And I honestly feel like I’m going to rate all romance reads off of this one book. This was the most seamlessly woven feminist romance novel I’ve ever read, too. It was devastating to women who didn’t believe in themselves.” Then this beautiful and actually realistic story comes along, and it was the perfect thing that me and my head space needed. You all, it was refreshing to read about people actually older than me for once in a romance novel! Seriously, I’ve been feeling in kind of a funk about my age and reading lately, and this was a breath of fresh air! The media we consume just makes us feel like we should be married, in our dream homes, with kids, in our late twenties. And throughout the story we slowly get to see what drove them apart ten years ago, while also focusing on everything that is still keeping them apart. “How can I be with anyone else when I spend three hundred and sixty-four days waiting for you to draw me a map?”Īnd Nicholas and Livvy’s families are heavily connected. And Nicholas is not only curious why she didn’t text him, but he’s also trying to keep his emotions in check. But now she’s back in town, staying with her mother, in the city where Nicholas and her grew up and fell in love. And they always have mind-blowing sex.Įxcept, last birthday, Livvy’s thirtieth birthday, which would have marked ten years since Nicholas started traveling each and every year to find her, she didn’t send a text. Yet, every ten years, on Livvy’s birthday, she will text Nicholas coordinates to meet her in a different city. After a tragedy, that business relationship fell apart, so Nicholas and Livvy’s relationship fell apart, too.

Sometimes all you could hope for were secret stolen moments with one messy, royally bad girl.”Īnd their lives have been intertwined forever, since their family used to co-own a business. “Love rarely conquered all, the true villains almost always went unpunished, and happily ever afters? Ha.

➽ Livvy - Tattoo artist who won’t stay in one city for too long. ➽ Nicholas - In line to own his family’s empire, while working constantly. Hate to Want You switches between two perspectives: And I completely recommend this to every romance reader. Never have I ever read such a sexy book, that constantly emphasizes the importance (and sexiness) of consent! On top of the fact that this book has some amazing diversity from most of the cast of characters, but it also showcases an Asian main character who is living with her depression and who loves her soft body completely and unapologetically. One of my favorite second chance romances of all time. Who I can’t seem to hate enough to stop wanting.” “Ten years is long enough for me to be hung up on a man who hates to want me.

Hate to want you forbidden hearts