Name: The Unbalanced Equation
Rating: 3 (7 reviews)

H.L. Macfarlane

The Unbalanced Equation

Caroll-Ann

First of all, I‘m thankful that I recieved this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review..anyway this book so cute. I haven‘t been able to put this book down at all. Honestly it kind of reminded me of „the love hypothesis“ BUT I have to admit that I like this one more. This book is such a cute love story that has so many good tropes in the book. But not only the main love story is amazing, also the side stories are amazing as well. I don‘t think that there is even one character I didn‘t like in this book, apart from Eli…fuck Eli. This book is so good and I can only recommend this one, everyone should read this once it‘s released.

I don't know if this was funnier because it's set in Glasgow, or because I have the voices of the characters in my head!  The accents are fighting for supremacy in my brain! 

Tom is a prominent academic and when he meets Liz at a department social event, they bond over cheap booze and give in to an instant attraction.  After a disaster strikes and they have to change clothes, what-might-have-been never happens and Tom later finds out that Liz is his new Ph.D. candidate.  So that instant attraction has to go into hiding - and he covers up the simmering feelings he has with a snotty attitude towards Liz and her work.

Liz really thought Tom might have been a great friend, even if the attraction she felt was one-sided but in the 4 years since their initial meeting she has learned to loathe him. But after a calamitous series of events, they are now not only working in the same lab but their widowed parents are getting married and they're ging to be housemates!

As I live right nearby where Tom lives and the University stands, all the posh, WestEnd Glasgow accents are alive in my head.  I've met many people like Tom and he just leapt off the page for me.  He was a complete bampot over Liz and let his attempt at keeping them at bay take over and go too far the other way!  Liz rode that fine line between love and hate for Tom and I loved ho her wee clan of friends automatically took her side and hated Tom before they met him!

Tom really has to learn where that line is between helping and programming her entire life! All the secondary characters are fully fleshed out and I could attach them to someone I actually know, like Peter became my brother-in-law, who is also from Nigeria, and therefore became all the more real.  

Completely immersed myself in this and read it in one go.  A solid 4 stars!

Nicola Sarah Brooks

I don't know if this was funnier because it's set in Glasgow, or because I have the voices of the characters in my head!  The accents are fighting for supremacy in my brain! 

Tom is a prominent academic and when he meets Liz at a department social event, they bond over cheap booze and give in to an instant attraction.  After a disaster strikes and they have to change clothes, what-might-have-been never happens and Tom later finds out that Liz is his new Ph.D. candidate.  So that instant attraction has to go into hiding - and he covers up the simmering feelings he has with a snotty attitude towards Liz and her work.

Liz really thought Tom might have been a great friend, even if the attraction she felt was one-sided but in the 4 years since their initial meeting she has learned to loathe him. But after a calamitous series of events, they are now not only working in the same lab but their widowed parents are getting married and they're ging to be housemates!

As I live right nearby where Tom lives and the University stands, all the posh, WestEnd Glasgow accents are alive in my head.  I've met many people like Tom and he just leapt off the page for me.  He was a complete bampot over Liz and let his attempt at keeping them at bay take over and go too far the other way!  Liz rode that fine line between love and hate for Tom and I loved ho her wee clan of friends automatically took her side and hated Tom before they met him!

Tom really has to learn where that line is between helping and programming her entire life! All the secondary characters are fully fleshed out and I could attach them to someone I actually know, like Peter became my brother-in-law, who is also from Nigeria, and therefore became all the more real.  

Completely immersed myself in this and read it in one go.  A solid 4 stars!

I really enjoyed this book! As someone who works in STEM, I thought this was a really great romance that represented what it’s like to work in the field and fall in love in the field! Super cute, like a Scottish ‘The Love Hypothesis’ but make it more enemies to lovers!

The Unbalanced Equation

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