Loathe To Love You (STEMinist Novellas #1-3)

Loathe To Love You (STEMinist Novellas #1-3)
By Ali Hazelwood

Published By: Little Brown Book Group
Publication Date: January 10, 2023
Date Read: December 10, 2022
Genre: Adult – Romance
Source: eARC from Netgalley
Format: E-Book / Audiobook
Pages: 384

From Goodreads:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas featuring a trio of engineers and their loves in loathing—with a special bonus chapter!

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.

Ali Hazelwood is the author that made me fall back in love with romance books, so when I heard about her novellas I was super excited to dive in. After having some friends say that while the novellas were good, they weren’t quite as good as her full length novels, it made me a little bit worried. But after receiving the bind up for review, I decided to finally dive in. I am so glad I did.

Under One Roof Review

I absolutely loved Under One Roof. I loved the whole enemies to lovers thing, where they are in forced proximity to one another. I loved the banter between these characters, and honestly this one is without a doubt my favourite of the three novellas. I do wish this one was a full length novel though, as I feel like we almost got some great representation we haven’t seen before in Ali’s books.

There was a moment in this book where the lead male character talks about how he doesn’t enjoy sex, but would try ‘for her’. I actually really loved this line because I felt like this is not something we would typically see in a male protagonist, especially in a romance book. This could have been the perfect rep to explore this idea and his feeling further, but unfortunately it was just never talked about again. Probably because it’s only a novella and not a full length and this actually made me really sad. I would have loved to see this aspect explored further and been a big part of the story. I was actually kind of disappointed that it was only mentioned towards the end and then kind of forgotten about. Apart from that… I loved this novella. It’s cute and a super fun and quick read.

Stuck With You Review

As soon as I finished Under One Roof, I immediately dived right into Stuck With You. I really enjoyed the back and forth between the present adn the past in this one. I liked that the chapters alternated. It was a really clever move on Ali to write it like this, as you can see how much tension there was between the characters, and I really enjoyed the anticipation of finding out what happened three weeks ago. How did they become so irritated and annoyed by each other. I really liked that.

Much like Under One Roof this one is super fun and quick to read. I really enjoyed it, and I just really enjoy how all of Ali’s characters are women in STEM. It’s really refreshing and great characters for women to look up to and aspire to be, and it was the exact same in this one. Definitely worth the read.

Below Zero Review

I really enjoyed Below Zero, but honestly out of the three novellas it was probably my least favourite. As we can expect from Ali Hazelwood, the characters were awesome. I love how the main female protagonist was a little awkward and sure relationship aren’t for her. It’s really nice to see a character struggling with that as I feel like it’s really relatable to a lot of people. Likewise we have a patient and understanding male protagonist that we can all fall for.

I really enjoyed the setting of this one. The fact that it was a really bad storm in the middle of Norway. It was really nice to see the characters out on location for their job, which we haven’t really seen in an Ali Hazelwood book so far. My main issue with this one is I just didn’t really emotionally connect with their love story very much. I kind of felt like all of the emotion was very sudden and it went from I hate you to I love you and while I loved the characters as people, I felt like it needed to be a longer story to see those feelings develop a little bit more.

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