My Review: 3.3-3.5 stars
I liked the story well enough, with the usual fake relationship vibes. Adam and Olive seems super cute together. I love that Olive’s research is on Pancreatic cancer.
The narration was good and the story flowed along nicely.
I have deducted a few points because, as a peanut allergy mom, I did not like that someone would lie about being allergic just because they don’t like peanuts. Makes no sense.
Also, I felt like Olive was really pushing Adam about getting the flu vaccine when he clearly did not want to do it for whatever reason. I felt like the author was pushing her own beliefs about the covid vaccine, but saying flu instead.
Book Blurb:
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.
That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor–and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding…six-pack abs.
Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.
