Love, Theoretically

Things were looking up! Not a single cringy scene in over 250 pages! I found myself thinking “here's a cute Ali Hazelwood romance book I would actually recommend to people”. But then, we get to chapter 19. Our first spice scene enters the chat! Cringe Factor 1: the scene lasts for over 20 pages. Cringe Factor 2: the film Twilight is playing in the background of said spice scene. Cringe Factor 3: they bring up the fact that he was jealous she was fake dating his brother, maybe don't discuss siblings in a spice scene. I will now and forever think of this book as a 4 ⭐️ before chapter 19 and a 1 ⭐️ after chapter 19. The cringe factor continued throughout the remainder of the book. Also after sleeping together one time the characters are already discussing moving in together, like slow down you're only in your late 20's. To me a good romance book has hundreds of pages of yearning and banter, then in the last 10 pages they get together and that's the end. Once the couple is happy and stable I lose interest, to be honest this book could have ended 100 pages earlier. Overall, I think this was my most disappointing read from Hazelwood as I was tricked into thinking this book deviated from her usual writing style and book reviewers rate this as their favourite of the three STEM focused novels. The reason I decided to pick up Love on the Brain and Love, Theoretically this month is because I was so intrigued by her new novel Bride, but I think I'll have to give it a miss for now as I can conclusively say Ali Hazelwood's writing style isn't for me.