I really wanna love Ali Hazelwood's books, I so desperately do, because we, science girlies, also deserve representation in romance books! As a teenager I've never read or even seen a book with the main female lead being a scientist, so now I enjoy the rising popularity of the STEM romance. Moreover, showcasing political games in the academia, rivalries, struggles with peers or supervisers could be really helpful for people in similar situations - they would feel less alone and maybe even be motivated to take some action.
The other, much more important representation in this book, is of the Type 1 Diabetics. This chronical condition is draining by itself, but it's even harder without proper healthcare, when the need of money for insulin is hovering over you all day every day. Here we have Elsie, an extreme people pleaser, who wants to be easy and not to inconvenience anybody, so she usually hides the fact of being diabetic, which makes the experience even more isolating.
Even though I appreciate this book and I actually quite liked the story, there are still a few things that bothered me here, and previously in The Love Hypothesis. First of all, where does the author find those tall, muscular, sexy men she describes? Like we had guys at school, there are some in the lab, but let me tell you, none of them look like Jack Smith-Turner or Adam Carlsen (send some, I wouldn't mind😅). Maybe that's the reason it seemed a little fanfic-ish to me, the feeling strengthened by the fact that those guys fell for their girls head over heels during the first meetings. And, to top it all off, they have exceptional emotional intelligence - this really takes it to the verge of fantasy.
















