A review by oosij
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

3.5

god i love reading romance books so i can feel good about myself (i finish them in a couple of hours, at most lol). i had fun reading this, and the smut was actually pretty good - at least SO much better than it was in LOVE HYPOTHESIS. i read this because i heard it was dramione-coded, but it's just kinda loosely that. it's dramione if you squint, and draco doesn't have constant snark, and hermione is the stupidest smart girl to exist. like... elsie... girl. you're supposed to be smart!!!

i will say, i really do not care for ali hazelwood's... obsession? with the smol fmc and fucking ginormous mmc trope. it's a kinda disturbing concept i loved in my Youth™️, but now that i'm older (and thoroughly icked out by the ao3 manacled illustrations), i personally just can't get behind the constant "he's soooooo big, and i'm sooooo smol next to him" thing.