Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2) by Ali Hazelwood

Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2) Reviews

• 
  Kat

  These novellas are really not doing it for me and I am truly starting to wonder if The Love Hypothesis is going to end up being an anomaly within Ali Hazelwood’s growing list of publications. It seems like she only knows how to write one kind of story, or is at least MARRIED to using the same exact tropes in all her pairings.
  
  I also think that the shorter format here is doing her characters a disservice. Stuck with You gave the initial chemistry in Sadie and Erik’s relationship that I thought was missing from Under One Roof, for sure. But all that was canceled out by the instalove and lightning quick pace of the story. The plot switches back and forth between a 24 hour fling that Sadie and Erik share & another day that was a week? a month? later when they get trapped in an elevator together for…maybe an hour. It was a very transformational hour, but the “boom, I’m in love” revelation that came out of it definitely felt forced.
  
  Rolling back to the initial date that Erik took Sadie on for a sec—it was good. Before the “hate” part of their hate to love got in the way, I was genuinely tickled by their banter and the clear attraction that was there. The fact that we didn’t have to wait until the last chapter for anything *wink wink* to happen was also appreciated (chapter 8 for my fellow whores, you’re welcome in advance).
  
  So, this is where I end up: I’d really love to see something fresh from Ali Hazelwood. Maybe kick things off with a little friends w/ benefits action. Spice it up and throw in a short king who’s not slinging a literal horse cock. Give us some characters who will fucking TALK TO EACH OTHER. You get the idea.
  
  Even though I’ve felt so meh about these two novellas, you know I’m gonna read the third. Like right now. I’m starting it as I type. It’s happening. We’ll discuss when I’m done. Okay bye.
• 
  chan ☆

  seems a damn shame that my 400th shelved contemporary romance was this
  
  i don’t like knowing an author’s sexual preferences. give me variety so your IM- SO- FUCKING- SMOL- HIS- DONG- IS- MASSIVE- IT- WILL CRUSH- MY- POLLY- POCKET- PUSSY kink isn’t so obvious. give me a 6 ft chick with a honey- i- shrunk- the- kids chad.
  
  with peace and love, a size medium
• 
  Ayman

  i fucking hate the miscommunication trope but at least this man ate coochie like he was fucking starved 🤩
• 
  emma

  in a way, this book is almost impressive.
  
  it's hard to be so short and yet so annoying.
  
  and yet, both this novella and its quirky and small protagonist achieve it with what seems like a natural ease.
  
  you have to hand it to both of them.
  
  i feel like i've been ranting about ali hazelwood a lot lately, probably because she decided to release
  a bad sophomore novel and
  a trilogy of significantly worse novellas around the same time, but that's not a bad thing in and of itself.
  
  i love complaining. it's one of life's great and consistent joys. like perfectly toasted bagels, or screaming into the void.
  
  what's annoying is that i'm complaining about the same thing every time.
  
  BECAUSE EVERY ALI HAZELWOOD BOOK IS THE SAME.
  
  two scientists, one huge, boring, grumpy, mean, uninteresting, i mean crime-against-humanity-level dry (except that crimes against humanity would be more fun to read about) love interest dude, one tiny, quirky, very small, not like other girls, silly, jennifer lawrence 2012 tumblr gal.
  
  they have a huge size mismatch, the guy is in love for his entire adult life, the girl doesn't notice until the 75% mark, la di da.
  
  SNOOZE!!!
  
  i hate Big Man Tiny Woman (because i am tall but more importantly because i am an adult, and being a small child in a paternalistic romantic relationship has less than zero hypothetical value to me), and this novella responded to that with 49 mentions of this unholy He Big She Tiny trope.
  
  yes, i counted. and was so pained
  i had to tweet about it.
  
  at least this book does me the favor of being horrible in new and intriguing ways, in addition to ye olde standards.
  
  like how the central miscommunication is that the love interest thinks he sexually assaulted our protagonist. lol. tres romantic. and how generally so much of this revolves around sex that seems nonconsensual.
  
  and how at one point our main character has forgotten her bra at his apartment and her very charming and normal love interest (whose, uh, package is, i must tell you, so large that finding a means of navigating it near and around our teeny protagonist makes up the closest thing this book has to a plot) says she can't have it back because he's been jacking off into it.
  
  while they weren't speaking because he thought he SA'd her.
  
  IS THAT HOT???
  
  at the very least it seems financially inadvisable. bras are expensive.
  
  bottom line: unbelievably nightmarish. in so many ways.
  
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  currently-reading updates
  
  reading a series out of order makes me feel roughly as daring and uncomfortable as i imagine skydiving would. or skipping dessert
  
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  tbr review
  
  injustice is: the fact that i have 4 ali hazelwood books on my tbr and none of them are out yet
• 
  Liv

  I don't think Ms. Hazelwood FULLY understands the power she has over me, I would read her grocery receipts if she ever decides to publish them
• 
  Yun

  I acted like a totally irrational, absurd, deranged person.

  Yes, Sadie, you really did.
  
  Miscommunication (a.k.a. no communication) isn't my favorite trope in any genre, but it particularly grates on my nerves in romances. Pretty much nothing irritates me more than reading about conflict that comes entirely from things unsaid. So it's no surprise that I didn't love this story nearly as much as Ali Hazelwood's other ones.
  
  Add to that my inability to see myself in Sadie, who blabs work confidential information, jumps to conclusions, and thinks the worst in others, and this was a rather eye-rolling experience. The entire time, I felt so bad for Erik, who deserves so much better.
  
  I do realize without all the miscommunication and misunderstanding, there wouldn't be a story at all. But what can I say—a girl wants what a girl wants. And this just wasn't the story for me.
  
  Still, Ali Hazelwood always delivers a fun read, and the fact that this was a short novella made it a tolerable if not entirely enjoyable read for me.
  
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  See also, my thoughts on:
  
  The Love Hypothesis
  
  Love on the Brain
  
  The STEMinist Novellas
  
  Under One Roof
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• 
  Layla

  I no longer believe that tall men deserve rights. If you're over 6 feet, please do not associate with me. 🙄
• 
  aly ☆彡 (slowly catching up)

  I don't think I have much to bring to the table since I'm not sure if I'm even focusing half the time. This book began off tediously and it was a battle to not fall asleep at one point. The entire plot revolves around the one day Sadie and Erik first met three weeks ago and the 30 mins of them getting stuck in the elevator. Insta-love at its finest.
  
  Sadie couldn't put an end to Erik's whacking physical and got horny in the minutes she first saw him and it's getting endless as the story goes. There seems to be a very little chasm between the depictions of heroes in Hazelwood romances. I know the muscular descriptions are used to emphasize the virility of the hero but are there other heroic proportion models that we as readers may embrace?
  
  As for this case, it's getting apparent, with all the big muscles, big cocks that all Hazelwood MMCs seem to have and Erik is no exception. We had Olive 2.0 moment here again, when Sadie was freaking out because she didn't expect Erik's to be so big. Well... can't say the smut scene is any less dissatisfying. I kind of get it, but this is also started to get a bit repetitive coming from her.
  
  Also, I'm gonna start to keep in mind that Ali Hazelwood just loves (by love, I mean obsessed) in using miscommunication trope as a plot device, just so I'll be expecting less from her the next time. I would respect this obsession better only if she manages to deliver a good story. Unfortunately, in doing so, Hazelwood always put her heroine in a limelight for being the irrational and stupid one despite having supposed to be the contrary. The present time when Sadie told that Erik had betrayed her, I know I'm not gonna get anything good.
  
  Again, what was the plot here? Exactly. Nada. However, I rated this higher than my initial two stars is because I kind of enjoyed the banter and the dates around 60-70% ish of the book. The talks over football were refreshing too. Undeniably, the romance could be better, and I still go with my stand on how the insta-love is ruining it. But Erik helps made this book more flattering than it should be and the epilogue was adorable. That can’t be helped — credits given when it’s due.
  
  I think, I love the narration better this time too but Sadie is not entirely likable so, that's a shame. And I admit the imitation of the MMC was very indistinctive compared to the previous narrator. Overall, Stuck With You had that small win over the little advantage it had over the first novella. Again, thanks to Erik for keeping me entertained.
• 
  Phuong ✯

  I listen to him explain why Neuer is an incredibly overrated goalkeeper and laugh.
  I listen to him explain why Neuer is an incredibly overrated goalkeeper
  I listen to him explain why Neuer is an
  I listen to him
  
  
  
  I- I’m sorry but WHAT? that’s where you lost me. the way I had to go back and listen to that part 25 times thinking I might have heard it wrong, but no it was the same outcome every single time. THE BLATANT DISRESPECT. Erik are you talking about the same NEUER who helped my country win the soccer 2014 FIFA World Cup? Who carried that competition? THAT NEUER? And Sadie, you agree with him after watching a match between Denmark vs. Germany?
  
  Now lemme google something real quickly
  
  
  
  Huh, interesting isn’t it?
  
  I can forgive a lot of things, namely murder, rape, throwing plastic in organic waste, running elderly people over with a car, putting pineapple on your pizza, the list goes on and on, but insulting my baby Neuer. No bitch don't fuck with me, get that nasty attitude out of my face and check your head on your way out. 😤 
  
  -1 star for Eric & Sadie atrocious soccer taste. My respect for them is in hell after the slandering of my countryman, but everything else in this book is alright I guess. 🤷🏽‍♀️
  
  
  
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  THE STEMINIST NOVELLAS SERIES
  #1 Under One Roof – 2.5 stars
  #2 Stuck With You – 2.75 stars
  #3 Below Zero – tbr
  ┕━»•» «•«━━━━━━━━┙
• 
  bo

  what ive learned today: dont trust anyone whose favorite books are written by ali hazelwood. no offense.
• 
  Cait Jacobs (Caitsbooks)

  Stuck with You is a cute and addictive novella that actually made me enjoy a conversation about sports. That says a lot.
  
  Sadie and Erik's relationship was so entertaining to read about, I loved Sadie as a main character (even though she does have some communication issues, but at least she knows it), and Erik is a fantastic love interest. This book does play into some tropes that Ali Hazelwood loves to write: grumpy/sunshine, Very Tall hero and So Small heroine, etc. That said, she manages to make every book feel distinct and unique. I can imagine if you're not a fan of those tropes, you might get tired of it, but I didn't mind them.
  
  4.5/5 stars
  
  Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for sending me an eARC to read and review
• 
  Zoe (Marauders version)

  you know, this book could have been half the length it was and it would have been a lot better.
  
  Like, I don't care how many flavours of gelato you ate after she broke up with her ex boyfriend or how ashamed she was to eat a mango one.
  
  Neither, do i care about the fact that her ex did not care a single bit about her. Or the half a page of very wattpady facts on worse things then being stuck on an elevator.
  
  This book.........was okay, it was a book i will probably forget within the next three days.
  
  It really pissed me off when Sadie kept going on about how BIG and NORSE Eric was. I counted about 8ish times she called him Corporate Thor. What kinda fucking name is that? I was so sick of that name AND how he was so NORSE GODLIKE and TALL and BIG he is like ugh stfu we get it.
  
  Now, normally I would hate the miscommunication trope but for once in my life this book was okay. I would also fall to that conclusion if I were Sadie so you know what its all goods, ill let this one slide.
  
  While this is also better than the first book, i would not be surprised to find this book to find this book written on wattpad by a 15 year old lonar who has no social life
  
  ill continue reading Ali Hazelwoods books because i love tlh and i want another book like that. However, my expectations will be on the ground.
  
  {previous review}
  
  istfg if this is anything like the first book i will cry, i dont think i could manage it again, im still in a slump from the first one
  
  I love love love that we are writting more and more about women in STEM
• 
  Ishika

  What in the fuckity fuck did I read? I'm really really pissed right now so please forgive me for whatever the fuck I'm writing. I don't believe this book was written by the same author who wrote The Love Hypothesis. For fuck's sake man I'm tired of insta love tropes. So you're telling me they met each other, talked about underwears and what not, had a dinner date, fucked each other the first day they met and then all of a sudden this bitch is crying over him for betraying her trust. LIKE COME ON!!! How dramatic can you get?
  
  Istg this girl (I don't even remember her name) is a big Bella Swan wannabe. I’m smiling. He’s . . . not smiling, but close, and it makes me smile even more. This felt like it was cut, copy pasted from Nightlight. Pls if you haven't read Nightlight then you are missing out on a lot of fun, especially if you hate Twilight.
  
  The way Erik's physical appearance was described in this book gave me a mountainous headache. My brain was flooded with emotions that were more harmful than Vegas frying Pete's balls. All I needed was a drain I can push the girl into. Oh and for God's sake the obsession she seemed to have on Nordic people. With Erik Nowak, the broodiest of Scandinavian mountains? ; Scandinavian, maybe. Viking-like. Norse. Like his ancestors frolicked below the aurora borealis on their way to funding Ikea. He is as big as a yeti, with clear blue eyes and short, pale-blond hair. It really annoyed the hell out of me.
  
  Look I am really interested about reading the women in STEM rep and everything they face but if I read something like I have a Ph.D. in engineering: if I can build sophisticated machinery, I can figure out how to put on a damn condom. the sorry I can't take the book seriously at all. This book is a part of the STEMinist novellas series but idk....the plot didn't match the title at all. It actually felt like an insult to women working in that field. The amount of unprofessionalism the girl showed by ignoring Erik just because she thought that her client rejected her because of him. Like girl have you never been rejected by a client before???? Couldn't it be that the client didn't really like what you proposed?? Since I'm no expert in that industry so I'll stop here but please the miscommunication trope over here sucked.
  
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  What's funnier than a dad joke is apparently not the existence of this book/novella😕
• 
  Kay ❦

  Cute and steamy novella!🔥💖
  
  Insta-love (not my favorite kind) but it was enjoyable and it's a novella. Sadie and Erik hit it off immediately but after a work-related conflict/rivalry issue they were on hiatus terms or was it a one-night stand? When both are stuck in the elevator, they are forced to communicate. The story begins in the present and goes back three weeks prior. Sorta eh at the beginning but a strong finish! 3.5⭐
  
  Meg Sylvan's narration was awesome! 3hr 22m.
• 
  Larissa Cambusano

  THE STAR WARS REFERENCES WERE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!!! Like ‘Under One Roof’ this was a super cute & fluffy novella. Eric & Sadie were adorable, and I loved seeing Liam & Mara! Cant wait for Hannah’s book.
  
  “Eric tastes like himself in a late spring night in New York.” <3
• 
  ✨ A ✨

  *cries in single*
• 
  Anna

  I love Ali Hazelwood and her writing is absolute magic, but I have to say this novella was my least favorite out of the stuff she's put out so far.
  
  In this story, Sadie is a very superstitious engineer who's been feeling pressured to perform well at her job and bring in clients. Her good luck charms for pitch meetings are the awful croissants from this bakery near her workplace – don't ask me to elaborate on this 😂 – and it's trying to procure one of these that she meets Erik, also an engineer, who is aptly described as "Corporate Thor".
  
  They hit it off immediately after he lets her have his crappy croissant, since the bakery is out of them (how, if they're so horrible?), and they end up going on a date and having a one night stand.
  
  After Sadie is made aware of Something Mysterious About Erik the next morning, she ghosts him, but is forced to face him again when they end up trapped in an elevator together 3 weeks later.
  
  The problem here is that the story leaned heavily on two tropes that I don't love: instalove and miscommunication.
  
  That whole 24-hour period of interaction they had before she ghosted him was very emotionally intense and made me cringe a little bit. When Sadie wakes up the next morning and joins him in the bathroom – so, maybe hour 20 since they first met – he lets out a comment about how she could join his health insurance plan in the future, and a part of me did die of second-hand embarrassment.
  
  The miscommunication thing was annoying but I have to say it was also somewhat justified: if you had literally just met someone and a trustworthy friend told you some crap about them that kind of checked out, maybe you wouldn’t necessarily go after them to hear their side of the story (even if you were invested in them enough that you were discussing marriage 2 hours earlier).
  
  All in all, this novella was funny and steamy and had all that trademark Ali Hazelwood charm that we all love; it’s just not my number one.
• 
  Sylvie

  2.25 out of 5 stars.
  
  One of the worst feelings when it comes to books is when you hype yourself up for a certain book and it ends up not giving you that content feeling that you were looking for.
  
  This is my fourth Ali Hazelwood work that I read and ended up being a 2-something star for me, but I guess I'm not meant to love them, which is very disappointing because I was constantly willing to give her books a chance.
  
  This was the novella I was looking the most forward to because I thought the cover was too cute and not reading it would be a crime.
  
  What I'm going to confess may not be agreeable for everyone but I think the author is trying a little too hard with her stories and is make her characters quirky to the limit where one would find it a bit too cringe worthy.
  
  One of the not many things I liked about this book is that the main character and her love interest bonded over a sport(football) and it wasn't just the case where a cute petite woman sees a handsome rugged giant mountain of a man and decide to bang hang immediately. But let's face it, that was almost exactly the case.
  
  Overall, I think this proves that unfortunately Ali Hazelwood's books aren't my cup of tea.
• 
  Matilda

  3 stars 🥐
  
  pros:
  – the pitiful amount of praise kink that I'm desperately holding on to
  – the writing was much more tolerable than book 1, less millennial
  – best smut ali hazelwood has written between the love hypothesis and under one roof
  
  cons:
  – Sadie is a Real Madrid CF fan 🤢
  
  
  
  – Erik thinks Manuel Neuer is an overrated goalkeeper 🤮
  – insta-love to the fucking max. Erik and Sadie probably spend a total of 24 hours together between 2 days, with a 3 week hiatus between, yet they're half in love
  – SO. MUCH. MISCOMMUNICATION
  
  Sadie gets mad at Erik and blocks him because she thought he stole her pitch which lost her a client. In reality, Erik loved how smart Sadie was and emailed her thesis to his entire workforce. Her thesis basically outlined her entire pitch because she wants people to use her ideas. This doesn't stop her from getting mad and accusing Erik of corporate espionage.
  
  Erik thought she blocked him because he scared her during their one night stand. She refused to talk to him despite his efforts so Erik sort of gave up. This continued for 3 weeks until they were stuck in an elevator together during a power outage and realized they were both mistaken.
  
  When they finally get out of the elevator, Erik tells Sadie to wait for him so they can talk about what happened. What does she do? SHE RUNS AWAY. This girl assumed the absolute worst about him and doesn't even give him the courtesy of explaining himself. Then, when he does explain that he never told anyone about her pitch...she doesn't believe him.
  
  EVEN THEN, you know he works for your company's "enemy" yet you spill all your ideas to him on the first date??? Even if he told his employees about her pitch, it's her fault for telling a guy she doesn't know all her ideas
  
  
  
  the STEMinist novellas
  ↠#1
  under one roof — 1.75 stars
  ↠#2 stuck with you — 3 stars
  ↠#3
  below zero — 1 star
• 
  Jessica

  Ahh this was even better than book one and I was so obsessed with this story. This is told in flashbacks and we know that our couple stuck in the elevator had a one night stand three weeks ago and haven't spoken to each other since. I really loved watching Sadie and Eric click immediately and fall so hard and fast during their one night stand. I loved the little things they had in common, especially soccer! As a huge women's soccer game myself, I loved the names they dropped and how much they fangirled over soccer! Of course now, though, you know something broke them apart. While it could have easily been fixed if they had communicated with one another, I understood why neither one of them wanted to reach out to the other after it was revealed what had actually happened. While this was a novella, so much was packed into this story and I really believed this couple fell in love and felt betrayed by one another and had to confront what happened. I can't wait to read the third book in this series!
• 
  m.

  there is so much i could say about this but i really should not have put my trust in the artistic abilities of someone who actively chooses to name her book STEMinist
• 
  cossette

  to quote this novella: "i think i want to die. i want this to be over."
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  Rachel Reads Ravenously

  5 stars!
  
  I have discovered something about myself with this novella: I am absolute trash for the miscommunication trope. I love it, I want more of it, I love my angst and I want my conflict. Not to mention that human beings in general don’t communicate well with each other, so it’s realistic to me. When readers complain about it online, I secretly pray authors and publishers won’t listen to them because I WANT MORE.
  
  Stuck With You is the perfect novella, with two characters being trapped in an elevator at work three weeks after they met and fell for each other. But something kept the two them apart, and being stuck together in a small space may be having them work it all out…
  
  Ali Hazelwood is such a delight to read. I was skeptical about reading her collection of novellas because I typically don’t like shortened books (not enough time to develop/everything gets rushed) but this one worked just perfectly. I would also be happy with a longer version of this story, but it totally worked. I thought the chemistry between the two main characters was fantastic and I loved seeing the buildup of their romance. Fantastically done!
  
  An ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley. This did not impact my thoughts or feelings when reading this book/writing this review
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  Chelsea (chelseadolling reads)

  I’ve said it before and I will happily say it again: Ali Hazelwood does it like no other. This was, unsurprisingly, an absolute delight. Sadie and Erik’s chemistry leapt off the page and even though this was just a novella, I fully believed in their feelings for one another and I desperately need more. Another thing that bears repeating? Ali Hazelwood can write the hell out of a sex scene. HAVE MERCY.
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  Hilly

  1.5 stars
  
  It doesn’t matter if she’s not replying to your texts and you don’t know exactly why, because last time she forgot her bra and you can do things to it—cause that’s totally normal.
  
  This time I have no way of defending Ali Hazelwood's work, it was that bad. A recipe for unsuccess, you have it right here. A back-and-forth narrative with a grating main character + a depraved love interest and any excuse is good enough to have sex/think about having sex only. The author managed to put my most hated tropes all in a single 100 page novella, and didn't even do the 'stuck in the elevator with the guy I hate' justice. I don't think we should even talk about the fact that she hit a world record for how many times she mentioned that he's huge, big, immense, broad... because we've all had enough at this point. Please give us something else, anything else other than these huge masculine men who crush the heroine under their body weight. You know what, since I'm already here I'm begging this author to also stop with the dirty talk, that is repetitive at best or so cringe it makes me want to shrivel up and die at worst. Miss Hazelwood has an amazing voice when it comes to banter and fun breezy writing, but as I read more and more of her work I'm looking for some kind of improvement here.
  
  I'll be honest and say that I didn't mind the miscommunication between these two. It worked. Not that it changes things dramatically as I still hated these characters and their absent chemistry. I'm finding myself craving for a full length novel again (maybe not with these characters though, just the stuck-in-the-elevator formula is enough please) because it obviously needed more space to develop and it needed to be worked on more. While the first novella hit a note, this second one, on top of being short, was instalovey and full of long detailed sex scenes–to the detriment of having a real rounded plot– and it didn't do it at all.
• 
  katia

  omg this was amazing. more awkward sex scenes, miscommunication, insta-love, no chemistry, and a really boring plot, can’t get much better than that!!
  
  this might as well have been the first book reimagined bc theyre the exact same people just with different lives. mara and liam were actually interesting for a split second though, which could not be said about these characters.
• 
  megs_bookrack

  **4.5-stars rounded up**
  
  After the elevator grinds to a halt, Sadie cannot believe her luck. The worst luck in the world!
  
  She's stuck in the smallest elevator known to man with one of the largest men she's ever met, who just so happens to also be the man who broke her heart just weeks ago.
  
  
  
  For his part, Erik barely seems phased. It's like he goes around getting stuck in elevators all the time. The close quarters force the two to talk, really talk, for the first time since everything went so wrong.
  
  Through flashbacks that begin on the day they first met, with a meet cute over a barely edible croissant, the Reader gets filled in on their quick and passionate relationship.
  
  
  
  Stuck with You is the second of Ali Hazelwood's adorable STEMinist Novellas. Even though it is technically the second, it's actually the third one that I have read. My trilogy experience is complete. I loved them all.
  
  I listened to all three on audio and definitely recommend that format for these sweet and sexy stories. Unless it makes you uncomfortable listening to a narrator read fairly graphic sex scenes, then you may want to read it with the privacy of your eyeballs.
  
  
  
  I love the idea behind Hazelwood's stories, showcasing women in STEM seems like a simple idea, but I haven't seen anyone do it like her. Highlighting smart, sexy women will never get old.
  
  Science is cool, y'all, and Hazelwood proves it in her books. I take this as scientific proof. The evidence is right in front of you. Go ahead, pick them up. You'll see.
  
  
• 
  Júlia

  A masterpiece, really

  
  for 120 something pages this delivered so much!

  the cutest novella, these characters were complex, the plot was interesting enough and it really did feel like I was reading a big book, because of how intense this short experience was

  I am probably biased because of my obsession with Bill Skarsgard and I pictured him as Eric during the whole thing (even though Bill is Swedish and not Danish)

  

  they all fit in the same delicious box anyways

  

  10/10 mild spice romcommy cute romantic sweet novella
• 
  Dab

  So I thought it was nearly impossible to develop characters in a novella enough for me to fall for them. And then comes Ali Hazelwood and says “hold my beer”. 🥰😍🥰
  
  This story was cute and simple and just the right amount of angsty. I loved Erik and I loved Sadie and their insta love was totally believable and perfect. The chemistry - another thing that novellas usually lack - off the charts!
  
  Highly recommended!
• 
  Lexi

  how to write an ali hazelwood male protag:
  
  BIG and HUGE and BIG and BIG with DEEP VOICE standoffish but not a bad person except for hes so BIG he could C RUSH U with his toes.