They've known each other for 8 hours but whatever. I keep on wondering why AH keeps on bothering with condoms when her characters keep on having sex without it and then kind of remember it then forget it again.

The steam was okay (if you're into the 'so BIG' trope repeated over and over again). a line she said over dinner? I don't even know how that makes sense. It was so asinine: he thinks the sex was too hot for her or something and she thinks he got a client she was also pitching based on. Also not believable, the main conflict (why they broke up). My main issue was that I couldn't get into the 'falling in love and acting like a LT couple over the course of 24 hours' plot. You're a scientist, you have a PhD, you're an engineer, I get it, let's move on), and then, she keeps on going from 0 to extra horny in milliseconds. Her stream of consciousness was all over the place: so many pop culture geeky references, heavy-handed mentions of how she knows about science (she compares not getting her croissant to 'not as bad as the Fermi paradox' or something) probably to convince the reader she's legit (yeah okay I don't need convincing, it's not like you're an alien.

The FMC as the same manic pixie girl on her way to save the world template. That was my strike 2 after reading this description: « The span of his shoulders could easily moonlight as a plateau in Eurasia. Well, to be fair, this time around the MMC is Scandinavian and described as: « He looks like a corporate version of Thor. He's a brooding corporate assh$$ and she's a tiny genius who wants to save the world. It's the second Hazelwood novella I read and yeah, it's got the same issues 'Under One Roof' had.īoth leads have the exact same personality as in TLH and UOR and I guess they're based on the Kylo Red / Rey Star Wars characters.

Stuck with you book ali hazelwood