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The Love Hypothesis
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2025-06-10
- Rating
- ★ 4.0 · 1583 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Third-year Stanford Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn't believe in lasting romance, panics when her best friend Anh needs proof she's dating and kisses the first man she sees—Adam Carlsen, a famously difficult young professor. Adam agrees to pretend to be her boyfriend to keep the charade going. As a fake relationship meant to fool her best friend deepens, a chaotic science conference puts Olive's career at risk and Adam steps up with unwavering support, forcing Olive to examine whether her skepticism about love might itself be the flawed hypothesis.
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- Fake Dating: “Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend.” source
- Enemies to Lovers: “That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor—and well-known ass.” source
- Romantic Comedy: “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.” source
- Strong Heroine: “like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.” source
- Grumpy x Sunshine: “Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend.” source
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