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audc's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
4.5 star quality writing
2.5 star plot
Read as a gift to a friend
100 pgs longer than needed (it actually felt like the last 100pgs were an addition separate from the book)
I don’t normally read romance but how obvious it was from the beginning; the plot…. I don’t want to read romance.
At least it’s self-aware in the amount of coincidences…
We see it from her point of view. Everytime she’ll say his face flushed and he quickly turned away; he’s angry. *facepalm*
The language used in describing his actions and the conclusions she drew from it are so different.
Appreciated the technical POV we were given.
Made me like science even more.
HOWEVER, not everything about her has to be tied to a romantic aspect.
I’m glad the miscommunication trope wasn’t ridiculous.
[Edit:] 3.25 to 3.75
I can’t stop thinking about the characters ( they’re really well fleshed out ) and their romance.
2.5 star plot
Read as a gift to a friend
100 pgs longer than needed (it actually felt like the last 100pgs were an addition separate from the book)
I don’t normally read romance but how obvious it was from the beginning; the plot…. I don’t want to read romance.
At least it’s self-aware in the amount of coincidences…
We see it from her point of view. Everytime she’ll say his face flushed and he quickly turned away; he’s angry. *facepalm*
The language used in describing his actions and the conclusions she drew from it are so different.
Appreciated the technical POV we were given.
Made me like science even more.
HOWEVER, not everything about her has to be tied to a romantic aspect.
I’m glad the miscommunication trope wasn’t ridiculous.
[Edit:] 3.25 to 3.75
I can’t stop thinking about the characters ( they’re really well fleshed out ) and their romance.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment and Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Death, Misogyny, and Death of parent
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Alcohol, and Car accident
tesa_rose's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I loved this book. It was so good. Quite spicy towards the end but very cute. I loved the build up and the development of blink . I was so shocked when it was guy and then he was going to kill her. What!!!!!! I so did not see that coming it was cute and I love the enemies to lovers trope. I also really enjoyed how their backstory’s came out slowly and not all at once. My favorite aspect was probably her Twitter account.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Murder
betho23's review
funny
informative
lighthearted
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I loved the Marie Curie references I learned so much about her. The love story between Levi and Bee was perfect. It was a will they or won’t they until the very end. I love Ali Hazelwood’s writing and can’t wait to read more by her. It leaves me with a feel good feeling.
Content Warnings
Minor: Murder
flyingryndeer's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent
Minor: Murder
cassie12_21's review
challenging
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Very cute. Very Ali Hazelwood, she should really leave adam driver alone. 🌶️.5/5. I did enjoy the queer side characters.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Abandonment
Minor: Gun violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
0701mango's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5
I really liked the leads' dynamic in this book, and I appreciate the science of it as a student of science myself. However, I found it harder to like Bee, the heroine, compared to some of Ali Hazelwood's other heroines like Olive from The Love Hypothesis and Mara from the novella Under One Roof. That being said, I found Levi, the hero, very attractive and highly appealing as a romantic interest. He was strong and secure, and I find good leadership to be attractive. The order of events in the romantic plot was not for me. Nor were some of the plot points themselves of the romantic plot. For one, I really hate the misunderstandings/miscommunication trope, and that was pretty central for a lot of the book. I include Bee and Levi not knowing they're Twitter friends in the components of this trope. I don't mind that they had sex before getting together, but this back and forth of will Bee let herself be in love or not was not for me. I generally don't like when the romantic resolution happens on the very last page, but I thought it worked better in The Love Hypothesis than in this book. In the last third or quarter of the book, everything felt like too much of a rollercoaster for my taste.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, and Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Car accident, Death, and Misogyny
Minor: Gun violence and Murder
The main character, Bee, is an orphan whose parents passed away in a vehicle accident. She has attachment issues stemming largely from moving around a lot as a child and her ex-fiance cheating on her with her best friend. Bee's love interest, Levi, has a disinterested, rude, and unsupportive family. The sexual content in this book is explicitly written and somewhat frequent.khloereads86's review
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This was pretty good but I feel like a lot of it was pretty similar to The Love Hypothesis.
I liked Levi and Bee but I feel like there wasn’t enough about them in the book to really fall in love with them. The amount of Marie Curie references was honestly a bit much for me, Bee seemed a little too obsessed.
Also how the heck did Bee not realize that Levi liked her?? And Levi man, figure your stuff out. Communicate!!
I really love the women in STEM theme of these books and all the neuroscience stuff. Super interesting.
I was a bit caught off guard with the ending, even though I saw part of it coming. It seemed a little overdramatized to me. I figured Guy was the one messing with the files and that Levi and Bee would figure out they were twitter friends, but the whole sabotaging-your-project, giving-himself-a-seizure, ruining-other-people’s-careers, trying-to-stage-a-suicide was a bit much. It wasn’t even like he was working for the other company or anything like that, and umm I thought he was supposed to be close to Levi (like really good friends!) so how did he end up trying to kill Levi’s girlfriend and no one noticed anything was off with him until after the fact??
I kind of wish we got more info about Lily and Penny too. It felt like they were just filler when they could have been really good characters if we got to see more actual interactions with them instead of brief descriptions and using them as a plot device.
Also wth was with Rocío? And Reike? They just seemed like really weird side characters. Some things Ro said were funny but most of the time it was just ??? Her friend Annie and her ex too, ugh why were there so many crappy side characters and plots?
Overall, I liked the book and was honestly more in to the romance in this than in TLH, but it was a bit weird and I think the story itself wasn’t as good.
I liked Levi and Bee but I feel like there wasn’t enough about them in the book to really fall in love with them. The amount of Marie Curie references was honestly a bit much for me, Bee seemed a little too obsessed.
I really love the women in STEM theme of these books and all the neuroscience stuff. Super interesting.
I was a bit caught off guard with the ending, even though I saw part of it coming. It seemed a little overdramatized to me.
I kind of wish we got more info about Lily and Penny too. It felt like they were just filler when they could have been really good characters if we got to see more actual interactions with them instead of brief descriptions and using them as a plot device.
Also wth was with Rocío? And Reike? They just seemed like really weird side characters. Some things Ro said were funny but most of the time it was just ??? Her friend Annie and her ex too, ugh why were there so many crappy side characters and plots?
Overall, I liked the book and was honestly more in to the romance in this than in TLH, but it was a bit weird and I think the story itself wasn’t as good.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death of parent, Misogyny, and Cursing
Minor: Death, Infidelity, and Murder
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