(Not in Love #1)
by Ali Hazelwood
June 11, 2024
Goodreads Summary:
A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science—from New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.
Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.
Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through—and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who’s off-limits to him.
Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business—one that plays for keeps.
Review
Before Ali Hazelwood, I never imagined romances featuring academia could be so funny and hot. Not in Love was exactly that. It had me learning new things, laughing out loud and swooning all over the place.
What I Liked:
- nerdy conversations
- an unbelievably emotional story
- Rue’s very realistic hesitations and fears
- Eli’s singular focus on Rue
- spicy in a respectful way
- Tisha, Rue’s most hilarious bff
- a messy but warm friend group
- betrayal plus all the emotional baggage it came with
The Not So Much:
- sometimes I found some sentences abrupt and hard to follow
“Taking this stinging pain inside me and putting it outside my body for a little.” (p. 287)
“Maybe endings don’t always include solutions that tie everything together in a bow.” (p. 365)
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