The Love Hypothesis By Ali Hazelwood
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Web ID: 13393978fantastic STEM romance
This is it: the blueprint of romances for me. I read this for the first time way back in 2021 when I was first discovering the romance genre (I knew I liked romances but didn't realize just how big the romance world was) and I DEVOURED this in one sitting. It's now 2025 and Ali has come out with so many other books but this will always be the OG for me, the one that will live in my heart as a favorite. Olive is such a wonderfully relatable character and Adam is the broodiest of grumps that we all love to love. This book introduced the unique setting of STEM romance settings and I still find myself surprised by how much my artistic/non scientist brain loves these. We also discuss some really heavy, yet realistic issues of sexual harassment and how it is to be a woman in a heavily male dominated field. Is this book cringy? Sure, I mean it's fake dating with some really silly scenarios we find our main characters in. But don't we all just want to escape to some silliness now and then? I credit this book as one of the ones that made me realize what types of books I want to read and for that, I'll always think of it as one of my favorites of all time.
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Perfect!
5 ⭐️ When he gave her his granola bar and she noticed it was covered with chocolate. 🥹
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Reylo fanfic turned STEMinist novel? YES.
Third-year Ph.D. candidate and biologist Olive Smith has a hypothesis: if she can convince her best friend Ahn that she is currently dating and happy, Ahn will feel free to date Olive's last (very brief, very uninteresting) love interest and will find her own happiness, which she totally deserves. Of course, Olive chooses to test this hypothesis in the heat of the moment by kissing the first man she can randomly grab onto in the biology lab in front of Ahn - reigning lab tyrant and worst nightmare of students everywhere, Dr. Adam Carlson. To everyone's surprise, Olive's rash experiment has a significant result - she needs a fake boyfriend, and Adam has motives of his own, and the two find themselves thrust into the spotlight of the Stanford gossip train as they navigate the confusing waters of friendship, ultimate frisbee, attraction, Booktok's favorite romance tropes, pumpkin spice lattes, betrayals, and out-of-town science conferences that will change everything Olive has come to theorize about love and her place in it. There was never a universe in which this book wasn't going to get a 5-star review from me, which definitely feels like some sort of Jedi mind trick. It's got all the things that I specifically love - it's about scientists; it's a former Reylo fan fic (and Ali named the MMC ADAM LMAO); the FMC struggles with imposter syndrome; it centers women in STEM and the very real struggles they face; it's an entirely ridiculous premise in a way that is just this side of believable and so fun that I really didn't care anyway; the FMC struggles with her feelings about attraction and intimacy and isn't somehow a super smart scientist that wears ratty T-shirts and is also a siren in the sheets; the dedication the FMC and her friends have to each other and the value they place on adult friendships reminds me of my own life and made me want to sweep up all my friends in giant hugs; and the behind-the-scenes simping/genuine affection and attention the MMC shows towards the FMC has probably ruined men for me forever. This was a silly haha good time and also a call-out and if all of Ali Hazelwood's STEMinist books are like this, then I'm in trouble.
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Faking dating!
“Did you . . . Did you just kiss me?” He sounded puzzled, and maybe a little out of breath. His lips were full and plump and . . . God. Kissed. There was simply no way Olive could get away with denying what she had just done. Still, it was worth a try. “Nope.” Surprisingly, it seemed to work. “Ah. Okay, then.” Carlsen nodded and turned around, looking vaguely disoriented. He took a couple of steps down the hallway, reached the water fountain—maybe where he’d been headed in the first place. Olive was starting to believe that she might actually be off the hook when he halted and turned back with a skeptical expression. “Are you sure?” Dam*it. Grad Student, Olive, has found herself in a fake dating predicament (my favorite kind of one) when she ransoming kisses a guy so her best friend will finally go after the guy she really likes, buys Olive had previously dated. Turns out that random guy wasn’t so random and happens to be the grumpiest Professor in the grad program. The gossip mill spreads quickly that they’re together and they both find they can use this to their benefit. Anh finally will date Jeremy and Stanford will see that Dr. Adam Carlsen isn’t the flight risk they think he is when he had a steady girlfriend and will free up his research funding. As we all know with most fake dating incidents, feelings get involved. “You just had to go and make me fall for you, she thought, blinking against his skin. You absolute a**.” This was my second dive into Ali Hazelwood’s books and this was delightfully cute! I loved seeing women in STEM, the fight they have to be heard and the good men that are actually there for them in the process. My favorite line from the female prof: “Olive,” Dr. Aslan interrupted her with a stern tone. “What do I always tell you?” “Um . . . ‘Don’t misplace the multichannel pipette’?” “The other thing.” She sighed. “ ‘Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.’ ” I definitely plan on picking up more of Ali’s books if this is what I have to look forward to!
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FANTASTIC
This book was one of the first books that got me into reading and not many books have lived up to the standard Ali Hazelwood set with this book.
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A cute romance
The Love Hypothesis- Ali Hazelwood Narrated by: Callie Dalton & Bonus Chapter narrated by Teddy Hamilton Narrator Ratings: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Callie did an excellent job bringing this book to life. Teddy as always is absolute perfection. My Review: My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pages: 400 Genre: Romance Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Fake Dating, One Bed, Workplace Romance, Age Gap Olive is a 3rd year PHD candidate and Adam a faculty member. This is a sweet, cute romance book with cheesy parts. Olive is adorable, highly intelligent and lets one little white lie mushroom into a mountain just simply trying to help a friend. Adam is the strong quiet professor who is part of her little white lie. He goes along with it for other reasons though. He has had a crush on her for a couple years. Then enter a conniving professor friend of Adam’s who causes havoc in everyone’s life. I highly recommend this book. It’s a sweet book with lovable characters. Opposites do attract. #booktok #bookstagram #books #booklover #bookrecommendations #bookstagrammer #bookish #bookworm #readersofinstagram #bookreview #bookaddict #bookcommunity #read #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #bookblogger #romance #fantasy #thelovehypothesis #alihazelwood
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loved!!!
i feel like the hate for this book was so so forced, i loved it so much and i love that it wasn’t a whole lot of intimacy, it was just simple and cute and i loved it
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My first ever dip into romance
Kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Olive kind of got in my nerves a LITTLE bit. but that’s okay cause overall i really enjoyed it.
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