Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Pages: 368
Published by: Sphere on 23rd August, 2022
Format: Paperback
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Book Synopsis:
Bee KΓΆnigswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project – a literal dream come true – Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.
Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school – archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.
But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas… devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.
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 KΓΆnigswasser do?
Book Review
This book has been popular for the longest time! I finally picked it up after seeing it in a charity shop on one of my shopping trips. I’ve read from Ali Hazelwood before so I was intrigued to see what I would think about this one. Β I ended up buddy reading this with someone over on Instagram. Let me just finish this introduction by saying that this was such a let down for me.
Now I will start by saying that I am not big into science. That being said, I will admit when I was reading, it felt like being back at school. I wasn’t very good at science so there were things I didn’t understand. It was too overly sciencey for me… I like how it was shining light on women in STEM (which there should be more of) but I think it was just too much at times. I honestly didn’t really care for the plot either and found it a bit boring.
The romance overall was okay-ish but I didn’t feel connected to the characters like at all. The way they communicated at times was annoying and I just didn’t feel the spark between them. I think I preferred Bee’s character over Levi’s–he just wasn’t giving me any of the swoon-worthy feels. The spicy scenes felt like they had zero passion in them between the characters and just felt like words on a page. The spice was absolutely not for me and I don’t think it’s even worthy of the title ‘spice’.
The pacing was very slow to start of with and got a little better towards the end. There is a little plot twist in the book that I didn’t see coming which I guess is a good thing. But overall, nothing much really happened in my opinion or it did and I just didn’t care…
Side characters were alright but again I didn’t feel that connected to them. If I had to pick the best side character for me it would be Rocio. I liked her energy. Overall, this book left me feeling very meh.
If you’re into science and you like romance then maybe give this one a go but for me it was nothing special at all. I will try and read from Ali Hazelwood again but after this, it has left me feeling very apprehensive…
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