Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating - Christina Lauren

Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

By Christina Lauren

  • Release Date: 2018-09-04
  • Genre: Romance
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,427 Ratings

Description

Most men can’t handle Hazel. But her best friend Josh isn’t most men. Don’t miss New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s new novel about two people who are definitely not dating…no matter how often they end up in bed together.

Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take—and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter means she’ll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate moment. Their loss. She’s a good soul in search of honest fun.

Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatible with his mellow restraint. From the first night they met—when she gracelessly threw up on his shoes—to when she sent him an unintelligible email while in a post-surgical haze, Josh has always thought of Hazel more as a spectacle than a peer. But now, ten years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, going out with Hazel is a breath of fresh air.

Not that Josh and Hazel date. At least, not each other. Because setting each other up on progressively terrible double blind dates means there’s nothing between them...right?

Reviews

  • Best of the best

    5
    By KimJoy523
    This is my favorite book by this author. Just love the characters.
  • Every moment shared in life is a date..

    5
    By Shaegrey
    Adorable and still believable exhibition of these people and their character. I love that both Hazel and Josh were given voice in alternating chapters throughout so I got to know both of them (and their families of blood and choice) as friends, and be happy for it. I really Like them, which is such a precious commodity. Plus, I laughed so loud and deep reading some of Hazels lines as I walked to and from work on Nyc streets, people would whip their heads around to stare… Both parts of that sentence are noteworthy. Thank you so much for this book! I needed and wanted what you shared here in equal measures.
  • Super interesting

    5
    By dardarful
    Love the cultural elements!!! Haven’t read a multi racial relationship and fell so in love
  • WOW

    5
    By AriberryMat
    This was an amazing amazing book. I loved every second of it! I loved the characters so much. The ending was perfect. 10/10 recommend.
  • A Netflix movie should be made.. ASAP

    5
    By kgc63
    An emphatic 5 stars. Hazel may be the most marvelous character to ever be written. She’s the woman I dream to be: carefree, confident, intelligent, beautifully her own. Reading In her voice made me almost jealous; I want to be her, think like her, dream like her. And Josh would make anyone swoon. He’s perfect just as Hazel described. There is no other word for Josh Im. This book is the reason I fell in love with romance novels. The beautifully complicated act of loving someone unconditionally is what people are desperate to find, even if only in a book. Even in reading about it, we all can believe that someday someone will come along and love us for who we truly wholly are. Some believe reading romance novels is a way to escape but I believe it just puts into words the kind of love that’s out there and I’m destined to find it. Christina Lauren honestly just writes beautiful stories that inspire us to find that kind of love. I’ve read one too many romance novels, and I can honestly say, this story is my absolute favorite. A wordy review to say this is a must-read.
  • Loved it!

    5
    By trisha61610
    I’ve read a lot of romance novels, and this is one of my all time favorites! 😍
  • Okay

    3
    By kriskjr
    Slow burn was decent. Wish there was more romance
  • ugh I CANT

    5
    By jookbunkie
    just too good. the writing made me laugh & get emotional. everyone deserves a love they grow to maintain but never have to change who they are for. ❤️
  • So much fun!

    4
    By Stanhop3234
    I loved this book. It’s the first from this author and to definitely will not be my last. I need a friend like Hazel. She was fabulous and so fun and quirky that I’m not surprised that Josh fell for her. Josh was Hazel’s opposite but he was kind and fun and got Hazel. You know from the start that they would end up together but the adventure to get there was well worth the ride/read.
  • Not my favorite

    3
    By luvtoread44
    First let me say that Christina Lauren is one of my favorite authors. I love both the Beautiful and the Filthy series, and I have read and enjoyed a few of their standalones as well (Unhoneymooners and Soulmate Equation). I was really looking forward to my next Christina Lauren read. Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating was an ok read. Certainty it was humorous and the supporting characters were interesting. But I just didn’t feel the emotional pull that I was looking for. I had a hard time buying that these two opposites-Josh and Hazel-were meant to be together. Honestly at times I winced at some of Hazel’s statements and behavior. I know she is meant to be a uniquely honest and carefree spirit but I just didn’t really like her at times. I’m sure I’ll read this again in the future, as I always do with Christina Lauren books. Maybe my opinion will change, and if so I’ll edit this review. I hope these authors again develop a group of characters that are sweet, sassy, hot, intelligent, conflicted, humorous and heartfelt as in the Beautiful and Filthy series. I really cared about what happened to each of them. Josh and Hazel not so much.