4.5/5 stars

Stuck with You is a cute and addictive novella that actually made me enjoy a conversation about sports. That says a lot.

Sadie and Erik's relationship was so entertaining to read about, I loved Sadie as a main character (even though she does have some communication issues, but at least she knows it), and Erik is a fantastic love interest. This book does play into some tropes that Ali Hazelwood loves to write: grumpy/sunshine, Very Tall hero and So Small heroine, etc. That said, she manages to make every book feel distinct and unique. I can imagine if you're not a fan of those tropes, you might get tired of it, but I didn't mind them.

Ali Hazelwood’s writing is just pure magic, and Stuck With You is just further proof. The movement between past and present was done seamlessly and moved the story to more than a satisfying conclusion. Her ability to make relatable characters just makes her an absolute treasure. Don’t even get me started on my new love: Erik. Ali just has a way to make the love interest your newest literary boyfriend!

Okay, but what is the point of being stuck in an elevator if there’s no elevator sex? Read via audio.

Stuck With You releases June 7 on Kindle. It is currently available on the Amazon Audible platform.

Do you enjoy romances where the main characters are stuck in an elevator together? Well then you are in for a treat because Ali Hazelwood does justice to this well-known romance trope.

Sadie is stuck with Erik in an elevator which is bad, bad, bad news. They had one great night together until Sadie learned how Erik went behind her back for a job and stole a client she was trying to woo.

Erik has different memories of that night however and he is worried about their night for a different reason. With Sadie stuck in the elevator with him, he is determined to get to the bottom of their falling out. But that is easier said than done because Sadie is determined to ignore Erik and their past as much as possible.

What I liked most about this story is seeing Sadie and Erik work through their past together and get to the true bottom of what went wrong. Both are coming at it from different viewpoints, so readers get to learn a little bit more about both characters as they analyze what went wrong. This is my personal favorite of the two novellas so far. I just really enjoyed the close contact in the elevator and how they had such different memories of what tore them apart. I won’t give too much away but, Erik in particular is just wonderful. It was easy to see why Sadie fell for him so quickly.

Both of these novellas are a lot of fun! STEM is involved through the careers of both women though it isn’t quite as strong of an element as in Ali Hazelwood’s full-length story. Still, these novellas are a great price and feature strong romances. Worth reading!

Loved! I love Ali Hazewood’s writing to begin with so when I saw she was releasing novellas, I was beyond excited. This one has my favorite trope, forced proximity and all of her women in STEM goodness! Can’t recommend it enough!

Stuck with You starts off with Sadie being stuck on an elevator during a power outage. Maybe not the best place to be, but it gets worse when Sadie finds out she's stuck with the person she hates the most right now - Eric Novak. Erik and Sadie had one heated, perfect night together before Sadie finds out that he betrayed her in the worst way. Will being stuck in the elevator get them to work past their issues or make them worse?

Okay first of all, I absolutely love a book with flashback scenes and in Stuck with You the scenes alternated to being stuck in the elevator and Sadie and Erik's first meeting. While I'm typically not a fan of insta-love, it worked for me in this case.

Ali's writing is always fun, witty and has me laughing. She definitely brought the heat again in this novella 🔥.

I really enjoyed Stuck with You. I will say that I enjoyed the first novella, Under One Roof in the series slightly more. Overall, would give Stuck with You 4.5 stars, but rounding up because I couldn't stop listening to the audiobook and still thoroughly enjoyed the story.

I really enjoyed this and I loved that I didn’t have to read the first in this novella series to enjoy it! Fun characters, great chemistry!

3.5/5

Back to these STEMinist novellas by Ali Hazelwood. I also grabbed the audio, which always brings a different kind of reading experience.

I truly don't want to say this, but I didn't love this as much since I absolutely struggle with the miscommunication trope. And the bouncing back from the past to their present situation, that tends to pull me out of the story rather quickly.

I loved their conversations and bit of banter, when they went on their first "date" and what followed (especially about soccer).

They were both a bit head over heels, so it was a bit insta love-y. I didn't hate it, just didn't expect that at all.

Bummed this one didn't quite work for me, but looking forward to the next one.

An adorable short story. Nothing like a good nerds in love story.

Sadie might be an engineer with a PhD but she knows she is also just a wee bit superstitious, hence wearing her lucky underwear and needing to grab a really bad croissant from Faye's bakery. It brought in a huge client before and today Sadie has another big client to pitch, but when she is told there aren't any more, Sadie begins to panic. That is until a gorgeous Nordic God, she will secretly refer to as Corporate Thor, hands her his and their meeting changes Sadie's life.

Sadie Grantham and Erik Nowak spend a magical day together so why, just three weeks later, is the idea of being trapped in an elevator together so painful to both of them? The story is told to us by Sadie as we jump back and forth in our timeline from their first meet to present day elevator time.

Sparks fly when Sadie and Erik meet. They are both huge soccer fans but also engineers at rival companies. Was the magic all lies?  Was there some misunderstanding? We need to know what happened that got us from their romantic meeting to the night in the elevator.

This was a really quick read so there isn't much to discuss without giving the plot away, but I really enjoyed these characters and I really had to know what happened to sour all that magic between them.

I love a good nerd in love story and Ali Hazelwood has her own magic spinning science and romance into a fun, lighthearted story. This appears to be part of three short stories about three friends who just obtained their PhD's and are just entering the corporate scene. Oddly, there was only book 2 available in Netgalley so I now have to make a trip over to Amazon to grab books 1 and 3.

I have my eye on this new author and I also have a copy of her next release Love on the Brain which I can't wait to get to.

Enemies to lovers, second chance, forced proximity, and the male MC being so smitten with the female MC he can't see straight? Yes, sign me up. Sadie and Erik are stuck in the elevator, and that wouldn't be so bad, but after their night together and subsequent betrayl, Sadie has sworn to forget about him. The bad thing is, Erik doesn't even know what he didn't wrong. He just can't get Sadie out of his mind.
Going back and forth between present day and three weeks ago when they met, we are given a glimpse into their world and what went wrong. It's clear there was a miscommunication, and it takes them being stuck in an elevator to finally talk it out. I absolutely loved their meet cute and how patient Erik was pretty much this entire book. The one thing that bothered me was that Sadie would get lost in her head quite often and I lost track of what we were even talking about. I am in love with novellas and the ending had me swooning.
Thanks to Ali Hazelwood, Berkley and Negalley for an early copy.

I’m enjoying these women of stem novellas! This was the story of Sadie and Erik, both engineers. It’s a bit of opposites attract and a little insta-love, at least on Erik’s part and I’m always here for that. I didn’t love that it was so short with so much miscommunication (that’s what the entire story was based on) but aside from that I really liked it. I’m looking forward to the final story in the series, which will be Hannah’s.

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I'm continuing with the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/335106-the-steminist-novellas" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><strong>STEMinist Novellas</strong></em> </a>.  The audios are releasing before the ebooks by 3 months or so.  The audio is about half the length of a regular audio.  I did see the pages for this one listed as 312 in one place, which is a full book in my mind.

The first book, <strong>Under One Roof</strong> , was enjoyable but I thought it should be longer as I wanted more.   Now I guess I am more settled in the world,  and with the three friends Mara, Hannah and Sadie.  I felt more comfortable with the development now. We still had a past and present timeline, back and forth here.

I love the STEM career and the ecological mindset of these three friends.  In <strong>Stuck with You</strong>,  Sadie meets Erik and goes out with him and home with him the same day. It was a whirlwind of insta-love. Then it seems like he betrays her and she won't talk to him and is upset for weeks.

Now they are stuck in the elevator of their building together so they have an opportunity to talk about why Sadie is so upset.  All three of these women seem a bit reactionary, perhaps because women get the short shrift too often in the Stem careers and women have to work harder for everything.  I really liked Erik.  I recommend this hot and hilarious romance.