4.8~5
4.3~4.7
3.8~4.2
Love, Theoretically
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I think the relationship dynamic between Elsie and Jack was the best so far among the three academia love books. I really, really liked Jack. I liked the flavor he brought as an Ali Hazelwood man. He was, obviously, still the same hot pining nerd of a male lead, but he was funnier and sassier and I liked the personality he brought to the story. This one I would classify under enemies-to-lovers, because at one point it did feel that way, even though Jack was still very much pining after her. They were fun and funny and so interesting to read about. The romance between them was sweet. I also really loved Elsie. I think it was great, highlighting the difficulty of getting a good job that can sustain you and your medical needs, and as someone who also struggles with a lifetime disease that needs constant expensive medication and care, I liked that Ali Hazelwood brought to life a female lead who has health problems and talked about the expenses she had to worry about as well. She was the most relatable character also in terms of her personality, and I liked reading about her. I would have given this a 5 but I docked one point off because someone pointed out in their review that Jack didn’t really do much for Elsie in the plot. I mean, sure, there were times when he’d take her out, offered her a job, that one final article he wrote for her, but I think I’ve just gotten used to the more obvious gestures of love from the past two books. I think that’s fine though, it shows that love isn’t always about grand gestures, and the plot was more of Elsie finding her own stability in life and finding herself while getting to know the people around her. But I don’t know, it just felt like it was lacking something. I will be rereading this for sure and trying to take note of his gestures of love and maybe I’ll reconsider the rating. Way more technical terms here (on physics this time), but I liked how Ali Hazelwood highlighted the politics in academia. It was interesting to read about and I liked that the plot revolved on that.
2
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4
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3.3~3.7
Love on the Brain
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There is a pattern to Ali Hazelwood’s MMCs and that’s the big hot nerdy guy who’s been in love with the girl long before their relationship progressed. And honestly, I’m okay with that. I like that trope a lot. Bonus points because the men are always so gentle and sweet with with the female leads, even though they’re supposedly on that enemies-to-lovers vibe. Which, actually, I don’t think this qualifies as, because the enemies thing was sort of one-sided (though everyone else thought otherwise). It has a tad bit more technical stuff than The Love Hypothesis, though this focuses on engineering and neuroscience instead of biological research. I like how Ali Hazelwood highlights different branches of STEM, and I feel like her books have truly made me appreciate sciences in general. I feel like Levi Ward was written in the same font as Adam Carlsen. While I said that I liked how her men are more or less the same (hot pining nerd), I feel like he was just too much like Adam or maybe the visuals in the book covers made them too alike for me. She did try to show differences like how smiled more than Adam and was supposedly friendlier, but I think they just kept blurring in my head. Nevertheless, I still actually really enjoyed it. The romance was sweet and cute. I just feel like this book was a bit too millennial for me (outfits, descriptions), or maybe it was just the fact that Bee was a manic pixie dream girl character. I was stressed when she refused to see that Levi was in love with her, but I also think that the fear when you’re falling in love is something we can easily judge when we’re not in the situation, especially since Levi’s love ran so deep. I loved her though, and I related a lot to how she didn’t want to adopt a cat because she was scared of feeling the loss afterwards, which was how I felt before my calico (like Felicette) came to us.
2
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4
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2.8~3.2
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