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Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

Published on September 22, 2025September 9, 2025 by Celeste7 Comments

Today’s review is about NOT IN LOVE by Ali Hazelwood. It’s a contemporary romance that is STEMinist adjacent. Rue, a food scientist, fights her attraction to Eli, who is part of the firm trying to acquire the company for which she works. Of course, it’s always more complicated than this simple one-line synopsis!

Author: Ali Hazelwood
Series: None
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date: June 11, 2024
Print Length: 400

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Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Published on July 8, 2024January 7, 2025 by Celeste8 Comments

Today’s review is about CHECK & MATE by Ali Hazelwood. This is Hazelwood’s debut in Young Adult romance and I think she did a great job with it. Since she’s such a popular author, my review for this book is more casual. Keep reading to see what I thought about it!

Author: Ali Hazelwood
Series: None
Age Category: Young Adult
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Publish Date: November 07, 2023
Print Length: 368

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Book Review: Love On the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

Published on January 9, 2023January 3, 2023 by Celeste10 Comments

Good morning! Today I bring you a book review of LOVE ON THE BRAIN by Ali Hazelwood, my second foray into STEMinist romance. Like THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS, I found it entertaining and might even like LOVE ON THE BRAIN a smidge more!

Author: Ali Hazelwood
Series: None
Age Category: New Adult/Adult
Publisher: Berkley Books
Publish Date: August 23, 2022
Print Length: 368

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Mid-Year Freak Out Tag

Published on July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 by Celeste6 Comments

I’ve seen this tag floating around a ton on book Twitter and other bloggers’ sites, so I thought I’d join in the fun! The original tag was created by ReadLikeWildfire and Earl Grey Books.

By the end of June I’d read 34 books. I set my goal for 52 this year, so it looks like I’m ahead of my pace of one book per week. I’ll take it since you never know what might randomly pop up in life. Without a doubt most of the books I’ve read so far fall within the fantasy genre. I haven’t read much nonfiction this year, but I have a few in my queue at the moment that I really want to read.

Anyway, let’s get on with the questions!

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Book Review: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Published on July 5, 2022December 1, 2022 by Celeste6 Comments

I finally read THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS by Ali Hazelwood and ended up enjoying it more than expected. Since there are already a lot of reviews out there, instead I focus more on commentary.

Author: Ali Hazelwood
Series: None
Age Category: New Adult
Publisher: Berkley Books
Publish Date: September 14, 2021
Print Length: 400

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