Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

De: Christina Lauren

Narrado por: Todd Haberkorn, Jayme Mattler

The New York Times best-selling “romance It Girls” (Kirkus) bring you a hilarious, sexy romance about love perpetually unrequited (and denied), in the vein of their Roomies and Beautiful Bastard.

Foul-mouthed, quirky, sharp-as-a-whip Hazel never thought she would win the heart of her gorgeous college TA, Josh. And, in fact, she didn’t. But what a difference 10 years can make. Well...10 years, and a lot of legwork.

©2018 Christina Lauren (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

Good, but not great

This book was ok. Endearing in parts and silly and repetitive in others. The end is definitely not as strong as some of the rest.

good, but something with the sound being off

Really cute, really funny, lovely story!
The male voice should have been louder, so if youre listening to the story on good speakers, you have to keep turning up the sound every time its Josh's side of the story being told - and turning it back down when its Hazel's.

Angsty and Laugh-out-loud funny

I loooooved the narrators - they truly MADE the story! It's rare to find a book where both narrators add so much more to the story than what lies on the pages, but they do!

This story was perfectly paced, perfectly angsty (without the dramatically cliche friends-to-temporary-enemies-once-they-screw-it-up thing), and I loved everything about it.

Loved Hazel. Loved Josh. Loved them together.

This author duo is truly one of my favorites - their books receive consistent 5-stars from me. They can write the subdued, but confident guy character like no one else; the alternating POV displaying the characters' unfiltered inner dialogue and slow-but-hot build-up make these characters (especially the men) unforgettable.

I'm Having Mixed Feelings...

I picked this book because of Jayme Mattler, who I really liked when listening to The Elizas by Sara Shepard. I had honestly never heard of Christina Lauren (sorry, gals), but my chick-lit knowledge is pretty limited. I liked Hazel a lot from the beginning - her hot-mess-ness started out really relatable and Jayme did a great job. I also think Todd Haberkorn is very talented overall - his guy voices (imo) were very realistic and distinguishable. I thought his voice for Josh was cute and he is SO expressive. I recently just got done listening to The Selection by Kiera Cass and I hate to say this, but Amy Rubinate sounds like the book is being read by Siri. Flat as a pancake. Todd has great delivery and I literally laughed out loud at the trivia night part (when talking about the prizes) and there was one line (the last thing Josh says to Dax) that for some reason really won me over. It was so "real" and I could see the pissed-yet-chill expression on Josh's face in my mind's eye. But man, oh man. Todd's Hazel voice about killed me. It legit sounds like a combination of Michael Scott imitating Kelly Kapoor, the Wayans brothers in White Chicks, and Courtney from Bob's Burgers (if you know even ONE of those references, you can pretty much get the gist). This really kinda killed Hazel for me. I could not think of her as a quirky-but-sexy woman anymore.

Aside from the reading, though, I don't know... I saw some people have said that the ending is abrupt, but that didn't bother me much. I still think it wrapped up nicely. For me, it was more that by the end, I was feeling kinda bummed out. It felt oddly heavy. Earlier in the book it was a little more lighthearted, even with some seriousness weaved in. It started to transition into what I thought was just me feeling the lovesick ache along with them, but by the last four or so chapters, I almost just switched to something else because I was really kinda over it!

I didn't hate it by any means, but I didn't really love it.

EDIT: By the way.. just sharing because this was funny... my fiance was watching Naruto Shippuden and I heard a voice and my head snapped up so fast. I was like "...HAZEL??" So I go on IMDB and there's Todd's name on the cast list. I was like I KNEW IT!!! It was too funny. :-P

Predictable but...

Predictable but still really cute. Worth a listen if you’re looking for something easy and light.

Sweet, sexy, funny, amazing.

I loved everything about this book. There is even something in it that I'm usually not in love with, but Christina Lauren handled it in such a way that I loved it. Hazel is a one of a kind heroine. Her uniqueness and individuality made this book. Josh is a perfect. I highly, highly recommend this book to everyone!

Amazing

What a fun book, one that pulled out all the feels!! I’m so thankful to have stumbled upon it, it was just what I needed to get me out of the post holiday blues.

A guide for everyone

A really charming story. As the two fated-to-be-together wind their way through all the impossible possible couple possibilities, I waited patiently until they both came to their senses and realize what they have together. I do keep wondering if they’ll make it to seventeen, though...

Josh and Hazel were the BEST

This book was so cute. I thought it was going to be a filler between books because I wasn’t sure what to read. OMG was I wrong, it because one of my favorites. Josh and Hazel were the perfect pair and Hazel’s outgoing and adventurous personality was amazing. Great beginning, amazing ending.

Loved

My one and only complaint was the voice for Josh took some getting used to...as many reviewers have said. It took me a little while to adjust to him being josh but also his voices talking for hazel were irritating. BUT I did get past that and I’m so glad I did because I LOVED the book. Hazel was a unique character and not at all infuriating- I hate when books have the characters pushing each other away left and right, hurting each other and being cold to one another - communicate damn it! Especially when one keeps coming back after it all just pining - this was neither of those things. It was perfect! It was quirky and cute and their relationship had back story and built really nicely...the characters were mostly very well developed. And I rooted for them to be together without the unforgivable mistakes in between - perfect! Nothing too dramatic to ruin the vibe for me - thank goodness. The romantic scenes were done well I feel. And the ending was wrapped up in a perfect bow!

I only wish I’d checked this off of my tbr pile sooner <3