S03.17: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne: Lucy! Obviously Danny didn't send the roses!

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Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

There aren’t many recent romances you can point to and categorically label as game changers, but Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game definitely fits this bill. We talk about all the ways we love it, about sparkling dialogue and witty writing and what makes a romcom and how this book changed the cover game for a generation of romance. Oh, and yes, we get to the bottom (jk, there is no bottom) of Jen’s issues with first-person present.

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0:00.0	It's sort of nice to be back on our bullshit.
0:05.0	It is.
0:07.0	Honestly, it's great.
0:09.0	Today I was like, oh, this is so nice.
0:11.0	I'm reading this book.
0:12.0	We're going to talk about this book.
0:13.7	And then it's just going to be a normal episode and I'm really happy that we're back.
0:20.0	Me too. And I'm really happy that we read this book because I had forgotten how much I loved this book when I first read it.
0:25.2	Agreed. But it is first person present. I have some feelings about it.
0:31.6	Sarah. You know what though, okay, let's introduce ourselves.
0:36.0	Let's not get right in.
0:38.0	Let's not dive right in.
0:39.0	Before we start off with my bullshit.
0:41.0	It's Thanksgiving week.
0:42.0	How is your holiday? Wait, we need to introduce
0:44.4	ourselves. Welcome to Fated Mates everyone. I'm Jennifer Procop. I am on
0:51.3	task this morning in my romance reading and romance criticism ways.
0:55.6	Very focused. I'm Sarah McClain, deeply unfocused, and I write romance novels, I read romance novels, and this week we're reading Sally
1:06.2	Thorns the hating one.
1:07.2	We are, which was a beloved, a beloved romance, hugely popular.
1:12.1	A juggernaut. Yeah. a
1:15.0	beloved- A juggernaut of a romance.
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