I know I reviewed one single thing and then disappeared. That's typical of me, lmao. But I watched People We Meet on Vacation the other day and have some thoughts. Perhaps I will post them in the next couple of days...
I think I'm at chapter 6 now and I haven't stopped giggling and kicking my feet for a single second yet. So far, HIGHLY recommend if you like to giggle and kick your feet at cute books. Will update if this changes.
Anyway, I'm on chapter 11 now and listen. I am an extremely physical and emotional reactor to media. The Lorax makes me sob uncontrollably. Finishing Minecraft for the first time a few years ago put me in bed for the rest of the day. Music gives me goosebumps constantly. I'm the ideal person to make content for. I love to consume it and allow myself to fully enter that world and suspend my disbelief so hard that I give myself whiplash. I love when media makes me feel something. I love to feel emotions!!! Especially good ones!!!
When I say this book has made me giggle and kick my feet just about every other page of this book, I'm not kidding. It's like a drug. I was tempted to record myself reading a chapter last night just because my body starts to act out of my control when cute things happen - I start fist pumping and silent screaming and rolling around. I didn't expect to enter a fucking master work of romcom when I started this book.
It's so good. I've been really deep into the fantasy/romantasy world for a while now, and The Love Hypothesis has been such a refreshing, light, adorable read, absolutely perfect for melting away the rest of the world and just making me feel like I'm in a cute little university Starbucks.
I'm am beginning to get that sinking gut feeling because I know that eventually I'm going to finish it and it's going to end. I really don't want it to. :(
But the show must go on, and I must continue to G&KF. (Giggle and Kick Feet.)
Let me get critical. No real spoilers, but I am going to go a little more in depth here.
The highs in this book are SUPER high, especially if you just kind of ignore the qualities in the FMC that make you want to shake her. (Her almost magnetism to misunderstandings. She LOVES a good misunderstanding. But if you accept that as part of her personality and just gloss over it, it's great.)
It's predictable, but in a way that the author intended it to be. Each chapter actually starts off with a little ditty that lays the foundation for what's going to happen. It's on purpose. It allows you to get excited. But still... if you've seen one romcom, you've seen them all, am I right? AND I LOVE THEM ALL most of them. The formulas work for a reason. And this book does it well. Still, worth a mention I think. Because!
The conflicts I've now encountered, one in particular... this is one part where the predictability really worked against itself. It felt like way too much, way too fast. I wish there would have been at the very least more of a build up because it really felt copied and pasted from a lot of other romcom types. And besides one single line from one single character, totally out of nowhere.
I was excited for the same type of whole-body intense reaction to whatever the big-bad was going to be, but I kinda just went "Oh. So we're going this route?" And slogged through that chapter.
So yeah. "Predictable bad part felt less good than predictable good parts" I guess is what I'm getting at here.
Still excited to keep going. It has been knocked down a peg for me. VERY excited to get back to some good parts.
I wish I would have written this immediately upon finishing the book, but I got distracted. It's been a couple days. And the way my brain works is basically I am a goldfish and forget everything almost immediately after doing it. But I'll give it a shot!
The quickish review is that the first third had me giggling and kicking my feet absolutely non-stop. The middle third didn't quite lose me... but it lost the grip a little bit. Final third pulled me back in enough that I was thoroughly enjoying myself in the end. My Libby app said I had a decent little percentage left of the book, so I was extremely disappointed when I turned a page and saw "Epilogue" pop up. I wanted it to keep going!! All in all, very cute little romance.
The longer review: I already said a lot of the things I wanted to say in earlier posts, but I will touch on the post-conflict portion and some overarching thoughts.
Like I said earlier, the good parts in this book are so good. I was so excited to feel the rollercoaster start ascending again, and before I knew it I was giggling and kicking my feet just like before... maybe not quite as much as the first third of the book, but close.
Something that was really well done in this book was the setting. It feels so clear and grounded. As predictable and cheesy as some of the storyline is, the setting really brought it to life. As someone who has never been a science girlie, I really felt like I was in that lab working on my little grad student paper. (My little 30-something page paper!) As we got pulled around to different places, I never felt lost. I was always able to fully immerse myself in what was going on with the characters because I was never wondering where we were supposed to be.
The little details in this book are great as well. The little things that make each human who they are. I found myself surprised sometimes by those details. It's something I feel gets lost in a lot of the fantasy books I've been reading lately. In all that world building, it's the things like someone least favorite and most favorite coffee order that get forgotten. This book nails that.
Now that I've finished the book, I will say that the disappointing conflict I mentioned earlier did well at moving the story forward. It gave the story a reason to go in the direction it needed to go. And obviously that's the point, right? But it felt forced to me. As I continued, I sort of got to a moment where I was like, okay, I can forgive the forcing of the conflict if it means we get to experience the rest of the book now, you know what I mean? I don't even really know what else could have happened. I guess maybe like, one or two more hints at that happening would have made it feel more natural? But maybe that was the intention, too. I guess it doesn't feel natural for that to happen in real life, either. So maybe this is me convincing myself that it was fine. I don't know.
The ending was nice. It was just really nice. This book felt like a warm, comfy blanket. I might pick up a physical copy because I could see myself rereading this in the future, for sure. I'm excited to read more of Ali Hazelwood's books!
(I've never written book reviews like this before so I'll continue trying to improve my formatting and everything. If you've read this far, thanks Happy reading! :)
I think I'm at chapter 6 now and I haven't stopped giggling and kicking my feet for a single second yet. So far, HIGHLY recommend if you like to giggle and kick your feet at cute books. Will update if this changes.
Anyway, I'm on chapter 11 now and listen. I am an extremely physical and emotional reactor to media. The Lorax makes me sob uncontrollably. Finishing Minecraft for the first time a few years ago put me in bed for the rest of the day. Music gives me goosebumps constantly. I'm the ideal person to make content for. I love to consume it and allow myself to fully enter that world and suspend my disbelief so hard that I give myself whiplash. I love when media makes me feel something. I love to feel emotions!!! Especially good ones!!!
When I say this book has made me giggle and kick my feet just about every other page of this book, I'm not kidding. It's like a drug. I was tempted to record myself reading a chapter last night just because my body starts to act out of my control when cute things happen - I start fist pumping and silent screaming and rolling around. I didn't expect to enter a fucking master work of romcom when I started this book.
It's so good. I've been really deep into the fantasy/romantasy world for a while now, and The Love Hypothesis has been such a refreshing, light, adorable read, absolutely perfect for melting away the rest of the world and just making me feel like I'm in a cute little university Starbucks.
I'm am beginning to get that sinking gut feeling because I know that eventually I'm going to finish it and it's going to end. I really don't want it to. :(
But the show must go on, and I must continue to G&KF. (Giggle and Kick Feet.)
Let me get critical. No real spoilers, but I am going to go a little more in depth here.
The highs in this book are SUPER high, especially if you just kind of ignore the qualities in the FMC that make you want to shake her. (Her almost magnetism to misunderstandings. She LOVES a good misunderstanding. But if you accept that as part of her personality and just gloss over it, it's great.)
It's predictable, but in a way that the author intended it to be. Each chapter actually starts off with a little ditty that lays the foundation for what's going to happen. It's on purpose. It allows you to get excited. But still... if you've seen one romcom, you've seen them all, am I right? AND I LOVE THEM ALL most of them. The formulas work for a reason. And this book does it well. Still, worth a mention I think. Because!
The conflicts I've now encountered, one in particular... this is one part where the predictability really worked against itself. It felt like way too much, way too fast. I wish there would have been at the very least more of a build up because it really felt copied and pasted from a lot of other romcom types. And besides one single line from one single character, totally out of nowhere.
I was excited for the same type of whole-body intense reaction to whatever the big-bad was going to be, but I kinda just went "Oh. So we're going this route?" And slogged through that chapter.
So yeah. "Predictable bad part felt less good than predictable good parts" I guess is what I'm getting at here.
Still excited to keep going. It has been knocked down a peg for me. VERY excited to get back to some good parts.
I think I'm at chapter 6 now and I haven't stopped giggling and kicking my feet for a single second yet. So far, HIGHLY recommend if you like to giggle and kick your feet at cute books. Will update if this changes.
Anyway, I'm on chapter 11 now and listen. I am an extremely physical and emotional reactor to media. The Lorax makes me sob uncontrollably. Finishing Minecraft for the first time a few years ago put me in bed for the rest of the day. Music gives me goosebumps constantly. I'm the ideal person to make content for. I love to consume it and allow myself to fully enter that world and suspend my disbelief so hard that I give myself whiplash. I love when media makes me feel something. I love to feel emotions!!! Especially good ones!!!
When I say this book has made me giggle and kick my feet just about every other page of this book, I'm not kidding. It's like a drug. I was tempted to record myself reading a chapter last night just because my body starts to act out of my control when cute things happen - I start fist pumping and silent screaming and rolling around. I didn't expect to enter a fucking master work of romcom when I started this book.
It's so good. I've been really deep into the fantasy/romantasy world for a while now, and The Love Hypothesis has been such a refreshing, light, adorable read, absolutely perfect for melting away the rest of the world and just making me feel like I'm in a cute little university Starbucks.
I'm am beginning to get that sinking gut feeling because I know that eventually I'm going to finish it and it's going to end. I really don't want it to. :(
But the show must go on, and I must continue to G&KF. (Giggle and Kick Feet.)
romaincrisis
germansingergirl
dailybridgerton
tangentwithtanner
janainaart
snowghoul