Wow I absolutely hated this book. I am so icked out by a PhD student dating a professor (even worse that it’s in the same department, especially because he liked her since she was interviewing??? Not to mention that we’re supposed to forget that Adam is a toxic PI because he’s nice to Olive. I know too many PIs that have reputations, so I could not get into the idea of her dating an asshole. The science was all over the place (why is a cancer researcher using the word channelrhodopsin in a scientific talk?). And the character’s reference to every type of science and statistics was so annoying and often irrelevant and inaccurate. The one thing I did like about this book was that at the beginning, it painted a very accurate picture of how hard it is to be an academic and how toxic academia is. But, as a recently defended grad student, it was mostly just triggering. The story was extremely predictable (I knew Tom was toxic and would threaten to steal her research, that Adam was the guy from the bathroom, Adam was actually interviewing at Harvard) that it was just boring. And honestly, the whole premise was stupid and made no sense. The premise of the fake dating made 0 sense. Final complaint: the sex scene was so off-putting. I don’t mean to ick anyone’s yum, but this guy having such giant fingers (and penis) that it causes her pain is not attractive… I could go into more detail but no one will probably even read this. This would have been a DNF for me if I wasn’t stubborn and always finish books.