Max Zajack's life is cheap rooms, dead-end jobs, and suicidal fantasies until he meets the alluring and mysterious Olivia Aphrodite, and everything goes to hell.
Max is a struggling musician and wannabe writer. His life is in a rut until one night, while playing a gig at a local club, he gazes out into the crowd and sees Olivia. Before long, they are sharing a bed and host of dark vices that begin to consume them. Their love turns toxic, sending them spiraling downward toward the inevitable. Violently romantic, viscerally honest, Hating Olivia is the story of two loners whose obsessive love brings them to the edge of destruction.
My thoughts
Max is an aspiring writer and sometimes musician when he meets Olivia. Why such a beautiful woman would want him is beyond him but he isn’t complaining. She too is an aspiring writer. The story follows their four years together not writing, always having sex and sometimes working. These two are certainly not ambitious and wild sex is what keeps them going. A relationship based o n sex is certainly doomed and the couple becomes wary as the money runs out and their nerves are frayed. Set in 1970’s New Jersey, This novel is sexually explicit but also a look into relationships. As I read chapter after chapter I wondered when Max begins Hating Olivia.
Disclosure: I received this book for review from the author. I received no compensation for my thoughts.
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