Originally from Italy, she lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the US to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. Still, there is so little personality on both of them that it feels like I don’t know either character well enough to form an opinion. Unlike The Love Hypothesis, I felt like Bee’s support system did not feel forced, annoying, or frustrating. A face attached to a large, solid body—a body that is pinning me to the wall, a body made of a broad chest and two thighs that could moonlight as redwoods. Hasta los protagonistas son una calca de Adam y Olive (los de TLH), pero dicho esto, una vez que lo entendí y decidí dejarlo pasar, lo disfruté mucho.

I don't want to be lectured about gender stereotypes and oppression and misogyny while reading a romance novel. Supongo que esa es la fórmula de Ali y por ahora me gusta, aunque espero que en futuros libros le cambie un poco.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis - with explosive results. The ridiculous villains - I hated the SA side plot in TLH (mostly because I am very selective about SA plotlines), but I also did not like the villain side plot in LotB. I am still struggling on whether or not to round up or down, so if my star rating changes just know that's me being indecisive af. I have always been a nerdy kid, liking and wanting to be places women were not supposed to be a part of, video games, sports, dinosaur/archeology/science camps. The whole book is low angst but friction-filled, with enemies to lovers vibes and tons of sexual tension.

She wrote imo one of the best debut romance novel and it blew up and because of that she’s just running with the same characters, the same tropes, the same settings, but different names and it failed. In conclusion, Love on the Brain will most likely be another Booktok hit that breaks the internet, and people will shower these mid-20-year-olds and early 30-year-olds with praise that shows how low the standards genuinely are. There’s also how this is described as enemies to lovers or nemeses to lovers, and Levi is described as grumpy, yet those two are not the case.Surely not everything will be like this forever, and in fact this is a nice dose of fresh content, and not an eternal curse or plague of some kind, following me forever and dooming me to a life of making my wrists hurt via the cosmic punishment of typing out a rant review! we are talking about a man who refused to sit next to his crush bc in his word ‘it was hard to think when you were close’. But I liked this formula a lot and this book really burned my brain cells with the smartest references: it’s truly so much fun to live inside Bee’s brain and read her whirlwind thoughts, admire her extra nerdy perspective, her vivid, sarcastic tone! I get it that there are men who are misogynists, and it is a sad harsh reality but you don't need to bring down men unnecessarily. With the lack of backstory, it can be difficult to understand his actions and interpretations of the world, including his closed feelings for Bee that he hides with a cold glance and supposed hate towards her because he can’t communicate his emotions well.

Levi’s pining that we don’t see from his perspective but are still aware of can be considered of the best parts about this. Before we get into Love On the Brain, I would like to take a second and remind everyone that I gave The Love Hypothesis 5 whole stars LESS THAN A YEAR AGO.

The story is told from the perspective of the heroine, neuroscientist and Marie-Curie-obsessed Bee Königswasser (watch me spell that right on the first try!

I loved the narration, Brooke Bloomingdale was excellent, her interpretation of characters was perfection and her voices were really good. Yet, it’s weak when you only do it to add a personality or character trait for a character already missing unique characteristics about him. She doesn’t want to see Levi again, she knows he hates her, but she needs this project for her resume so she can finally get away from her job, and her horrible boss.

I read this in less than 24 hours (not for a good reason), and my roommate told me it felt like I ranted to her for four days. Bee and Levi are FANTASTIC together, and it was easy to see all of the ways they're perfect for each other. Even though it's not my FAVORITE trope I don't think this feature of Hazelwood's books/novellas warrants all the vitriol it receives. 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.