I would have to say the “woman I love” scene towards the end was my favorite. If you’ve read this book, tell me what you think is the most attractive thing Adam Carlsen did. Trigger warnings for misogyny, violence, sexual assault, and sexual content! And yes, this is fiction, but I still think it’s important to remember that. Like, if that happened in real life, it definitely would not be cute and romantic. And then Olive and Adam joked about Title IX throughout the book. I will say that I don’t LOVE that the entire premise of the book was based on sexual assault. I end up always skipping to some disturbingly graphic language out of context and it makes me want to cry. It’s really horrible to get to the sex scene and try to skip past it and end up landing on “-he licked her thigh and she-“ or something like that.

I listened to the audiobook, and just a fair warning: if you’re not into graphic sexual content in books, do not listen to the audiobooks. If you like the sullen, brooding, grumpy (cough, extremely attractive, cough cough) love interest dynamic, but hate all the toxicity and machismo, I highly recommend this book. She felt quite three dimensional and real, which I appreciated. I didn’t find Olive as annoying as a lot of protagonists in contemporary novels. But this book was clever and funny and tender and romantic and very, very good. Why do I want to read about their problems with, like, taxes and infertility and stuff. A lot of the time, I find new adult romance tedious. I didn’t expect to enjoy “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood as much as I did. If you see this and want to do it, consider yourself tagged by me!Īgain with the women in STEM. I try to embody the dark academia aesthetic on a daily basis, so that would be the aesthetic of my movie. And I’m forgetting many, many wonderful characters, of course, but we’d be here all day.Ī character who would be my love interest: I would also be honored, of course, to be friends with Inej Ghafa and Nina Zenik (“Six of Crows”), Zofia (“The Gilded Wolves”), Nasuada (“Eragon”), Violet (“Dark Rise”), and Maritza (“Cemetery Boys”).

I would choose Jude Duarte (“The Cruel Prince”), Wu Zetian (“Iron Widow”), Zoya Nazyalensky (“King of Scars”), Enne (“Ace of Shades”), and maybe Finn Voy (“Nocturna”). I need a group of semi-evil women to flank me. The line from “The Grimrose Girls” that is currently in my bio comes to mind (“While you were busy being heterosexual, I studied the art of the blade”).Ĭharacters that would be my best friends: Wylan and I both have an obsession with sweaters. Wylan van Eck but even more murderous and explosive. The lovely tagged me in the #iamthemaincharactertag ! Thanks for that, friend! I’m going to keep this review short, but I love this book with my whole being. If you are or were in a marching band, I think you will really love this book. Secret queer relationships are something I go crazy for, for some reason.Īnd the music and band parts of the plot! I was in my school’s orchestra, not the band, but I still love reading books with musically-inclined characters. I really enjoyed the “queer kid in politics” aspect of this book as well. She takes care of Harper and would fight anyone in between her and Harper. But! That doesn’t mean Margot isn’t the sweetest, most loving girlfriend. Harper is pretty neutral about kissing, leaning towards having an adverse opinion on it, and Margot doesn’t push her. I really appreciated that even though Margot wasn’t asexual, she never pressured Harper to do anything she wasn’t comfortable with. I loved the forbidden friendship-turned-romance. The asexual rep made me squeal it was so good. If that appeals to you, I recommend “Forward March” by Skye Quinlan. Picture this: sapphic asexual band nerds.

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