Blog Tour: 5 stars to LOVE THEORETICALLY by Ali Hazelwood

 

It’s a rivalry that runs as old and as deep as the feuds between the Capulets and the Montagues, the Yankees and the Red Sox, Batman and the Joker, Tom and Jerry: theoretical versus experimental physicists. Elsie Hannaway is firmly in the camp of theoretical physics—an adjunct professor by day, she toils long and hard to teach students about the laws of thermodynamics in hopes of landing tenure. But to make ends meet, Elsie takes on another role in her (very) limited spare time: fake girlfriend. In this career, Elsie can pretend to be anyone her client needs her to be… and while she’s not supposed to go on more than one date with a guy, she develops a soft spot for one who really needs her help in front of his family. What could possibly go wrong?

 Here is what can go wrong: her client has an older brother. A very hot older brother. And, on an interview for her dream tenure-track position in MIT’s physics department, Elsie learns that said older brother is a member of the hiring committee. And he also just so happens to be the very same experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and is the reason why the entire science field views theoretical physicists as wastes of space. Did we mention that he happens to be terribly sexy? And he thinks that Elsie is a librarian who has been dating his brother?

Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage when her physics nemesis realizes that Elsie isn’t who she had claimed to be. 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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Christy's 5 star Review 

"You could be my entire world," he whispers in my ear before moving to my collarbone. "If you let me"

I stroke his hair. "I think I will."

Love, Theoretically is Ali Hazelwood's third full length novel and I can't decide if it's my favorite, or if 'The Love Hypothesis' has that honor. What I can say with full and total confidence is that Jack Smith is the absolute best character she's ever written. Sigh.

Elsie Hannaway is a theoretical physicist who is barely making ends meet by being an adjunct professor so she has a little side hustle if you will. That is how she meets Jack Smith. The first time. When she is interviewing for her dream job at MIT she meets him again.

This is what I like to call a one sided enemies to lovers. Because lets be honest. This amazing hero is completely gone for the heroine from the start. Whether he wants to be or not. Seriously, I just adored Jack. He was the best. I love how much he cared about Elsie and she became a better version of herself just by being with him.

This book had a lot of science. Ali Hazelwood is so much smarter than I am, and I'm not going to lie, some of the physics stuff went right over my head, but that's okay. I love reading books about smart women. I imagine it can be so challenging being a female in this field and I love that Ali gives a voice to that.

Love, Theoretically is a book I didn't want to put down. It gave me butterflies, all the happy feels, and had just enough angst to keep me on my toes.