Ali Hazelwood's newest STEM RomCom LOVE, THEORETICALLY is a stand-alone novel that overlaps slightly with her debut novel, THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS. Our heroine, Elsie Hannaway, is a recently graduated Ph.D. theoretical physicist barely getting by running between three universities as an adjunct professor by day. She and her roommate subsidize their income by hiring themselves out on an app as "fake" girlfriends. Her worlds collide when Jack Smith, the brother of a client, is on the hiring committee at MIT for her dream job.
Jack is also her nemesis as an experimental physicist and the man who professionally attacked her mentor. Elsie is a people pleaser who tends to read what others want from her and does her best to be that person., which is great as a fake girlfriend playing a role, but not so great in life.
As with the other stories written by Hazelwood, the reader is immersed into a complete world (this time academia with all its politics) full of sweet, nerdy characters that speak in a language all their own. Somehow the author makes it charming for Elsie and Jack to flirt and fall in love while discussing complex mathematical theories that I don't and will likely never understand. She also throws in fun pop culture references, steamy sex scenes, witty dialogue, and amazing secondary characters. The emails Elsie gets from her students throughout the book are hysterical. I need her roommate Cece's book next and don't leave out the hedgehog!
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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