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| Happy New Year to you! It’s cold outside, so we’re warming up with a steamy collection from one of the most popular writers on Likewise and we’re filling our shelves with books to read before we watch the upcoming adaptations. |
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| Why Ali Hazelwood Loves Enemies-to-Lovers |
The Book
Mara, Sadie, and Hannah’s friendship grew out of their shared love of science and the challenges they faced as women in STEM programs. In Loathe to Love You, they start their careers while navigating complicated relationships with infuriating, impossible, irresistible men.
The Author
Ali Hazelwood’s debut The Love Hypothesis was a viral hit, propelling her to the top of bestseller lists and inspiring thousands of impassioned TikToks about internet boyfriend Adam Carlsen. We chatted with her about her newest release, a collection of three swoony novellas.
Loathe to Love You is a collection of novellas - how is writing a shorter story different from a full-length novel?
Ali Hazelwood: The main difference is that you have less space to take your characters from “not together” to “together,” which usually requires getting a bit creative with the passage of time and story beats. That’s part of why I decided to write each novella in dual timelines—I thought it might help get a feeling of where the characters started and how far they went in their relationship.
All three of the stories have an enemies-to-lovers element. What do you love about that trope?
AH: The TL;DR answer is: everything! But what I love the most is how falling in love with an enemy means that at the very start of the relationship you’ve already seen how truly terrible that person can be. It can provide a very solid start for a relationship, because you already know how bad things could get.
Your heroines are engineers with different specialties. How do you choose their careers?
AH: It depends, but I usually have a feeling that a specific interest will fit the personality of a given character. For instance, Mara is very passionate and stubborn, and I thought that making her an environmental engineer would fit those traits well. On the other hand, Hannah is someone who’s a bit “on the run,” mostly from herself, and she seemed to me like the kind of character who would be intrigued by space exploration.
Here are other romances that Ali Hazelwood loves: |
 | | The Stand-Up Groomsman | | AH: "Aside from the romance, I loved how unique and authentic the female and the male main characters were as individuals, and reading about them coming together was an utter pleasure!" | |
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 | | Before I Let Go | | AH: “The most intensely emotional and satisfying second chance romance I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading.“ | |
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 | | Well Traveled | | AH: “A delicious opposites attract, forced proximity romance set in the world of Renaissance Faires. I loved this fresh take on two of my favorite tropes!” | |
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 | The Highlight |
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| “It wasn’t the screams he remembered most, although they crashed to shore inside the howling, furious wind and ricocheted for hours around the high cliffs above the beach. It wasn’t the storm or the roaring, foaming waves that carved great snaking wounds through the wet sand and stole its shape from under his feet.” |
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 | | The Blackhouse | | In this atmospheric new thriller, a journalist returns to the remote village where she made an accusation of murder when she was a small child. | |
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 | 20 Words: Guess The Novel |
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| A millennium-old paternity debate leads to irresponsible handling of historical materials, a museum break-in, and more than one murder. | |
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| Answer in footer |
 | The Stack |
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| Books to Read Before The Adaptations Hit Screens in 2023 |
| Several long awaited adaptations are finally coming to streaming services and theaters in 2023, and we’re getting new seasons of our favorite TV shows based on books. Pick up these books now and get ready to continue our favorite debate: is the movie ever better than the book? |
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 | | The Lying Life of Adults | | A teenager seeks out her mysterious aunt in this coming-of-age novel set in 1990s Naples. The series is streaming on Netflix on January 4. | |
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 | | The Cabin at the End of the World | | A couple and their young daughter are held hostage at their vacation home in this terrifying novel from the reigning king of horror. M. Night Shamalyan’s adaptation, Knock at the Cabin, hits theaters February 3. | |
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 | | Daisy Jones and the Six | | On March 3, we finally get to hear the incomparable Daisy Jones in the Prime Video interpretation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel about the rise and fall of 1970s rock super group. | |
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Critical Love
The Washington Post calls Kapoor’s crime epic “dazzling” and Publishers Weekly says it’s “deeply addictive.” |
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 | | Age of Vice | | | A Mercedes crashes across a New Dehli sidewalk, killing five people, in a crime that only begins to hint at the wealth and power of the Wadia family. | |
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