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Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

223 reviews

tabea1409's review against another edition

emotional funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Sexual content, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Sexism

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Violence

nabecker13's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

cutepatzie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The book is good. Love the relationship and romance here. Again I appreciate showing how hard it still is to be a girl and have a career in the university and since world. I very much appreciate the way of appreciation of mental health characters go to therapy when they need to, they do not feel emberes because of that and that is such a positive thing. My only minus is this a bit cliche but still sweet and cool story is the cat saves the day. Especially when the author a couple of pages before talking about cliche moments in books and movies. But still a good book about a very amazing love story. Every girl deserves a man like Levi.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Cursing, Abandonment, Sexism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Death of parent, Car accident, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, and Chronic illness

hiraeth_'s review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Infidelity

jomarie's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I know it’s a romance novel but Bee and Levi were perfectly matched. At times, it felt like Ali was really pushing Bee to be the Quirky Science Girl (TM), but I still deeply wanted to see her succeed. Levi gave me total Mr. Darcy vibes, as he was grumpy without being a total jerk. His inner monologue was also so stinking cute! * squealing in hopeless romantic * 

The progression of the story felt really natural and there was never a bit where I felt like the action was lagging or too overwhelming. I started out wishing Bee and Levi got together sooner, but how it happened was much better. I sort of predicted the twist, but it was still widely entertaining. Because of this, I think this story would be a great book to adapt to a movie. 

I wanted a cute romance novel and Love on the Brain delivered. While the characters were maybe a little more basic than I’m used to in my usual reads, the chemistry and plot were excellent! I’ll definitely be recommending this to my friends and looking forward to reading her other novels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Medical content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexism, Grief, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

hayzey's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Misogyny

Moderate: Stalking, Misogyny, Cursing, Sexual content, Sexism, and Gun violence

Minor: Misogyny, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Grief, Violence, and Stalking

puddleshoes's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence

hobbithopeful's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 4.5 stars
Don't ask me why I like this, I just really freaking loved it okay! (Judgement free zone)
This is my first book of Hazelwood's and considering the other reviews I might have felt differently had I read The Love Hypothesis first. I think I should mention that I didn't go into this expecting classic literature, or a complex read critiquing high brow topics. I went in expecting a romance with some spice, and a happy ending. And that is what I got.
Is is true that Hazelwood can't break away from a mold of every character being the same in each book she writes? Don't ask me this is my first one. I found if fluffy and sweet, and humorous.
Listen if I had one complaint from this turn off your brain and read, it would be kinda how weirdly young Bee was written. Lengths are gone to mention how tiny she is and how young she acts. I think there is a fine line between grumpy/sunshine and grumpy/omg she is a child.
I did still really like this though.
I will take no questions on why I enjoyed this.
In my secret heart of hearts I probably would rate this 5 stars but I am in no way ready to accept that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexism, and Misogyny

katievallin's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Gun violence, Animal death, and Infidelity

Minor: Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Chronic illness

lagaialettrice's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexism, and Misogyny