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What Would Marie Curie Do?

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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Last year, Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis was the book that jump-started me into reading Romance Novels. I was in a depressive funk, having lost six pets in six months, and reading helped pull me out of it. I voraciously read Hazelwood’s three Loathe to Love You novellas, and pre-ordered Love On The Brain, so I’m not sure why it took me so long to get around to reading it. Since Valentine’s Day is soon, it felt like a good time to pick it up. […]

Another smart woman falls in love

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a community of women trying to mind their own business must be in want of a random man’s opinion.” I’ve been working through Ali Hazelwood’s oeuvre ever since my book club chose to read The Love Hypothesis. These aren’t my favorite romance novels, but I like Hazelwood’s feminist, science-y women and the books are pretty entertaining. I’d been waiting for a while for her latest, and I was happy when I was finally able to pick up Love on the […]

“The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay. And it will forever go unpunished.”

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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This book was a really fun time and I liked it a lot, but I did feel there were a couple of things that didn’t fully work, so no five stars on this one. While Ali (we have met so I can call her Ali) is so good at dialogue and at characters, and character interaction, there were a couple of tropes and individual incidents that happened that made me stop reading and think to myself, really? But they didn’t hurt the overall story for […]

STEM romance novella

Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood

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After we read The Love Hypothesis for book club, I found a trio of novellas also by Ali Hazelwood. I quickly decided that I needed to read these as well. So, now that I’ve finished Below Zero and Stuck With You, I was able to get Under One Roof (2022) by Hazelwood on audiobook. Like Hazelwood’s other books, Under One Roof involves a woman in STEM–Mara, an environmental engineer who works for the EPA–a hunky man, misunderstandings, and love in the end. Mara is best friends with the women who starred in the previous […]

“I love you, I think, and you are my home”

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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CBR14 Bingo: Mind (Bee, as well as Ms. Hazelwood herself, is a neuroscientist and there’s a whole lot of brain science happening in the book) Bee Köningswasser, a young pink-haired neuroscientist, is offered pretty much her dream job on a NASA project and accepts joyfully. Her excitement is cut short when she realises that while she’s the lead on the neuroscience part, her nemesis from grad school, Levi Ward, is the engineering lead on the same project. Nevertheless, Bee can feel herself wasting away in […]

save some plot points for the next go around!

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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The reason this book fell flat for me can be summed up by the author’s note at the back: This book is my hate letter to standardized testing. It’s also my love letter to neuroscience, Star Wars, women in STEM, friendships that hit rough patches but then try their best to bounce back, research assistants, interdisciplinary scientific collaborations, Elle Woods, ShitAcademicsSay, mermaids, hummingbird feeders, people who struggle with working out, and cats. It’s just…too much crammed into one novel, methinks, especially considering that Hazelwood has […]



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