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Rating: 5/5
Spice level: 2.5/5 (her spiciest book yet!)
Series: The Love Hypothesis #3
Tropes
Rivals to lovers
Workplace romance
Woman in STEM
He falls first
My Thoughts
I adored this book, not that I expected any less from one of my top three favorite authors. Even though I am not a woman in STEM and science is my largest academic weakness, I related to Elsie on a level only few fictional characters have achieved in the past. I can already see the reviews saying Elise is annoying or childish, but her habit of transforming herself into the person she's interacting with is something I connected with, and I loved her humor and growth throughout the book.
Jack Smith-Turner may have taken Adam Carlsen's place as my favorite book boyfriend. I know it is the bare minimum, but the way he encourages her to speak her mind and be unapologetically herself is beautiful. Also, Hazelwood is the queen of the he-falls-first trope which I always adore.
Fan of the Love Hypothesis series? Olive and Adam make a cameo, and there is a reference to Bee's twitter! Personally this is something Love On The Brain was lacking for me, so I was so excited to see characters from her previous books!
Love the aro/ace representation with Jack's brother.
Plot
Elsie is an adjunct theoretical physics professor by day, fake-dating expert by night. When she is offered the interview of a lifetime at MIT, one where she can finally afford insulin and not answer obnoxious student emails, she sees it as her chance to finally be happy in her career. However, everything is complicated when Jack Smith-Turner is on the panel -- brother of a regular fake-dating client who destroyed the field of theoretical physics and her mentor's career.
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