I did enjoy this STEM romance set in the cutthroat world of biology and cancer research. That certainly seems like an odd sentence to introduce The Love Hypothesis (#1,077) by Ali Hazelwood, doesn't it? But I'm not the only one by a long shot, since it's been on the New York Times bestseller list for a while now.
Olive Smith is a PHD candidate, doing pancreatic cancer research at Stanford, but it's time for the next step; she has to find a lab to carry out her experiments to prove her hypothesis, and it won't be available at Stanford. Plus, she has to convince her best friend in the world that it's fine with Olive if she dates Jeremy, whom Olive has dated only a couple of times. What's the best way to handle this? Fake date someone else! So of course she (totally by accident!) stages a dramatic kissing of the unapproachable genius professor in the department, Adam Carlsen. Anh sees them, but is she convinced? Not so much. More drastic measures will need to be taken, and therein lies the tale.
It was witty, funny, and actually, a little pathetic the lengths Olive was willing to go to. But things have a way of working out (it is a romance, after all!). Overall, I did enjoy it, but I could have done without the pages and pages of graphic sex. Some romance readers live for those "steamy" pages, but I'm more of the "To Catch A Thief" school that believes such matters are better left to the imagination. (It worked for Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, after all!).
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