I Hate You, I Love You is a classic romance tale of two people who walk the fine line between hate and love.
Sebastian Blake is a novelist and a professor at a small arts college in Vermont. Naomi Price is poet and a professor at the same small arts college. The two have been at each other since day one. The banter back and forth between Naomi and Sebastian was great. You could feel the tension between the two and their chemistry was off the charts!
The book made me laugh, it made me swoon but it also broke my heart a little. The things that both Sebastian and Naomi had experienced in their pasts. You really feel their pain.
Overall, I did enjoy this story and who doesn’t love a little enemy to lovers’ story!

When two colleagues, Naomi and Sebastian, who already have a strained working relationship, find out that they have both been nominated for a prestigious award at the university that they work at, the tension between them builds but so does the attraction. Will they learn that they like more than despise each other?

I enjoyed a good portion of the book as I liked the witty banter between Naomi and Sebastian, which helped the plot move along nicely. However, when the tension between the two main characters continued halfway through the book, I felt that that was a bit much, and it was time the story progressed a bit more. I think if the story had progressed a bit sooner, then maybe some of the issues between the two main characters would not have been left unresolved at the end. While the end seemed to provide a happy conclusion, I feel that the characters wanted very different things out of life that they author didn't reconcile before the end. I feel less than satisfied by that.

Naomi Prince loves her job, she spends her days teaching students English at Hainamor University, and she is pretty darn good at it too, her students and colleagues love her... well except one colleague that is! From the moment she met fellow Professor Sebastian Blake something felt off about their encounter, he had a huge chip on his shoulder and for some reason he seemed to dislike her, even being a little rude too. From there each time they crossed paths the hatred between them grew, and it was not uncommon for him to go out of his way to point out her shortcomings, and embarrass her in front of others. He is a jerk, with a capital "J", and she tries her best to avoid him as best she can, but now that they are both up for the same award, the University has found it necessary to force them to work together... and that just adds fuel to the fire, in more ways than one!

This was an entertaining take on the enemies to lovers trope, from the moment it started I could tell there would be lots of heated banter ahead, and boy was there ever, these two went rounds at every turn. One moment they were fighting the sparks bouncing around between them, the next they were battling over their credentials and the competition for the award. It took me a while to warm up to Sebastian, the man could be a real jerk, and I couldn't help but feel for Naomi, she never really had a fighting chance with him, he ran so hot and cold. But little by little he started to grow on me, and I could see there was actually a good guy there, it just took a little while for him to make an appearance. Once he finally started to come around, tensions seem to lesson, the sparks took hold, and from then on it was watch out!! This was a fun little battle to watch unfold, it had moments to weaken the knees, moments to make you laugh, and of course moments that put a good squeeze on the heart, overall I'd say it was a nice well rounded tale. Highly recommend!

I requested an advanced copy of this title from NetGalley, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest opinion.

These two characters were very interesting and embodied the saying hate is the closest thing to love. Sebastian is the epitome of a tortured hero and his story tugged at my heart. In this story they both have suffered an unimaginable loss, but the good news is this story is packed full of humor that had me laughing out loud.

I Hate You, I Love You by Elizabeth Hayley follows two college teachers who can not stand each other - Naomi Price and Sebastian Blake. Naomi is this sweet poetry teacher whom everyone loves, except Sebastian, who is as grumpy as he is hot! These two have never gotten along and have barely tolerated each other these past few years, but are currently both up for the same award. Now, not only are these two competing against each other, but they also have to work together!

As I was reading this one, I kept going back and forth on what I was going to rate it. I couldn't make up my mind! I felt the characters had good background stories which meant that their heartache was something they could bond over and they had good chemistry when they finally kissed, but there were also issues I had with this one. For example, when I have to re-read the very first sentence of a book three times to understanding what the heck the author is trying to describe, it really throws me off. Like, why on earth did we need three lines to describe fall on the campus?

As you can tell, this is an enemies-to-lovers type of novel, however the part that really made me rate this from a 4, to a 3 was the fact the these two fought like children! I felt bad for the other characters in the novel who had to witness these ridiculous fights.

Overall, the book was average for me. Nothing was really grabbing me to continue reading. Rated 3/5 stars.

However, I leave you with this quote that sums up the book nicely:
"I've lost the battle, but not yet the war,
As long as you hate me, but love me more."

This is my first Elizabeth Hayley book and it definitely will not be my last! As a book nerd, I loved that this book was about two professors in the English department at a University competing for a prestigious award. This book follows Naomi and Sebastian, two sworn enemies that stop at nothing to torture the other. They teach at Hainamor University. Both are candidates for the Distinguished Professor Award. They must each show why the award should be given to them. They must impress the school, the judging panel and the students. While trying to do this, they continue to feud but get to know each other better. Eventually fighting turns to romance but their emotional baggage from past loves prevents them from truly moving on. They must figure out how to let go of the past to start a future.
This book had a great deal of emotion and interesting backstories for the characters. It made Naomi likable and it made Sebastian seem human after he mostly is seen acting like a jerk. Their fights are immature but hysterical. When their walls break down a feeling of hope shines through and it makes the reader want to see their relationship succeed. This was uncorrected e-book but I found it to be very polished and easy to read. I would definitely recommend it for anyone looking for book with second chances and a happily ever after.

Great give and take between two professors who have both been nominated for teacher of the year.
Both captivating and amusing.

Cute fun romp of a read with like-able characters and just enough steaminess. This book was graciously provided by Loveswept via Netgalleyin exchange for an honest review.

Cute rom com with nice chand a good satisfying HEA. I appreciate having the chance to read this and will suggest it to romance fans as a nice lighthearted story.

So, I love enemies to lovers stories. It’s quite possibly my favorite trope. I really expected this to be something I’d enjoy.

Sadly, I did not.

I didn’t like the writing style: mainly the overly descriptive sentences that meant nothing.

The characters read far younger than their actual age.

And I wanted it to be funny, and it wasn’t.

3.75 stars.
I Hate You, I Love You is a romcom book about two professors who clash from the start. It is a classic case of Hate at First Sight, a favorite trope of mine when done well. Let me start with the couple little things that made me rate it the way it did. The spark between them took some time to get going. They clashed and fought immediately but it made me wonder how they could really turn their feelings around. Why did they hate each other so fiercely. The way they acted in front of other teachers could be seen as a bit unprofessional but they seemed used to it. Sebastian and Naomi were still two interesting enough characters to make me keep going. These are nitpicky negatives for me.
Now the positive! Once things got going and there was an incentive between them to butt heads even further, the book really improved. You can tell that they really hate each other. The change from hate to tolerance to like to more is subtle and smooth, making it feel organic. They work better together than apart. This book is also deeper than I expected. There's background stories for both of them that are angsty and heavy. Once this is revealed, the reasoning behind their behavior in the beginning makes even more sense. I really enjoyed this one because of the classic tropes and the way the characters were built. The love scenes are actually pretty well written and not a cringeworthy moment in sight. I can see some people loving it way more than I do as well as only thinking it's so so. It reminds me of The Hating Game but is not quite up to par. It's a quick read and funny too. I'd recommend it to anybody who enjoys the Hate to Love trope.

Ever read a book and think "Wow, I am going to like this" but reading the blurb? That's what I thought when I first read the blurb for I Hate You, I Love You. I had this book built up in my mind. I started thinking to myself "Wouldn't it be cool if this book was like 10 Things I Hate About You". So, yeah, I was pumped up for this book. It was a disappointment when I started reading this book and realized that it was not what I thought it was going to be. 

The first half of the book was a huge disappointment. I thought Naomi and Sebastian's rivalry was immature. While Sebastian did start it (he could have handled Naomi's gift a bit better), Naomi didn't let it go. Instead of being the bigger person, she started acting childishly. Misplacing mail and messing stuff up on his desk? Really? I thought that she was an adult, not a vengeful teenager. What got me was that she thought she was justified in doing what she did. Sebastian was just as bad. The only thing was that he was verbal with his childishness. I kept shaking my head while reading those scenes. I said to myself during one scene "Are you freaking kidding me???" Then to have them competing against each other for a prize? Like my 12-year-old, my eye rolls were constant.

The second half of the book was a bit better but still. Naomi and Sebastian still were taking pot shots at each other.  But it was alright because they were dating. Uggggh. Then that whole debacle in front of the Personnel Committee. They both should have been fired for acting the way that they did. 

There was zero chemistry between Naomi and Sebastian. Zero. So when they started having sex, it didn't jive for me. Don't get me wrong, the sex scenes were hot but I couldn't get past Naomi and Sebastian's dislike of one another. I guess I should have looked past it because you can love someone you hated but I couldn't.

I didn't like Naomi. She rubbed me the wrong way. While I felt bad for what happened when she was in college, she should have told Sebastian what she was going to do with the money up front. It would have saved her a lot of heartache down the road. I wish more attention had been put on her teaching. I thought what she taught was interesting. Once her and Sebastian were an item, I did think that she had a dry and sarcastic sense of humor. I wish that I could have liked her more.

I felt awful for Sebastian. I could never imagine something like that happening to me. No wonder he was so grouchy. But, I do wish that his past had been explained earlier in the book. Instead of being dragged out the way it was. I also liked that he didn't stoop down to Naomi's level when she was being petty. I did like his zingers but I felt that he crossed a line a couple of times with what he said to Naomi. I felt that his issues with what she was going to do with the prize money should have been addressed before they went before the Personnel Committee. But, I did like that he was able to accept that he was wrong. And that he tried to make it up to Naomi. What he did at the end of the book made me cry.

The end of the book was the best part of the book. The author was able to end it on an HEA. As much as I disliked Naomi, I felt that she needed to be supported by her decision. I also felt the Sebastian needed to have a happy ending too. I do wish that there was an epilogue. I would have loved to see them in a year or two from the ending.

What I liked about I Hate You, I Love You:

A) The location. I love Vermont.

B) What Naomi taught

C) The end of the book

What I disliked about I Hate You, I Love You:

A) Naomi. Felt she was childish

B) Zero chemistry between Naomi and Sebastian

C) Sebastian's backstory

I gave I Hate You, I Love You a 3-star rating. I was disappointed by this book. I felt that the main characters had zero chemistry. I also felt that they acted like spoiled teenagers for 90% of the book. What saved the book for me was the location and the end of the book.

I gave I Hate You, I Love You an Adult rating. There is explicit sex. There is language. There is mild violence. I would recommend that no one under the age of 21 read this book. 

I am on the fence about if I would reread I Hate You, I Love You. I am also on the fence if I would recommend this book to family and friends.

I would like to thank Random House Publishing Group, Loveswept, and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review I Hate You, I Love You.

All opinions stated in this review of I Hate You, I Love You are mine.

**I chose to leave this review after reading an advance reader copy**

There are certain tropes that I love in my romance novels. I am a huge fan of the enemies to lovers trope, and that is exactly what I got with I Hate You, I Love You. But honestly, I got SO much more from this read.

Naomi and Sebastian are both professors at a university. They share an office space, and they cannot stand each other. He is a "serious, bestselling novelist", and she is a poet. I loved the snarky-ness between the two characters, with their funny and cutting sarcasm.

However, what I enjoyed even more was the build up of their story. We're given an outlook on both their points of view (I love alternating POVs), and we slowly get to know each character's motivations, fears, and regrets. That's what I truly enjoyed from this book: the characters are flawed. They are flawed in a way that made me want to give them each a hug, and not in an annoying way (thank goodness).

I recommend this book for people who think they may not be into romance books. It has humor and heart. I cheered them on, and shared in their pain as well. It's a beautifully written book and definitely worth reading.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC for my unbiased review. The enemies to lovers trope is one of my favorites. Although this didn't quite achieve the levels of the Hating Game, my personal favorite, I found it charming and witty. The characters were mostly believable, and having been in a PhD program in English myself, the teachers read as perhaps not entirely realistic, but based in a reality I could believe in. There were moments where I think editing would have been helpful (things that simply didn't fit the narrative- maybe ideas abandoned?) but overall the romance was quirky and fun and I loved pretending I was in New England with our heroine and hero. I did also enjoy the pitting of novel against poetry. Four fun and frolicking in the fall stars!

Sebastian Blake I love him. When Naomi breaks it off with him I’ll take him! I loved this book. It was an easy read that took a bit to get into better r once I was in I was in for the whole thing.

I quite enjoyed this book! I loved naomi! She was very independent and she knew what she wanted. I could relate to this book the situation of sebastian life. Only thing i can say is it was a slow burn book for me. It took it a minute to get going.

I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. There were times that I would just laugh at these two. Naomi and Sebastian do there best to make it seem like it is just a rivalry that is making them compete like this, but the more and more time and energy the use to impress the committee. The more and more they see the other in a whole new light. Each thinking they deserve the award more than the other. It is not long before the darker emotions turn to something more delightful for them both. It was a good read, but I wish it was a little longer. I think there could have been more to this story.

***I received an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley, Loveswept and Elizabeth Hayley.***

I found I Hate You, I Love You, by Elizabeth Hayley, a bit hard to get through. Naomi and Sebastian are English professors at the same college who find themselves competing for the same award. They’ve shared a mutual dislike from the beginning and seem to bring out the worst in one another. As they work to impress the awards committee, their paths cross even more frequently, and that hate turns to something else. Once their pasts are revealed, and their paths seem to diverge, can they have the future they both want?

To be honest, I’m not even sure I liked Naomi or Sebastian. Both have suffered some heartbreaking losses in their pasts, but the people they are in the present, while not without merits, have some serious control and maturity issues. The way they spoke to each other for much of the book was downright mean and unprofessional. Maybe I was supposed to find it witty or funny, but every barb was, at its base, cruel. This, for me, destabilized their feelings for one another because that cruelty was bound to resurface. On top of that, I found their chemistry lacking for the majority of the book.

In terms of the writing, there was a lot of telling versus showing, and I found the flow of the story somewhat choppy. The chapters where Hayley included minor characters that were important to the couple felt unfinished—like when Naomi’s parents visited unexpectedly or when Sebastian’s friend Mark came to visit—because they were set up but not followed through or up on.

The ending in and of itself was adorable, as was the symbolism Sebastian used. I liked that Naomi carried on and didn’t fall at Sebastian’s feet after they broke up. Unfortunately, the breakup felt incredibly forced. At the end of the day, I think the hate might have been too well done for the love to surmount it.

This story ended up really surprising me. I enjoyed the real feel of it and the emotions surrounding both the H and h's pasts. I thought the beginning was perfect in creating sexual chemistry through their hate for each other, but the story really got good when Sebastian and Naomi started to explore their true feelings for each other. As that got to know about each other and their respective pasts, their chemistry grew even more. I love enemies to lovers and this one not only tugged at my heart strings, but steamed up my kindle.

This book is an enemies to lovers book.
It was okay. The writing was good. Characters were believable. The plot was goid.
It's a light, fun read they you can polish off in a day at the beach or on your way to a vacation.