I actually cried at the end, this is such a sweet book. It deals with real  world issues in such a skillful way. Bringing politics, mental health, and physical health all together to for an absolutely amazing book. The writing felt alive and you could really connect with the characters. I absolutely adore this book and I would recommend it to ANYONE!

I really loved this book i read it in under 48 hours. Love story was very sweet and the characters were fun realistic and charming. I loved seeing aro-ace representation and as a diabetic seeing my own experiences in print was cool! The only reason it lost .25 stars is because there were a couple moments that felt a little awkward because of the word choices, although that could easily fall to personal preference. The science stuff went over my head but it was still an easy read even if you don’t understand particle crystallization. Overall a great read that I really enjoyed, this author is super fun and I cant suggest her enough! 

I love Ali Hazelwood, but this one was just…cringe. In my opinion, the characterization of the main character was much too heavy handed. It felt like Hazelwood had a madlibs-style formula to come up with Elsie’s personality traits, since her main personality traits outside of physics are Twilight and Cheese. Yes, I said cheese. The cheese jokes were so weird, I could not stop getting tripped up over them. How is cheese a personality trait? And I love Twilight, but saying “#Bellice4evah” within the first three pages was a serious crime. The word “Smexy” also made an unfortunate appearance later on.

Also all the student emails peppered in throughout the book were so whack and unbelievable (a student asking their physics professor to check a pimple for them? Come on.) I think she was really going for the “com” in romcom and the overwhelming amount of cringe quips made me lower the star rating bit by bit as I inched my way to the ending. 

Overall, the main character was wayyy too self aware to believably be so misguided about herself and the way she viewed the world. I also wish that Hazelwood wouldn’t lean so far into the misunderstanding trope for almost every conflict, it gets so exhausting and makes me want to dnf when the problem could be solved in a single sentence that everyone’s refusing to say for the weakest reasons. 

All that being said, Jack is hot asf. And if you have a size kink, know that Hazelwood’s got your back. Did appreciate the aro/ace rep and the main character being diabetic (plus him being all caring about her levels was adorable)

I honestly don't know if I have much other to say than that Ali Hazelwood has done it again. She's left my jaw on the floor and my heart in the hands of a handsome scientist man.