patrick Lorelli's Reviews > A Hate Like This

In this book, we have Moria a single mom with three boys whose husband died while she was pregnant with her twin boys, and her one son was three. Now she has picked up the pieces and runs her diner and with the help of family and friends, she is making it in a small town in Alaska.
Enter Ethan who has decided to put his career as an entertainment attorney on hold and write a book. He decides to do it in Gamble Alaska since that is where his friend is and where she will be getting married soon to Moria’s brother. When he enters her dinner he is attracted to her and decides to rent a table from her while he is there. Which helps him write but also gets him a close-up of the action that takes place with her and the people and her sons. He then helps her brother with working on her home and wanting to be in her and the boys' life. Not knowing what they are doing they agree to practice dating. He has told her he is not looking for a relationship because his last one ended badly. This for me again is where everything goes wrong with the story. When her son wins tickets for a Dodger game in L.A. they all go she pays for herself and her twins and they stay at Ethan’s place which is grand. They have a good time and when one night she makes a move toward him he shuts her down. Now afterward when they go to the game Ethan flirts with another woman a model and by the time they get back to his place and then leave for Alaska they are not talking. Of course, everyone is blaming Moira at least that is the way I took it but he still never spoke to her about his feelings for her. Even days later when she decides to call him he does not answer his phone yet this is all still her fault at no time does he really say anything it is like she does all of the talking and apologizing I am sorry my daughters would have told him to kick rocks. Then the story wraps up as everyone would imagine. I just think a woman like her would want more communication from him especially when he said earlier in the story he did not want a relationship, I even went back and re-read it a few times to make sure. Sorry, as much as I liked the characters I did not like the ending. I received this book from Netgalley.com