REVIEW - 10,000 Things I Hate About You: A V-Card Diaries Novella by Lili Valente

The Book

Release Date: 29 March 2022

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman newly turned eighteen, with a few grotesquely cheap beers in her belly, will want to pounce on her best friend’s older brother.

Okay, so maybe that isn’t a “universal truth,” but it’s my truth.

I’ve had a crush on Derrick Olsen since I needed help tying my shoes. And yes, I was nearly ten by the time I finally mastered the skill—why are laces still a thing when Velcro is so awesome?—but still…

I could stare at the man for hours.

Meanwhile, he barely knows I’m alive. Or at least, that’s the way it’s been before. But tonight, with a spring moon overhead and bonfire flames dancing across the sexy planes of Derrick’s face, I sense things could change between us.

If I’m brave enough to make them change…

I can do that. I can come on to my best friend’s older brother. What’s the worst thing that can happen? He turns me down in a fashion so horrifically embarrassing that I decide to hate him forever, and he happily agrees to return the favor? I mean, yeah, I guess that’s a possibility.

But the odds of that are slim to none…right?

My Review  5 STARS

This is a very sweet novella of how eighteen year old Harlow and twenty six year old Derek went from fancying each other to not wanting to speak to each other and verbal sparring enemies.

Harlow decides she is going to act on her lust on Derek, her best friends brother, only to be kissed and then shot right down.

It is only four chapters long, but certainly gives a better idea of the couple before their full book in SCREWED after the first book of the series SCORED.