Hate You (Not): Review

Hate You Not Published by Berkley's Books by Ella James
on February 20, 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Pages: 302
Source: Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Format: eBook
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Rating:

I didn’t know I was that person. You know—the one who gets the kids. But that’s what the will said. June Lawler: Legal Guardian. My niece and nephew are 6 and 9, and all they’ve ever known is San Francisco. I arrive the day after the wreck, pack up my sister’s mansion, and fly them back to Georgia. The small-town farm where their mom and I grew up isn’t what it once was, but it’s home. That’s all they really need.
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I was courting an investor when it happened. Tromped all up and down the Himalayas, and he didn’t even buy in. It was a week before I found out what I’d lost. My little brother meant the world to me. Now even his kids are gone. Spirited away to Heat Springs, Georgia—population 298. They’re living on a farm that’s half a breath from bank foreclosure with a 26-year-old who didn’t finish high school. Nowhereville is not the place for little Mastersons. But I’ll get them back. It’s the money she must want, and I’ve got lots of that. “June Bug” Lawler is poorer than that red dirt she comes from. I can make her dreams come true—and do one last thing for my brother.
I hate him. She makes me crazy. He thinks he can buy me off! I’ve never met a man so arrogant. There’s no woman anywhere more stubborn. I wish I had never met him.
But that’s not the story.

June and Burke couldn’t be more different. June is from the south–and holds all that Southern charm. Burke, on the other hand, is from California–and puts on that arrogant façade right from the beginning.

However, when a tragic accident takes her sister and his brother (a married couple with children), June gets the children and Burke isn’t too happy with the arrangement. He lands on her doorstep with insults in hand.

However, June isn’t some soft woman who caves at the first sign of trouble. She’s strong, resilient, and incredibly caring–all reasons why she was left the children to begin with.

By the end of the story, June and Burke find their commonalities and realize that family is what they needed–and what they didn’t know they already had.

This story is romantic, sweet, funny, and charming. And I am so glad I was able to read it.

 

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