Book Review: “Love On The Brain” By Ali Hazelwood

This book was one that my friend @syds.bookshelves has been telling me to read for quite some time now. I finally caved knowing I did really enjoy “The Love Hypothesis” By the same author hoping this one would be just as great. Something I forgot about this author is that she is a huge raylo fan so some of her books feel like Star Wars fan-fic and I am not a Star Wars Fan at all, so when Star Wars gets mentioned I tend to roll my eyes haha. But this did not ruin the reading experience at the slightest.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a community of women trying to mind their own business must be in want of a random man’s opinion.”

Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

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“if academia ever makes you feel like you’re not good or smart enough . . . it’s not you, it’s academia.”

Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

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Synopsis

Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser 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 after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia–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. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school–archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. And 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 Königswasser do?

Synopsis From GoodReads

“I love you, I think, and you are my home.”

Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

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Rating

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Review

Now one thing that did really bug me was all the Marie Curie facts. Look, I know this was a huge part of the book and pretty much the Main characters entire personality. But sometimes it felt like facts were just being thrown into here for no reason at all! I could have lived without them but that is just my opinion. If there wasn’t so much information on Marie Curie I probably would have rated this book a bit higher honestly.

Gosh, Levi is the most perfect man to ever exist! I truly love a man falls first trope and this book was the ultimate example of it. But as much as I loved Levi, I was beyond annoyed with Bee for 90% of the book. I really struggle with unlikeable main characters and Bee just drove me crazy! I really wanted to like her but her constantly reminding Levi how much he hates her and not giving him a chance to explain himself was un redeeming in my eyes. Thank goodness Levi is a saint or else I don’t think he would have fought so hard for her.

Regardless of some of the things I struggled with, this was still a super cute book. In fact, I even read it in one sitting so that attests to how much I did enjoy it.

“The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay. And it will forever go unpunished.”

Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

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