The Love Haters is an engaging rom-com featuring a risk-taking video producer, a Coast Guard rescue team, and a Great Dane.

The Love Haters by Katherine Center

Genre/Categories/Setting: Contemporary Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Coast Guard, Romance, Florida

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My Summary:

Thanks #NetGalley @StMartinsPress for a complimentary eARC of #TheLoveHaters upon my request. All opinions are my own.

In The Love Haters, Katie Vaughn takes a huge risk to accept a job as a video producer to profile a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West. One complication among many is that she can’t swim.

My Thoughts:

What I Enjoyed

• tropical setting (Key West, Florida)]
• interesting premise
• colorful Aunt Rue
• the Great Dane
• fighting for your job and taking risks
• themes of self-discovery and empowerment
• witty banter
• page-turning plot
• rescue operations

Other Thoughts

• body image and eating disorders may be triggers for some
• deception and lies/miscommunication tropes are not my favorite
• most handsome man she’s ever seen….I’m more interested in his character
• some unrealistic elements (would they really rescue a dog before a human?!)

Overall

While this wasn’t my favorite Katherine Center, it was an entertaining and page-turning romance, with witty banter, suspense, and some humor. Katherine Center’s fans will want to add it to their TBRs.

Content Consideration: body image and eating disorder, grief

Related: You might enjoy The Bodyguard, Hello Stranger, What You Wish For, and The Rom-Commers by the same author

My Rating: 3.5 (rounded to 4 on GoodReads)

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Meet the Author of The Love Haters, Katherine Center

BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, The Bodyguard, and her newest, Hello Stranger. Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” The movie adaptation of her novel The Lost Husband (starring Josh Duhamel) hit #1 on Netflix, and the movie of her novel Happiness for Beginners, starring Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes, opens July 27 on Netflix. Katherine’s summer 2022 book, The Bodyguard, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a People Best New Books pick, and nominated for Book of the Year by Book of the Month Club. Bestselling author Emily Henry calls The Bodyguard “a shot of pure joy,” and bestselling author Helen Hoang calls it “a perfect feel-good rom-com.” Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two kids, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.

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