Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other

Author: Bethany Turner
Title: Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Date Published: 09/05/2023

Read Dates: 08/22/2023- 08/24/2023
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟💫

📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

I wavered on my rating and settled on 3 1/2 stars, rounded up on sites that don’t allow ratings in partial increments. This was a dual POV story but that in itself was distracting when Brynn’s POV was told in 1st person and Sebastian’s POV was third person.

It’s a small-town, enemies-to-lovers romance featuring Brynn, who wants to redeem her career after a careless slip-up on air, and Sebastian, a man who found refuge in the tiny town she badmouthed.

They’re stuck together when she returns home to try and apologize (and save her career while she’s at it) and definitely start off rocky. Given an abbreviated timeline, Brynn and Sebastian don’t hate each other for long!

It was a slow book for me to get into, but the second half really picked up and made it worth the read.

Things I enjoyed:
✔️ small town romance
✔️ forced proximity
✔️ second chances and personal growth

She’s a sunny morning-show host. He’s a cynical ex-reporter. They're destined to hate each other . . . Aren’t they? Brynn Cornell has to be stuck in a nightmare. Just last week, she was riding high as cohost of the popular morning show Sunup . She's America's Ray of Sunshine—the girl-next-door beauty who drives up TV ratings while never exuding anything but her trademark positivity and poise. All it took was one huge on-air mistake to expose her snarky side to the world and make it all come crumbling down. Now she’s back in her hometown of Adelaide Springs, Colorado, in a last-ditch attempt to convince viewers she’s not the mean girl they think she is. All she has to do is apologize and capture some feel-good footage reminding everyone she’s just a girl from humble beginnings who’s grateful for her big break, and she might manage to preserve both her career and her image. But this town holds painful memories that she’s not ready to face. Sebastian Sudworth was on the fast track to the journalist hall of fame. A superstar reporter with a reputation for being in the center of the action, his fearless, relentless coverage of major events around the globe was winning him awards and accolades—until something snapped inside him and he vanished from the scene under mysterious circumstances. Sebastian sought refuge in tiny Adelaide Springs, working odd jobs and trying to blend in as a scruffy mountain town citizen. When Sebastian is assigned to chauffeur Brynn around town, Brynn is sure he can see right through her carefully cultivated, sunny persona. But she’s determined to do what it takes to maintain her image and save her career—so she’ll just have to charm the socks off Sebastian the same way she charmed her viewers. Easier said than done. It's no picnic to play nice around someone you hate . . . especially when you might be crazy about them.