Dear Love, I Hate You: An Enemies to Lovers Standalone (Silver Springs)

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And that was the fated day when it all began. The start of Zac and Love, their signed identities, who agreed to keep themselves anonymous and became pen pals. The Hero: Xavier - He is the star basketball player on the team at Easton High. His mother is the principle at the school and his father is a teacher. He recently saw his mother cheating on his father and it screwed with his head, he acted out and lit a stink bomb in school because he was so angry. His girlfriend Bri just happened to be filming a video and caught the act on camera and so Xavier got caught. The relationship was over after she posted it on Snap Chat. Lets break it down shall we? We follow Aveena or “vee”, a very “relatable” girl because she reads and works in the library and has the whole “shes hot but she doesn’t know it which makes her hotter” thing going on. On one fine day, she gets tired of being in her prodigy sisters shadow and writes an anonymous letter cursing everyone and everything and accidently leaves it in the library (like we all have at one point in our life) He tastes like cherry Jolly Ranchers, bad decisions, and a vulnerability I could spend my whole life trying to outrun." Dia is a female character that I've loved since the beginning of the story because she knows what she wants in life and to achieve it she has to work hard, but like any high school student despite her commitment, she falls in love with a boy she shouldn't.

Alright, in my more rational moments when the PTSD associated with wooden spoons isn't still clouding my vision, I can recognize that's not entirely true. Xavier smiles at my failed attempt to deny the undeniable. Let’s not pretend like puberty didn’t do every female on earth a solid when Xavier Emery went from “cute” to “sinfully hot” in the span of a summer.

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six months later” - its coming. the break up, the cheating rumours. i wanted to stop reading the book here and fool myself that they lived happily ever after but no. nothing could have pulled me away from the book. i had to know what happened. The buts for me are few. So tell me, and maybe it’s just me, are my expectations too high when a title is self-explanatory? The enemies to lovers theme had like a 2 to 5 minutes life span. This was a very good story for me, but it was not what I got from the title. This was not an Enemies to Lovers book. Finn still struggles to fully give into their attraction because he feels he’s not worthy of her, but once they do give in sparks fly. Gah! I love Dia and Finn’s all-consuming and passionate romance. Eliah did an excellent job of arousing all these young/first love emotions. Including Dia’s heartbreak at the end and Finn’s hopelessness. I can’t wait to read the second part of their story!

This book was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Michelle Sparks and Lucas Allen. I love duet narration and props to the author for doing it this way. Way too few books are narrated that way. I love Michelle Sparks soft, feminine voice which is terrific, and Lucas Allen had a good voice as well and totally sounded age appropriate for this book. Though his narration was a bit stilted at times, it was still good. Eliah truly has an original writing style and her sense of writing an interesting plot filled with a lot of drama, but also funny and steamy moments is incredible.

I’m not sure if im really disappointed in this because I knew what I was getting into. This is a very cliché story without the cookie cutter characters? Atleast that’s what I thought for the first 50% of the book aaand then we hit the high school vibe. Dia e Finn non si possono sopportare, peggio che se fossero cane e gatto, eppure, si sa come va a finire con l’odio romantico… Although I waited quite a while, the wait was well worth it because “Dear Heart, I Hate You” entirely met my expectations even though I wasn’t hoping for a cliffhanger. Dear Love, I Hate You" is a high school bully romance with a lot of twists and turns that will make you crazy but you'll love every second of it.

Xavier he carries burdens he shouldn’t, he keeps secrets that aren’t is and doesn’t know what to do with. He wants to keep his family together but he is slowly losing himself in the process. He wasn’t necessarily a badboy but he sure starts making choices like one.

Dia and Finn are a couple that you'll love even though sometimes their behavior will give you a headache, they're still teenagers who make a lot of mistakes and just learning what it means to live in the real world. Because that right there, that one sentence, (in fact the whole scene) is so, so important. Dia doesn’t bend to the whim of Finn. And he RESPECTS that. And her for doing it. See.. important. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes in my books I want the asshole to be just a pure shithead asshole, but sometimes it’s nice to read something that makes you go “Wow, boy likes a girl who actually stands her ground.” Ya know? Dear Love, I Hate You is a standalone full length by Eliah Greenwood. It's told from both POV with a happy ending. Genres: Young Adult romance | Sports romance Tropes: Secret Pen Pals | enemies to Lovers

With that said, this book wasn’t thaaatt bad. I genuinely liked the first half of the book, the confessions were adorable and Xavier was just so easy to like. And I think what ive always loved about pen-pal romances is that we see two people who believe that would never connect find an undeniable bond through the letters.So... I didn't hate the book, but it was exhausting. The plot sounded interesting enough, secret and anonymous post it notes in a book, wallflower falling in love with the basketball high school star.. I mean, the first half of this book was phenomenal, for real. But the author made it too long. In my humble opinion the writer goes beyond the necessary to give this book drama, she could have ended like halfway through it and it would have been a great book. I won't go into detail but some situations were absurd, for real. If you've read it, please let me know and we can vent through private message... please?? Finn lost his mother when he was a child, the pain destroyed him and anything that made him feel was pushed down so deep inside himself he lost it for ever. Or so it seemed… until one day one hurricane with a sassy mouth enters his life. Finn is famous for being a trouble maker, his unapologetic behaviour earned him the title with no competition on the field. Yet, this little temptation is making him question everything he thought he would never get or feel… This book was a last minute add to my TBR and I’m soooo glad I was able to get my hands on it. I just couldn’t resist the cover. The blurb. It is my first Eliah Greenwood book and she delivered! This book contains teenage angst, lots of teenage drama and dumb teenagers. In simple words, this book was all about "the idiocy of the teenagers." But well, I've been there before. I've been an idiot once, twice, or maybe countless times. Not to be a hypocrite, I completely understood some of the things they did. And then, insert the drama between their families, friends, pyscopath exes. It was just crazy and I truly lived for it. Being able to relate with the characters is very important for me. I could relate with Xavier and his loyalty for his undeserving parents. And I could relate with Aveena for understanding Xavier that family always comes first above everything.