The Hating Game
by Sally Thorne
Narrated by Katie Schorr
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
This is the audiobook that convinced people enemies-to-lovers isn't a cliché — it's a promise Katie Schorr makes you wait 12 hours to collect.
- Great if you want: sharp banter, slow-burn tension, and a satisfying romantic payoff
- Listening experience: playful and electric — banter-driven with escalating tension throughout
- Narration: Schorr captures Lucy's mix of sarcasm and wounded optimism precisely
- Skip if: slow romantic buildup without action or plot movement frustrates you
About This Audiobook
Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman sit across from each other every day as executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company, and they have refined mutual hatred into a series of precisely calibrated passive-aggressive games. When the same promotion opens for both of them, their long-standing war reaches its peak, along with the possibility that what Lucy thought was hatred might be something considerably more complicated. Sally Thorne's office romance debut became an immediate hit for good reasons.
Katie Schorr's narration captures Lucy's voice with a dry comic precision that makes the novel's considerable wit land perfectly. Her performance of the running antagonism between Lucy and Josh is calibrated exactly right: aggressive enough to be funny, transparent enough to let the attraction show through even when the characters refuse to acknowledge it. Schorr handles the tonal shift from comedy to genuine romantic tension with the skill that distinguishes a great audiobook narrator from a merely competent one.