I absolutely adored this book! While I think I still prefer the Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain was an absolute delight. I regretted every time I had to put it down and wanted it to last even longer when I finished. I have some minor complaints, mainly that I though Bee was in denial about her feelings for too long/we should've gotten more of her and Levi together pre-third act conflict and that some things felt VERY obvious/it was dubious that someone with a PhD in neuroscience didn't figure it out earlier but I really had too good of a time to let those things hold back my love for this.

Love on the Brain was a cute read that followed a lot of the same tropes as Ali Hazelwood's debut novel, The Love Hypothesis; slow-burn romance, not really enemies to lovers, miscommunication and missed signals, a seemingly dark brooding hero who very obviously adored the heroine, and a beautiful, quirky, super smart but completely unaware heroine.

I liked Bee and Levi, but for being scientists working for NASA, they were pretty clueless about their obvious attraction/feelings for one another.

Love on the Brain was the slowest of slow burns, and even after they got together, they weren't really together because Bee just couldn't imagine Levi wanted something serious. The same Levi who has been crushing on her since Grad school.

The HEA was cute of course, but I felt their love story would have been served better with a little less slow burn and a bit more communication.

Como não correr para ler o próximo livro da autora de A Hipótese do Amor? Eu não sei vocês, mas eu não só corri, como consegui ler antes do lançamento através de uma cópia antecipada cedida pela editora Penguin Random House, a quem agradeço imensamene, em troca dessa resenha honesta.



Bee é uma neurocientista renomada que trabalha para um babaca. Quando lhe é oferecido uma oportunidade de trabalhar em um projeto na NASA, nada parece mais tentador, até que Bee dscobre que terá que co-liderar o prejeto com Levi Ward, um ex-colega que é engenheiro e que deixou claro em diversas ocasiões que não a suporta. A questão é bem fácil: o que Marie Curie faria? Nesse caso a resposta seria trabalhar com o máximo empenho paa provar a todos que ela é uma neurocientista foda. Acontece que Levi nunca odiou Bee, o que ele sente por ela é muito diferente, mas uma série de acontecimentos deram essa impressão e enquanto Levi tenta mostrar a Bee que não é tão ruim assim, tem alguém tentando sabotar o projeto deles.



Como lidar com essa autora que juntou apenas tudo que eu mais amo em um livro mais uma vez? Ciência, enemies to lovers, o boy se apaixona primeiro e STAR WARS? Eu tô completamente rendida!!!



Bee tem um problema com oermanência, que se originou em sua infância depois da morte dos pais e culminou no péssimo relacionamento que teve com Tim. Eu nem preciso dizer que ela é completamente apaixonada por ciência e isso a mantem muito ocupada. Quando ela começa a conviver com Levi as coisas vão se distanciando do que ela esperava, no começo eu realmente achei que ele fosse um babaca, mas o pobi só era atrapalhado mesmo.



E como eu falei, Levi tem um grande problema de comunicação, as vezes parece que ele pensa uma coisa que faz perfeito sentido só na cabeça dele e vai lá e dá tudo errado e isso proporciona gargalhadas do começo ao fim da leitura.



Claro que temos cenas mais hots entre os dois e vou te contar que esse nerd cientista tem um fogo. Quando eles começam a se pegar meu deus que cenas maravilhosas.



Para além do romance a autora abordou assuntos importantes como várias situações de machismo na academia, que eu confeso já passei por algumas, e olha que nem sou da área consderada mais masculina. A autora abordou isso através de um perfil que a personagem tem no twitter e foi muito legal ver como ela construiu esse assunto para além do romance entre Bee e Levi.



love On The Brain vai ser lançado nos EUA dia 23 e já teve seus direitos comprados por uma editora brasileira, obrigada Editora Arqueiro!

As always, Ali Hazelwood got me dizzy from swooning.
Delicious and angsty, a grumpy and sunshine trope that speaks to the softest part of my soul with sprinkled witty humor and banter like cherry on top.

It's sweet, warm, and made my face hurt from smiling. It's the kind of read that's so darn adorable, it will make your day pinker and brighter.

I thought The Love Hypothesis was hard to top but with Love on The Brain, this author continues the successful strike of cuteness.

Bee is a badass neuroscientist and STRONG women in STEM advocate, and she just got her dream job — a collaboration with NASA to engineer astronaut helmets. However, securing the position was actually the easy part. Now, she's forced to work with a sworn enemy from grad school, a creepy/rude boss breathing down her neck even from across the country, and mysterious things happening to her lab.

Let me start with: what a fun ride! OK, I loved Bee's particular brand of quirky (to an extent) and the sexual tensions and miscommunications (to an extent) but I think my biggest issue with Ali Hazelwood's writing is it just goes a little *too* far. Really pushing that line from funny and cute to "omg ok we get it." And I FULLY recognize this is TOTALLY a me thing. This "too much" thing is totally subjective, so absolutely take that into account.

Some really fun banter and great characters and backstories — also really fab plot twist that intrigued me! Also the :fire emoji: scenes (plural!!!!) were wayyyy better than the last book.

This is my 2nd Ali hazelwood book and this did not disappoint. I enjoyed it from the start to finish! I really enjoyed the banter in this one.

Bee has one thing she lives by and that is “what would Marie Curie do?” She finally got her dream job, working together with NASA for a job building a new product that could change so much. Only one problem, her co-lead is Levi. The same Levi that has hated her since college and told her fiancé not to marry her. When she arrives to get to work, her equipment isn’t there and Levi isn’t answering a single email. It’s going tom be really hard to work together when he won’t speak to her.

Everything you love about Ali Hazelwood in one book! The hate/love banter between Bee and Levi was just so fantastic it had me smirking while reading by the pool! While obviously science is not my specialty, nor do I understand most of, I even really loved the science in this book! It had me rooting for them and hoping they could get the project done and working! I also of course fell head over heels for the side characters that all added some amazing scenes and lines to the book! If you enjoyed The Love Hypothesis you will fall just as in love with Love On The Brain!

"Can you stay? Please? I know you'd probably rather be-" "Nowhere else," he says, without skipping a beat. "There's nowhere else I'd rather be."

Levi & Bee. Love on the Brain will make your lacrimal ducts runneth over from laughing and crying. It's so cute it will make your zygomaticus muscles contract.


Everything about this book is puuuurfect. Fur real though.... romance readers need Ali's sophomore novel! If you enjoyed The Love Hypothesis then you will be OBSESSED with Love on the Brain. Ali's books are hiss-terical and romantic. I litter-ally can't wait for my physical copy to arrive. Ali, Yoda best romance author and ily.

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AND GO BUY THIS BOOK!

...And all are welcome to my live PowerPoint presentation on ways the Levi Ward may or may not be Edward Cullen. Tonight. 7:00 pm. Just kidding. Or am I?

"I can give you nice. I can give you better than nice. I can give you everything."

THINGS & STUFF
-neuroengineering: science is where it's at
-grad school nemesis to love
-academic Twitter accounts a la You've Got Mail
-it's always been you
-couch 2 5k
-cats puns
-prairie voles: they pair-bond for life
-elbows brushes & bridal carrying (!!!!!)
-hummingbird mint
-vegan tacos
-empire strikes back
-a mystery!
-#IsThisAKissingBook: open door. "Kisses on the forehead when I'm still asleep."

BIG thanks to Berkley romance for an advanced copy!

Song: Crash into Me by Dave Matthews Band

4.5*
Holy shit did this book blow my mind to pieces and I thanked it for doing so!
I'll be the first to admit that The Love Hypothesis was genuinely not good, at least for me and if you loved it then good for you sis no tea no shade I'm happy for you!
Now that the legal part of this review is over, let's get back to it lol.
As I was saying, I really didn't like her first book and I've heard some really negative things about her novellas so naturally, I was hesitant to actually spend money and get her sophomore title.
In comes Penguin Random House International, to whom I owe my thanks for sending me the e-ARC of Love On The Brain!!
I thought they had saved me the money I'd have spent on this book, but as you can clearly see from the rating I gave it that I loved the shit out of this book and will proceed to pay for my preorder!

I'm not going to do an extremely long review overanalyzing a romance book but I will do a loved and didn't love section!
Kicking things off with the things I absolutely ADORED about this book:
. Bee was an absolutely wonderful main character! Fun as fuck, relatable, genuinely unique personality and looks wise compared to the regular main characters in romance, hilarious with a truly wonderful sense of humor, she just had all the elements you're looking for in a main character of a romance novel and for that I am most appreciative!
. Levi on the other hand... Was absolutely fucking MARVELOUS! A GLORIOUS love interest that gave me everything I could've possibly needed and then some. Socially awkward, with some mental health issues that he's worked through in therapy like a grown ass man who knows what's up, incredibly caring, a dashing hero that is always there for our main girl Bee whenever, and however (wink wink) she needs him. I loved him.
. I also loved Bee and Levi as a couple, simply because they shared a lot of things in common, from them both being vegan to pop culture shit, idk they just clicked and I loved them together.
Thei chemistry was explosive, and you could just FEEL the love Levi has for Bee, even though she spends the majority of the book being a blind ass bitch and not noticing that.
. I loved how this book did the thing that The Gravity of Us tried but failed to do. It gave us a book where the main plot is the romance, with NASA and space and the science shit as the background setting, which is why this book was so successful in my humble opinion, meanwhile the other one did the reverse, basically.
. The chapter titles.
. The side characters were hella enjoyable, both the assholes who Bee works with/for and the wonderfully fun side characters like Rocio who is a BREAKOUT star of the book! I absolutely loved Rocio with all her quirks and the shit she says to make you feel uneasy, in a way? Also, her sapphic relationship was very fun as well.
. This book was so fucking romantic?!?!?!?! Like what?! There were monologues here that were so romantic that I literally swooned and got teary eyed over them, especially the one where Schmac is telling Marie about his girl.
. (SPOILER!!!!!) I fucking loved the hidden identity trope here, since it was used extremely well and only added another level of drama and romance to the story since we clearly know right from the start who the fuck Schmac is.
. The use of Twitter and other social media shit felt very well-done, organic and not at all forced like it usually does.
. The sex scenes were FILTHY! FUCKING FILTHY and I LOVED them!
Bravo, Ms Ali Hazelwood.
. I shockingly liked how the third act conflict worked out, since it felt genuine and came from a place of insecurity and hopelesness.
. The last 10% of this book... A THRILLER TWIST?!?!?!?! Holy fucking shit, it's like she thought she hadn't done enough and decided to throw us a thriller moment and it was GLORIOUS!

Now, I shall take a deep breath, because that was a lot, before talking about the things I didn't like about this book:
. Unfortunately, it feels like Ali Hazelwood has a giant men with tiny women fetish because, and I0ve been told it's a thing in the 3 novellas as well, she just does that trope, if we can even call it a trope, in every single book of hers and it's getting real boring real fast.
I can understand that big men exist, I'm 6'6 so I get it, but when his dick is so big that it doesn't fit her vagaygay nor her mouth without needing to resort to some contortionist shit, you know it's a problem.
Or when, and this is a line from the book, his hand is so big that it spans HER ENTIRE RIBCAGE, it's definitely a problem because what in the actual fuck?
I sincerely hope she'll knock it off with that shit in the future because it's not good.
. I didn't like how Bee was very much too blind to see that Levi is actually into her, even after he explained every single awkward encounter they've ever had.
Like before that, I could understand it because he always came across as an asshole, but even after explaining it all to her she kept acting like he hates her and doesn't want her.
Wake up sis, you're a doctor and you're definitely smart enough to get it.

That's basically it!
I adored this book with all my heart and I strongly, strongly recommend it to y'all!

I have been dying to read this book since I finished The Love Hypothesis last year.

It was everything I wanted wrapped up in a sexy lab coat and a man who can accomplish a fireman's carry without even breaking a sweat.

Levi was Marie's nemesis and the bane of her existence in grad school. He looked at her like she was a roach crawling across his shoe, or the fifty day old decaying banana peel lying in the middle of the sidewalk. She never understood his animosity, she just figured she had an intrinsic quality that triggered his loathing.

Grad school is in the past, and Marie is laboring in a sea of research mediocrity. She doesn't think she'll ever be able to flex her intellectual muscles because she's under the thumb of a cis-het bureaucrat who has made it abundantly clear he doesn't condone the idea of women in the field of scientific research. When an opportunity arises to collaborate with NASA on a project that is in her chosen area of expertise, it's a golden window of opportunity.

Marie is full of hope and optimism. And then she finds out who her co-collaborator will be.

It's her undeclared arch-nemesis. The man who makes her squirm in discomfort, drool over biceps that don't belong on a nerd, and want to embrace her flight instinct. He avoids her at every turn, converses with her in monosyllabic responses with an impatient undertone, and doesn't give her the equipment she needs to do her job.

What Marie doesn't know about the way Levi truly feels could sink the Titanic with its weight. He's a man who has been pining for years.

This was a wonderful steminist romance with a strong friend base, a fierce heroine, a loyal hero, and steam and longing that will melt your socks. (And your underwear). Deserving of all the hype and well worth the wait!!!!

A huge thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a good balance of fun and heat. Even though I found certain aspects of the story completely unsurprising, I was thoroughly entertained throughout. Bee is feisty and funny and Levi is swoon-worthy, which is not a term I ever use.

Thank you to Netgalley for the e-arc.

A huge thank you to the publisher for an ARC!

*Note: this is an HONEST SPOILER FREE REVIEW*

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“I want to buy her flowers, food, books. I want to hold her hand, and I want to lock her in my bedroom. She’s everything I ever wanted and I want to inject her into my veins and also to never see her again. There’s nothing like her and these feelings, they are fucking intolerable. They were half-asleep while she was gone, but now she’s here and…I don’t know what to do…There’s nothing I can do.”

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My rating: 4.5/5 stars

Let’s start off with a classic ‘oh, my, god’ and squeal. Because *oh my gosh* this book, but also more specifically, Levi freaking Ward. Love you Adam Carlsen, but Levi’s my baby daddy now.

If I counted how many times I screamed into my pillow while reading Love on the Brain by our lovely Ali Hazelwood, you would think I’m crazy. I wish I had the proper words to articulate all my feelings right now. I mean women in STEM (heck yeah!!!), a 6’4 softie (thank you, Ali, for giving an exact measurement), nemeses/enemies to lovers (but let’s be real, we all know he was in love by day one), workplace romance, cat lovers, humor + banter, a super relatable main character, LGBTQIA+ rep, and spicy spice – what’s not to love?

First, I want to take a second to talk about Bee. Her vibrance, resilience, passion, humor, and awesome sense of style (love the piercings and pink/purple hair). Bee has undoubtedly gone through a lot, but somehow she always persevered and pushed for her goals in neuroscience, no matter how crumpled she felt inside. I admire her for that. Also, she’s not a morning person (I’m not either) so heck yeah.

Before I become a raging simp and lose sight of everything unrelated to Levi, I should probably say this first. As you all have probably guessed, per usual Ali addresses some important, and much needed to be discussed, topics throughout this story. Not only does she carry on her discussion about the importance of women in STEM and the inequality they face, she writes about the severity of loss, betrayal, illness, family dynamics, toxicity, misogyny, and the importance of therapy. All things that should be talked about more often in books (especially romance/rom coms) and society today. Everything writes itself nicely into the plot and the characters.

Okay, now cue all the drooling emojis. When I tell you my heart goes soft for Levi every time I merely think about him *sobs*. God, that boy could crush my dreams and aspirations with those green eyes of his and I’d still be madly in love. What does that say about me? I don’t know, but probably something along the lines of I’m totally not wrong. We love men written by women who are kind, patient, hard working, dedicated, working on themselves, and willing to play the long game for the long haul. The way he has always been painfully in love with Bee makes my heart melt. Not going to lie, just thinking about it makes me want to cry. I can’t remember the last time I read about a hero this painfully soft for his heroine *sobs intensify*.

And before I finally end this essay (whoopsies), I have a confession…I am not a huge fan of “pop culture/modern day” references in books. I’m sorry, they make me cringe…a lot. So, did I absolutely hate TikTok being mentioned throughout the book? …yes x100. Did I cringe at a fair amount of the writing? …maybe. But, Levi and Bee made it all worth it :D

With that being said, I can’t talk about much more without spilling all the beans, but I definitely encourage everyone to give this book a try when it’s released. Like I better see you booking it to your local bookstore. I hope all of you find something inspiring and encouraging from this story.

I received this book early via NetGallery and I put off reading it for several months. First, because I wanted to read it closer to it’s release date (August 23, 2022), but also because I LOVED the Love Hypothesis SO much that I didn’t’ want to be disappointed if Ali’s follow-up wasn’t as good.

For anyone who felt similarly, let me tell you, this book was just as good!

Love on the Brain is again about a woman in STEM, this time Bee, a neuroscientist who is paired with her professional arch-nemesis, Levi, an engineer she knows from grad school, to create helmets for astronauts at NASA. They are co-leads on BLINK, a project to improve cognition speed and attention for astronauts while on space missions.

Similar to The Love Hypothesis, the male and female main characters do not start together, and they end up together (not a spoiler, this is a romance novel…there’s always a HEA…)

Enemies-to-lovers is my absolute favorite romance trope. Bee and Levi are forced to get along professionally - they both are under tremendous pressure to make BLINK successful - but they bond over shared interests (cats, their veganism, etc), and get together.

One thing that I love about Ali’s writing is how she depicts women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), I find that she writes her female characters with so much dimension, their career and intelligence is just one facet of their characters. And she even sprinkled in some bad-ass supporting female characters (hello Rocio and Kaylee). The banter is top-notch.

Yay! Love on the Brain, another book by Ali Hazelwood.

Love on the Brain is about Bee, a neuroscientist who gets the chance to work at NASA and lead a team that will create a helmet for astronauts, which is awesome! She’s really hoping it will help her career-wise too and very enthousiastic about it. But then.. she finds out she wont be leading alone, she’ll be co-leaders with Levi Ward. Her grad school archnemesis. 😏

I had a great time reading Love on the Brain (LOTB). I would say LOTB is quite similar to The Love Hypothesis but that didn’t bother me at all. I absolutely enjoyed the NASA-work setting with a neuroscientist and even though I was rubbish at science in high school and have since never tried to learn science-related stuff I thoroughly enjoyed the little facts and (neuro)science related work stuff Bee has to do.
I also love how LOTB, like Love Hypothesis, was interwoven with situations females and other marginalized groups struggle with in the science world.

Bee is quite awkward, funny and a bit childlike at times. I wouldn’t say I loved her but she was definitely likable. Bree does become a little repetitive as the story progresses and I feel she got stuck / in the “I should be alone”-phase way too long.

Levi, the MMC, on the other hand is 100% book crush worthy! I love a good broody, leader-like and protective MMC. I did think he was an a-hole in the beginning 🤣, but I promise you it will get better. A WHOLE lot better. 😏

The only downsides to LOTB for me were the side characters, I didn’t care for them (especially Rocío, all her murder, dark and sarcsm stuff was quite annoying) and they felt flat.
Plus the ending felt rushed. A lot happened in the last 30 or so pages and there was one cartoon like event that had me cringe a bit.

But don’t let that scare you. LOTB was a solid 4 stars and it has big reread value!

I read The Love Hypothesis last year before it blew up and got a lot of hype, and I thought it was an easy-to-get-into read that I liked, but didn’t love. I went on to try the author’s STEMinist novellas and liked some of those better (some hits, some misses). Then I was sent an ARC from the publisher of Love on the Brain and read that. I think the shorter novellas were kind of the perfect amount of what I wanted from this author. If you loved and enjoyed The Love Hypothesis, this book will probably work for you. I know TLH was first a fanfic, but I guess I didn’t realize that all of her other books/novellas would seem to be the same done over and over again. I do wish we got different types of characters, different plots, different setup. If you are the reader who loves the things she writes, then you’ll probably love this book.

Bee has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and finds out she’ll be co-lead investigator of BLINK, one of NASA’s most prestigious neuroengineering research projects. But she has to share the lead with Levi, her nemesis since grad school. During her free time she also runs one of the most popular and controversial accounts on Academic Twitter, that she started years ago with the struggles of being a woman in STEM.

There are parts of this book I enjoyed more than TLH and some I liked less. The things that didn’t work for me: I wasn’t a fan of the entire work setup (honestly it kind of bored me), the side characters/friends at work I wasn’t invested in, wish we had dual POV, and of course the miscommunication and how long it was drawn out (I just wanted them to stop talking over one another and realize sooner). It drove me nuts how long it was drawn out, how silly it was, and how easily it could have been resolved.

The relationship between Bee and Levi, I did like! I liked that while this story is told in POV from Bee only, we do sort of get a workaround of getting Levi’s thoughts since they have an online friendship together (although neither realizes they’re chatting together until the end) and he talks about Bee to Bee without realizing it. I liked around the 50% mark when they start spending time together and realize they have things in common: sci-fi movies, cats, science, being vegan. Levi I enjoyed more than Bee, I just wish we did see more of his dialogue or his POV would have helped.

Thank you to the publisher (Berkley) for an e-ARC via NetGalley. All thoughts in this review are my own. Love on the Brain is out August 23, 2022.

Dr. Bee Königswasser neuroscientist dreams are about to come true when NASA comes knocking at the door of her lackluster position in the NIH to offer a chance to work on the brains of astronauts in order to protect them from the harmful effects of being in space. Bee has had to swim against the tide in a male dominated career during school and after. She uses as her talisman and inspiration Marie Curie, pioneer in physics, whose storied life and struggle to practice science is never far from Bee’s mind. The only negative of this assignment is co-leading with her enemy from graduate school, Levi Ward.

As a NASA engineer, Levi has a highly placed job that will make or break it for Bee who hopes to move on from the NIH because a nasty breakup caused her to take a less than desirable job. The first day Levi dramatically saves Bee from an injury so keeping her distance from him in all but work goes out the window. Anxious to get started on the shared and very important project, Bee is stymied at every turn with lost equipment, unanswered emails, and general lack of respect from the team of all male engineers.

As a brain scientist, Bee is all about how the ol’ noggin functions, but when it comes to dealing with her emotions, she is out to sea. When it becomes clear that Levi is far from the bad guy that she believed him to be, and they actually seem to get along, Bee does not know how to deal with her feelings. Levi has been under some misinformation about Bee’s relationship status for years and so holds back. Considering Levi has a work relation with Bee’s ex-fiancé, that aspect was a little far-fetched and goes on for the first half of the book. Both Levi and Bee have family baggage from Bee’s vagabond upbringing to Levi’s parents who show him little love or respect.

Ms. Hazelwood has a talent for witty and entertaining writing while banging the drum for women in STEM programs and the attendant difficulties they face. I appreciate her humor though as a scientist, she seems to take the not uncommon tact that anyone with religious beliefs is delusional at worst or misled at best which I find a bit offensive. I always believe both sides should respect the other’s view. The amount of pop culture references is almost like a game to see if readers are in the know about them without googling. That being said, this is a fun read for the most part, and fans will be quite pleased.

Thank you so much to PHR International and NetGalley for the free e-ARC in exchange for an honest review!

5/5 stars

For fans of The Spanish Love Deception, You've Got Mail, and The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood delivers the most charming, engaging and steamy book of late summer.

If there's one thing I love about Ali Hazelwood's books is that she found a good formula for a book (sunshine girl and sultry boy, when he falls first and she's oblivious), and she RAN WITH IT. She writes about smart women and kind men, and we all need books like that sometimes.

I will say, the plot twists are SO predictable. Honestly, even the final one. Every secondary character has a very basic, two-dimensional personality. It is cheesy, incredibly filthy at times, and you might cringe once orr twice. Did this make me hate book? No, it made me love it!

All Ali Hazelwood's leading gents remind me of Adam Driver's Kylo Ren/Ben Solo. There are TONS of Reylo references throuhout the book. Only a true fan could catch even the most tame ones. That "Join me?" one took me back to my fangirling-over-a-space-couple phase.

Bee was such a charismatic main character. I never came across a character who faints as much as me. She was such a delight, and brought such a funny main voice to the narrative.

A truly amazing book. She did it again!

Ali Hazelwood has done it again with yet another amazing and funny book. I loved Bee cause she was not shy about who she was or how she became that way as well. And Levi our shy, moody boy. I love how he seemed genuinely confused by Bee like 90% of the time but still 100% in love with her. The world of engineering and neuroengineering was so interesting to read about as well. I love how Ali writes and all of story have strong, STEM females and are funny!

⭐️ 3

I really wanted to love this book. It was one of my MOST anticipated reads for this year. The Love Hypothesis was my all-time favorite romance novel last year (I have an Adam sweater, a special dust-jacket for the book, a print I framed on the wall, etc.) I was TLH OBSESSED for most of last year and still get teary-eyed thinking about how much I love that book.

And I didn’t want to compare Ali Hazelwood’s sophomore novel to her debut, but I couldn’t help it when I was reading it because it felt like The Love Hypothesis’s best friend who really wanted to be like her but couldn’t (does that make sense?)

I didn’t feel as invested in either Bee or Levi, and was able to predict how this book was going to go, romantically, from the JUMP. The ending did have quite the twist, but it still felt like a very predictable read.

I will say that Levi definitely had his moments where my heart was pounding and I couldn’t stop blushing, but other than that it a very mid read for me 😔

Whenever I need a pick me up, Ali Hazelwood is pretty sure to deliver. I like her contemporary romance novels that combine steamy romance with geeky layering, and the comfortable familiarity of a likable scientist heroine falling for someone she never expected is still enjoyable to me. Therefore, I enjoyed my time with LOVE ON THE BRAIN, her newest STEM romance between two scientists. It's going to be hard to top Olive and Adam, but Bee and Levi have their own charms that made me like them and root for them. True, I had to suspend my disbelief on some of the details, and true, a twist at the climax was a little farfetched and out of left field, upending the tone, but I'm really here for the cuteness and the fluff, and this one delivers that along with some pretty sexy moments.

I enjoyed LOVE ON THE BRAIN. Can't wait to see what's next.