Title: Spoiler Free Review: Better Hate Than Not by Chloe Liese (The Wilmot Sisters #2)
Author: Chloe Liese
Pub. Date: October 10th. 2024
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Hate-to-love
Format: eARC
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 366
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Full disclosure, I am NOT a huge fan of the hate-to-love trope but when done right it’s simply a delight! Chloe Liese introduced us to the Wilmot Sister’s in Two Wrongs Make a Right with Bea and Jamie’s story (Aquarius/Capricorn match). In this book we get Katerina aka Kat and Christopher’s story (Taurus/Capricorn match). Why did this one work for me? because it’s family centered and there’s already a foundation that’s built up from childhood. Kat is neurodivergent, she has ADHD and feels most comfortable traveling and making fast connections with people that don’t necessarily need to last. She feels like an outsider in her own family and when life brings her back home, she’s faced with repressed feelings that were never addressed. Enter Christoper Petruchio, the guy next door she has a hate to love dynamic with. The truth is, she’s also been harboring feelings for Christopher. What she wasn’t expecting was to be met with so much hostility from Chris because of her detached way of being with her own family. Christopher just can’t wrap his head around why or how Kate keep so much distance between herself and her family when family is all he’s ever wanted. For Christopher, the Wilmot’s are a safe haven. They are his neighbors who took him in as one of their own along side their three girls when he lost his parents. He doesn’t shy away from making his disdain for Kate known every chance he gets!
*•.¸♡ 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝙸 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚏 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚊𝚢. ♡¸.•*
There were so many moments I loved while reading this book but tbh, this is one where my appreciation only grew the more time passed away from this story. There aren’t many books I can say I felt seen in but this is the closest one that has come to describing the detachment a neurodivergent person feels while also loving those you call family so very dearly. That Chloe Liese wrote Christopher in a supportive way once the puzzle pieces clicked for him, filled my heart up for so many reasons. Having siblings that also are neurodivergent could quite possibly be the reason why Kate’s family is filled with the BEST supportive/understanding humans. I just loved seeing her finally feel seen but also spoken up for. To hear her families feelings about Kate be voiced and it be positive was heartwarming and hope inspiring. Also, seeing an MC with ADHD portrayed in the most selfless of ways, placing others before their own needs and wants was reaffirming for this readers. It isn’t uncommon to be dubbed as being purposely detached and cold, this at least has been my own experience with just being misunderstood. Chloe Liese’s back-list is now a priority for me to make my way through, I simply look forward to whatever this author writes next.
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