Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, by Christina Lauren
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren My rating: 3 of 5 stars Phew… Once more, I was looking for a fun romance and despite recent disappointment, I chose to go with Christina Lauren's “ Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating ”. This first sentence of the blurb accurately sums up the essence of this entire novel: “ Just friends. Just friends. JUST FRIENDS. If they repeat it enough, maybe it’ll be true… ” “ Hazel ”, the same blurb goes on to tell us, “ knows she’s a lot to take ”. Absolutely, and Hazel does it so well, it leads to a string of boring, horrible, humiliating, and/or confusing double dates on which Josh and Hazel set each other up. Through these ordeals, which they go through about nine times, they and the reader suffer, but Josh and Hazel realise only very late they were actually going out with each other. This reader, on the other hand, would have had the chance to learn through pain and DNF this… novel. (He didn’t.) Josh — well, guess what: ...