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Love on the Brain

Ali Hazelwood

3.89 AVERAGE

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

super cute but bee annoyed me a lot with the miscommunication and just her internal conflict and dumbness
funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

lecture sympa même si assez prévisible dans l’ensemble

Update 2025:

Skimmed this book today (more like spend 6 hours reading it and skimming over the parts that didn’t involve Bee or Levi) because I read a quote of it on tiktok and didn’t remember it from the book. And I’m ready to change what I said about it, or rather, add to it.

I *think* my issue with this book is that is wasn’t at all like The Love Hypothesis, which is not fair on my part. Bee and Levi wanted the kind of life I don’t and so I based my rating on that. Again, not fair.

Having said that, it really is a spectacular book. It’s clear, even on her second book, how much Ali grew from her debut novel to this one. Levi is a dream and I understand more now how so many people have him as their favorite of Ali’s mmc.

They are such sweethearts and maybe in the future I’ll read it completely and give this book a fair chance again. I really really really loved Levi and how he seemed to understand Bee on a celular level. How honest he was (especially considering his background), how gone he was for her. If only Ali’s mmc existed in real life.

Bee, even though I loved her, I had a harder time relating to. Her bubbly personality seemed so different from Olive’s (which again, good) but besides her being scared to commit, I couldn’t see myself in her. Which, maybe was the reason a had trouble with this book the first time. But even though I couldn’t see myself in her, I understood her and could see myself wanting to be her friend, trying to protect her.

It’s an excellent book, it truly is. And Levi’s declarations (yes, plural) are to die for.

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I absolutely hate to write this with my whole being… but… this wasn’t as good as The Love Hypothesis? Ugh. I hate saying that. Maybe it’s that nothing will ever top Adam and Olive (I miss them so much
emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
funny hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny fast-paced

Me ha costado bastante entender mis sentimiento hacia este libro, me ha encantado la historia, los personajes, toda la trama, pero creo que por el simple hecho de que me veo mucho más reflejada en Olive, no ha llegado a encantarme tantísisisisisisimo.

He estado completamente enganchada y metida en la trama, tanto que en un momento dado casi le cojo tirria a Levi, porque Bee se la tenía. Para mi estaba gran parte de la trama clara desde el principio, y por lo tanto era consciente de la verdadera personalidad de Levi, pero eso no quita que defendiera a tope a mi chica.

En cuanto a Bee, tenemos un personaje extrovertido, super inteligente -de hecho de las mejores neurocientíficas que hay-, con un gran amor hacia los gatos y un pasado un tanto complicado. Además en el pasado su relación con Levi no era la mejor, no por ella si no porque él la huía.

En cuanto a Levi, a pesar de todo lo que ocurre en sus pasados es un personaje 10, con 0 masculinidad tóxica que no tiene miedo a ir a terapia porque comprende que su falta de comunicación es un problema que necesita tratarse. Que está siempre para apoyar a sus compañeras y que es consciente de la discriminación que existe hacia las mujeres en un campo como la ciencia.

En este libro considero que se representa mucho mejor todas las situaciones de descriminación, los actos paternalistas, el hecho de que no sigan ordenes porque las ha dado una mujer... Mis 10s

Además en cuanto a la trama, considero que está super elaborada, para aquellas personas que no acabaron de disfrutar del todo de The Love Hypothesis porque la trama era bastante plana, considero que con este libro van a poder disfrutar muchísimo más.