P.S. I Hate You

Content warnings: miscarriage, infertility

Abbie has been with Matt for 20 years.

Abbie has been with Matt for two decades and she's about to murder him over a teaspoon on the counter. This is the tipping point in their relationship when she seriously considers their future and if their nine-year marriage will make it to ten. They are stuck in a work-from-home routine of work, eat dinner, sleep, repeat. Their sex life is nonexistent and they've lost their closeness despite being in each others' faces all day.

The novel unfolds with current events between Abbie and Matt and switches back and forth between now and then, beginning with Abbie's first kiss with Matt in high school. The reader gets the impression that something is wrong without knowing what as their troubles unfold in the flashback scenes.

Abbie and Matt both are carrying secrets they've kept all of these years simply because the time wasn't right to share them. The secrets could potentially tear their marriage apart or bring them closer together.

The title, cover art, and tagline all point to a different novel -- a funny, feel-good, enemies to lovers romance. What we get is a portrait of a marriage almost 10 years in, 20 years after their first date, where two people aren't sure what to do and how they got there.

The book has elements of romance in Abbie's past and potentially in her future, but I wouldn't call the entire thing a romance novel as it leans more women's fiction. Recommended for fans of relationship fiction.

Sophie Ranald formerly worked in publishing. She was born in Zimbabwe and lives in London.

Publisher: Bookouture

Length: 331 pages

Release Date: March 3, 2022

I received an electronic galley copy of this title from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.