Name: Not in Love
ISBN: 9781408728918

Ali Hazelwood

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all's fair in love and science - from New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through-and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him. Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business-one that plays for keeps.

From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

Not in Love

Sophia

Eli was no aesthete. He had no idea whether this woman was objectively, scientifically beautiful, or whether her face simply came together in a way that seemed to work perfectly for him. Either way, the result was the same.

Even in flats, her eyes were only a handful of inches below Eli’s—and, no use in denying it at this point, right on the verge of spectacular. He forced himself to look away.

Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her here in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube recipe of her choice. He’d wash her car, read her a book, sit here outside her door and just make sure she was safe and protected. They could hold hands all night. They could play Scrabble.

. Please, fucking do that. Do you want my number now, or . . . ?” He stared, waiting for an answer. And then his eyes softened.

The breeze picked up between us, and he kept looking, looking, looking. 

“It’s unsettling when you do that,” I said softly.

He turned away, chest heaving. “I’m sorry.” His Adam’s apple moved. “I forget to look at other things, when you’re around.”

“Your damn mouth,” he murmured, “is the most obscenely lovely thing I’ve ever had the burden of seeing.”

“It’s disconcerting.” His breath was hot on my cheek. “But in the past seventy-two hours, I’ve found myself thinking over and over that we could fuck however you wanted. For however long you wanted. Wherever you wanted. I’d consent to any and all demands, and it’d be so good that you’d probably just ruin me for the rest of my life, and I’d just sit there, grateful.” He let out a laugh. “Rue. It’s humbling, how bad I want you.”

At which point, in the very hotel lobby where he’d first laid eyes on her, he had to face the truth: however out of control his attraction to Rue might be, she was coping with hers far better. And damn him if he wasn’t fucking envious.

“Then why are you being like this? Jesus, you’ve been in actual relationships and never lost your mind. What’s so different now?”

Tonight? Did you hear her voice? Did you see her expression when she first noticed me? Did you see her mouth?

He was her servant. Anything she wanted, Eli would do it. He had to slide his hands behind his back, trap them between himself and the wall, just to stop himself from touching and gripping and taking.

“Thank you.” Her mouth curled upward, as though she enjoyed the compliment, and he wanted to give her a million more. Scribble them in the fucking burning Library of Alexandria.

He could touch her wherever he wanted. His fingers twitched with impatience. And yet, Eli found himself lifting his thumb and pressing it into her lips. His true north. “There is something about your mouth,” he mused.

She was something else. Utterly unique. Unpredictable. Deliciously complicated.

Not with Rue, who would slit his throat with a skate blade before becoming the recipient of any romantic affection from one of Harkness’s partners. But Rue’s body—Eli was fucking enchanted.

She unhinged him. There was something uniquely good about being in her presence, and he could see himself doing things that ranged from embarrassing to reckless to illegal, just for five more minutes with her.

He tried to play it cool, but he hadn’t expected that she’d say yes to staying longer than she absolutely needed in order to get off. He’d spent half the night on edge, staring at the rise and fall of her chest under the sheet he’d laid on her, at the huddled, inconspicuous way she slept, convinced that she’d disappear if he dared to blink. But the morning light had come, and he’d found her next to him. He’d returned from walking Tiny, and her car had been parked in his driveway.

He was going to keep her. For himself. As long as he could.

“Yeah.” He smiled. He was going to look at her until he died or until his eyes wore off, whichever came first. “Does it bother you?”

And finally, humiliatingly, he begged, “Please.” He bit into her neck, and she didn’t shake her head or smile or say anything, she didn’t give in to what he was asking, but her eyes met his squarely, lovely and blue and calm, and that did it for him.

He is so in love he needs to accept it lol

“Okay. This is what’s going to happen—now we sleep, in my bed. Together. And when we wake up, we do this again. And we stop bullshitting ourselves and each other about whether this is the last time, whether we’re going to stop doing this, whether we have any control over how much we want this.”

She was breathing evenly a minute after he’d settled her on the bed. He sat on the edge of the mattress and stared for a long time, feeling creepy and teenage-ish and helpless to stop, feeling euphoric and smitten. He couldn’t remember ever experiencing anything like this, which meant that he should tread carefully, that she could be dangerous.

Possibly my favourite of all the Ali Hazelwood books I’ve read, definitely the most intense one. 

Alyssa deRaad

Sílvia

Alissa 

i don’t really do half stars but consider this like a lowkey 2.5

ash (smokedshelves)

This was kind of hard for me to get into. I thought this book was pretty predictable, especially the stuff with Florence. Rue's work was really interesting, and I liked learning the background to why she was so passionate about it. Eli and Rue work well together, they both have some baggage they carry. It felt like there were a few too many plot lines, like the stuff with Rue's brother seemed out of place. This book was alright, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the others. 

Maggie Hotmer

i love a reverse sunshine and grumpy. i love the yearning and i love the smart women and eli. the other male characters aren’t as important. i love its giving 

 bc they should have met in so many other times. i love the deeper messages about the characters past and loved when they told each other the ugly stories about themselves. i really don’t have any complaints. the writing was great, the pacing and length was perfect. 

it is a shame that i started with her later books bc everyone says her writing gets better so i won’t be reading the stem books any time soon. i’m giving it a 4 for now bc it feels embarrassing to give a 5 after deepend bc now i think this book is a lot better. i will see in a few days…

debbie <3

i love a reverse sunshine and grumpy. i love the yearning and i love the smart women and eli. the other male characters aren’t as important. i love its giving soulmates bc they should have met in so many other times. i love the deeper messages about the characters past and loved when they told each other the ugly stories about themselves. i really don’t have any complaints. the writing was great, the pacing and length was perfect. 

it is a shame that i started with her later books bc everyone says her writing gets better so i won’t be reading the stem books any time soon. i’m giving it a 4 for now bc it feels embarrassing to give a 5 after deepend bc now i think this book is a lot better. i will see in a few days…

Oof. I don't know- this might be 2.5 ⭐ rounded up for me. For point of reference, I'm pretty lenient with the stars- I generally find enjoyment in everything I read, and I can appreciate the hard work, creativity, and stress that go into writing a book. I also didn't know going into it that it wasn't Ali Hazelwood's typical rom com type of story. I read the author's note page and literally said "oh boy" out loud.

The characters fell flat to me. I had a hard (read: impossible) time connecting with Rue until the epilogue (no joke). Eli was slightly more personable although I can't imagine an actual person saying 50% of the things that come out of his mouth. 

I was intrigued by Rue's family/brother drama, and Eli's family dynamic but ended up feeling like they were just minor drama. A speed bump.

Just like any other creative work, not every book an author puts out is going to hit it out of the park, I suppose. They can't all be bangers (no pun intended).

Looking forward to reading more by Ali, I loved Love On The Brain and Loathe to Love You!

Megan Murray 

Oof. I don't know- this might be 2.5 ⭐ rounded up for me. For point of reference, I'm pretty lenient with the stars- I generally find enjoyment in everything I read, and I can appreciate the hard work, creativity, and stress that go into writing a book. I also didn't know going into it that it wasn't Ali Hazelwood's typical rom com type of story. I read the author's note page and literally said "oh boy" out loud.

The characters fell flat to me. I had a hard (read: impossible) time connecting with Rue until the epilogue (no joke). Eli was slightly more personable although I can't imagine an actual person saying 50% of the things that come out of his mouth. 

I was intrigued by Rue's family/brother drama, and Eli's family dynamic but ended up feeling like they were just minor drama. A speed bump.

My favorite part was the epilogue. 

Just like any other creative work, not every book an author puts out is going to hit it out of the park, I suppose. They can't all be bangers (no pun intended).

Looking forward to reading more by Ali, I loved Love On The Brain and Loathe to Love You!

"If I were able to love someone, I would choose you. In that timeline, I would want it to be you."

I'm slightly conflicted with this one. I think maybe I'm a bit burned out by Ali Hazelwood's romances because they're formulaic as all hell, even though this one is meant to be "a little different" according to the author. Yes, this one was different in the sense that it was a lot more smut heavy than her other books have been, which have always been smutty, but we still got a lot of the aspects you come to expect from these books, like our absolutely massive male love interest who is bit too white-knighty and our empowered yet somehow damsel in distress FMC. But I really don't think this one worked for me. I felt that the spice overwhelmed this story to a point where the rest of the plot and characters were just weak and left me feeling pretty meh - and those two aspects are definitely a lot more important to me than spice is. So I was left feeling slightly disappointed by this book. As always, though, Hazelwood's books are incredibly easy reads and enjoyable enough that they always keep me wanting to read more. Her writing style just flows so seamlessly for me, but I don't think that's quite giving me enough anymore.

The romance in this book was not my favourite, although I will say the spice was probably the best written spice Hazelwood has given us to date. Aside from how incredibly hot this book was, the rest just didn't really work for me. There was a mixture of blandness, cringiness and something else I can't quite put my finger on. Rue has social anxiety, but I think it's more than that, I think Rue's inability to understand social cues and the way she tends to say things that may cause offense when she doesn't intend to points towards undiagnosed autism and I am really shocked that this wasn't mentioned at all in this book. These books have always had a feminist leaning to them but in this one, I just didn't get enough of that. We could've had strong commentary regarding the difficulties women and girls have surrounding these diagnoses, even if Rue didn't end up being autistic, but instead we had women against women which I felt let down by. I do think Rue's character should've been leaned into more, because it felt more like she had zero personality and she came off as very robotic, unfortunately.

I also don't think the friendship between Florence, Tisha and Rue was shown enough throughout this story and was drowned out by the Rue and Eli relationship. 

I think if we'd seen a bit more of these girl's closeness on page then the betrayal would've hit harder, but instead, like most of this book, it was just meh. I loved the way Rue, Tisha, Nyota and Minami fought hard for other women and each other throughout this story but the Florence plotline and the fact that she weaponises feminism for her own personal gain while stepping on other women in the process was a hard read. I don't think she got enough of a punishment from the other characters to really hit home how problematic her behaviour was. I wish we'd gotten a bit more confrontation from Rue or seen Florence lose a bit more.

The relationship between Eli and Rue was also very insta-lusty and instead of it being two people with their own issues using each other's bodies to let off steam and some of their anger towards each other like I was lead to believe this would be, it quickly divulged into the two of them feeling very intense feelings for each other way too soon. Which was interesting because outside their lustiness for each other and the fact that they accepted each other's flaws, I didn't really get a lot of chemistry from them. Some of the spice scenes were so methodical that it felt detached. And some of the dirty talk went just a bit too far for my liking.

There were definitely some very sweet moments and overall I was entertained reading this book, but honestly, I think this is my least favourite Hazelwood/STEMinist book she has written and I personally don't think the switch to more erotica than romcom quite worked for me. There were some really lovely quotes and sweeping proclamations of love that always make me feel great, but this one didn't have me giggling and kicking my feet quite as much as I was hoping it would. Overall, I think this was an ok read, it hits the spot for some light fluffy reading but in the end it felt a bit like if 

 tried to be deep introspective women's lit novel and that just didn't work. I think Hazelwood's previous balance of romance to plot worked a lot better. But, shamelessly, I do think I will continue to pick up anything Hazelwood writes because they are just such an easy read and probably burn myself out even more. If the next one rates less than 3.5 I might have to have a stern word with myself.

Genevieve 

"If I were able to love someone, I would choose you. In that timeline, I would want it to be you."

3.5 ⭐

I'm slightly conflicted with this one. I think maybe I'm a bit burned out by Ali Hazelwood's romances because they're formulaic as all hell, even though this one is meant to be "a little different" according to the author. Yes, this one was different in the sense that it was a lot more smut heavy than her other books have been, which have always been smutty, but we still got a lot of the aspects you come to expect from these books, like our absolutely massive male love interest who is bit too white-knighty and our empowered yet somehow damsel in distress FMC. But I really don't think this one worked for me. I felt that the spice overwhelmed this story to a point where the rest of the plot and characters were just weak and left me feeling pretty meh - and those two aspects are definitely a lot more important to me than spice is. So I was left feeling slightly disappointed by this book. As always, though, Hazelwood's books are incredibly easy reads and enjoyable enough that they always keep me wanting to read more. Her writing style just flows so seamlessly for me, but I don't think that's quite giving me enough anymore.

The romance in this book was not my favourite, although I will say the spice was probably the best written spice Hazelwood has given us to date. Aside from how incredibly hot this book was, the rest just didn't really work for me. There was a mixture of blandness, cringiness and something else I can't quite put my finger on. Rue has social anxiety, but I think it's more than that, I think Rue's inability to understand social cues and the way she tends to say things that may cause offense when she doesn't intend to points towards undiagnosed autism and I am really shocked that this wasn't mentioned at all in this book. These books have always had a feminist leaning to them but in this one, I just didn't get enough of that. We could've had strong commentary regarding the difficulties women and girls have surrounding these diagnoses, even if Rue didn't end up being autistic, but instead we had women against women which I felt let down by. I do think Rue's character should've been leaned into more, because it felt more like she had zero personality and she came off as very robotic, unfortunately.

I also don't think the friendship between Florence, Tisha and Rue was shown enough throughout this story and was drowned out by the Rue and Eli relationship. 
>>>SPOILER
I think if we'd seen a bit more of these girl's closeness on page then the betrayal would've hit harder, but instead, like most of this book, it was just meh. I loved the way Rue, Tisha, Nyota and Minami fought hard for other women and each other throughout this story but the Florence plotline and the fact that she weaponises feminism for her own personal gain while stepping on other women in the process was a hard read. I don't think she got enough of a punishment from the other characters to really hit home how problematic her behaviour was. I wish we'd gotten a bit more confrontation from Rue or seen Florence lose a bit more.
<<<END SPOILER

The relationship between Eli and Rue was also very insta-lusty and instead of it being two people with their own issues using each other's bodies to let off steam and some of their anger towards each other like I was lead to believe this would be, it quickly divulged into the two of them feeling very intense feelings for each other way too soon. Which was interesting because outside their lustiness for each other and the fact that they accepted each other's flaws, I didn't really get a lot of chemistry from them. Some of the spice scenes were so methodical that it felt detached. And some of the dirty talk went just a bit too far for my liking.

There were definitely some very sweet moments and overall I was entertained reading this book, but honestly, I think this is my least favourite Hazelwood/STEMinist book she has written and I personally don't think the switch to more erotica than romcom quite worked for me. There were some really lovely quotes and sweeping proclamations of love that always make me feel great, but this one didn't have me giggling and kicking my feet quite as much as I was hoping it would. Overall, I think this was an ok read, it hits the spot for some light fluffy reading but in the end it felt a bit like if Icebreaker tried to be deep introspective women's lit novel and that just didn't work. I think Hazelwood's previous balance of romance to plot worked a lot better. But, shamelessly, I do think I will continue to pick up anything Hazelwood writes because they are just such an easy read and probably burn myself out even more. If the next one rates less than 3.5 I might have to have a stern word with myself.

i think overall this was a pretty good book. one major qualm i have: it feels like fully fleshing out the plot, characters, and relationships was sacrificed to cram as many sex scenes in as possible. this was nearly 400 pages but the mmc and fmc’s relationship wasn’t developed enough by the last chapter. i think this could’ve been rectified by making it 75-100 pages longer or removing a sex scene or two and adding time for them to build their non-physical relationship.

kels

Reread: Seccond time i’ve read this book and its still anazing. Love the characters and their stories. Don’t love the spicy scenes as much. 

Emma Kamer

 Did someone turn the heat on?? The chemistry in this book should have class studies. The smut was smutting 🤌 The angst was angsting 🤌 The banter?! You get the idea. This was not a normal Ali Hazelwood couple and I hope to never see normal again. I loved this so much and the emotional journey they had to get to. Not everyone is ready for rainbows and sunshine to get a HEA and this book was a great example of that. I hope to see more of this in our future

fanning myself Did someone turn the heat on?? The chemistry in this book should have class studies. The smut was smutting 🤌 The angst was angsting 🤌 The banter?! You get the idea. This was not a normal Ali Hazelwood couple and I hope to never see normal again. I loved this so much and the emotional journey they had to get to. Not everyone is ready for rainbows and sunshine to get a HEA and this book was a great example of that. I hope to see more of this in our future

Quick read, sexy romance, I was addicted! Love Ali Hazelwood 

Zoey Novak

✨“Although, it occurs to me,” she murmured against his mouth, breaking the spiral of his thoughts, “that rules exist for a reason.” She took a step back. Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her here in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube recipe of her choice. He’d wash her car, read her a book, sit here outside her door and just make sure she was safe and protected. They could hold hands all night. They could play Scrabble. He was very close to imploring for something, everything, anything, when she added, “And sometimes the reason is that they should be broken.”

✨“I’m sorry.” His Adam’s apple moved. “I forget to look at other things, when you’re around.”

✨It’s because with you I never have to worry about being too odd, too unlikable, too out of tune. You never make me feel anything other than just right.

✨Ask me for anything, he thought, anything at all, and watch me give it to you. Whoever came before me, they had no idea. I’m up for the challenge.

✨“You always need something to do.” Did I? Yes. Ever since I was a child, having a goal was the best way to avoid thinking about whatever misery I was going through. How did he know, though?

✨But I loved the way Eli looked at me like I was something special, something more. Like I could easily exhaust the entire spectrum of his needs. Like he couldn’t imagine looking anywhere else, ever.

✨“Do you think that maybe there’s another version of us, somewhere in another timeline? Where we’re not just a messed-up lump of scar tissue, and we’re whole enough to be capable of loving others the way they want to be loved?”

If I were able to love someone, I would choose you. In that timeline, I would want it to be you.

✨“Out of all the people I’ve met, the things I’ve wanted, the places I’ve been, none has ever felt as necessary as you do. Because I love you. I love you in a way I didn’t think I was capable of. I love you because you showed me how to fall in love. And I don’t regret it, Rue. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Even if you can never say it back. Even if you never think about me again after today. Even if you were right after all, and you’re not capable of love.”

✨I used to think that endings could be happy, or sad. That stories could be happy, or sad. That people could be happy, or sad. And I always figured that my ending, my story, me, would always fall in the latter.”

“But then I met you. And you made me wonder, for the very first time, if there was a flaw in my reasoning. Maybe people can be happy and sad. Maybe stories are messy and complicated. Maybe endings don’t always include solutions that tie everything together in a bow. But that doesn’t mean that they have to be tragedies.”

“I thought I could never be happy. But with you, Eli… I have never felt the way I do with you. Never. And I think that’s why it took me so long to put words to it.” 

Mariaaa

✨“Although, it occurs to me,” she murmured against his mouth, breaking the spiral of his thoughts, “that rules exist for a reason.” She took a step back. Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her here in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube recipe of her choice. He’d wash her car, read her a book, sit here outside her door and just make sure she was safe and protected. They could hold hands all night. They could play Scrabble. He was very close to imploring for something, everything, anything, when she added, “And sometimes the reason is that they should be broken.”

✨“I’m sorry.” His Adam’s apple moved. “I forget to look at other things, when you’re around.”

✨It’s because with you I never have to worry about being too odd, too unlikable, too out of tune. You never make me feel anything other than just right.

✨Ask me for anything, he thought, anything at all, and watch me give it to you. Whoever came before me, they had no idea. I’m up for the challenge.

✨“You always need something to do.” Did I? Yes. Ever since I was a child, having a goal was the best way to avoid thinking about whatever misery I was going through. How did he know, though?

✨But I loved the way Eli looked at me like I was something special, something more. Like I could easily exhaust the entire spectrum of his needs. Like he couldn’t imagine looking anywhere else, ever.

✨“Do you think that maybe there’s another version of us, somewhere in another timeline? Where we’re not just a messed-up lump of scar tissue, and we’re whole enough to be capable of loving others the way they want to be loved?”

If I were able to love someone, I would choose you. In that timeline, I would want it to be you.

✨“Out of all the people I’ve met, the things I’ve wanted, the places I’ve been, none has ever felt as necessary as you do. Because I love you. I love you in a way I didn’t think I was capable of. I love you because you showed me how to fall in love. And I don’t regret it, Rue. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Even if you can never say it back. Even if you never think about me again after today. Even if you were right after all, and you’re not capable of love.”

✨I used to think that endings could be happy, or sad. That stories could be happy, or sad. That people could be happy, or sad. And I always figured that my ending, my story, me, would always fall in the latter.”

“But then I met you. And you made me wonder, for the very first time, if there was a flaw in my reasoning. Maybe people can be happy and sad. Maybe stories are messy and complicated. Maybe endings don’t always include solutions that tie everything together in a bow. But that doesn’t mean that they have to be tragedies.”

“I thought I could never be happy. But with you, Eli… I have never felt the way I do with you. Never. And I think that’s why it took me so long to put words to it.” 

“What words?” “Safe,” she said.

“And accepted.”

“And enough.”

So I went into this one with no expectations and that was probably the best thing that could have happened with this book. This was another one that I didn’t like the characters. But the biggest thing was there was too much spice that it affected the plot for me. Because the little bit of plot that was here felt convoluted because of the amount of spice that nothing really made sense. I’ve said it in the past but Ali has a way of making me feel not the smartest because of the science in her books and I actually enjoyed that. But this was different and I didn’t really liked it. And the other smaller piece that didn’t play hugely into the plot was UT. I’m a born Aggie fan and while it’s so fun seeing Texas being in here it was like every five seconds it was said and it actually got annoying. But I know it played into that plot but between my dislike for the characters, the mass amount of spice it just all went downhill from there. 

Priscilla Stanfield

3/5⭐️ • 3.5/5🌶️

So I went into this one with no expectations and that was probably the best thing that could have happened with this book. This was another one that I didn’t like the characters. But the biggest thing was there was too much spice that it affected the plot for me. Because the little bit of plot that was here felt convoluted because of the amount of spice that nothing really made sense. I’ve said it in the past but Ali has a way of making me feel not the smartest because of the science in her books and I actually enjoyed that. But this was different and I didn’t really liked it. And the other smaller piece that didn’t play hugely into the plot was UT. I’m a born Aggie fan and while it’s so fun seeing Texas being in here it was like every five seconds it was said and it actually got annoying. But I know it played into that plot but between my dislike for the characters, the mass amount of spice it just all went downhill from there. 

How is that her erotic novel is the one that bummed me out the most lmao

Zoë Mauldin

No era lo que esperaba pero me gustó mucho, me hizo llorar 

Valeria 

I love Ali Hazelwood, and this wasn’t her normal read. It was hot and sexual and I loved it!  

Amanda 

This was WAY spicier than I normally read, but I think Ali Hazelwood did a great job of balancing that with an interesting plot and likable characters. I loved how obsessed Eli was with Rue and enjoyed all the science patent drama. I do think this book was a longer than it needed to be, but if you really like spice you’ll probably disagree.  

Also, duet narration is a game-changer!! 

Alli

This was WAY spicier than I normally read, but I think Ali Hazelwood did a great job of balancing that with an interesting plot and likable characters. I loved how obsessed Eli was with Rue and enjoyed all the science patent drama. I do think this book was a longer than it needed to be, but if you really like spice you’ll probably disagree.  

Also, duet narration is a game-changer!! 

This isn’t a typical AH but I loved it so much!! 

Brittany Peterson

One of the most relatable FMCs I've read about in a long time. Genuinely loved this book

Danielle Silverman

I am still in the process of analyzing the whole book. It took me awhile to finished it and I finally did. The first few chapters were a little draggy but subsequently, it got me hooked. 

Eli Killgore is being describe as a man slut. But he sounds dreamy when he starts to show his obsession with Rue. Who wouldn’t want that to happen in real life? 

ReadwithZanariah 

I am still in the process of analyzing the whole book. It took me awhile to finished it and I finally did. The first few chapters were a little draggy but subsequently, it got me hooked. 

Eli Killgore is being describe as a man slut. But he sounds dreamy when he starts to show his obsession with Rue. Who wouldn’t want that to happen in real life? 

(lido em português) acho que esse livro vai ser muito 8 ou 80, vi várias críticas negativas mas mesmo assim aproveitei a história e o casal. infelizmente tenho que concordar que teve muita cena explícita dessa vez, o que tornou a leitura cansativa em algumas partes, mesmo assim adorei o casal! também gostei do que rolou no final e que não foi algo “do nada”

Lara Rebouças

It's happened: the formula looks too much like a formula this time around 

Not in Love From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis