3.5

I’m long overdue finishing this; the book club meeting about this book was already more than a week ago and it is such a light read that only a few days should’ve been enough to get through.

Nevertheless, I have to say I enjoyed myself more than I expected. As always, I’m not the biggest fan of the romance genre, but what won me over in this one was the setting in STEM academia (full of politics, prestige, rivalry, uncertainty and dry science puns) and the thematization of people-pleasing and learning to be honest with oneself. In that sense the romance plotline wasn’t all there was to the story, and I mostly found interest in these secondary themes.

«Love, theoretically» wasn’t always perfect and had its cringe moments, but I generally had a nice time with it.