Title: The Love Hypothesis
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Series: N/A
Dates Read: 12 – 13/08/2024
Published Date: 14 September 2021
Genre: Romance
Pages: 352
Content Warnings (May contain spoilers)
Bullying, Medical content, Sexual content.
Who is this for? Young Adult, Adults
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Format/Disclosure: Library, paperback
Rating: 4.25 ⭐
Review:
This is the type of book that goes completely against what I typically read (Which would be thrillers/crime novels/mysteries), and I very much thought it was going to be something that I hated. However, I absolutely loved it. The characters were fun and quirky – Olive’s constant internal monologue was a little too relatable for me, while Adam was stoic, yet loyal and dedicated. The other characters were very much background, but still felt fleshed out and like they had personalities.
My 2 biggest gripes with books are wooden/two-dimensional characters & when there’s a conflict in the middle of the plot that then lasts for ~25% of the book and is always just so silly. Luckily, this book seemed to avoid both! Although their personalities were magnified, they still seemed realistic and their thoughts/actions still seemed believable (Although, maybe it’s just me, but I feel like some books give people so many more facial expressions than a normal conversation would have!) But, even the “conflict” in the middle didn’t last too long and still felt believable (Even if it also hit on my third biggest gripe – characters who can’t USE THEIR WORDS and actually TALK TO EACH OTHER – All of this would have been avoided if she’d never lied about Jeremy – both to Anh and then later to Adam.)
It was obvious from the beginning how it would end, it is a typical fluffy romance after all, but I was still happy to go along for the ride. Seeing Adam slowly change and come out of his shell was genuinely lovely. Also seeing him explain why he was the way he was, and that he wasn’t going to apologise, was actually quite refreshing. I’m not saying that his behaviour was right, but it was nice that he stood by it, and also had genuine reasoning for it (But, okay, sure, the real world may not be gentle, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a complete ass about it.) My only issue is that so often it seems conversations happened, and then were just sort of swept under the rug? Although, I do believe they were then touched on slightly later, so.. maybe not.
All in all, I really enjoyed the book. It may help that I’ve never read anything else from Ali Hazelwood and I’ve also never seen a Star Wars movie, so the whole Star Wars (Kylo Ren? Something?) ship/fanfic aspect was lost on me, but I am keen to read more from her – even if I have heard that her books are all quite similar.