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The Love Hypothesis
by Ali Hazelwood
The love for this book is everywhere. Every bookish app I sign into has someone singing it’s praises. I’m falling into the “I liked it, but I didn’t love it” camp. Hear me out.
Olive is a scientist (yay women in STEM! Don’t see that too often in the books I read) and realizes her best friend is made for a guy she used to date. Only Anh (the best friend) won’t because of girl code. So what’s a girl to do? Try kissing a random stranger in a lab because she lied and said she was on a date. Only the random stranger was a professor, Adam Carlsen. And he’s notoriously a difficult, sometimes horrific, mentor to many grad students. He decides to “fake-date” Olive for his own gains.
Sounds interesting, right? Yes, I was hooked right from the start as well.
But then I kept reading…and the lies kept piling on. And the self-doubt and insecurities became overwhelming. And Olive became a character I stopped rooting for because she was behaving like my 6 year old and I guess had she told one truth many pages of the book would disappear, but would that have been so bad? She would have been more relatable in my eyes.
There’s a side plot of who her roommate started dating that felt a little too convenient (don’t want to say anything more to avoid spoilers).
I did enjoy the part of the villain and how that storyline wrapped up. It wasn’t rushed and it all felt a bit too real, which made me appreciate it more.
Olive is a scientist (yay women in STEM! Don’t see that too often in the books I read) and realizes her best friend is made for a guy she used to date. Only Anh (the best friend) won’t because of girl code. So what’s a girl to do? Try kissing a random stranger in a lab because she lied and said she was on a date. Only the random stranger was a professor, Adam Carlsen. And he’s notoriously a difficult, sometimes horrific, mentor to many grad students. He decides to “fake-date” Olive for his own gains.
Sounds interesting, right? Yes, I was hooked right from the start as well.
But then I kept reading…and the lies kept piling on. And the self-doubt and insecurities became overwhelming. And Olive became a character I stopped rooting for because she was behaving like my 6 year old and I guess had she told one truth many pages of the book would disappear, but would that have been so bad? She would have been more relatable in my eyes.
There’s a side plot of who her roommate started dating that felt a little too convenient (don’t want to say anything more to avoid spoilers).
I did enjoy the part of the villain and how that storyline wrapped up. It wasn’t rushed and it all felt a bit too real, which made me appreciate it more.