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A review by emilycait
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
5.0
I am having so much fun with Hazelwood's body of works! I have now read everything available, and I think Love on the Brain may be my favorite?
Bee is a purple-haired, pierced and tattooed, badass neuroscientist. She is obsessed with cats and Marie Curie, hosts a feminist women-in-STEM twitter, and is working on a project with NASA. No big deal, right? Her narrative voice was so strong and so unique. Compared to the other four lady narrator's I've encountered in Hazelwood's works, Bee just felt so real!
I will say Hazelwood does lover her enemies-to-lovers trope. If you read all of her works back to back (as I have just done) it may feel slightly tired. But this also happens to be one of my favorite tropes, so I'm sure when I reread this months from now I won't be bothered at all.
Also a small moment to appreciate the love interests that Hazelwood writes. Not a single one of them, Levi included, is a bundle of red flags with an unusually large penis (as I've found is unfortunately common in the romance genre)! How refreshing to have a love interest that is NOT controlling and stalkerish. A round of applause for setting up a healthy romantic relationship.
Bee is a purple-haired, pierced and tattooed, badass neuroscientist. She is obsessed with cats and Marie Curie, hosts a feminist women-in-STEM twitter, and is working on a project with NASA. No big deal, right? Her narrative voice was so strong and so unique. Compared to the other four lady narrator's I've encountered in Hazelwood's works, Bee just felt so real!
I will say Hazelwood does lover her enemies-to-lovers trope. If you read all of her works back to back (as I have just done) it may feel slightly tired. But this also happens to be one of my favorite tropes, so I'm sure when I reread this months from now I won't be bothered at all.
Also a small moment to appreciate the love interests that Hazelwood writes. Not a single one of them, Levi included, is a bundle of red flags with an unusually large penis (as I've found is unfortunately common in the romance genre)! How refreshing to have a love interest that is NOT controlling and stalkerish. A round of applause for setting up a healthy romantic relationship.