

Hazel is insistent on becoming Josh’s best friend and getting him back into the dating pool after a bad break-up. Josh was Hazel’s TA and biggest crush in college, and she reconnects with him seven years later at a barbecue. Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating is one of the best friends-turned-lovers romances I’ve ever read. It’s so much pressure for me to have to choose my favorite, but I’ll admit tha t Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating is definitely a new favorite Christina Lauren read of mine! I’ve read 6 books of theirs so far! Some of my book blogging friends haven’t been super in love with Christina Lauren’s books published after Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating and claim that this book is the author duo’s best. I started reading Christina Lauren last year and started with their newer titles, so I’ve been doing some backtracking to their older ones. In my quest to read all the contemporary romance, I had to pick up Christina Lauren’s fan favorite, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating. Because setting each other up on progressively terrible double blind dates means there’s nothing between them…right? 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. 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.

Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatible with his mellow restraint. She’s a good soul in search of honest fun. 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. Summary (from the publisher): Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take-and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge.
