This was a super unique enemies to lovers. I haven’t read a book with a plot similar to this before so I really enjoyed it. I didn’t feel as much chemistry though! I think because it was such a quick read. Definitely worth the read though and the ending was adorable

Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Ohter has an enormous potential. When I read the summary, I was already happy for a grumpy-sunshite-hate-to-love romance, but I got a bit disappointed to be honnest. I didn't really got attached to the characters. I liked Brynn a bit more than Sebastian though. Actually, Sebastian felt a bit empty, I couldn't really catch his personnality, how he felt about anything. I don't know, I don't think the book is bad, actually I think it's pretty good, like you will probably spend a nice time, but it juste didn't click with me.

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced audiobook. Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other by Bethany Turner is a typical romance. Boy meets girl. Boy hates girl. Boy falls head over heels for girl but will he be willing to risk himself for her? I found this story to not really go anywhere. We all know that celebrities have a persona that they want to uphold. So the fact that Brynn acted like an superficial adult didn’t seem so out of the ordinary. The plot also was nothing out of the ordinary. Growing up in a small town, she wanted nothing but to get out without giving a second thought to those she would hurt in the process. I did, however, really enjoy the narrator Talon David. The expression she added to the characters made them more believable. I was really able to understand how Sebastian felt whenever he spoke of his past. Overall, not bad but not something I would listen to again.

Brynn is so annoying! I dislike her most of the time but Sebastian is amazing, which made the book enjoyable. I love the banter between them. I also love that Brynn realized how arrogant she is and was grounded with all that happened to her.

Thanks once again!

Brynn is a sunny TV host. Sebastion is a grumpy ex-journalist. After Brynn makes a mistake on air, bashing her hometown, she needs to go back home and do damage control. Sebastian, one of the town's spoke persons, is expected to drive her around town while she films her way through saving her career.

While I get the whole point of Brynn faking her sunny persona for viewers and career advancement, as well as giving a whole new twist to the sunshine archetype, I just really didn't like her. At no point in the story did I find myself rooting for her. I resonated with Sebastion so much more. Loved him and how he's grown in the town.

I reviewed the audiobook, and I can only give credit to the wonderful narration by Talon. The way she brought these characters and the entire story to live with nothing but her voice is something I truly admire.

My biggest ick with this story was the fact that the chapters with Sebastian's POV were written in the third person while Brynn's were written in the first person. I get how this might make it clear whose POV it is, but it really threw me off.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Brynn Cornell is the it girl of morning television and her job is to make everyone love her. When one day she was talking to her cohost thinking the cameras were off and she was caught trash talking her home down and everyone saw it. Now her good likeable character was ruined and she has to do major damage control to get things back on track. She comes up with the idea to go to her home town and show if the town can forgive her and it was a mistake she's a good person. The thing is she hasn't been back since she left at 18 and hasn't looked back or stayed in touch with anyone.

So to think she will be welcome back with open arms is a joke.

Sebastian Sudworth has been living in this town for the last few years and he loves the simple of the town and is protected of the people and the town. He used to be a big time reporter and one accident made him leave it all behind. They get stuck together and she has no idea who he once once. Can she turn the town and him around that she's a good person?

Listen it wasn't until close to the end I came a little bit around to her. She was very unlikeable as a reader and a brat and honestly I wasn't rooting for her. This was the main thing about the book that turned me off to it. Cause all she cared about was herself and didn't care for her old friends the town she grew up or the people in it. I'm still not convinced she's a good person. She sucks

The town loved them and Sebastian also loved! It would of been a better book with a different lead

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an Audio ARC in exchange for an honest review.

thank you to netgalley for the advanced reading copy. I really enjoyed this and will be getting copies for my shop.

Twenty years ago, Brynn ran as fast as she could from her hometown of Adelaide Springs, Colorado, and is now the NYC-based co-host of the country's top morning TV news program. Six years ago, Sebastian took refuge in Adelaide Springs after disappearing overnight from his life as an award-winning war correspondent.

When Brynn torpedos her career and Adelaide Springs on national television, she must head back on a PR tour to save her job. Sebastian doesn't take kindly to Brynn's shallow and condescending attitude but has drawn the short straw to be her tour guide around town. What starts as a very antagonistic relationship softens as Brynn and Sebastian discover the truth behind their protective barriers and begin to share their vulnerabilities in the quirky little town of Adelaide Springs.

This closed-door, enemies-to-lovers romance starts out pretty cringy. Brynn isn't that character who is endearing to the reader and is misunderstood by the other characters. She is genuinely unlikable at the onset of the book. As Sebastian begins to see her in a new light, so does the reader. I liked that this was a love story between 2 adults who were funny and goofy but also adults who could be introspective and vulnerable. Thank you to @NetGalley for the opportunity to review the delightful audiobook. The story was great, and the narrators' performances truly enhanced the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

This story started off with me disliking Brynn a lot, but as the story progressed she grew on me and began to understand her more. In the end she became a likable character and I was happy for her to get a good ending. This grumpy meets sunshine trope was well done in this book along with the small town aspect of the story.

This was cute! I kind of felt like the title didn’t play into the story as much as I wanted it to though. I was expecting Brynn to go back to her hometown, and Sebastian having an incident in some long history with her as the reason they hated each other. The story was enjoyable though, and I liked how much the characters grew from the beginning. Brynn came off as very selfish, and Sebastian was almost too grumpy. It definitely had some key moments that turned the tables for both characters, and made the story that much more enjoyable.

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas Nelson for the audio ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Brynn Cornel is a NYC reporter, 'wasting' her time 'on the couch' for a nationwide morning show. The PR team has written her bio claiming she's a ray of sunshine, and her co-host finally gets to her -- she snarkily admits she's from a 'small, backward town in the small town of Adelaide Springs, CO', where people weren't all that. Unfortunately, she's still on air. So now she's got to go and apologize to the people of her hometown, a group of people she hasn't seen or even talked to since leaving 20 years ago. Somehow she has to convince the nation she's really NOT a mean girl or as snarky as she unfortunately sounded.

Then there's Sebastian Sudworth, who was a superstar reporter with a reputation for being in the center of the action around the world, who won many major awards and accolades — until something snapped inside him and he vanished from the scene under mysterious circumstances. Turns out Sebastian sought refuge in tiny Adelaide Springs, trying to blend in as a regular, scruffy citizen of the town. When he's assigned to chauffeur Brynn around town, Brynn decides she'll just have to charm him the same way she's charmed all her viewers. But they since theyautomatically hate one another, it's a few very uncomfortable and funny days -- until they realize that they really like one another!

It's a fun,light-hearted story , where going home is just what the doctor ordered. And the narrator was perfect!

"Brynn and Sebastian hate each other," by Bethany Turner was an entertaining and enjoyable story that hooked me as soon as I started listening to it. Brynn is an anchor for one of the top morning news programs in NYC, but during what she thinks is an ad break, she says some pretty terrible stuff over the air about her very small town back in Colorado, she also insults her audience's intelligence. The only thing Brynn can do to fix the big guffaw is to go back home to the small town and apologize and make things right with them (oh, and videotape it for the NYC morning show).
Sebastian is a man of many talents; he has found this tiny town in Colorado when he needed it most. His profession has put him in precarious positions before but right now the only precarious position he has found himself in is being the chauffeur and tour director of newly back to town Brynn. He and Brynn spar constantly, she makes him crazy, but somehow, he can't stop thinking of her! Throw in some old timer locals, long lost friends, and a camera man who is crazy for green chiles and this book is the treat you are looking for.
As much as I enjoyed this book, I like many others found Brynn impossibly hard to like. I know that Miss Turner wrote her this way on purpose, but even when I was supposed to like her, I still couldn't stand her. I also wasn't that fond of Sebastian to be completely honest. I also thought the friendships that Brynn had in her hometown were odd and the explanation of characters who were no longer in town was just added confusion. The timeline seemed off regarding how long she was there and sledding down a mountain?!? Wow, that is so unsafe! I felt like there should be some kind of warning on the outside of the book about that one. I think if you don't think too much or get too bogged down in reality, you should absolutely give this book a go. Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advanced readers copy for providing my unbiased review. 3 stars

I didn't really enjoy this book. I love good enemies to lovers and grumpy vs. sunshine, but this was not one I truly enjoyed. Both characters bugged me a lot. While the writing was done well, I just didn't like the character. NetGalley allowed me to review the audiobook, which was done well. The narrators were great.

Thank you to Netgalley for this audiobook

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the audio version.
I was really excited about this but it was just a miss for me.
I didn't really care for the main female character at all. She is supposed to be a women approaching 40 and she acts like a woman that is a teenager. She is mean and inconsiderate of other people. I didn't like how the main male character didn't agree with the "older" city council. Him and his friends all thought that they were old and old-fashioned. I think that is insulting. I just didn't like either one of them and I guess they just deserved each other. It was just a miss for me and the story plot itself just was a dud.

I really enjoy novels by Bethany Turner because they include laugh-out-loud humor, fun pop culture references, and great romances. Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other checked all the boxes.

Warning: Readers May not like Brynn for the first several chapters. I promise opinions are likely to change as the story progresses, but this is important to know.

Just as Brynn begins her dream job as 'third hour' cohost of a major TV network's morning show, she has an "open mouth, insert foot" incident that finds her back in her small Colorado hometown, a place she never planned to visit again. Sebastian is the first person she encounters upon arriving, and Brynn instantly makes the situation worse in spectacular fashion. Why do Brynn and Sebastian hate each other? Do they really? Can Brynn really go home again?

This novel provided peaks and valleys of emotion; Ms. Turner had me laughing on one page and wanting to hug a character on the next. It was a unique portrayal of the enemies to lovers trope with the issues Brynn and Sebastian had to work through. The residents of Adelaide Springs are an interesting group of secondary characters.

Thanks to Thomas Nelson/Zondervan Audio and NetGalley, I listened to the audiobook narrated by Talon David. This is the third Bethany Turner book she's narrated, and she perfectly brings the humor and sarcasm to life.

This was a fun and light story about a reporter who, to get herself out of hot water, must return to her hometown, the place she had vowed to never return. But when she goes back she begins to reconnect with herself. Face her past and find her true self. Most of the book takes place in a small Colorado town which I thought was a fun setting. As someone who lives in Colorado I always love finding books that take place here. I’m not a huge fan of insta-love most of the time and while I didn’t hate it in this book I think I would have enjoyed it slightly more if it had taken place over a long period of time. But I understand why the book took place over the time frame that it did. This book was very hallmark movie-ish and was a fun, quick read.

Thank you NetGalley for providing access to the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

At this point in time, I think it's safe to say that I have a fascination towards character-driven books or extremely flawed characters, and Bethany Turned surely delivered that in this sweet contemporary.

Funny, engaging and quite witty, there hasn't been a single moment in which the book felt dull or made me feel like taking a break from reading. The not-so-subtle commentary on today's entertainment industry has been a lovely touch as well, hitting you from the first few paragraphs with portions that either made you nod along, laugh or frown at how real they were.

As I stated before, the biggest element of the book were the characters. You either love them or you hated them, hence why I am not surprised to come across a few negative reviews that clearly stated their disappointment in Brynn as a character. Personally, I found her to be incredibly refreshing. She's shallow, self-absolved, cynical, ambitious, vulnerable and overall a great mix of both positive and negative elements. She feels real, and I really enjoyed her journey. The main problem I find is the way she is advertised as the sunshine of their dynamic, but she never felt to me like she fit that stereotype. If anything, I considered them both cynics, and this aspect of hers was clear from the very first chapter, so it's clearly a marketing disconnect, unless you count her fake camera persona.

Sebastian ended up being a pretty good love interest, not the most memorable (but in all fairness they rarely are in the genre), but still holding himself strong. His trauma, as well as Brynn's were an interesting element of the story, especially when it came to the way it had affected their careers.

There were so many scenes that made me laugh, especially when it came to the pop culture references, and Sebastian and Brynn's banter had been a delight in many instances.

My main issue, surprisingly, has been the narration. While I do consider Talon David's voice to be absolutely perfect for Brynn, I really wished there had been a second casting choice for Sebastian's chapters. I had to rewind multiple times out of confusion, having assumed we were still in the middle of Brynn's story only to realise that things were not adding up, which left a stain on the experience a little bit.

3.5/5 stars

Thanks to NetGalley, Thomas Nelson & Zondervan Audio, and Bethany Turner for this ARC of "Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other", in exchange for an honest review!

Our MC, Brynn, is a "sunny morning show host", though that's just her TV persona. The love intrest, Sebastian is a "cynical ex-reporter".
Them meeting force them both to face the past they tried to escape.

It all start with Brynn having exposed her small town sunshine persona as fake on live TV, Brynn is forced to return home to her hometown Adeline Spring to fake an redemption ARC to win back her viewers or possibly lose her future on the screen.
Sebastian, forced to act like her tour guide, sees right through her act and they immediately dislike eachother. However after some time spent togheter... well, its a romance, what did you expect?

I'll admit, I requested the ARC because of the title. Enemies to Lovers of one of my favorite tropes. However perhaps I'm more of a fantasy Enemies to Lovers fan, or Rivals to Lovers. And this did not feel like either.

While I did enjoy the book, I also struggled to get into it, but that also might be because of the reading slump I've found myself in.

This book follows the grumpy-sunshine trope. But the sunshine character is actually also a grump. I liked Sebastian but struggled with Brynn's character. Brynn heads back to her hometown after an embarrassing on-air moment that has fans calling for her to be fired. Her goal is to show them she really is the sweet girl they thought she was. Sebastian is the council member tasked with "babysitting" her on the trip. This book was fine but there are better ones out there.

Thanks to NetGalley and Thomas Nelson for an audiobook ARC of this book. I saw this book in a post on social media as a fun enemies to lovers book, so I was happy to give it a try. This story follows Brynn, a morning show host, returning to her small town after publicly insulting the town and it's residents. She is looking for forgiveness to save her career. Sebastian is a former journalist, who now resides in the town Brynn publicly defamed and loves it dearly for being a refuge when he retired from his stressful job.

The enemies part is fun, with the two characters genuinely disliking each other and not holding back on letting each other know. The first few chapters are just about the event that causes them to meet. It's like a slow moving train of second hand embarrassment, which could have been summarized in a flashback.

The story is written as a dual perspective novel, but the tense changes between dual narrative was jarring. Brynn was 1st person, Sebastian was 3rd. The change never failed to pull me out of the story and I don't really get the choice to do this, but it's an interesting one.

Brynn is a tough sell! She is immature and mean. This character is supposed to be in her thirties, but reads like a 22 YO. The precipitating event is of her going off about how dumb her hometown is, but she goes further than generally saying she doesn't like it by insulting the people. Later in the book, we learn how loving and supportive the people of the town have been to her and her words seemed so much worse. The only person of color in this book is used as Brynn's Jiminy Cricket conscience telling her to be a good person. He does get a lot of back story, but then drops out of the story once the Brynn starts being an adult.

In addition to my dislike of the FMC, there were a lot of HP references (more than 2!) and, honestly, is it possible to stop this? It feels stale to me and maybe also cringy because of how problematic JKR has been in recent years? Maybe it's just me.

I am no stranger to the cartoon cover with the heavy topics, but this one really tried to hang onto it's cartoon origins. There are many vague references to child abuse and neglect as well as genocide, but these topics are background, handled with little sensitivity. In contrast, the anxiety rep and PTSD as well as portrayals of therapy feel positive and realistic.

This book was a miss for me, but if you like small town romance and enemies to lovers, this might be the book for you.

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