Books/Series
The Love Hypothesis
The Love Hypothesis
The Love Hypothesis

The Love Hypothesis

The Love Hypothesis
The Love Hypothesis
By:
Ali Hazelwood
  • Spice Scale
  • Number of books

    1 Published

  • KU

    ❌

  • Audiobook

    ✅

  • Series Status

    Incomplete

  • Interconnected

    N/A

  • Overall Rating

    Coming Soon

A stunning hardcover collector’s edition of Ali Hazelwood’s instant New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation featuring:

• A shimmering, revamped cover
• Endpapers with all new art from Lilith Saur featuring Olive and Adam
• STEM stenciled spredges
• A sunny, foil stamped case
• Fun additional chapter heading doodles throughout, and...
• A brand new bonus chapter featuring THAT KISS from Adam’s point of view

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.

Jamie’s review

Ali Hazelwood is my favorite romcom author. This is one of her earliest (maybe first?) books and although it's not as well written as her newer stuff, I still really enjoyed it.

I'm usually laughing my ass off while reading her books, she writes the BEST banter and humor. I did laugh reading this one, but not as much.

If you like a fake dating trope, this is a good one. Olive is a PhD student at Stanford and ends up fake dating Dr. Carlsen, a professor with a brutal reputation. Hazelwood must have a thing for Stanford, Deep End was also set there.

It was cute and cheesy, but I would recommend other books of hers before this one.

Ali Hazelwood is my favorite romcom author. This is one of her earliest (maybe first?) books and although it's not as well written as her newer stuff, I still really enjoyed it.

I'm usually laughing my ass off while reading her books, she writes the BEST banter and humor. I did laugh reading this one, but not as much.

If you like a fake dating trope, this is a good one. Olive is a PhD student at Stanford and ends up fake dating Dr. Carlsen, a professor with a brutal reputation. Hazelwood must have a thing for Stanford, Deep End was also set there.

It was cute and cheesy, but I would recommend other books of hers before this one.

Erica’s review

Oh Ali….she just gets me, I say it every time. She has me LOLing throughout every book of hers I read. And I actually feel like I learn a little bit of science-y smarty things along the way. This was a great little potato chip book for me between some heavy romantasy reads and it hit perfect. The tension, grumpy/sunshine and miscommunication tropes are done perfectly and I loved how neurotic Olive is. I hadn't read an Ali book in a few months and also needed a romantasy break so maybe that's why I liked a bit more than Jamie. I flew through it in 2 days!

Oh Ali….she just gets me, I say it every time. She has me LOLing throughout every book of hers I read. And I actually feel like I learn a little bit of science-y smarty things along the way. This was a great little potato chip book for me between some heavy romantasy reads and it hit perfect. The tension, grumpy/sunshine and miscommunication tropes are done perfectly and I loved how neurotic Olive is. I hadn't read an Ali book in a few months and also needed a romantasy break so maybe that's why I liked a bit more than Jamie. I flew through it in 2 days!

Books in this series

  • Book 1

    of

    1

    The Love Hypothesis
    The Love Hypothesis

  • Book 2

    of

    2

    A Shadow in the Ember
    The Two-Body Problem

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