Twisted Hate by Ana Huang
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Plot: 📚📚📚📚📚
Format: 📖
POV: Dual


🕊️ ➞ Tropes:

⚔️❤️‍🔥Enemies to Lovers❤️‍🔥⚔️
🚫👫Best Friend’s Brother 👫🚫
🙄🙎🏼‍♀️Strong / Sassy FMC 🙎🏼‍♀️🙄
☠️ Morally Grey MMC ☠️
🛏️Only One Bed 🛏️
😒👫Forced Proximity👫😒
💰💎Billionaire 💎💰
🩺Doctor 🩺


🕊️ ➞ Progress Notes & Initial Thoughts:

8% in:
Josh is already pissing me off. So f@#king self-entitled and involved. His inner monologue is painful.

He becomes shocked for a chapter and a half at the fact that Jules was betrayed in the past. 👁️👄👁️ Apparently, someone besides him getting betrayed is a HUGE shocker. Nose turned up so high he’s gonna end up tripping.

Ugh, here’s to hoping he gets better.

56% in:
Okay… He’s getting better…

🕊️ ➞ Summary Breakdown & Commentary:

Twisted Hate is the third installment in Ana Huang’s Twisted series. The plot followed Ava’s (our first MFC from book 1) brother, Josh, and her best friend, Jules. Josh and Jules hated each other. Josh found Jules to be impulsive, destructive, and reckless. He hated that his little sister was always implicated in her schemes and repeatedly tried to warn Ava off of a friendship with Jules.



Because we love a judgemental prick, right? Wrong.

Eventually, all their snide comments, sass, and hatred welled up into a scolding hot s3x scene in the hallway of Jules’s apartment. On the floor. Feral.



The plot was mostly hate s3x scenes, finding out about Jules’s past, and both of them coming to terms with their growing feelings. Obviously, they ended up together and ended the story with them still exploring their relationship and taking it slow.


🕊️ ➞ Character Thoughts:

🐦‍⬛ ↳ Jules Ambrose:

Jules was an absolute D E L I G H T to read about. Her quick retorts and character development were beautiful. Some aspects of Jules’s past hit home for me so it was amazing to watch her character learn to trust and love again.


🐦‍⬛ ↳ Josh Chen:
Josh was a tough character to love at first. I found him to be very self-involved, conceited, and a bit narcissistic at times. I eventually grew to enjoy his character BUT the scene where Jules confessed to him and he used her just to toss her away was so far beyond cruel that I wish he groveled more than he did. Jules deserved better. His dirty talk game was strong, though. So the jury is still out on whether I forgive him.


🕊️ ➞ Closing Thoughts:

I enjoyed Twisted Hate. The spicy scenes were top-tier tier. I also enjoyed that Huang didn’t end the book with the heroine and the hero getting married. They were together but they both respected the other’s need for a slow pace and decided to take it slow. It was a nice change.


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