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Loathe at First Sight
by Suzanne Park
“Enemies turn to lovers in YA author Park’s punchy adult debut set in the world of video game design. Melody Joo, a newly hired production assistant at Seventeen Studios, is determined to fight the “unescapable bro culture” within the gaming industry. But this proves nearly impossible while surrounded by cardboard cutouts of the studios’ scantily clad, anatomically impossible heroines. When her misogynistic boss, Ian MacKenzie, overhears her joking about a gender-swapped version of their popular games, which would follow male strippers fighting off the apocalypse, he tasks her with launching it as a mobile app to prove that the company is, in his words, “menstrual friendly.” But it was never meant to be a serious idea and Ian only gives her six months to achieve the impossible. If Melody’s going to prove herself, she can’t have any distractions. But Nolan MacKenzie, the handsome, infuriating intern who also happens to be Ian’s nephew, is a distraction too tempting to resist. Though they initially butt heads, Melody can’t deny the butterflies that follow when he smiles at her.”
Sigh, if you want romance to be the main focus for this book like I did and thought it would, well you won’t get it. This book highly focuses on a video game that Mel is producing and how she is being harassed about it. She does spend time with Nolan, but it didn’t feel like they had much page time together. I did enjoy the humor in the book. I did find that Mel hated like everyone in this book. I did like that the ending ended in romance, but I wish this book that was marketed as romance would have been more romance. I did like the feminism in this book and that Mel produces video and mobile games.
Sigh, if you want romance to be the main focus for this book like I did and thought it would, well you won’t get it. This book highly focuses on a video game that Mel is producing and how she is being harassed about it. She does spend time with Nolan, but it didn’t feel like they had much page time together. I did enjoy the humor in the book. I did find that Mel hated like everyone in this book. I did like that the ending ended in romance, but I wish this book that was marketed as romance would have been more romance. I did like the feminism in this book and that Mel produces video and mobile games.