From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis-with explosive results. Here, the exchanges themselves didn’t feel forced, and there were no situations where Bee’s inner circle forced her to do anything.

Unfortunately for me, I wasn’t a fan of her from the beginning, so I was dragging myself as I was reading more than 300 pages of boring characters. But when Levi and Bee seem to be pulled together when Bee’s equipment and strange things start happening, as they work together to solve the case as well as try to work together with their job, Bee seems to think he is softening up on her and she starts to second guess her feelings for him too. First, there’s another copy and paste situation, where a random action was thrown in the last 10% of the book as a very predictable situation turns itself in. For the first half of the book, the only tangible reason Bee is civil to Levi is because of his big, huge, enormous body and those hulking, massive biceps and his huge warm chest and no I’m not being excessive because BEE CANNOT SHUT UP ABOUT HIS BODY. See, despite how romance is the genre I read the most, there are a lot of specific points I look for in almost every romance novel I read.I wanted so badly for the technology in here to be real, so that I could marvel at how cool it is and totally nerd out learning more about it.

I've heard a lot of people say this book is very similar to The Love Hypothesis, and although I agree, I loved it SO much. One or two times is enough, but commenting on it all the fucking time on every occasion that Bee sees Levi is entirely unnecessary, annoying as fuck, and even astonishing. The story follows Bee, a neuroscientist whose last relationship almost tanked her career before it even started. Ali Hazelwood books cannot function for more than two consecutive paragraphs without inserting both.

It was irritating for me to constantly read how Levi hates her, when the guy could not be more clear in his feelings. The book is set at NASA but you didn't need to be a rocket scientist to work out who the second personality behind the twitter personas (featured in chapter one) was going to be and I couldn't wait to see how Bee and Levi's story unfolded. I won’t pretend that these characteristics are unique to Hazelwood’s romances, nor were they entirely exempt from her previous works. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school-archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. Love on the Brain is as deliciously swoony and addictive as The Love Hypothesis, with characters who are equally compelling.

Yet, it’s weak when you only do it to add a personality or character trait for a character already missing unique characteristics about him. Say what you will about Joshua Templeman, but that man toiled feet away from the woman he fake-hated for months on end without issue.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis – with explosive results. i know Bee wants to be Marie Curie so badly, but okay that’s one way to shove science down our throat at every chance. I loved the Love Hypothesis and was so excited for her new book, and Ali Hazelwood did not disappoint. I bring that up because my thoughts here are going to be undeniably ranty and I want to re-establish the fact that I have not been, like, hate-reading Ali Hazelwood from the start. He likes hummingbirds and Star Wars and a certain Target dress in a certain neuroscientist and THAT’S ALL I’LL SAY ABOUT IT DON’T

This heroine takes the quirkiness up a level, and there's also a LOT of scientific fun to go along with the romance. the few reasons this book isn’t getting a full 5 stars is because some of the writing did make my eye twitch but i’m not ready to unpack that. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do? I think it's because she says all the things I want to say, if only I were quick and clever enough to come up with it.And if those aren’t included, I appreciate it when the author shows and tells how both characters feel (or, in this case, how Bee was feeling), so the reader can see how they felt. The ridiculous villains - I hated the SA side plot in TLH (mostly because I am very selective about SA plotlines), but I also did not like the villain side plot in LotB. Before we get into Love On the Brain, I would like to take a second and remind everyone that I gave The Love Hypothesis 5 whole stars LESS THAN A YEAR AGO. Unlike The Love Hypothesis, I felt like Bee’s support system did not feel forced, annoying, or frustrating. Ali Hazelwood proves that science is sexy as hell , and that love can 'STEM' from the most unlikely places.