The Love Hypthesis- Ali Hazelwood

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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 conclusive evidence make her a firm believer in being alone and staying away from the world of romance which inevitably, lands her in a complicated situation. 
Dr. Adam Carlsen is a broody, hardworking and antagonistic professor who never fails to drive his students to tears. A man who is probably living two lives at once, Carlsen has an air of mystery and charm around him that will surely make the reader swoon for more. 
Circumstances cause Adam Carlsen and Olive to come to an agreement to fake-date that would benefit both but would also cause an upheaval in their lives.

Hazelwood follows the path that not many have followed, a romance novel set in the field of science and for that, she must be appreciated. She has the remarkable ability to describe her characters in a perfect yet imperfect sense which makes them relatable to the reader. 

Hazelwood has given us another comfortable read that will surely have the reader wanting more. While she does an exceptional job at making her characters the perfect fit for each other, I couldn't help but realize the fact that Hazelwood's plot is more or less a development of "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" by Jenny Han. Her writing is a major factor that saves the book from becoming another romance novel that follows the same path as the ones preceding it, however, she fails at saving herself from the monotony and repetitiveness of her characters' dilemmas and unfortunately, fails to break away from the generic trope which excessively dominates Wattpad. 

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