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The Love Hypothesis

A TikTok sensation and must-read STEM romance

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The Love Hypothesis

By: Ali Hazelwood
Narrated by: Callie Dalton, Teddy Hamilton
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Summary
 THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES AND TIKTOK SENSATION, AND NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL FILM STARRING LILI REINHART AND TOM BATEMAN! Read it before you see it with Ali Hazelwood's original swoony STEM romance novel - featuring a bonus chapter from Adam's perspective!

A fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction.

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.©2021 Ali Hazelwood Contemporary Romance Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Women's Fiction Fake Relationship Feel-Good Heartfelt Comedy Funny

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Critic Reviews

Contemporary romance's unicorn: the elusive marriage of deeply brainy and delightfully escapist...The Love Hypothesis has wild commercial appeal but the quieter secret is that there is a specific audience, made up of all of the Olives in the world, who have deeply, ardently waited for this exact book. (Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners)
Funny, sexy and smart. (Mariana Zapata, New York Times bestselling author)
This tackles one of my favorite tropes - Grumpy meets Sunshine - in a fun and utterly endearing way... I loved the nods towards fandom and romance novels, and I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended! (Jessica Clare, New York Times bestselling author)
Pure slow-burning gold with lots of chemistry.
Smart, witty dialogue and a diverse cast of likeable secondary characters... A realistic, amusing novel that readers won't be able to put down.
With whip-smart and endearing characters, snappy prose, and a quirky take on a favourite trope, Hazelwood convincingly navigates the fraught shoals of academia... This smart, sexy contemporary should delight a wide swathe of romance lovers.
When a book has a certain type of magic between the pages, you manage to get from the prologue to the epilogue without coming up for air ... The Love Hypothesis was one of these books.
I fell in love with Adam's and Olive's relationship ... it's the best romance book I've read this year
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This was so good! I found myself audibly laughing at some things that Olive and Adam would say to each other. Oh, it was cute and funny. They both gave me serious Jude and Cardin vibes which I'm glad for because I love that trope.

Olive is asexual. Why isn't this talked about more?

As someone in the academic world I was reading, Tom's manipulation of Olive made me mad. Trust me when I say that I'm happy I wasn't reading this in public because the tear came flowing.

How do people not like this book because, step aside, I'm getting on the hype train!

Worth all the hype!

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I enjoyed my time with this book, it was sweet and humourous and the academia setting and culture actually feels believable and natural thanks to the author's IRL background in it. There isn't too much over-the-top drama and the writing quality was solid,
For those of you that want to know what the spice level: the book is fairly slow burn and while when it does get to the spicey parts it is an open door there's not a lot of it, but what was there was great - sweet but sexy.
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The narration was good, nothing super notable about it. if you like the narrator's voice from the sample I don't think there's anything in the book that will be a nasty surprise or ick performance-wise.

A well crafted rom-com

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Like a soap where they don’t tell the truth and it all drags on too long without making sense

Soap opera

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Great story! Lovely love story. The bonus chapter was amazing that it would be amazing if Adam has his own POV story. Plus Teddy is amazing

Amazing!

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I really enjoyed this story. It may have been predictable, but really, what story isn’t these days. It was a light, humorous and easy to listen to story. I had no issues either the narration either, I thought the voices were fine (listening speed 1.1).
I’ll listen to more books from this author.

Loved it

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