#78 in Romance
The Love Hypothesis
- 398
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 23 weeks on the list, peaked at #6
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Our view
A fake-relationship romance between a Stanford doctoral candidate and a professor, and it knows what it is: light, funny and built for comfort. Some readers find the premise thin and little about it realistic, yet enjoy it all the same for the humour and the slow build between the leads. For some the charm is strongest on a first reading. Pick it up when an easy, good-natured love story is all that is wanted.
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About the book
The Love Hypothesis is a romance novel by Ali Hazelwood, published September 14, 2021 by Berkley Books. Originally published online in 2018 as Head Over Feet, a Star Wars fan fiction work about the "Reylo" ship between Rey and Kylo Ren, the novel follows a Ph.D. candidate and a professor at Stanford University who pretend to be in a relationship.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 1,718 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 92% of the weight and the score stays at 7.9 — the Romance average of 7.6 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 253 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 1.5K | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Love Hypothesis?
It has 398 pages — shorter than 51% of the ranked books in Romance.
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