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Review / Release Blitz: Something Like Hate (Chicago Grizzlies #1) by Piper Rayne



Something like Hate by Piper Rayne is now live!

I love him.
I loathe him.

It’s like plucking daisy petals in my head, but he’ll never know.

When Miles Cavanaugh, the best safety in the league, was traded to the Chicago Grizzlies football team last year, I could finally breathe. Temptation was miles away.

How naïve to think it would end there because when the opportunity to write for a national magazine based in Chicago lands in my lap months later, I can’t turn it down. Sure, it’s a big city, but the sexual energy feels like a beacon between us the minute my plane lands.

To make matters worse, I end up having to take over the job of reporting exclusively on the Chicago Grizzlies. Which means traveling with the team, interviewing players, and pretty much having an all-access pass to their lives during the season.

Miles and I put up a great front, quickly hating on one another, but we both know it’s a lie. We also know the rules are simple. For me, don’t sleep with the subject of your articles. For him, don’t sleep with the journalist who can make or break your career.

I thought straight-laced Miles Cavanaugh followed all the rules… oh how wrong I was.

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MY REVIEW


Bryce and Miles have a contentious relationship to say the least. She's the journalist who writes critical pieces on his football performances. He's the athlete who's never been the superstar, but is looking to make his breakout on his new team. He can't do that if his enemy is on staff, writing more critical stuff about him. And they definitely can't give into the attraction that's not really masked by their contempt. There are no fraternization rules, and she can't objectively write about someone she's having a thing with, can she?


It's decidedly not of the norm for a romance to feature an athlete who's not a womanizing, cocky playboy, but that's exactly what Piper Rayne has done here, and I seriously cannot get enough of this take on a football romance. Miles is such a wonderful hero, he's kind, he's a little vulnerable and slightly insecure and amazingly charming and delicious. Bryce is kind of his opposite, but equally awesome with her bold, sassy personality, who's fighting the demons she bears thanks to her father's awful behavior while she was growing up. I hurt for them both, especially Bryce, but applauded them that they could figure themselves out and fight for their happiness. Like all the football (and otherwise) worlds of Piper Rayne, the Chicago Grizzlies is going to be another sexy, fun series and Miles and Bryce certainly start the whole thing off with a hate to love bang!


Meet Piper Rayne


Piper Rayne is a USA Today Bestselling Author duo who write "heartwarming humor with a side of sizzle" about families, whether that be blood or found. They both have e-readers full of one-clickable books, they're married to husbands who drive them to drink, and they're both chauffeurs to their kids. Most of all, they love hot heroes and quirky heroines who make them laugh, and they hope you do, too!

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