Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood – a Review

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Description:
Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project—a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia—Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.

Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school—archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there’s only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?

Review:

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood is another one of her cute fun and sexy rom-com novels. We meet our heroine, Bee Konigswasser, who is a neuroscientist; who follows the life of Marie Curie (the mother of modern physics). Bee is considered a brilliant scientist, and is offered a job to co-lead a neuro engineering project, BLINK for NASA. BLINK deals with transcranial magnetic stimulations to work on for astronaut helmets! As excited as she is, Bee is not thrilled to be working with her old nemesis, who is the co-leader, but Bee knows she needs to put aside their past to be able to work together.

Levi Ward, our hero, is very cold when he sees Bee, as they were not friends at grade school; Bee always thought he hated her.  During Bee’s first day, she accidentally falls, and it is Levi who saves her; but now her equipment is not available, the people working for Levi are ignoring her. What is going on?  After a short period, Bee will learn from Levi that their overall boss did not want her be part of their project, as they wanted their success to be their own.  But with help from Levi, they do convince the boss, that they need Bee’s amazing neuroscientist’s ability. 

A slow burn enemy to lover’s romance begins, as Bee learns that Levi never hated her back in the past; as his feelings were quite the opposite.  With each passing day, Bee sees Levi becoming an ally, backing her up, seconding her ideas to management; and the chemistry between them heats up. I really loved Bee and Levi together, as they made a great couple, with so much sizzling chemistry between them. 

Love on the Brain was an interesting plot, with engineering and science working together; even though I did not understand a lot of what they were doing.  Which did not matter, as this a fun, cute romance, not to mention wonderful banter between our couple.  Some of the secondary characters were very good, and even at the end there were some surprising developments. 

What follows is a fun, sexy and entertaining rom-com, with a fabulous couple, excellent secondary characters, great banter, as well as sexy.  Love on the Brain was so very well written by Ali Hazelwood. I wholly suggest you read Love on the Brain.

Reviewed by Barb

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