Book Review: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today.

Today I am bringing you my book review for Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood.

Blurb/Synopsis:

Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project – a literal dream come true – Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.

Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school – archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas… devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.

But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there’s only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?

My Review:

Okay, where to begin? It ahs taken me a long time to get around to reading this book. It has been on my shelf since the week it first came out and it has taken a long time to read it. I like Ali Hazelwood’s writing, it is the kind of writing that I fly through quickly but honestly, this book lost me towards the end.
I enjoyed the romance, the will they won’t they was actually quite fun with this book although some points were a bit like miscommunication and I do hate that trope but for the first half of this book I was quite invested, the idea was interesting and I am not in STEM so it’s nice to read about it and learn a bit about it while reading.
The part I did not like was the second half. Throughout there always felt like there was an undercurrent of something weird running alongside the romance part and I did think while reading I hope that part gets sorted in a minute because it was taking away from everything else, and I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t read it, but this thread comes to a head near the end of the book and it was like, what am I reading? I really disliked what happened with the end of the book, it came out of nowhere and made no sense. I didn’t like it so it took away from my enjoyment of this book.