title: Hate You, Maybe
author: Julie Christianson
publisher: independently published
publication date: September 20, 2025
pages: 350
peppers: 1 (on this scale)
warnings: past trauma
summary: Sayla wants to win the big grant for her theater program, so when her boss tells her that she needs to prove she's a team player by going on a woodland retreat with her nemesis, the Athletic Director at their high school, who also wants the grant, she knows she can make it work.
tropes:
- enemies-to-lovers
- forced proximity
- only one room
- but we work together
- learned walls from my broken mother
- mother's getting married
- envy the big family
what I liked:
- hmor
- high school politics
- the ReBoot retreat humor
what I didn’t like:
- she seems immature and too stubborn at first
overall rating: 4 (of 5 stars)
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