Another romance hit! This book has it all. ✅ Academic setting ✅ Steamy romance ✅ (Bonus) Located locally with accurate geographical references. ✅ (Bonus) Star Wars fan fiction?? @treereads brought this book (and the Star Wars reference) to my attention and all I could picture as the love interest is Adam Driver. 

 

The Love Hypothesis is about Stanford Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith (*ahem* Rey) who goes to extreme lengths to convince her best friend that she is over some guy so that her best friend can go date him instead. She pretends to fake date the untouchable and scary Professor Dr. Adam Carlsen after accidentally bumping into him to the point where she kisses him. But can Olive keep up this fake dating scheme? Or will it evolve into something more?…All around this book is absolutely amazing and is definitely one of my favorite books of 2021. A must-read! 

 

Content warnings: sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual content, death of a parent, cancer