Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating in SBTB Goodreads Group

Dec 21, 2018 Casey rated it it was ok

Shelves: adult, romance, netgalley, 2018

I fell instantly in love with Hazel and Josh. I devoured the first part of the book. I was SURE that this would be my favorite Christina Lauren to date BUT. But. Hazel and Josh were so open with each other about EVERYTHING (I mean, I'm pretty sure Hazel is incapable of being anything but super open and honest about everything whether she should be or not), everything except how they felt about each other and that was SUPER frustrating and seemed out of character. Then there were the creepy ways ...more

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Jan 13, 2019 Rachel rated it liked it

Shelves: 2019reads, contemporary-romance

I read this for the Smart Bitches Trashy Books January readalong. This grade is a mash-up of a positive grade for most of the book, and a negative grade for the ending.

Good things: this didn't engender any of my usual frustrations with contemporary romance, Josh was great, the middle section of the book was excellent, particularly the double blind dates (although I did feel sorry for everyone else on those dates, even the terrible ones, since neither Josh nor Hazel were paying any attention to a ...more

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Sep 12, 2018 Jessi rated it really liked it

Shelves: _2018, appealing-characteristic-character, contemporary, hard-copy-i-didn-t-keep, romance, ebook-from-netgalley, condom-use-nonexistent, first-person, f-m, ebook-from-libby

Josh and Hazel knew each other in college. Well, sort of. She puked on his shoes and he TA'd her anatomy class. She decides that they will be BFFs. But then they lost touch for seven years.
Hazel is trying to stay cool at a party full of teachers that she wants to work with when she announces that Josh has seen her boobs. To the entire party. Luckily, he rolls with it. And so do the teachers (though it doesn't hurt that her best friend (Josh's sister) is one of them and that the sister's husband ...more

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Jan 13, 2019 Heather rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: womens-fiction, library, friends-to-lovers, contemporary-romance, humor, dogs, family

Reread Aug 2024 - essentially the same notes as in previous reads, but I think I'll lower the score to 3.5 stars. It's not my favorite CL. The pining seemed to go on forever. And the male narrator is just awful. He's marginally acceptable for Josh (but not good), but his other voices are terrible. The announcer at the trivia game was so bad I had to jump ahead in the story to get past it. I just couldn't listen!

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It's been a while since I read this and it was a fun re-re ...more

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