with so much ease. It was so hard trying to root for them both, when we knew one could lose their job, but they were both so dang personable and lovely.

I really, really enjoyed Dating You/Hating You. I loved the romance, the hi-jinks, the characters, I loved Evie and Carter. I loved the writing style – I can see why so many people rave about Christina Lauren and their writing because they write so, so well. Dual authors fascinate me because it’s like who wrote what?!?! How did they write it?! Stick it together, etc??? And the best authors just make you forget it’s written by two people and I was just pulled into the story wholly and completely. I can’t wait to dive into Christina Lauren’s back catalogue because I really loved Dating You/Hating You.

[Kait ✨]

This book is lots of fun while being very anti-patriarchy with a huge heaping of girl power. I love the hate to love trope SO much, and it was still really well done here, but for me the best parts of this book were the friendships, especially Evie’s female friendships. Overall it was a really fun lighthearted read while still having a lot to say about a very timely issue.

It makes an interesting follow-up to [b:The Hating Game|25883848|The Hating Game|Sally Thorne|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1467138679s/25883848.jpg|45762345]. To be honest I loved The Hating Game more because I felt the chemistry and the characters were more fleshed out there, but I will admit that The Hating Game doesn’t quite allow Lucy the independence and agency that Evie has in Dating You / Hating You.