RELEASE BLITZ: HATED YOU THEN by M. Robinson

My Review

I always wonder why people hate each other when they don’t truly know one another. Where does it stem from? What allows it to continue? And, why can’t they see the truth beneath the dramatics?

All of these questions and more were on constant repeat as I ventured further into my first M. Robinson read for quite some time and while I don’t have any clear answers, I do know that most of the above actions and attitudes can’t be explained because when feelings are a part of the equation, anything goes.

I seriously don’t even know how to feel about Hated You Then. My thoughts and emotions are all over the place…it was incredibly difficult to keep myself in check as I read the first part of Jackson and Harley’s story because as much as I understood that this part focused on their younger years, meaning that their childish antics and over-the-top behaviors made more sense, I still wanted to throttle both of them multiple times as I read, and then, M. Robinson would craft scenes that broke my heart, making me get over my frustration for these two and hope that they’ll find a way to heal the scars and turn their hatred into something else, something that they both clearly needed, especially Jackson.

Coming-of-age romance insinuates that as the characters grow up that their childish antics and games would be a thing of the past, but that is so not the case with these two. No…all the time and growing up, age wise, only fuels the fire, mixing in some unwelcomed thoughts and feelings amidst entertaining banter that slowly goes from confusing to volatile, making me question if these two would ever find a way passed their hatred and animosity, but with the ending of book 1, I fear everything will only get worse before anything good will come of Jackson and Harley’s unwanted but intertwined nonetheless connection. 

Because of the characters’ perspectives that Robinson provides, readers begin this journey with Jackson and Harley and watch it twist into something that has gone from a spark to an inferno, so what that means for book 2 is anyone’s guess; I, for one, am scared to death because it’s clear that there’s something broken between them, something that has festered and grown into something that is bound to erupt and the fallout of it and where that leaves them will remain unclear until the Queen of Angst puts readers out of their blubbering misery.

4 Poison Apples

LOVE YOU NOW

Release Day – Nov 12

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