Hey. What’s up, guys? I hope you are doing well. Today, we will discuss one of the most famous and romantic series by Ali Hazelwood, “The Love Hypothesis.” I completed all these books a week ago, so I decided to share my memories related to this novel with you. LET’S START >
The Love Hypothesis series has been written by Ali Hazelwood, a New York Times bestselling author. She writes modern romcom novels about women in STEM and academia. She published this novel on September 14, 2021, and this book consists of 383 pages, which are good enough to evoke your soul letter on 2 more books that were released in this series.
In 2022, it was announced that a film conversion of the novel is in progress from Bisous Pictures. The Love Hypothesis has sold over 750,000 copies worldwide, and the series has three different romantic story books. I will discuss all the books in this epic review, so stay with me till the end.
Overview of the series:
The Love Hypothesis:
The Love Hypothesis is an adult and romantic novel written by Ali Hazelwood. In this most-rated book, we read about the love story of Olives and Adam. Olive is a third-year biology Ph.D. student at Stanford University. She is researching pancreatic cancer from which her mother died. And Adam, who is a professor at the same university. The university has banned funds for Adam to study in the medical field as they fear he will leave the university and go to another. They both do fake friendship with each other. So both can have benefits.
Love On The Brain:
This is another book in the series, “The Love Hypothesis,” released in 2022 and is also a standalone novel. This is the romantic story of Dr. Bee Königswasser, who works at NASA, which was her dream job. And Levi Ward, who is her nemesis from grad school. He was her co-leader in the project, and they were trying their best to work with each other and forget what happened in the school. After working together for an extended period, they start loving each other.
Love, Theoretically:
This is the final book of the series The Love Hypothesis, written by Ali Hazelwood and published in 2023. This is also a comedy and romantic novel. In this book, we follow the life of Elsie, who is a good physicist and a professor at three Boston universities. She is trying to do many jobs to fulfill her needs; she also does the job as a Fake girlfriend to be hired. But this affects her academic position too much. She meets Jack and falls in love with him.
Genre:
The series mainly fits within the Young Adult Romance and Romantic Agog genres; all three books share contemporary romance and academic fiction genres.
RECOMMENDED AGE RATING:
The series is recommended for mature enough readers due to its severe and emotional content. Not that mature, 17-18+ is good. Readers above 35 may not have that much fun, but the young ones’ hearts will be filled with pleasure.
Be sure that you are mature enough to read mature content.
HOW MANY BOOKS IN “The Love Hypothesis” SERIES?
There are currently three books in “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood,
- The Love Hypothesis
- Love on the Brain
- Love, Theoretically
All these books were released one after the other in a sequence. The first book, The Love Hypothesis, was released in 2021; the second in 2022, Love on the Brain; and the last in 2023, called Love Theoretically. All these books have different storylines of different couples.
Best Reading Order for “The Love Hypothesis” Series:
I recommend you read all the books in sequence; otherwise, you will face many issues in understanding concepts and logic; you can also read them without sequence because they all have different stories. So, start with “The Love Hypothesis,” then the second part, Love on the Brain, and then at last, “Love Theoretically. This will be a good way according to my view of reading.
- The Love Hypothesis
- Love on the Brain
- Love theoretically
The Love Hypothesis #1: Plot Summary
Olive is a third-year biology Ph.D. student at Stanford University. She is researching pancreatic cancer from which her mother died. She did not believe in Love and romance, as her boyfriend had broken up with her a long time ago. But her best friend Anh believes in Love and romance. Anh and Olivia’s ex-boyfriend Jeremy like each other but can’t get into a relationship because she thinks she will hurt Olive if she goes into a relationship. Still, Olive has already told her she has been moved on and is no longer with Jeremy. To confirm this, one day, they were in the lab, and Ana dared Olives to kiss any random guy in the science lab. She had just kissed a guy, then learned that he was Prof. Adam, a famous scientist, and a handsome guy.
Olive told Adam why she did this and made plans with him to make a fake relationship with each other so people, including Anh, would think they were in a relationship. They start fake dating; after a few days of dating, Olivia starts having feelings for Adam, but she is afraid of telling him. One day, they both go to a conference where Adams’s friend Tom also comes. He was also a great scientist, just like Adam. When she was there at the meeting, Tom did a sexual harassment with Olive. She does not tell Adam this because she thinks he will not believe her.
| Publisher | Berkley Books |
| Publishing Date | September 14, 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 383 Pages |
| Series | The Love Hypothesis #1 |
| Literary awards | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2021), Book of the Month Book of the Year Award Nominee (2022), Swoon Award for Contemporary Romance (2021), She Reads Best of Award Nominee for Romance (2021) |
| Settings | Stanford University, Stanford, California (United States), Boston, Massachusetts (United States), California (United States) |
| Characters | Olive Smith, Ph.D, Dr. Adam Carlsen |
| ISBN-10 | 0593336828 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0593336828 |
One day, Anh gets to know about the fake act of Olive and Adam, which they were doing, as well as she also knows that she was sexually harassed by Tom. She advises Olive to tell Adam about what happened to her. She hopefully gets to Adam and tells him everything with some proof, and Adams believes her and takes Olive’s side. After some time, Olive also said to him that she loved him very much.
Everyone likes tall, broody, sullen hunks with genius IQs.
The Love Hypothesis
It seems to be that Adam also likes her, but he is not saying it clearly to her. They both start a good relationship and live happily, enjoying their life with romance and Love. They do everything they want to do wherever they want. They have sex whenever they want to do it. They kiss each other wherever they wish, and now they can’t live without each other.
This was a short summary of the novel; no spoilers are given.
Characters:
Dr. Adam Carlsen: A young professor who is harsh and hypercritical. This is what students say about him. The university has frozen his research funds because they are worried that he will leave and go to a different university; Adam has faked a relationship with Olive to make the science department believe that he plans to stay at Stanford University and will not go anywhere.
Olive Smith: She is a third-year biology Ph.D. student at Stanford University. She is doing research on pancreatic cancer from which her mother died. She has a fake relationship with Dr Adam Carlsen to convince her friend she got over her ex-boyfriend.
Love On The Brain #2: Plot Summary
Dr. Bee Königswasser is a neuroscientist working at NIH who received a prestigious chance to co-lead BLINK, a project at NASA concentrated on making helmets for astronauts that improve engagement through neurostimulation. Bee is thrilled, except she must work alongside Levi Ward, an engineer, and her old grad school nemesis. Bee went to Houston to start the task with her research assistant, Rocío Corporeal. When Bee formally begins work the next week, she finds that many of the gear and resources she had ordered have not yet arrived.
Her multiple emails to Levi to meet and discuss BLINK have been going unanswered. This, coupled with his general avoidance of her and the fact that she is kept out of the loop about team meetings, leads her to suspect that Levi purposely sabotages her involvement in the project. Levi discovers evidence that another firm is working on similar helmets, forcing their boss, Dr. Boris Covington, to push for the project to resume. With BLINK back on, Levi and Bee began cooperating closely, and she realized they had much more in common than she had ever guessed.
| Publisher | Berkley Books |
| Publishing Date | First published August 23, 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 368 Pages |
| Series | The Love Hypothesis #2 |
| Literary awards | Audie Award Nominee for Romance (2023), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2022), Book of the Month Book of the Year Award Nominee (2023), Swoon Award Nominee for Contemporary Romance (2022) |
| Settings | Texas (United States), Houston, Texas (United States), Maryland (United States), Bethesda, Maryland (United States), New Orleans, Louisiana (United States), Louisiana, United States (United States) |
| Characters | Bee Königswasser, Levi Ward |
| ISBN-10 | 0593336844 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0593336847 |
While working together one night, Levi and Bee find a file misplaced on the server in a row of strange circumstances. Levi calls a corrective meeting among the engineers despite Bee’s explicit request for him not to, which outrages her. Levi quickly apologizes for it, surprising Bee with his seriousness and respectfulness. There are many more hurdles in the story to love success.
The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay.
Love On The Brain
Characters:
Dr. Bee Königswasser: SHE works at NASA, and it is her dream job.
Levi Ward: He is Dr. Bee’s nemesis from grad school. He was her co-leader in the project.
Love theoretically #3: Plot Summary
Elsie is an overworked and underappreciated adjunct lecturer at three Boston universities who loves speculative physics but dislikes teaching. To cover her medical expenses and make up for her poor salary as an adjunct, Elsie works for an app called Faux that lets users hire people to act as their girlfriends.
Greg Smith has been a client of Elsie’s for some time, and she assumes they are friends, but she feels distressed by Greg’s older brother, Jack, who thinks she is lying to Greg about who she is. One day, Elsie meets the constituents of the MIT physics branch; she is surprised to learn that Jonathan Smith-Turner is Jack Smith, her client Greg’s judgmental older brother. She begins to trust Jack, who has known through his brother that he and Elsie were only acting to date to alleviate his driven mother and hide the secret that Greg is aeromantic and has no interest in dating anyone.
| Publisher | Berkley Books |
| Publishing Date | First published June 13, 2023 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 389 Pages |
| Series | The Love Hypothesis #3 |
| Literary awards | Nominee for Best Romance (2023) |
| Settings | Boston, Massachusetts (United States), University of Massachusetts (United States), Massachusetts (United States), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (United States) |
| Characters | Elsie Hannaway, Ph.D., Jonathan Smith-Turner, Ph.D., Olive Smith, Ph.D, Dr. Adam Carlsen, Greg Smith, Monica Salt, Ph.D., Dr. Christophe Laurendeau, Dr. Georgina Sepulveda |
| ISBN-10 | 0593336844 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0593336847 |
Once he realizes that Greg and Elsie were never together, Jack reveals that he has always had feelings for her and only appeared to hate her because he was protective and envious of Greg.
“Have you considered that maybe you’re already the way I want you to be? That maybe there are no signals because nothing needs to be changed?”
Love, Theoretically
My Review:
The storyline was engaging and interesting, allowing me to read until the end. The characters and the relatable everything are highly appreciable. The well-developed plot, the twists, and the thrilling managements were great.
The writing style and storytelling were beyond my thoughts about this series. Some plot twists were clear to get what would happen next, but sometimes I need clarification about what is happening in this stage, so I repeat it.
The emotional and mental states of the characters sometimes did not show depth and genuineness. The book leans towards a more formulaic romantic approach. So I recommend reading this series; this will increase your knowledge of Love. So go grab it before it’s too late 🙂
CONCLUSION:
Be ready for an incredible journey with Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis series! It’s all about Love, drama, and amazement. Whether you’re a big fan or just starting, these books are like a cluster of feelings with lovely characters. You should totally read all the books. Each story is like a big hug of emotions – sometimes happy, sometimes sad, but always fascinating. So, grab these books, dive in, and prepare for a super awesome time!