Loved itlove.Theoretically, I think still my favorite Allie Hazelwood... that part of the story really resonated with me... I just thought it was fun.
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Love Theoretically (2023)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
- ISBN:
- 9780593336861
- Length:
- 400 pages
Genres: romance
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Loved it
Loved itIt is very sciency but I adored the mess out of Elsie's and Jack's relationship. It was very much banterfilled because she does that really well. Very steamy, very sciency.
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Loved itlove theoretically this is a book that I read in one sitting I was on the plane to San Francisco it was early as and I was told by a friend I was told by somebody that this book would hit for me and I can't say that I expected to love it as much as I did but it changed everything honestly.
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