I love slow burn, friends to lovers romance. On the Corner of Love and Hate is my first Nina Bocci book to read and will definitely not be my last. Bocci has created a small town that I want (actually NEED) to know more about.

Emma and Cooper were the best of friends growing up. Until they went to college and moved away and like most childhood relationships, you lose touch. Other circumstances came into play namely unreciprocated crushes, other people… and when they moved back home and began working in the same field of work, competition struck changing that friendship into more of a hate for each other.

Or so we thought…

You see, I LOVED their interactions—Cooper’s smirky smirk, his flirtatious nature, his desire to push Emma’s buttons (how he calls her Emmanuelle)… I also liked Emma… how good she is at her job, how much she knows about the campaign business, her desire to help Cooper win despite her at odds feeling about him.

The push and the pull was so much fun… And while I love slow burn, at times, I wished it would have sped up a bit because I wanted more of them together, but I really did enjoy how their journey came to be… especially the epilogue.

I am VERY MUCH looking forward to reading more in this series and this small town. When we are young, we want to move away from our hometowns to get away from our families and experience something different… but that realization that home is where the heart is… where you belong and are meant to be… I enjoyed that feeling in this book… the emotions that Bocci was able to pull from me and can’t wait to return to Hope Lake, Pennsylvania.