The Love Hypothesis By Ali Hazelwood

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The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation!As seen on THE VIEW!A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships—but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor—and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs.Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.

  • Product Features

    • Author- Ali Hazelwood
    • Publisher- Penguin Publishing Group
    • Publication Date- 09-14-2021
    • Page Count- 400
    • Hardcover
    • Age Range- Adult
    • Romance
    • Product Dimensions- 5.4 H x 8.1 W x 1.1 D
    • ISBN-13- 9780593336823
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Perfect!

5 ⭐️ When he gave her his granola bar and she noticed it was covered with chocolate. 🥹

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2 months ago
from Texas

Reylo fanfic turned STEMinist novel? YES.

Third-year Ph.D. candidate and biologist Olive Smith has a hypothesis: if she can convince her best friend Ahn that she is currently dating and happy, Ahn will feel free to date Olive's last (very brief, very uninteresting) love interest and will find her own happiness, which she totally deserves. Of course, Olive chooses to test this hypothesis in the heat of the moment by kissing the first man she can randomly grab onto in the biology lab in front of Ahn - reigning lab tyrant and worst nightmare of students everywhere, Dr. Adam Carlson. To everyone's surprise, Olive's rash experiment has a significant result - she needs a fake boyfriend, and Adam has motives of his own, and the two find themselves thrust into the spotlight of the Stanford gossip train as they navigate the confusing waters of friendship, ultimate frisbee, attraction, Booktok's favorite romance tropes, pumpkin spice lattes, betrayals, and out-of-town science conferences that will change everything Olive has come to theorize about love and her place in it. There was never a universe in which this book wasn't going to get a 5-star review from me, which definitely feels like some sort of Jedi mind trick. It's got all the things that I specifically love - it's about scientists; it's a former Reylo fan fic (and Ali named the MMC ADAM LMAO); the FMC struggles with imposter syndrome; it centers women in STEM and the very real struggles they face; it's an entirely ridiculous premise in a way that is just this side of believable and so fun that I really didn't care anyway; the FMC struggles with her feelings about attraction and intimacy and isn't somehow a super smart scientist that wears ratty T-shirts and is also a siren in the sheets; the dedication the FMC and her friends have to each other and the value they place on adult friendships reminds me of my own life and made me want to sweep up all my friends in giant hugs; and the behind-the-scenes simping/genuine affection and attention the MMC shows towards the FMC has probably ruined men for me forever. This was a silly haha good time and also a call-out and if all of Ali Hazelwood's STEMinist books are like this, then I'm in trouble.

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2 months ago
from IN

Faking dating!

“Did you . . . Did you just kiss me?” He sounded puzzled, and maybe a little out of breath. His lips were full and plump and . . . God. Kissed. There was simply no way Olive could get away with denying what she had just done. Still, it was worth a try. “Nope.” Surprisingly, it seemed to work. “Ah. Okay, then.” Carlsen nodded and turned around, looking vaguely disoriented. He took a couple of steps down the hallway, reached the water fountain—maybe where he’d been headed in the first place. Olive was starting to believe that she might actually be off the hook when he halted and turned back with a skeptical expression. “Are you sure?” Dam*it. Grad Student, Olive, has found herself in a fake dating predicament (my favorite kind of one) when she ransoming kisses a guy so her best friend will finally go after the guy she really likes, buys Olive had previously dated. Turns out that random guy wasn’t so random and happens to be the grumpiest Professor in the grad program. The gossip mill spreads quickly that they’re together and they both find they can use this to their benefit. Anh finally will date Jeremy and Stanford will see that Dr. Adam Carlsen isn’t the flight risk they think he is when he had a steady girlfriend and will free up his research funding. As we all know with most fake dating incidents, feelings get involved. “You just had to go and make me fall for you, she thought, blinking against his skin. You absolute a**.” This was my second dive into Ali Hazelwood’s books and this was delightfully cute! I loved seeing women in STEM, the fight they have to be heard and the good men that are actually there for them in the process. My favorite line from the female prof: “Olive,” Dr. Aslan interrupted her with a stern tone. “What do I always tell you?” “Um . . . ‘Don’t misplace the multichannel pipette’?” “The other thing.” She sighed. “ ‘Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.’ ” I definitely plan on picking up more of Ali’s books if this is what I have to look forward to!

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Customer review from barnesandnoble.com

4 months ago

FANTASTIC

This book was one of the first books that got me into reading and not many books have lived up to the standard Ali Hazelwood set with this book.

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Customer review from barnesandnoble.com

6 months ago

A cute romance

The Love Hypothesis- Ali Hazelwood Narrated by: Callie Dalton & Bonus Chapter narrated by Teddy Hamilton Narrator Ratings: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Callie did an excellent job bringing this book to life. Teddy as always is absolute perfection. My Review: My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pages: 400 Genre: Romance Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Fake Dating, One Bed, Workplace Romance, Age Gap Olive is a 3rd year PHD candidate and Adam a faculty member. This is a sweet, cute romance book with cheesy parts. Olive is adorable, highly intelligent and lets one little white lie mushroom into a mountain just simply trying to help a friend. Adam is the strong quiet professor who is part of her little white lie. He goes along with it for other reasons though. He has had a crush on her for a couple years. Then enter a conniving professor friend of Adam’s who causes havoc in everyone’s life. I highly recommend this book. It’s a sweet book with lovable characters. Opposites do attract. #booktok #bookstagram #books #booklover #bookrecommendations #bookstagrammer #bookish #bookworm #readersofinstagram #bookreview #bookaddict #bookcommunity #read #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #bookblogger #romance #fantasy #thelovehypothesis #alihazelwood

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Customer review from barnesandnoble.com

7 months ago

loved!!!

i feel like the hate for this book was so so forced, i loved it so much and i love that it wasn’t a whole lot of intimacy, it was just simple and cute and i loved it

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Customer review from barnesandnoble.com

8 months ago

My first ever dip into romance

Kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Olive kind of got in my nerves a LITTLE bit. but that’s okay cause overall i really enjoyed it.

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9 months ago
from Virginia Beach, VA

The Love Hypothesis- Was It Worth The Hype?

Okay, so I had bought this one a couple months ago becaues of it's popularity and how so many of my friends were reading this book. So I was like let me join, in the trend. And now that I've read it, was it worth the hype? In a way...I loved Ali Hazelwood's work in Love on The Brain a little bit more, as this one was sort of a slow burn? In my say, but there were moments I had cretainly enjoyed. But it was defintely slower in my opinion, maybe it's just perfrence as I do prefer enemies to lover. But overall a great book, and would recommend, as it definetly kept me excited to read and come back to it, to finish reading.

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