Love, theoretically av Ali Hazelwoo

 

Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure.

By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig - until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favourite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere.

And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but... those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she's with him? Will falling into an experimentalist's orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

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Jag och Evelina bestämde oss för att läsa den här under februari månad. Jag valde även att läsa den för det var en av Cats favortiböcker från 2023, booktubekanalen Brewa&Reviews.

Lite mellanmjölksaktig var den väl, jag var inte överförtjust i den men jag ogillar inte det jag läste. Något som förhöjde lite var ändå vissa passager med erotik som jag blev avundsjuk på att jag inte kan skriva och formulera mig lika bra som hon kunde.

Är även lite kul med att få se lite av karaktärerna från The lovehypothesis som dyker upp en kort stund i den här.