The Love Hypothesis

  

The Love Hypothesis

by Ali Hazelwood

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Publication Date: Sep 14 2021
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780593336823
Genre: Adult | Contemporary | Romance 
Source: Own

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Synopsis: Olive, a third-year Ph.D. candidate, finds herself in a predicament when her best friend Anh falls in love. Anh is apprehensive about dating because she doesn't want to hurt Olive's feelings so to convince Anh that Olive is ok with Anh dating, she fakes a relationship with the first person she sees. Ironically that first person is a young professor who is a well-known ass on the campus.

Shockingly Adam agrees to go along with Olive's fake-dating scheme but things take an interesting turn during a big science conference and Olive begins to wonder if there is more to Adam than his hard exterior lets on.

Review: I put off reading this book for a month because everyone was talking about it and everyone was saying how great it was and in my mind, I was like "yeah right". Don't get me wrong, it looked cute and I did have it on my TBR list but I couldn't figure out why everyone was going so nuts over this book. Seriously, it was all over Bookstagram and even my coworker was talking about it.

I finally decided to read it because a majority of the book is set in the fall so it fit into my need to read seasonal reads only, even though it wasn't about witches or anything spooky and Halloween-ish. I could not put this book down!! It was soooooo good! I totally understand all of the hype now because wowzers! I'm a little annoyed that it was so good and everyone else was right about it because now I am on the bandwagon and the rebel inside of me does not want to be on the bandwagon.

“I wish you could see yourself the way I see you”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

Heavy sigh. Ok, so the characters are fun and fabulous. I love the witty banter. I love the grumpy sunshine trope. I love the fake dating tope. I love the nerdy science vibe. I love how fun and sparkly Olive is. Seriously, she is the best! Can I please be her when I grow up? Then there is stoic Adam with his rigid personality. But then wonderful Hazel comes along and the rest is just absolute perfection.

I can't even put into words whole thoughts and sentences regarding this book. Every single thing about it was perfection. From here on out I will preorder any Ali Hazelwood book and bump it to the top of my pile. 

Obviously, I give this book 5 stars because there isn't one single thing wrong with it, other than it being only 352 pages. It's rom-com gold.