I enjoyed The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood as a STEM-focused open-door romance, so it's no surprise I liked Love on the Brain ... because they're essentially the same book. To name a new similarities, in both:
- heroines and heroes work in a STEM field
- workplace interactions lead to personal relationships
- hero is very tall and heroine is very petite
- hero and heroine attend a professional conference
- open door sex scenes
I'll forgive the first and last similarities as that appears to be this author's lane, but as I encountered other things that were nearly identical in both books, my enjoyment for Love on the Brain reduced another notch.
I loved the cats in the story and the many mentions of Polish scientist Marie Curie, but the heroine's backstory was overly complicated. I kept waiting for it to play an important role in the plot ... but it never did. And I was very surprised by the odd twist in the last section of the book.
I haven't read The STEMinist Novellas by Ms. Hazelwood ... but I'm wondering if I need to if they are as similar to her novels.
- heroines and heroes work in a STEM field
- workplace interactions lead to personal relationships
- hero is very tall and heroine is very petite
- hero and heroine attend a professional conference
- open door sex scenes
I'll forgive the first and last similarities as that appears to be this author's lane, but as I encountered other things that were nearly identical in both books, my enjoyment for Love on the Brain reduced another notch.
I loved the cats in the story and the many mentions of Polish scientist Marie Curie, but the heroine's backstory was overly complicated. I kept waiting for it to play an important role in the plot ... but it never did. And I was very surprised by the odd twist in the last section of the book.
I haven't read The STEMinist Novellas by Ms. Hazelwood ... but I'm wondering if I need to if they are as similar to her novels.
