'Love to hate you' - maybe the best Anna Premoli's book to date

      I rarely come across a book that I end up reading in a day. I admit, I like funny romance books from time to time. They are relaxing, put your mind at ease after a stressful day.
      It is a habit I took in college when at the end of each semester I used to have a round of eight exams almost one after the other and after all that pressure I really needed a brain eraser. And this is when the romance books come into play. It was over twenty years ago, before the times of Harry Potter, light vampire stories and tons of teenager focused romance literature. It was the time of Sandra Brown and Sidney Sheldon, and, much as it is today, those books were following the same pattern and story line so it is not quite a surprise I cannot remember much about them. After all, I was calling them brain erasers because they were having that reset effect.
      Nowadays, if you do not want to read vampire or different kind of undead or supernatural infused stories, you are stuck with chick lit. Some of them are good, some of them are lets politely say not so good, but all basically follow the same pattern so there is not so much surprise in the story ending.
Anna Premoli follows the same pattern in her books and beside the romance that is omnipresent and the target point, you have a hateful relationship between the protagonists.
     'Love to hate you' is Anna Premoli's first book. She wrote it while pregnant and won the Bancarella prize for it in 2013. Several books followed shortly.
      It is the story of Jennifer and Ian, who work in separate teams in a London bank and hate each other's guts since seven years. But when Lord Beverly, Jennifer's important client wants Ian also to be managing his account, they are forced to work together and play nice with each other or get fired. They have to withdraw their claws and play like grownups and this does not comes easy for them. Ian realizes shortly that he can use this forced relationship to solve other problems in his life and he proposes a truce which will prove that once you know your enemy, the enemy can  prove to be not so bad.
     The book is lighthearted, funny, the characters are interesting and well defined. It is not a boring read but a book that can be a good pick for a winter day spent under the blanket with a cup of tea and a big plate of cookies on the side.