I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher. This in no way impacted on my view.

As soon as I saw that the three STEMinist novellas were to be released in one book, I was immediately on the lookout for it, and so happy when it landed on my NG shelf. Each book was fantastic in its own right, but as a threesome, they were perfect to read in quick succession.

In Under One Roof, Mara is reeling with the loss of her beloved mentor, and finding somewhere to stay in DC after she lands her dream job with the EPA. She is more than a little shocked when she is told that her mentor left her a half share in a DC townhouse, and she is welcome to live there. It's right around the corner from her work, and will allow her to save money in time to buy elsewhere. However, it comes with the nephew of her mentor, Liam, who is a lawyer working for an oil firm, and not at all happy that Mara is invading his space. They clash heads more than once, but Mara soon realises that she is not feeling anger towards Liam, but something even worse. I loved that there were flashbacks in the book, to see how they progressed from enemies to lovers, and it was definitely hot.

In Stuck with You, Sadie is finding her feet as a civil engineer in a small firm. She has her quirks, and one of them is to eat a bland croissant from the local cafe before any big pitch. But today the last one has just been sold to her handsome competitor Erik. When Erik offers her the pastry, and they spend the day together, she is at risk of falling in love, but a big misunderstanding puts a halt to it. Now stuck in a lift together, late on a Friday night, during a power outage, Sadie would rather climb out and risk breaking her neck in the elevator shaft, than speak with Erik. Erik, though, is not one to give up, and he needs to know why Sadie is pushing him away, and what he did wrong. I thought Erik was so cute with how hung up on her he was, and how much of a fan boy he had been. I do think I liked Under One Roof more, but this was still a fantastic book!

In Below Zero, Hannah soon finds herself injured during a blizzard in a remote part of the Arctic, and the only person who is willing to come rescue her is the last person she wants to see. After spending a steamy afternoon with Ian years ago, when they reconnect at NASA, she thought they were at least friends. But he pulled the funding for her mission, and she is enraged. Finding a way to still achieve her goals, he's proven right at the risks, and Ian will do whatever it takes to find her, and rescue her. I appreciated the moments of quiet between Ian and Hannah, and that they were able to really talk it out, and right the wrongs of the past. Seeing Mara and Liam, and Sadie and Erik too was great, especially as the three men form a bromance I was not expecting.

The bonus epilogue was just the ticket, and I'm so happy with where the three couples are left! This book has more than whet my appetite for Love, Theoretically!

This is exactly what you would expect from Hazlewood. Three short stories about three friends. Smart women and wonderful. I do like Ali's writing, it would be lovely if there was more diversity in her women!

As a big fan of Ali Hazelwood's two full length novels, I was super excited to get to reading her three novellas. Focused around three friends who attended the same grad school, each novella tells the story of a different girl.

I think my favourite of the three was Stuck with You, the second novella - I just related to Sadie on so many levels - but all three have their charms.

I did buy this as soon as it hit the shelvesd, and will be getting the Illumicrate edition to match my copies of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain too!

I am OBSESSED with anything Ali Hazelwood writes and these novellas were no exception. I loved that they used classic tropes like roommates and close confinement, but also mixed with Ali’s signature STEM / academic thread. Pure escapism in delightful form, I LOVED these and I love that they all linked together too

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my copy!

I really enjoyed the first part of this book, the other stories were ok, just not as great as the first.

Worth a read if you like Ali Hazelwood’s other books.

Ali Hazelwood is just so incredibly talented I pick up her books and just fall in love, I am also here for the fact she reps the fact not everyone is obsessed with sex or even that interested, but still have fulfilling relationships. These are three romantic stories focused on STEMinist leads, the stories are light and fun, I love her full length novels more, but these were fantastic

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Thank you Ali Hazlewood! Sometimes the best books just find you at the right time don’t they !
Yes I must admit this might not be as good as ‘the Love hypothesis’ as that story had the time to really delve into the characters and their romantic connection whilst this in comparison is three short stories, each story telling the up and downs that come hand in hand with each of our leading ladies love lives in perfect bite size chunks .

Each story seemed to have at heart that classic Jane Austen identity where, because of a ‘simple misunderstanding’, battle lines are drawn before our main leading lady and man realise how ideal they are for each other.

I do enjoy that the leading ladies in this book are all strong, independent , intelligent engineers striving forward in their career paths.

It was slightly cheesy but when chaos seemed to be raining down around me a short romcom to get easily lost in was the perfect antidote.

The only big problem … I want more 😂

Thank you so much to netgalley and the author for the opportunity to read this !!

This is a beautiful set of stories that I could not put down. Loved them and cannot recommend them enough! Ali is becoming a favourite author of mine!

I loved The Love Hypothesis and enjoyed Love on the Brain, so I was excited to read this collection of three novellas featuring women in STEM.
While all three stories were fun to read and I liked the link between them, with the three female protagonists being friends, there was a feeling that I was re-reading a very similar story for each of the three, with the same tropes, similar character dynamics, and the same narrative frame. I'd recommend spacing out the novellas a bit - it's quite likely that this feeling of sameness was amplified by reading them in a row.

I really loved this book. I adored TLH and LOTB, and this was the perfect accompanying novella. Would definitely recommend.

This was a simple, fun, easy and quick read. The perfect type of book for your holiday, beach, pool kind of read. This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and would read more of their work.

The E-Book could be improved and more user-friendly, such as links to the chapters, no significant gaps between words some text written has been typed in red and a cover for the book would be better. It is very document-like instead of a book. A star has been deducted because of this.

The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

4.5 Stars
I am not typically a romance reader but I do love fan fiction and all of its tropes, so I thought these novellas would be the perfect place to start.

I had such a fun time reading these! I liked how short they were and I didn't feel like anything was missed out or that they needed to be longer. I wouldn’t say I was really invested deeply in any of the stories but they were fun and sometimes that’s all I want.

A critique I have is that all the men felt the same and had the same type of personality. I really didn’t like the extra chapter at the end of the story, it didn’t add anything and could have been left out.

Overall a solid read.

I absolutely loved these three novellas by the incomparable Ali Hazelwood! The characters were absolutely spellbinding and their stories really touched me!

Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood

I received an advance review copy for free thanks to NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK, Sphere in exchange for an honest review.

Blurb

Under One Roof
An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell—a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone.

Stuck with You
A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry—and love—to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator.

Below Zero
A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival.

My Thoughts
Despite seeing Ali Hazelwood’s books everywhere, I was incredibly late to the party where reading them was concerned. Luckily, considering it’s released into the world today, I’m right on time when it comes to reading Under One Roof - Hazelwood’s collection of three short stories celebrating women in STEM.

Each character was pretty dynamic, with a desire to excel at her career but also a frustration with it (and some other frustrations that are not exactly safe for work, shall we say!). Like her previous works, it’s refreshing to read women who work in impressive roles and even more refreshing to read that, just like me, they develop silly little crushes on men who are remotely close to them.

All three of the stories play with the close proximity trope as lovers find themselves stuck in the same house, an elevator and on a dangerous NASA mission. It’s a trope as old as time but each one is a bit serious, a bit fun and ever so slightly sexy.

When each story drew to a close, I kept finding myself double checking to see if there was more that I’d missed — a sure fire sign I didn’t want each story to end. It’s not the most groundbreaking of romance, and some may argue slightly samey, but these three stories are the perfect way to start your reading year. Short, steamy with plenty of women in STEM content, if you liked Hazelwood’s previous works, I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy this one as well.

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Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood

I received an advance review copy for free thanks to NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK, Sphere and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Blurb

Under One Roof
An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell—a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone.

Stuck with You
A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry—and love—to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator.

Below Zero
A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival.

My Opinion

This is a collection of three novellas, whilst I read all three stories in one day I felt like something was missing. If you are planning on reading these then I would recommend not reading them one after the other, they are very similar. I have seen very mixed reviews on this book, but for me whilst they were enjoyable - three was too many to read in a day.

Rating 3/5

Loathe To Love You by aAli Hazelwood
I give this 4.25 stars

Brilliant compilation,,particularly loved how the 3 women STEMinists were friends and the bonus chapter wrapped everything up.

UNDER ONE ROOF
A scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis - it leads to combustion.

I love the characters this author creates,and totally enjoyed the forced proximity tension,with a we both loathe one another relationship and the slowly bubbling chemistry between Liam and Mara.A cute quick read.

STUCK WITH YOU
Nothing like a little rivalry between scientists to take love to the next level.

Steamy and sweet, I want Erik as my book boyfriend! Two green engineers working for rival companies in the same building with plenty of miscommunications leading to misunderstandings.Insta love and angst.

BELOW ZERO
It will take the frosty terrain of the Arctic to show these rival scientists that their chemistry burns hot.

Meet feisty Hannah and adorable Ian who are so clearly meant for each other, despite the fact that when they first meet they are both looking for the opposite.Fun and flirty, told in a past and present timeline, loved the NASA aspect.
With thanks to Netgalley, Ali Hazelwood and little brown book group uk Sphere for my chance to read and review this book

2,75/5 stars.

I’ve only read The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood and thoroughly enjoyed it, although the sex scenes seemed a bit much.

So I was quite excited to read Loathe to Love You. However, I was disappointed. It was a fast read with some cute moments, but every couple (in all 3 stories and the Love Hypothesis) seems to be the exact same. She’s tiny, he’s big with a deep voice. They hate each other at some point but actually they have the hots for each other. It’s simply the same, again and again.

I still enjoyed myself but it got a bit tiring and I hated the sex scenes, they were over the top and ruined parts of the stories for me (especially in Below Zero, which looked up to be my favourite until the ending where Hazelwood decided to end it with a sex scene, when there was no need for one.)

Loathe to Love You was still an enjoyable quick read, but it made me question whether I would continue reading from this author - I own Love on the Brain so I’ll give it a try, but I’ll probably be my last one. There’s no point to read the same story with some different plot points and names.

Three novella featuring STEM heroines who happen to be BFFs.

Under One Roof
Mara is left a beautiful house by her mentor, Helen. But when she goes to claim it she discovers she has only inherited part of the house and it is already occupied by one of Helen's distant relatives, Liam. Not only that, the occupant is a lawyer for a big-oil company and Mara's personal nemesis. When his attempts to buy Mara out with obscene amounts of money fail the two of them settle into a hostile cohabitation arrangement, each doing everything they can to annoy the other (playing Disney tunes very loud, washing up at 3am, etc).
Things start to change when Mara discovers that Liam did not (as she previously assumed) hate his aunt, indeed she was witness to a call he made to Helen shortly before she died. As the two of them bond over their love for her, they begin to fall for each other.
Three stars. Pleasant enough but I'm not sure what motivated Liam to be such a jerk at the outset.

Stuck With You
Sadie is an engineer. Her worst nightmare is realised when she gets stuck in the smallest elevator at work with non-other than her former lover, turned enemy, Erik who works for a rival engineering company, big-engineering if such a thing existed.
Sadie and Erik met over a stale croissant and spent a wonderful day together, until Erik betrayed her terribly and broke her heart. Can these two crazy kids uncover the truth about what really happened while in forced proximity?
I kind of liked this. However, having read some other reviews I can see the recurring motifs more clearly in this novella. Yes, apparently all her heroines are five feet tall while all the men are over six feet tall and generally described as 'mountains' or similar. So far both heroes have been outwardly successful and confident but hidden insecurities which didn't really gel with their hard-hitting, go-getting jobs. Also, so far both women have been firmly employed on the side of environmentally-friendly, independent organisations whereas both men have been employed by, if not the Dark Side then close.
Three stars.

Below Zero
Hannah was failing High School, a true rebel without a cause, until a pathetic chat-up line from another student piques her interest in space (specifically, why would sunsets be blue on Mars, aka the Red Planet?). From then on Hannah was fascinated by space and dreamed of joining NASA.
Hannah is in a remote area of Norway testing out equipment for the next Mars expedition in an environment as close as to that of Mars as can be achieved on Earth, but she has slipped and fallen down a crevasse, twisted her ankle, and her only hope of rescue is the man who vetoed the funding for her invention in the first place.
I think this could have worked better as a full length novella as Hannah appeared to have a lot of backstory which was never properly explored, like why she only does one-night stands and feels that people would get bored of her/disgusted by her if they got to know her - I think this would have worked better if perhaps we had seen this rather than being told it.
Ian, a distant relative of Mara's, was an infant prodigy, a member of the Mars Curiosity Rover team at the tender age of eighteen. Mara pulls a few family strings to get Ian to agree to be interviewed by Hannah for a paper she has to write for college (interview someone who has your dream job) and it's instalurve. Like all the other men in this anthology Ian is significantly larger than Hannah but also totally smitten, despite Hannah giving him the brush-off after their first encounter.
Also three stars.

I have to say I don't think this works as an anthology because it just highlights the same-same nature of the novellas even to the fact that every one of them is told in alternating present day and flashbacks, which always makes me suspicious that the story wouldn't hold together if told in chronological order. As previously noted, all the male characters are pretty much the same; outwardly successful and stunningly good-looking but not very self-confident. Also, Ali Hazelwood does tend to write her female characters just a bit too out there. Someone else commented that they have to use big words to show how clever they are, and I get that. I am also shocked that at least one of them isn't a vegan (and that probably tells you a lot abut the way they are written).

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.

If you loved one of these short stories you will love them all. yes, they were all 'samey' but they were all equally enjoyable. As with Ali Hazelwood's other books, they all feature a friendship group of strong women within their fields.
A solid 3-3.5 star read.

This is my first time reading anything by Ali Hazelwood and I really enjoyed reading these three books. The Love Hypothesis has been collecting dust on my my kindle and I will definitely be picking up that book soon, so I can hop of the bandwagon.