30/07/2023
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đ The Love Hypothesis- Ali Hazelwood
đ Rating- 7/10
The Love Hypothesis,the book if hypothese made by Olive while falling in love with Adam.
Olive is a Canadian grad student doing her PhD at Stanford University. A ntrovert person with a passion for her cancer research, Olive comes to the cutthroat Academia surpassing a lot of hardships. However, she loves being a scientist. But there's one thing she can't solve and that is her love life.On the other side, her best friend Ann has got the guy but that's Olive's ex.So, she's avoiding him. That's when, Olive decides to be a fairy godmother to Ann and lie about dating another guy.The lie catches on when Olive is forced to steal a kiss from the most antagonizing professor of her department, Adam. Being a researcher,she finds a solution to her woe, and that is guys none other than Fake-Dating (+ opposite attracts trope). Surprisingly, Adam agrees and the story goes on.
Olive is an wonderful character showing the struggles as a woman in academia. She's passionate about her career and research and tries her best to overcome her anxiety for it as well.However, I hated the aspect of her behaving like a teenage girl in some of the scenes. Being honest, this characteristic does not suit the background of the character.
Now, coming to Adam, he is portrayed as the mysterious brooding man although I found him quite bleh.There should've been more things to make him interesting at least.He is passionate about research,and working out and then nothing until Olive comes along. His character is boring to me.
The writer went for an independent approach for readers to imagine the characters.
Also,Ann is quite annoying.Tom is disgusting.
The plot was good enough and the writing was enjoyable to read.
Is it worth the hype it has been getting?
NO.
IT'S JUST ANOTHER ROMANCE BOOK.
*The s**t is there for a short while but loved the confession coming from olive, confronting her fears*