Hate You enemies lovers standalone ebook Reviews Summary

Character Development

Pros:

• "The characters were written beautifully and had depth to them."
• "Blaze's background story really pulls at your heart strings and Charisma was the perfect heroine to love him."
• "Blaze and Charisma are SUCH fantastic and relatable characters."
• "Both main characters were multi-dimensional and had a great story arch."
• "Ilsa Madden-Mills can really write a book! Football or not!"
• "Ilsa just has the magic touch in creating wonderful characters you don't want to leave!"
• "Mrs. Mills writes heroes and heroines that are real and relatable."

Cons:

• "I didn't care much for the dynamic between Blaze and Charisma and was often irritated by their waffling."
• "I usually live for a college, sports romance like Ilsa Madden Mills writes. This book just didn’t suck me in."
• "Some parts was a bit slow for me."
• "This book she was weak."
• "The writing and diction felt juvenile, like a teen YA novel with periodic r-rated scenes that were aggressive."
• "I would have liked more character development that dove a bit deeper because it was a bit repetitive."
• "The characters in this book were so contrived I just could not connect to them at all."

Emotional Impact

Pros:

• "This is my favorite book in this series. Very heart-warming and tearjerker."
• "I'm really loving this series. I laughed out loud a few times reading this and needed tissues at the end."
• "I absolutely loved this story!!"
• "I wasn't expecting the emotions this book held but it was so well written that I was all in."
• "Oh my word....what can I say. The epilogue left me teary eyed & breathless."
• "This book gives you all the feels. One moment you are laughing because of the banter between Blaze and Charm and then you are crying at all the heartfelt moments and all the heart crushing one’s."
• "I'm woman enough to admit that I'm crying right now."

Cons:

• "It has a slow start that makes you almost want to just move on..."
• "I stopped reading about fifty pages in. It's hard to believe she's that torn up about a guy she slept with - not even dated - for three weeks."
• "I got 44% in before it got too painful."
• "It was hard to feel attached to the characters and have an emotional response to their story."
• "I don't think I've ever read a book where I dislike both main characters throughout the whole book."
• "I just hate the fact that the author kept the couples apart 98% of the book."
• "Somehow it was a 'slow' ride, I enjoyed the book but just didn’t make me go head over heels to stop my world with eagerness to read more..."

Writing Style

Pros:

• "Vivid, strong words that you can’t put down."
• "Everything was just...PERFECT! I wouldn't change a thing."
• "I loved every word. Couldn’t put it down and devoured this wonderful story."
• "This book was so well written. The characters are well defined, the story is written so skillfully."
• "She writes in such a poetic way that really draws you to the story!"
• "This story is like a perfectly interlocking puzzle, beautifully balanced, full of grace and unputdownable-ness."
• "Ilsa Madden-Mills has written a beautiful story of love between two hurt souls that don’t believe they are truly worthy of it."

Cons:

• "I hate that it took them that long to be together."
• "His off and on signals kind of started to get old."
• "It was a lot of the same repetitive thing, they accidentally run into each other, have boring convos with a lot of painful glances and emo-ness and that’s it."
• "I did get a bit whiplash from Blaze, as did Charm. That boy was all hot and cold."
• "I will admit that the wishy washyness of the main characters got on my nerves a little bit."
• "I felt the author was spot on, but the proof reader should have caught more of the auto correct errors."
• "If I was younger maybe more, but as a young adult the reasons for the angst made absolutely no sense."

Plot and Storyline

Pros:

• "I absolutely loved Charm and Blaze!! Ilsa writes stories with relatable characters and plenty of feels."
• "Blaze and Charisma's story is an amazing sports romance."
• "I loved the storyline and the chemistry of the characters."
• "This book was hands down AMAZING!!! True love was destined to occur from this powerful attraction between these two love birds!"
• "I love the chemistry these two have together and it only gets better when things change with them."
• "This was definitely the funniest of the series, and Charisma and Blaze are both such lovable characters."
• "I love this series. I really appreciated Ms. Madden-Mill's story show the character development of the characters especially Blaze's childhood background."

Cons:

• "I usually live for a college, sports romance like Ilsa Madden Mills writes. This book just didn’t suck me in."
• "Some parts was a bit slow for me."
• "I stopped reading about fifty pages in. It's hard to believe she's that torn up about a guy she slept with - not even dated - for three weeks."
• "I just hate the fact that the author kept the couples apart 98% of the book."
• "It was a lot of the same repetitive thing, they accidentally run into each other, have boring convos with a lot of painful glances and emo-ness and that’s it."
• "I did get a bit whiplash from Blaze, as did Charm. That boy was all hot and cold."
• "Somehow it was a 'slow' ride, I enjoyed the book but just didn’t make me go head over heels to stop my world with eagerness to read more..."