First Line Friday: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Posted June 23, 2023 by Stephanie in First Line Friday / 6 Comments

First Line Friday is hosted by Carrie @ Reading Is My Superpower, where each week we share the first line of our current read(s).

 

THE FIRST LINE:

In my life I have experienced regret, embarrassment, maybe even a touch of agony.

 

 

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.

Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.

Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

 

 

What do you think of this first line I featured today?
Would you want to read this book?

 

6 responses to “First Line Friday: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

  1. Happy Friday!
    I’m currently reading Positively, Penelope by Pepper Basham. It’s super cute!
    “I was so delighted to run into your sister this week as you’ve been much on my mind, and I hadn’t any way to contact you.”
    I hope you have a great weekend!

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