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Love, Theoretically
"The reigning queen of STEM romance."—The Washington Post
An Indie Next and Library Reads Pick!
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he’s the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
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Reviews
Smart, sweet, and just a bit cheesy (get it? Haha)—in a good way. I loved the academic setting and the science-y bits, and I appreciated the focus on women in STEM and their struggles. The characters were too genius-level and emotionally self-aware to feel real. Overall, it was a fun, nerdy romance with a healthy dynamic and a lot of heart.
By gelzabell
Love. Love. Love. Funny. Emotional. Smart.
By ladibgz
This book was amazing. I’ve gotten reviews saying this was more of a hard down enemies to lovers trope, but it wasn’t hard on. They argued but wasn’t enemies. Elsie was a slow burning. It was a lot of science talk, if you’re not into that then i don’t think it’s best to read but nonetheless, it was an amazing book, i think you should still read it.
By touisia
Boring
By bellacarrollfuqua
That one hit home for me.
By CaptainProasheck