The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood is my favorite romcom author. This is one of her earliest (maybe first?) books and although it's not as well written as her newer stuff, I still really enjoyed it.

I'm usually laughing my ass off while reading her books, she writes the BEST banter and humor. I did laugh reading this one, but not as much.

If you like a fake dating trope, this is a good one. Olive is a PhD student at Stanford and ends up fake dating Dr. Carlsen, a professor with a brutal reputation. Hazelwood must have a thing for Stanford, Deep End was also set there.

Oh Ali….she just gets me, I say it every time. She has me LOLing throughout every book of hers I read. And I actually feel like I learn a little bit of science-y smarty things along the way. This was a great little potato chip book for me between some heavy romantasy reads and it hit perfect. The tension, grumpy/sunshine and miscommunication tropes are done perfectly and I loved how neurotic Olive is. I hadn't read an Ali book in a few months and also needed a romantasy break so maybe that's why I liked a bit more than Jamie. I flew through it in 2 days!