Love on the Brain: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I’ve started with The Love Hypothesis, but been a a bit busy this week and not much time for reading or blogging.

It took everything I loved in The Love Hypothesis (nerdy and relatable characters, a STEM setting, cute romance, and great banter) and added even more.Lol, I can be the exact same way sometimes, which made this book’s message so personal and beautiful to me. Meaning, Love On the Brain will have definitely undergone editing between the version I’m talking about and what is released at the end of August, or at least it should’ve (Berkeley, if you’re reading this, you’ve got some typos to fix). 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. And she would not shut up about Marie, i dont even know what her last name was because I skipped over whenever she would talk about her.

But as she spends more time with him, she starts to realize that maybe they don't really hate each other after all and it's actually something else altogether. However, I can totally see the pitchforks coming out for this couple—how it's completely unrealistic, how there's no way it would take her this long to come to her senses. But when she realizes she’s going to work with grad school arch-nemesis Levi Ward: tall, dark haired, piercing green eyes, a brainy Adonis, she curses her luck! I loved trying to figure out our hero's thoughts and feelings, and I loved that it has a similar vibe to The Love Hypothesis (both standalones) while also feeling distinct and original. I only use Goodreads as a reader, to review and hype books that I've loved (many of these book are ARCs received from fellow authors).As if the book gods knew I was going to be scrounging for crumbs to praise here and wanted one last laugh, but I digress. i understand that Levi comes from a highly dysfunctional family, has never learned to communicate and it really shows. I found the pacing of the book perfect, I was pulled right in from the beginning and I didn’t put this down until I read the very last word. Before we get into Love On the Brain, I would like to take a second and remind everyone that I gave The Love Hypothesis 5 whole stars LESS THAN A YEAR AGO.

The walls are too high for me to climb—because I’m five feet tall and everything is too high for me to climb.

I won’t pretend that these characteristics are unique to Hazelwood’s romances, nor were they entirely exempt from her previous works. Both characters are exceedingly likable, even when I was frustrated with the heroine's cluelessness - or reluctance? But then the man is always there to get her out of a bad case of sexual harassment, which yup, i know its a romance novel and there's gonna be some saving but like, why cant she save herself. While it’s great that their build-up was slow, that slowness felt like it was still rooted in the friend zone, and therefore the attraction the two were developing towards each other felt like it came out of nowhere. The opportunity of them actually working together and hating it, yet little by little, they start seeing more about each other, was wasted.