Bee has purple hair and numerous tattoos and piercings, and she talks to her twin sister – who is constantly traveling from country to country – about everything. The main characters are all wonderful, too. Much love for all the science, grad school, and feminist themes. On a related note: I also loved the subplot around the GRE and how it’s a problematic barrier. Bee also secretly runs a Twitter account focused on women working in science, and this community adds their experiences of sexism at work, but also solutions to these problems. Love on the Brain also fits into the recent STEMinist label: Bee frequently points out workplace misogyny, when men refuse to listen to or trust her, when men devalue her or assume her male co-lead is the true genius behind their project… the list goes on.
There’s plenty of discussion around neuroengineering, and while I’m no scientist myself, I loved being part of their world for 368 pages. The main character, Bee, is a neuroscientist working at NIH and now co-leading a project at NASA with the love interest, Levi. What we get is a bingeable romance filled with feminism, science, and workplace antics between rivals-turned-lovers.īefore I get to the romance (which I adored, by the way), let’s talk about how smart this book is.
While I enjoyed that first novel (despite its many awkward moments), Love on the Brain captures all of the author’s sense of fun and charm and removes the cringe. Where can I even begin? Love on the Brain is absolutely delightful, and far better than Ali Hazelwood’s debut, The Love Hypothesis. But after overcoming some early bumps, is it possible these two have more in common than Bee realized? Perhaps they can work well together… and even get along outside of the office. Working together isn’t ideal… especially when he refuses to communicate with her.
She’s less thrilled when she find out that she’ll be co-leading it with Levi Ward, a man who hated her during her grad school days. Special thanks to the publicists at Penguin Random House and to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book! Summaryīee Königswasser, a neuroscientist working at NIH, is thrilled when she’s offered a position co-leading a project at NASA. Spoiler: It’s better than her first book! This is one I’ll be getting a physical copy of and recommending to everyone. I’d been counting down the days for its release, so I was ecstatic to get an advanced copy of it. While I haven’t gotten to her three recent novellas yet, I was very excited for her second full-length novel, Love on the Brain. Last year, I loved Ali Hazelwood‘s debut, The Love Hypothesis.
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