Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Dear Heart, I Hate You – J. Sterling

I have to tell you, this book was one after my own heart.  I met my husband when we lived on opposite coasts and struggled with the long distance thing.  The emotions and feelings that J. Sterling put into these characters as they dealt with this was real and reminded me so much of what it was like for me in a similar situation.

Cal and Jules met, coincidentally, in a hotel bar in Boston.  She’s there for a conference, he’s there for a work offsite.  Their attraction is immediate and their chemistry off the charts.  The problems:  she lives in LA and he in Boston, both are workaholics and a relationship is on neither of their radars.  But Jules and Cal soon discover what they want and what fate has in store for them are two different things.

I loved Cal and Jules, both separately and together.  They were career driven and tried to play off their lack of relationships on their need to build their careers.  But what it took was finding the right person.  In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, Cal and Jules went together like peas and carrots.  They understood each other.  Their need to succeed.  But they also felt the same kind of need for the other person.  Like the knew that was their missing piece.

This doesn’t mean their relationship was easy.  Distance played a part, but so did Cal’s timeline for pushing his career forward.  And like with any relationship, there’s screw-up and the one who screws up has to realize what’s important.  Cal and Jules figure things out and they get that HEA readers root for from the moment these two meet.

New York Times Bestselling author J. Sterling brings readers a tantalizing tale of love and redemption in her newest contemporary romance DEAR HEART, I HATE YOU. Be sure to check out the giveaway below and grab your copy of this amazing book today!

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EXCERPT

JULES POV

Cal glanced up at the ceiling and then back at me, his hazel eyes filled with mischief. “I want to argue, but I’m not sure I can. How the hell do you argue with Malibu?”

“You don’t. You can’t.” I grinned back at him. “What about you? Do you work for a big firm?”

“It’s not big by New York standards, but it’s not a five-person shop either. We’re considered a midsize company. But I want to make partner, so I pretty much spend all my time networking and trying to bring in new clients.”

I leaned back slightly. “Is that what you’re doing? Trying to bring me in as a client?”

He cocked an eyebrow. “Give me all your money, Jules. Let me triple it for you.”

“Well, when you put it that way . . .” I reached for my purse before playfully shoving the entire thing at him. “Here. Take it.”

He laughed. “You’re smart.”

“So are you.”

“I don’t meet a lot of smart women. No offense,” he said as I pursed my lips, willing him to remove the foot he’d just placed in his beautiful mouth. “It’s just that women tend to see themselves one way, but they’re usually the opposite.”

I bristled, needing more of an explanation than that for why he was putting down my entire gender. “Explain.”

“Okay, but don’t get pissed. Hear me out.” He put his hands up in surrender. “One of the first things women always say is how independent they are, how motivated. But in my experience, they’re usually neither of those things. They’re either searching for a rich guy to provide for them so they don’t have to work, or they’re still living on Mommy and Daddy’s money. And neither of those things are signs of an independent or motivated woman, in my opinion. Unless you count trying to land a sugar daddy motivation,” he said with a grin.

I wanted to disagree with him, but the truth was that a lot of my clients were women who didn’t work at anything except spending their husband’s money. Granted, the men in those situations also tended to want nothing more than eye candy on their arm, so it worked both ways.

Cal spoke again, interrupting my thoughts. “Most people don’t know what they want to do with their life, and they aren’t working toward a goal. I rarely meet anyone who is as together as you are. It’s a compliment, Jules. Take it.” He smiled at me, and I focused on those damn lips again as my irritation faded.

About J. Sterling:

I got fired from my last job.

It’s true.

I know you’re sitting there thinking, “Jenn, how could anyone in their right mind fire someone like you?” And I’d love to give you a good reason, but the truth is that sometimes being all sorts of awesome isn’t fun for other people. They don’t always tend to like it. lol

So I picked my pride off the floor, bought a laptop and started writing my first book. And you know what I realized? Writing stories that meant something to me was a million times better than working my ass off for someone who didn’t really care about anything other than the bottom line.

My soul has never felt more satisfied.

My heart has never been more full.

I’ve never worked so hard in my life, but I love every second of it. I truly do.

It is SO worth it.

All of it.

Every moment.

The journey it took to get to this point- I wouldn’t change a thing.

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