KnitAFett reviewed Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
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4 stars
I found this one to be more enjoyable than Love Hypothesis. 🤷♀️
English language
Published 2023 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
I found this one to be more enjoyable than Love Hypothesis. 🤷♀️
Content warning spoiler alert
Somebody should come up with a term for this kind of writing, maybe candylit or litcandy, not sure, but a word to refer to comfort literature.
This book is fun to read, for a few pages, but quickly becomes a bit too much, like too much sugar.
In case you haven't read it, this highly gifted physics woman graduate becomes obsessed with her arch-enemy Jack and of course falls head over heels for him.
One would have hoped that this, apparently highly intelligent woman, would help transcend the cliche male/woman relationship and power balance only to see her confirm and reinforce them.
It's in the line of the other books and like the others an easy read. I like the books because it gives an insight in the life of academici.