Imperfect Chemistry
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Lucy London puts the word genius to shame. Having obtained her PhD in microbiology by the age of twenty, she's amassed a wealth of knowledge, but one subject still eludes her0́4people. The pendulum of passions experienced by those around her both confuses and intrigues her, so when she's offered a grant to study emotion as a pathogen, she jumps on the opportunity.When her attempts to come up with an actual experiment quickly drop from lackluster to nonexistent, she's given a choice: figure out how to conduct a groundbreaking study on passion, or lose both the grant and her position at the university. Put on leave until she can crack the perfect proposal, she finds there's only one way she can study emotions: by experiencing them herself.Enter Jensen Walker, Lucy's neighbor and the one person on the planet she finds strangely and maddeningly appealing. Jensen's life is the stuff of campus legend, messy, emotional, complicated0́4in short, the perfect starting point for Lucy's study. When her tenaciousness wears him down and he consents to help her, sparks fly. To her surprise, Lucy finds herself battling with her own emotions, as foreign as they are intense. With the clock ticking on her deadline, Lucy must decide what's more important: analyzing her passions...or giving in to them?
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Imperfect is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Mary Frame.
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A very unique book i haven't read anything like this before....so we get Lucy who is a psychologist but she doesn't understand basic human emotions and she has to conduct a hypothesis regarding human emotions so that she wont lose her grant.
I found this to be a very enjoyable read. And I loveedd Jensen one of the sweetest guys:) and Freya is amazing tooo.
The reason why I gave it 3 stars was The romance aspect was kind of cliche you know we Lucy meets Jensen and gets attracted to him, but before despite being his neighbor for a whole year she didn't even get to meet him..weird right? Also I felt like the whole thing was kinda insta love and I hate that trope ngl.
The thing I loved most abt the book was Lucy's brothers I am a person who loves pranking ppl and I feel like if they were irl ppl we would get along pretty well!
Nice but foregetable, chiefly because, behind the interesting presentation of the characters lurked no real depth. I like characters with characteristics on the autism spectrum, as the heroine has in this; however, for instance, the way she didn't know she had feelings felt way off to me. Folks on the spectrum have big feelings! If an author makes someone so emotionally un-intuitive that they can't recognize feelings (and, hey!, I recognize my younger self in that!) then there needs to be more of a back-story about why.
I can recommend the more nuanced neurodiverse characters created by Penny Reid, Fiona West, Chloe Liese, Talia Hibbert, Graeme Simsion, Helen Hoang.
I'm a huge sucker for romances where one of the characters is a geek/nerdy character. This is sweet, quirky, and just a plain fun read, even if a lot of it isn't believable. I mean, why would someone who doesn't understand emotion, doesn't emote much, try to research emotions. She has no idea how even to study them because she just doesn't get it. This whole thing didn't make much sense to me, but I rolled with it.
The relationship is so sweet, I just... ugh my heart. There are also a lot of funny moments and the friendships are highlighted and great. This is a great book, I recommend it, and I plan on reading more of the series.
