Ali Hazelwood’s STEMinist Novellas

Pretty much everyone on bookstagram is still obsessed with Ali Hazelwood’s delightful debut, The Love Hypothesis. To tide us over until Love on the Brain releases, Hazelwood dropped a trilogy of novellas on audiobook. Now that I’ve listened to all three, here’s a trilogy of mini reviews for your entertainment.

Under One Roof:
This was my favorite of the three. Mara is an environmental engineer and her mentor leaves her a house when she dies. That house just so happens to be half-owned by a lawyer who works for a not-so-environmentally friendly firm. It’s a forced proximity story that isn’t completely annoying. Mara is a ginger, and it’s referenced frequently, which I get since my red hair is also treated as a defining characteristic more often than it probably should be. At least it starts strong!

Stuck With You:
This was my least favorite of the three. Sadie loves her superstitious routines, but along comes Erik to take the last crappy croissant before her presentation. She whines, he gives it to her, and she ends up getting a date with him out of it… until she believes he used their date as corporate espionage to nab a client from her company. My boyfriend listened to this one with me and was annoyed at Sadie’s antics too.

Below Zero:
Hannah is the final member of the friend group to get her love story. She meets Mara’s cousin Ian (yes, he’s also a ginger and it’s referenced repeatedly) for an informational interview since he works at NASA and that’s her dream job. Coffee quickly morphs into coding stuff in his office… which morphs into spicy times. But because Hannah doesn’t want anything serious, they stop talking for years. When Hannah finally gets a job with NASA, Ian is higher up and they try to reconnect, but it falls flat… until Hannah is stranded in the snow during an experiment, and has slim odds of survival.

Overall, they weren’t bad, but it definitely felt repetitive during the second and third ones. I’m really hoping that doesn’t carry over into Hazelwood’s next full-length novel when it comes out later this summer.

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