The Love Hypthesis- Ali Hazelwood
The Love Hypothesis is like any other book that has been labeled as a "Tik Tok sensation". There are certain expectations that one holds from a story that revolves around the same plot of a brooding man meeting the happy-go-lucky woman yet Hazelwood manages to strike a balance between the banality of the trope and the logic it follows. A romance novel is probably one of the most difficult genres to get right and I cannot help but appreciate a writer who can escape the rigidity of this trope to create something niche. The most striking feature probably is the fact that the author herself is an Italian neuroscience professor who writes romance novels (it's so bizarre that I write this sentence with a confusing smile on my face). Olive is an extremely brilliant third-year Ph.D. candidate at Stanford who works like the world might end tomorrow. She loves science but her love for sugary drinks precedes it. Her rational thinking and the ability to reason only on the basis of