Book Review: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
If you love romance and you love comedies and you love nerdy main characters, this is the book for you. Ali Hazelwood’s Love on the Brain is perfect for those of us who love STEM and romances. I am so excited to review Love on the Brain because, frankly, Ali Hazelwood is amazing.
Book Information
Bee Königswasser is a neuroscientist who knows two things: she desperately wants to work on a NASA project called BLINK, and the person who hates her most in the world is Levi Ward.
So, when Bee gets the offer to join NASA, she jumps at the chance to join. Until she realizes that she is co-leading with the one and only, Levi Ward. The longer she works with Levi, though, the more she learns that there’s something about him she just can’t resist.
Review | Heidi Dischler
To start off, I just want to say that I really loved The Love Hypothesis. So, when I picked up Love on the Brain, I was super excited to get started. Ali Hazelwood’s STEM romance novels give me all the feels (it also doesn’t hurt that there is an abundance of steamy scenes in all of her novels). I won’t be going into any spoilers, so don’t worry about that here. Mainly I just want to talk about the characters, the story, and of course, the romance.
The characters were eerily similar to the ones in The Love Hypothesis. Bee almost mirrored Olive and Levi basically mirrored Adam. I’m not saying I didn’t like this. I loved the original characters and I loved Bee and Levi. Bee had the most personality out of all four characters in my opinion. She was the definition of quirky STEM girl. She loved cats, which was adorable, and she was just given so many quirks that it was hard to not love her.
The story was also very very similar in the way that it was developed and the actual skeleton of the whole thing. I got deja vu throughout most of it. Again, though, I didn’t mind. I enjoyed it still just as I enjoyed The Love Hypothesis. Although, I probably would’ve loved it even more had it not been so similar. It felt like Ali Hazelwood was riding on the popularity of The Love Hypothesis when she wrote Love on the Brain and it was just too close to her first novel.
Now, for the romance. The one thing that I love the most about Ali Hazelwood’s writing is the way she writes emotions. Man, when she writes characters falling in love, you feel it every step of the way. The angst. The tension. The butterflies and tingling. Levi and Bee’s connection is palpable and I absolutely loved every second of it. Would I read all of Hazelwood’s novels even if they were all eerily similar just for the romance? Yes, absolutely.
Overall, you will enjoy this novel if you love Hazelwood’s writing and her STEM characters. Just be warned that this novel is very similar to The Love Hypothesis. So, if you’re not into novels that are very formulaic (feeling nerdy with my vocab choices…), you probably won’t enjoy this novel. It would’ve earned five stars from me had it not been so predictable and similar to her first novel.
Source: Personal Copy
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