Twisted Hate

Twisted Hate was published in 2022 and is a contemporary romance by Ana Huang. The English edition appeared as a 512-page paperback under Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks. The novel is built on the enemies-to-lovers shape its jacket copy states outright, and it sets two ambitious people against each other from the first line, which leaves the rest of the book the job of dismantling that antagonism.

Jules is the beautiful redhead he cannot charm and cannot stop thinking about, a former party girl who has narrowed her life to passing the bar. Their arrangement is presented as practical, a way of burning something out rather than letting it grow, and its rules supply most of the tension that follows.

The book works on friction: two people who argue fluently and want each other anyway. Its shape is a slow build with a stated countdown, because the arrangement only functions while the conditions hold, and the pleasure of the story lies in watching both leads fail to keep them. The 512-page paperback edition was published by Bloom Books in 2022.