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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic content; a physical relationship develops; depicted but not graphically explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; grad school social settings
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; impostor syndrome; the power imbalance of a student/professor relationship; what it takes to ask for what you need
What this book is about
Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis follows Olive Smith, a third-year PhD student who impulsively kisses the department's most intimidating professor — Adam Carlsen — to convince her best friend she's moved on. When Adam agrees to maintain the fake-dating facade, what began as a strategic lie threatens to become very real. Hazelwood's academic setting is specific and observed — the pressures of grad school, the power dynamics of academia — and the romance is warm and genuinely funny.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Power imbalance in student/professor dynamic
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