Copy received from Hachette Australia for an honest review

It is always hit and miss when you read an author's debut work (I know, I know, everyone started out as a debut novelist, but there are just so many books out there these days!)

But The Hating Game by Sally Thorne was definitely a hit for me.

You know as a kid and your mum told you that the boy/girl was pulling your hair/picking on you because they liked you? Well Lucy and Josh just took that into adulthood!

I loved the banter and the games this pair play in the office. They made me laugh out loud at some of the antics I have gotten up to in the office I have worked in over the years (there was a very memorable situation with 300 paperclips and rolls of sticky tape.....)

But behind her smiles there is a woman who just wants to be loved, and a man just broken enough to be complicated but not angsty.

Though at times I wanted to bitch slap the pair of them!

"You've broken me down so completely. I can't even handle it when a guy tells me I'm beautiful."

See... heart hurts for them.

I did get to the point where I was telling my book "come on you two, you know you want to!" I just wanted them to figure out what us readers did a long time ago!

There were plenty of laugh out loud moments, plenty of swoony moments, plenty of sweet and tender moments in The Hating Game.

I really enjoyed this book, and I will be keeping an eye out for more of Ms Thorne's work in the future.