The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood – Review & Giveaway

 

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Description:
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor–and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding…six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.

 

 

Review:

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood is a cute fun and sexy rom-com novel.  Olive Smith, our heroine, is working on her Ph.D in her third year at Stanford; she is a workaholic, always in the lab.  Olive keeps to herself, with the exception of some of her close friends, and isn’t interested in dating.  When one of the students, Jeremy, asks her out, Olive discovers her best friend, Anh is interested in Jeremy.  In order to convince her friend that she isn’t interested in him, she claims she has a boyfriend, and when she sees Anh walking toward her, Olive runs to the nearest man and kisses him.

Adam Carlsen, our hero, is a professor at the school, with many students not liking him, as he is tough.  Adam is shocked when Olive kisses him out of nowhere, and pushes her to tell him why she kissed him. When she apologizes and explains she is trying to convince her friend that she already has a boyfriend.  To her shock, Adam will agree to be the ‘fake-boyfriend’. She meets him weekly at the coffee shop to continue their pretense, and Adam convinces her they need to appear more expressive showing off their feelings in front of others.  In reality, both of them will slowly become very comfortable around each other, and their relationship will heat up, though it does take time.  Olive tries to ignore her feelings, especially looking at the hot professor, who is her pretend boyfriend.  Adam goes out of his way to always help Olive, as well as give her more confidence.  I loved them together, and constantly wished they would succumb to their lustful feelings, which was fun to watch.

Olive’s mother died of pancreatic cancer, and she had devoted her life to become a scientist, to find a cure for that cancer.  Olive was a great leading character, with a number of issues, being nervous, awkward, lack of self-confidence; but she is also loyal, fun and adorable when she is with Adam.  She does excel at her work, and gets the attention of other labs away from Stanford to give her more room and help in her work.  When she gets an offer from another professor at Harvard, who happens to be Adam’s friend, Olive is ecstatic. 

What follows is a fun, humorous, sexy and entertaining rom-com, with a fabulous couple, excellent secondary characters (Anh, Malcom, Holden, Jeremy), great banter, as well as being steamy.  There are some surprising developments closer to the end, and I loved how Olive was able to stand up to fight some issues. But most of all I loved Adam, how he put Olive first, always helping her throughout. Adam and Olive where such a wonderful couple, who were so much fun together, not to mention steamy.  I suggest you read The Love Hypothesis, so very well written by Ali Hazelwood.   This was too much fun to miss.

Reviewed by Barb

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