"Hate F*@k" by Ainsley Booth

Hot, sizzling, somewhat mysterious, scandalous, fully enthralling and an absolute page-turner - once I had started reading this book, I just couldn't put it back down until I had finished it.

One more chapter, one more chapter... oh, it's 2:00am? Just a few more pages. Oh come on, you're already 67% into the book, another chapter will do... Mayyyybe one more... And now you might as well finish it... - I think we all know how that one goes (;


First, I saw the cover.
Despite the cover-model being shirtless, my eyes kept being drawn to his - they have a certain darkness to them, which makes him look dangerous and mysterous. Near, yet distant.
Once you have started reading the book, you will realize that the cover-model embodies Cole, the lead male in this novel, perfectly. The face, the ink, it's all there - it's rare the people on a cover actually look how you could imagine the characters.

Then, I saw the title.
Hate Fuck [part one].
How could that not make you curious for more? Angry sex just calls for a steamy romance with some conflict - or a lot of it.

Then, there was the blurb:
"Warning: This is just the start. This doesn't end well. And it's going to get much worse before it ever gets better.

Cole: 

I push her buttons. I want to push them in the good way. Dirty, up-against-the-wall, my-hand-in-her-pants kind of way.

But that's not possible, because I'm dark and she's light, and we both know it..

So I push her buttons in the bad way, making her hate me.

Hailey:

If a genie granted me three wishes, I'd ask for Cole Parker to never look at me again, that I'd forget the dark promise in his eyes, and that just once, before he vanished from my life completely, that he'd push me up against a wall and make me scream.

Then I'd go wash my mouth out with soap."


And then I just had to read the book! (;

Hailey Reid comes from an upper class family with an affinity to scandal - that she wants nothing to do with. She has moved out, has her own apartment, a job, and is paying her own bills - but family is nothing you can just escape.

Cole Parker is a dark and mysterious ex-Navy SEAL, now working for The Horus Group, a crisis management firm hired by Hailey's father.

She is the good girl - with bad thoughts for the bad boy man, who says he'd like to be good for her. To her.
The man she can't even stand; except that she can.
A lot.
Despite - or rather, especially through - all their banter it becomes obvious just how much they are drawn to one another, but also, just how acutely aware they are that they shouldn't get involved. But shouldn't doesn't mean couldn't and certainly not won't.
But... do both of them want the same thing?
Or are there ulterior motives for either one of them?

Would they stand a chance, despite fate's "gross sense of humor"? Or are there too many secrets, too dark not to burden them from the start?


What can I say?
The book did come with a warning: "This is just the start. This doesn't end well. And it's going to get much worse before it ever gets better."
And it does come with a cliffhanger, too. A cliffhanger that will have you wanting more, and that will have you wishing that its last words were wrong. So, so, so wrong.

5/5

Also, kudos for having a curvy female protagonist! 

We all know that's not the norm.

Visit Ainsley Booth on her website, facebook, twitter or goodreads.
Get Hate Fuck: Part One on amazon.
Add Hate Fuck: Part One to your goodreads "Want to Read".

Expected publication for Part Two in the series is March 24th, 2015.
Add Hate Fuck: Part Two to your goodreads "Want to Read".

*** I was provided with a review copy through NetGalley ***

"Never Never" by Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher

Holy mother of all twists and cliffhangers... this book could have easily meant the emotional death of me!

Sudden memory loss is a fear that many have - the thought of not recognizing anyone or anything a nightmare no one wants to encounter. For Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash, however, that nightmare becomes reality. In the blink of an eye they do not remember anything - not each other, not their families or friends, their school... not even who they are. The memories of their first encounter, their first date, their first kiss, their first night, their first fight, their feelings for one another... they're all gone - it's like they never even existed.

"Best friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen.

Complete strangers since this morning. 

He'll do anything to remember. 

She'll do anything to forget."

(amazon product info)

How do you deal with something like that on your own?
It's not like you can tell anyone... not without seeming like you've lost it. And with it I mean your sanity, not your memory.
The only thing you can do is to pretend, and to try to make new memories - that is, if you get the chance to.

Never Never truly is a masterpiece that will have you on the edge of your seat long after you've turned the last page. You will never never stop wondering how the story of Silas and Charlie will continue - never never before Never Never: Part 2 will be released (to ease your mind, according to goodreads, publication is expected for May 17th, 2015 - at least they won't have us die with anticipation!).
Despite just having finished this book today, I am already ready for a reread! Please hurry up with Part 2, Colleen and Tarryn - I want to read it, like, now!

5/5 !

And can I just say how much I love the way amazon/CreateSpace paperbacks feel? My first CreateSpace paperback was Teresa Mummert's Pretty Little Things and I loved that unique touch the cover had - sort of softer than a regular paperback? And Never Never has just the same feel to it - I'm a book-creep, I know ;p


You can find both the ebook and the paperback on amazon.
Visit Colleen Hoover's website and facebook page.
Visit Tarryn Fisher's website and facebook page.