My second Ali Hazelwood and I really enjoyed it. I meant to read this last year, but didn't get around to it because my reading has slowed tremendously. I read The Love Hypothesis years ago on audio and enjoyed it and thought about listening to this but I didn't.
Once again, we have a main female character in the science field and there is a brooding male character who always becomes the lover who is amazing in bed.
Bee is a neuroscientist at the NIH and she has just landed her dream job at NASA. She is going to be leading a project on a personalized space helmet for astronauts to fit their brain patterns. That is about as much as I understood about the science part. I kept reading for the romance obviously.
She then gets an email that she will be co-leading the project with a guy who she thinks hates her guts. She is constantly thinking and reminiscing about all the times when he was rude, dismissive and just uninterested to Bee.
There is alot of fighting on Bee's part because when she gets to NASA, she realizes that she doesn't have a badge to get herself into the building. She doesn't have the right equipment she needs and she has an office so far from the labs. The tension between her and Levi and all of the roadblocks she was encountering was making me not like Levi at all and at the end, I was still on the fence about him and how he acted.
She then gets fed up and confronts Levi and she then finds out that NASA is sabotaging the BLINK project because they don't want to share credit with the NIH. This revelation is what sparks a friendship between Bee and Levi.
In Bee's personal life, she is running a secret twitter page with the handle whatwouldmariedo. It is a twitter page where women in the scientific field can air grievances on all the misogny and crap they have to deal with. There is a viral moment where a tweet about the GRE's to get into these prestigious academies are not even looked at and how they costs hundreds of dollars and the only ones passing these tests are white males.
When I got to the epilogue, I was not even thinking of all the scientific facts that Ali Hazelwood puts into her books. I figure that she knows what she is talking about since she has so many books with the subject as her focus. But in the epilogue, there is a sentence that made me question all of the science that is supposedly true.
The sentence says that Bee secretly got a marriage license for her and Levi and that she got him to the courthouse. There is NO WAY you can get a marriage license for you and your partner. In every state in the US, a couple has to be present. I looked up the Texas law to be sure and since this book takes place in Texas, it says a couple has to be present when filing for a marriage license.
Now I know that Ali Hazelwood had to look up some of these facts about Marie Curie and her life and stuff about NASA. HOW could she not look up marriage laws?
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