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Rating: 5/5
Spice level: 1.5/5
My thoughts
As a not-so-quiet lover of The Love Hypothesis, Hazelwood's debut novel that released February 2020, Love On The Brain was by far my most anticipated release of 2022. The three Steminist Novellas curbed my appetite for a while, but not long.
I am happy to report Love On The Brain did not disappoint! The chemistry was amazing, the love interest was incredibly swoonworthy, and the ending was phenomenal.
I sat through the entire book going "this is so predictable" (which is not an issue for me, especially with romance), but that plot twist! As a general rule I don't like big suspenseful scenes in romance novels, but Ali Hazelwood pulled it off.
Last point I will make: I have never wanted to physically write in a book before, but there were so many times I wanted to make notes about how I was feeling at different points of the book. I didn't, but there were a ton of tabs.
Plot/Book Details
After a somewhat-struggling career, Bee is a neuroscientist who is hired by NASA to lead their latest project. She could not be more excited for the opportunity until she is notified of who her co-lead is: Levi Ward, her grad school nemesis.
Favorite Quotes
1: "I'll threaten him with wearing the dress again. I'd be open to doing laundry every night and subjecting him to it for the rest of my stay in Houston." -Bee
2: "The point is, sometimes dislike is a gut reaction. Like falling in love at first sight, you know? Just...the opposite." -Bee
3: "Whatever you're imagining from the tamest to the most...inappropriate thoughts, that's probably where my mind was at....You were always in my head. And I could never get you out." -Levi
4: "Bee. You want to belong. You want someone who won't let you go. I'm it. I didn't let you go for years and I didn't even have you. But you need to let me." -Levi
5: "Okay - I'm not proud of it, but it's possible that my musical taste was influenced by the fact that in my formative years I, too, was an angry white boy." - Levi
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