The Trouble with Hating You

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Jay also didn't endear himself to me as I found him a little pushy/white knight'y in his pursuit of Liya who really didn't give him any reason to believe there could be anything between them until suddenly there was? 🤷‍♀️

The book certainly brought all the feels, and elements of all characters. Throughout the novel, the story is smooth and generally moves along well. At the end of the day if you are looking for something that you have read similar to this before and don’t mind another, then this will satisfy you. If you are looking for something more than just an average read, that you will want to engage with, then this is also something you will enjoy. Details About The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel ePub My biggest problem with this book was primarily the off-paced and devoid-of-any-chemistry romance but the highly unrealistic cultural tidbits sprinkled throughout the book didn’t help the matter either. Absolutely no desi millennials/Gen-Zs - even the overtly pious ones with supercharged religious parents - go to the mandir (the Hindu holy place of worship) every week. Hell, I think the last time I went was almost three years ago because my family drove past it randomly. Ain't nobody got the time for that! The Hindu community also isn’t as tiny and engrossed in one another as the book shows; hundreds of thousands of people go through a mandir every day but the way it’s shown in the book, you’d think everyone is chummy with one another and their business. Like you’ve got girls practicing dance routines and boys playing basketball tournaments in the place like it’s a damn rec centre. Once again, ain’t nobody got time for that shit!!! A little gossip and friendly chatter is obviously warranted (as is the fact in any community) but evenJay is a lawyer and helps out with his widower mom, especially now that his older brother has gotten married and now has a pregnant wife. He's a little skeptical when he's invited over to dinner, and his skepticism only increases when he's literally barrelled over by the woman whose family he's supposed to be sitting down with. As it turns out, he's the lawyer from the firm hired to save Liya's company, but because of that terrible dinner gone wrong, they both hate each other. I also had a bit of a problem with Jay. He is definitely a sweet man, but he is too stubborn for his own good. And I don't mean Aries kind of stubborn, but Taurus kind of stubborn, if you know what I mean. also the speech Rohan gave at the temple while playing basketball, like yeah okay good you shouldn't judge people based on rumors and shit but it felt like the whole thing was just thrown in there for the sake of it being in the book

I hated the judgemental way in which Liya's completely normal lifestyle is portrayed as (and I don't mean that because within her community she's labelled as 'bad' but because the way the story unfolds suggests that her 'carefree' attitude towards sex lands her in trouble or with troubled men). By the end it seemed that the only reason why Liya no longer feels 'broken' is because of Jay. This book comes out next week and I hope you add it to your reading list as soon as possible! This was such a fun read and I couldn’t put it down! I raised a sharp brow, my bangled wrist on my hip. “I don’t know about your past lives, but you’ve done enough in this lifetime to deserve some affliction.” I found the book to be super uneven. There were moments when Jay was a great caretaker (he helps her get home after a thing happens to her, he loves his family, and he is at times patient with Liya). But there is also a scene where he basically forces a man who nearly assaulted Liya to apologize and bring her flowers. I can tell you with certainty that if a man nearly assaults me, the last thing I want is to see him in my office begging for forgiveness. I was not able to fully trust him to be a good partner for Liya after that. the biggest plot twist of the year is that i actually enjoyed this book bc phew after reading the first 10 chapters i was READY TO DITCH

Playlists containing THE TROUBLE WITH HATING YOU by Sajni Patel Read by Soneela Nankani - Audiobook Excerpt also the amount of rhetorical questions in every freaking chapter, it reminded me of my year 8 essays when i had just learned how rhetorical questions are used to engage the reader in the text and i tried putting abit too many in my essays thinking i'll get more marks. the stupid father also doesn't believe Liya about her (tw) being raped by the guy Mukesh who helps clean and cook in the temple and takes care of it, i can for once understand why juliette thought she would be spend the rest of her life hea with adam but i can't understand how stupid this guy is to stand with the guy who raped her daughter and call her a frieking whore just so he doesn't have to face any stupid issues with the community. wtf.