Love, Theoretically is hard for me to review because I think readers should go into it as blindly as I did.
But nothing, absolutely nothing prepared me for the ignominy of finding myself in a bathroom stall, pressed against the arrogant older brother of the guy I’ve been pretending to date for the past six months. In my life I have experienced regret, embarrassment, maybe even a touch of agony. There was never a point in the book when I felt pulled out of the story, and that’s how I know a book has consumed me. And while it’s impossible for me to pick a favorite, I feel like this one may be the one that’s the most all-round success. I loved her two previous novels, but this one solidified what I adore about her writing and her romances. I feel like Love, Theoretically has made me a card-carrying member of the Ali Hazelwood fan club. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.Įlsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice? My thoughts
Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. 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. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
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