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A review by laiabrary
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
4.0
Being a woman in STEM myself I feel like whatever Ali Hazelwood writes, it will have me on a chokehold. There is something about her books (women in STEM, duh??) that make me relate to the characters like crazy. I have read a review about The Love Hypothesis wherein someone had stated that it was very much boring because of all the science stuff. Now, if you are going to read Hazelwood you’ve got to know she writes about women in STEM, right?! So you inevitably have to be expecting a bunch of science talk as a way to be able to fully immerse the readers in the setting Hazelwood painted for us. And being a science nerd myself I find that I thoroughly enjoy it whenever the characters are going all nerdy talking about the science they studied or practice. I didn’t find anything in both Ali’s novels even remotely boring. I devoured both books. And I was definitely scared before diving into Love on the Brain because I heard some say The Love Hypothesis was a one hit wonder and that every book Hazelwood writes is the exact same story and same characters (including the novellas). Now, I completely disagree with any of you who say her plots are identical and idem for the characters. Of course there will be similarities, because every author has some sort of formula; for Ali Hazelwood it would be nerdy FMC x tall and grumpy MMC. But that didn’t make Olive and Bee or Adam and Levi the same characters with different names. Considering their scientific preferences influence their personality immensely, to me they definitely don’t seem to be the “same character in a different font” like I have seen many write.
Anyhoo, I believe that, regardless wether you like science or not, you will most likely enjoy Love on the Brain. You might just be lost reading some science-related paragraphs but they will in no way diminish your experience. The storyline was predictable, but I find that this is the case for 99% of the romance books I read, so it didn’t take away from the story whatsoever.
Anyhoo, I believe that, regardless wether you like science or not, you will most likely enjoy Love on the Brain. You might just be lost reading some science-related paragraphs but they will in no way diminish your experience. The storyline was predictable, but I find that this is the case for 99% of the romance books I read, so it didn’t take away from the story whatsoever.