Stuck With You by Ali Hazelwood – a Review
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Description:
Nothing like a little rivalry between scientists to take love to the next level.
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…
Logically, Sadie knows that civil engineers are supposed to build bridges. However, as a woman of STEM she also understands that variables can change, and when you are stuck for hours in a tiny New York elevator with the man who broke your heart, you earn the right to burn that brawny, blond bridge to the ground. Erik can apologize all he wants, but to quote her rebel leader—she’d just as soon kiss a Wookiee.
Not even the most sophisticated of Sadie’s superstitious rituals could have predicted such a disastrous reunion. But while she refuses to acknowledge the siren call of Erik’s steely forearms or the way his voice softens when he offers her his sweater, Sadie can’t help but wonder if there might be more layers to her cold-hearted nemesis than meet the eye. Maybe, possibly, even burned bridges can still be crossed….
Review:
Stuck With You by Ali Hazelwood is a Steminist novella. Sadie, our heroine, is a scientist, who works for a new firm producing safer products. Within the same building, another firm is very successful, making things harder for Sadie and her boss.
One evening Sadie, met Erik and it turned into a one-night stand, which she learns the following day that he is one of the founders of the other company. Sadie feels that Erik betrayed her, when she finds out they took one of their customers away; now Sadie hates Erik. Three weeks later, both Erik and Sadie get stuck in the elevator, with Erik trying to convince her that he did not betray her, and Sadie slowly begins to feel her attraction to him
What follows is a quick story line, with POV’s switching back and forth from the one-night stand and them trapped in the elevator. I have enjoyed Hazelwood’s previous novel, but not really feeling anything for this story, not to mention I thought Sadie was a bit weird, though I did like Erik. I also wasn’t crazy about the awful croissants that kept being brought up. I will read the next novella in this series, and decide if I want to continue. I did enjoy very much Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis.
Reviewed by Barb
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