Review: If You Hate Me (The Toronto Terror #1) by Helena Hunting

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My new roommates are two pro hockey players.
First, my manwhore older brother, and second, his seriously hot best friend (who I seriously hate).
This was a last resort.
No one should be sleeping on a futon that smells like Cheetos and ball sweat.
But here I am, trying to get my life together.

Tristan Stiles is the bane of my existence.
He never wears a shirt.
We can’t seem to stop fighting.
He’s an arrogant playboy with a filthy reputation.
Sure, I had a crush on him when I was fourteen, but that was a long time ago.
I know better than to trust him.
I just need to survive long enough to find a new job and get a new place.
And not accidentally let Tristan rail me into next week.

MY REVIEW

Beatrix "Rix" Madden's life is in the dumpster - she's slid so low that she's stuck rooming with her manwhore brother and his best friend and teammate Tristan. But after just a short while of living with them, arguing endlessly with Tristan, their attraction explodes and suddenly they're in a roommies with benefits situation. They agree on no feelings, just sex. Except somehow it seems there are feelings. On her part at least...Tristan's though? A big question mark, because the guy has so much emotional damage he's carrying around, that he doesn't admit to, or even know or realize, that he has them. Something's gotta give here, and it will most likely be her and her poor heart.

Whew, these two are so freaking naughty! This is probably Helena's hottest, most explicit book to date. At first I just thought it was the nature of their attraction, and it is, partly, but it's also because well, they don't talk emotions or feelings so what else do they have to do? Until it's not enough for poor Bea, and Tristan's scars take their toll. I was rooting so hard for them, on one hand, wanting to smack Tristan for being so freaking emotionally stunted and letting it affect his behavior and causing him to hurt her more than once, and on the other wanting to hug them both because it was obvious what they both felt for each other. I already know that I'm going to love these hockey boys and the women that bring them to their knees, Rix and Tristan are just the very delicious beginning.