Eilidh’s Reviews > Love on the Brain > Status Update

Love on the Brain has made me feel all warm and mushy on the inside, it’s made me laugh and smile like only a few romance books have EVER done, and it’s gave me true relief from my own spiralling life. It’s a fun but extremely clever championing of STEM and women kicking ass, it’s taught me so much about Marie Curie and how hard women have to work to excel, it illustrates mansplaining and misogyny SO DAMN WELL - literally how it slips into everyday conversations, especially in the workplace. Honestly, Ali Hazelwood has asserted herself as one of my favourite authors from this book alone.

I’ve never read a female protagonist who actually outdoes her love interest as well as Bee does. Like, Levi is swell and I wouldn’t pass him by either, but Bee is a mother freaking Goddess. If I had the two in front of me?? Both professing their undying nerdy love? If polyamory weren’t an option, I wouldn’t hesitate to runaway with Bee.

There are bits (crumbs for plot directions) which are fairly obvious and, if you’re being a cynical Cyrus, you could be like “but is this believable?”
I counter this second niggle with: perhaps a teeny bit on the point of believability is the price one pays for how good this book makes one feel. Believe me (heh), I get it, but the book is on another level with its joy, characters, intellect… Just embrace everything that makes those exceedingly epic qualities possible 😌