Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood – a Review

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Description:
It will take the frosty terrain of the Arctic to show these rival scientists that their chemistry burns hot.

Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn…

Hannah’s got a bad feeling about this. Not only has the NASA aerospace engineer found herself injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station—but the one person willing to undertake the hazardous rescue mission is her longtime rival.

Ian has been many things to Hannah: the villain who tried to veto her expedition and ruin her career, the man who stars in her most deliciously lurid dreams…but he’s never played the hero. So why is he risking everything to be here? And why does his presence seem just as dangerous to her heart as the coming snowstorm?

Review:

Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood is the 3^rd book in her The STEMinist Novellas series. Mara, Sadie and Hannah were best friends, with each being scientists in different fields; in Below Zero, Hannah is the lead. In the first two books, Hannah was sweet, but I did find her somewhat annoying early on in the book.

Hannah is an aerospace engineer for NASA, and she loves her job.  She met Ian, early on, discovering how hot he was; but all she wanted was sex, no dating, and Ian just stepped away; since he was interested in dating and getting to know Hannah.  Over the years, she runs into Ian a couple of times, and in her sexy dreams: but when she learns that he denied her major project, she is angrier than ever, meeting up with him to tell him off.  But her boss managed to get people to support her project, despite Ian’s claim that it was too dangerous.

There is no question that Ian was attracted to Hannah, but she wasn’t really nice to him, and because of that I did not feel the chemistry between them; at least until closer to the end.  When Hannah starts her project, she becomes injured during a storm at her remote station, unable to get out.  To her shock, the person who will come to rescue her is Ian; Hannah doesn’t understand why he would put his own life in danger for her.

What follows is a quick story line, that was a bit funny, somewhat zany, and at times fun.  I have enjoyed Ali Hazelwood’s previous full novels, but thus far I am not a fan of these novellas. Love on the Brain is the next full-length novel. If you like novellas, that are zany and fun, you should read Ali Hazelwood.

Reviewed by Barb

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