Written by Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis follows Olive, a 3rd year Biology Doctoral student, as she gets herself into a crazy mess, all because she wants her best friend to pursue happiness. The fact that it involves an attractive teacher (who isn’t her teacher, and the author does a GREAT job of driving home Title 9 and making sure our two main characters don’t break it) for Olive, the most hated of the professors in the department, makes life complicated.
Let me start with this, I LOVED THIS BOOK AND THERE ARE GOING TO BE SO MANY SPOILERS IN THIS!
With that, let be do ‘who would like this and overall impressions’ early before the spoilers:
If you enjoy contemporary romance, read this. If you have experience with science colleges, read this. If you like action, good fully clean romance, and real-life things, maybe don’t read this? This book is so much fun and I loved it, and it is an escape book. Don’t base your life choices on this novel. I 100% loved this book, but that does need to be included.
The writing was fantastic, the characters compelling, and it just hit a wonderful sweet spot for me as a reader.
Now… *SPOILERS BELOW*
Y’all, I figured out this was a Kylo Ren fan fiction-based novel stupidly quickly. Not because the main characters remind me of either of them, but because the description of Adam, our leading man, sounded vaguely like Adam Driver. I don’t think the two are the ‘same person’, but Adam still comes off as very influenced by Adam Driver (also, that name y’all…)
I appreciated and related to Olive on so, so many levels. Not being an orphan, I must admit, but on how she relates to others, both her friends and romantically. And that isn’t something that really resonates so well with many characters.
Adam was the best, and I want one, I mean, I would like to meet someone like that (height included, maybe?), but if you look at his motivation for lying and continuing on, I get very annoyed (after several days of reflection and letting the shine wear off). He should have told her, when he proposed continuing to fake date, that instead, he’d like to take her on a real date.
But, I also loved all of the interactions they had. I loved the plot of this story, I just think that, in real life, most of the interactions still could have happened in the same way if he had just told her that he was interested in her, not just interested in helping her.
I think, if he told her who he was, she would have been open to it.
The supporting cast was great, though I wish we would have seen her roommate more often. I think we got him the most after he started dating Adam’s best friend, and I think it would have been funny to realize before then how similar her roommate and Adam are.
