An excellent collection of short stories. These stories are fun, witty, steamy and entertaining. Just what you’d expect if you’ve read any Ali Hazlewood previously. Highly recommend.

I really liked The Love Hypothesis when I read it sometime in 2021, so I was excited to read Ali Hazelwood's collection of novellas centring around three friends, Mara, Sadie and Hannah, as they each experience their own romances. Individually, each of these novellas were great: Ali Hazelwood is definitely one of the better rom-com writers. There's no cringey metaphors and no badly done finding-yourself narrative shoehorned into the story; the characters feel real and the dialogue is great and the chemistry is clear. And it's fun to read about an industry I know literally nothing about; I do love arty careers in novels, as they're what interest me the most, but it's always unexpectedly rewarding to learn about a new workplace. So I really liked each of these – the slow-burn of Mara's story, the chemistry in Sadie's, the flirtiness in Hannah's. But as a collection, these were SO samey. It's like Ali Hazelwood is physically incapable of writing a book where the female lead doesn't work in STEM, the male lead is not tall, broad and repeatedly described as 'huge', and they actually like each other for the entirety of the book. I'm 5'1 and I feel ridiculous when I'm next to a very tall person so I just cannot understand how much these girls relish feeling tiny; but personal preferences aside, it's a bit boring to just rehash the same tropes and physical characteristics over and over.

I would love to see Ali Hazelwood branch out and explore more tropes, settings and personalities, as I think she could be really great at it.

I’ve loved Ali Hazlewoods novels which focus on women in STEM so was really happy when I was approved for this title.

Love to Loathe you is a bind up of three short novellas and was a joy to read. Each story packs a punch and I couldn’t put this down.

I would definitely recommend.

The first novella was definitely my favourite of the three, but I don't know if that was because it was the first one, and by the third one, I was feeling a bit burned out from the same formulaic short story being repeated again. The characters are loveable and I enjoy the way that Ali Hazelwood writes, her work is always so easy to read and to consume. However, it just feel like all of these novellas were the same story told a slightly different way, and I was bored by the third story I can't lie. It's possible that they work better when you're reading them separately and with other books in between - but I don't think they really work in a bind-up because if you read them one after the other like I did, they all start blurring together. Like, no word of a lie, even the spicy scenes felt like they had almost been copied and pasted.

So overall, if you love Ali Hazelwood's work, you'll probably love these because they were so classically Ali Hazelwood - but I would recommend spacing them out.

I love Ali Hazelwood’s previous novels, so I was very excited about this short story collection! These stories are very Ali Hazelwood, so if you love her books or are a fan of enemies to the lovers trope and spicy romcoms, you will enjoy them! I’m gviving 3 stars for this one because it is pretty much the same as her other books in terms of characters and story development. But it’s still a good fun read perfect when you don’t want to think too much about anything.

❤️Love to Loathe You❤️

By Ali Hazelwood

Description:

Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract, and rivals make you burn....

Under One Roof
An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell - a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone.

Stuck with You
A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry - and love - to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator.

Below Zero
A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival.

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I reviewed the novellas individually as they released on kindle throughout the year. It’s nice to see them collected together in one volume.

Each of these stories is a fun, quick read in the same STEMinist theme as The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.

What I liked:
Easy reading, cute enemies to lovers romance, the relationship between the female MC’s, and the bonding between the male MC’s once they meet.

What I wasn’t so keen on:
A lot hinges on miscommunication. The three stories are very similar and start to feel repetitive.

Overall this collection is definitely worth a read for fans of TLH and LOTB. I prefer Hazelwood’s longer novels but these make a cute quick read and you can dip in and out for each story.

Thanks to @netgalley and @littlebrown for the copy in exchange for an honest review.

Love to Loathe You is released on the 3rd of January.

There are a lot of similarities between these novellas which led to me being unable to read them consecutively. They all contain time jumps back and forth and antagonists to lovers to some extent, though less so with Below Zero but it still seemed to be shoehorned in there.

Under one roof.
The story in general was quite sweet but I really didn’t love it. The language felt too formal and pretentious in places that she was trying to prove she was smart. There were a number of words used that I could infer meaning from context but I was thankful for the thesaurus feature on my kindle. We know she’s smart but she also loves the bachelor, some of the vocabulary just felt unnecessary(e.g. eschatological and anthropogenic) and it seems to contradict the more relaxed aspect of her personality that is portrayed. The story is all leading to that one moment that we get a glimpse of at the beginning then it’s over, the ending just felt a little rushed. The sex scene felt awkward, him constantly asking if everything was OK which is fine, consent is sexy, but she never responds. I also just felt like we could have done with more info about him not having/liking sex, it’s just dropped and glossed over. 3*

Stuck With You
Stuck With You did grow on me and I really liked Erik as the love interest. I enjoyed the smut in this one a lot more, the scenes spread out rather than just one at the end. Sadie’s internal dialogue becomes a little tiresome at stages; a point is made then overexplained or wrung out e.g. Danish spelling of names, but in general an enjoyable story. 3.5*

Below Zero
I think this was my favourite novella in the collection; funny and cute. Hannah felt like a well rounded character and Ian was sweet and protective. This is more like second chance and the reasoning for it not going further the initial time that Ian and Hannah were together made sense with Hannah’s clear avoidance of commitment. 4*

Loathe to love you is a short story collection by Ali Hazelwood that will be published in January 2023.

Under One Roof
Overall this is very easy to read. Mara Got a house from her dying friend Helena; however, it's shared as part ownership with her Nephew, Liam. Liam is a corporate lawyer. Mara, an environmental scientist, in this book, we get to know each of them and see their relationship progress with a little bit of banter and spice thrown in. A trope we all love.

Stuck With You

A corrsiant encounter made me laugh a bit. Erik gives her the last one. Two civil engineers work in the same building but for two rival companies. After a series of miscommunications that leave Sadie feeling betrayed by Erik, the two become trapped in a tiny elevator, where all the unspoken finally comes to light.

Amidst some charming and funny scenes, this is the least enjoyable of the three stories.

Below Zero

The third friend Hannah this time around Hannah is trapped in a crevasse in Norway, on the verge of freezing to death and sure to lose a few toes. Thankfully, Ian tells her he'll be there in thirty minutes, even though he shouldn't be in Norway. Hannah is supposed to despise Ian after he vetoed her project funding, but it's difficult to hate someone you're wildly attracted to. Snowstorms are no match for this steamy novel.
Aside from the romantic relationships, what I liked best about these stories was the emphasis on friendship, the kind that accepts you for who you are and always supports you. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah have very different personalities, but they fully comprehend each other and stay in touch even when their dreams and work commitments keep them apart.
I do like how all the novellas connect. I do feel they be better off as one book with interwoven connections.
I wouldn't say they were enemies to lovers because I had the impression they all fell in love right away, but they are short stories, so it falls where it falls short.

Another great read from Ali Hazelwood, I thought all three of these novellas were cute and easy reads, and I loved that they all revolved around the same friendship group. My favourite of the three has to be Under One Roof, I thought it was a great beginning to the book, and found Mara and Liam to be the characters with the most believable chemistry.
I think Ali is incredibly talented when it comes to writing relatable characters that you can fall in love with so easily, and alongside this I love that she often explores the concept that not all people have such an interest or desire when it comes to sex, but are still able to have fulfilling relationships something which I think is very much lacking within the romance book community and would love to see explored more.
My only problem with these three novellas is that I wished they were longer, I would have loved to have more of an opportunity to spend time with these characters and their stories and see them develop, and grow, I felt that due to their length the stories felt a little rushed, and the characters somewhat underdeveloped, but that is to be expected when you are dealing with a novella as opposed to a full length novel.
Overall a great, quick read, with lovable characters, would definitely recommend as an introduction into Ali Hazelwood’s works.

These were sweet but all identical to each other and because each are novella length there was not enough time to develop the romance.

Under One Roof Review - 4.5 Stars
I absolutely loved Under One Roof. I loved the whole enemies to lovers thing, where they are in forced proximity to one another. I loved the banter between these characters, and honestly this one is without a doubt my favourite of the three novellas. I do wish this one was a full length novel though, as I feel like we almost got some great representation we haven’t seen before in Ali’s books.

There was a moment in this book where the lead male character talks about how he doesn’t enjoy sex, but would try ‘for her’. I actually really loved this line because I felt like this is not something we would typically see in a male protagonist, especially in a romance book. This could have been the perfect rep to explore this idea and his feeling further, but unfortunately it was just never talked about again. Probably because it’s only a novella and not a full length and this actually made me really sad. I would have loved to see this aspect explored further and been a big part of the story. I was actually kind of disappointed that it was only mentioned towards the end and then kind of forgotten about. Apart from that… I loved this novella. It’s cute and a super fun and quick read.

Stuck With You Review - 4 Stars
As soon as I finished Under One Roof, I immediately dived right into Stuck With You. I really enjoyed the back and forth between the present and the past in this one. I liked that the chapters alternated. It was a really clever move on Ali to write it like this, as you can see how much tension there was between the characters, and I really enjoyed the anticipation of finding out what happened three weeks ago. How did they become so irritated and annoyed by each other. I really liked that.

Much like Under One Roof this one is super fun and quick to read. I really enjoyed it, and I just really enjoy how all of Ali’s characters are women in STEM. It’s really refreshing and great characters for women to look up to and aspire to be, and it was the exact same in this one. Definitely worth the read.

Below Zero Review - 3.5 Stars
I really enjoyed Below Zero, but honestly out of the three novellas it was probably my least favourite. As we can expect from Ali Hazelwood, the characters were awesome. I love how the main female protagonist was a little awkward and sure relationship aren’t for her. It’s really nice to see a character struggling with that as I feel like it’s really relatable to a lot of people. Likewise we have a patient and understanding male protagonist that we can all fall for.

I really enjoyed the setting of this one. The fact that it was a really bad storm in the middle of Norway. It was really nice to see the characters out on location for their job, which we haven’t really seen in an Ali Hazelwood book so far. My main issue with this one is I just didn’t really emotionally connect with their love story very much. I kind of felt like all of the emotion was very sudden and it went from I hate you to I love you and while I loved the characters as people, I felt like it needed to be a longer story to see those feelings develop a little bit more.

This was a fine read, short and sweet stories, much better collated than separated in my opinion. Not quite enemies to lovers as I got the feeling they all fell instantly but to be fair they are short stories so they don't have a huge amount of time so all felt more like insta love to me, but I enjoyed having female leads with the ability to be confident in her working life and taking matters into their own hands and sticking to values.

Enjoyable and a little steamy in places with some good scenes of back and forth between the characters while they work out what they are together.

Great for an afternoon read and satisfyingly wholesome.

I enjoyed the collection of stories in Loathe to Love You. My favourite was the final story. Be prepared for high levels of quirks and insecurities that may grate on your senses. But hang out for the wit, STEMmy banter, dreamy guys, and sweet romance.

Miscommunication meets she fell first but she fell harder meets some well written spice 🌶🌶🌶

The underlying theme of all these books is miscommunication - which I’m not a massive fan of usually but because they are novella the miscommunication isn’t dragged out for too long

I love that all three of the fmc are best friends and how they are still so close even though they don’t live near to each other

The banter was really good - both between the couples but also the three friends - I’m ashamed to admit i did laugh out loud a few times when reading 🫠🫠

My favourite would probably be Below Zero as I’m a sucker for the hurt/comfort trope and the office scene was a bit 🥵🥵

Would definitely recommend as it was a quick, light hearted spicy read

Review will be posted on my Goodreads and my instagram account (@anjalisbookss) on the 20th December

Loathe to love you is a collection of short stories written by Ali Hazelwood that will be published in January 2023.
After the success of her first novel, The love hypothesis, the author decided to publish these stories to entertain her readers while waiting for her second book, Love on the brain, to come out. It was then decided to enclose all three novellas in a single volume, and to add a bonus chapter.

These are three romantic stories where the heroines are all well-placed within a STEM context (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and, although they may seem like superwomen, the reader can easily recognize himself in them, in their weaknesses and fragilities.
Although part of an important context, the short stories are light and share the same narrative scheme, in which the main characters hate each other at first glance, but then end up falling in love.

Should I start dating again? Yeah. I should. Except that . . . men. No, thank you.

UNDER ONE ROOF
Due to a strange inheritance, Mara, an environmental engineer, ends up living under the same roof as Liam, a lawyer who works for a petrol company. After an initial phase of teasing in which the man tries to bring Mara to exhaustion to make her leave the house, passion breaks out when the latter is ready to move out.

This is perhaps the story with the simplest plot, but it is the one that has the characters with the best chemistry.

STUCK WITH YOU
Sadie and Erik are two civil engineers who work in the same building, but for two rival companies. After a series of misunderstandings that make Sadie feel betrayed by Erik, the two get stuck in a small elevator, where all the unsaid finally come to the surface.

Despite some really nice and funny scenes, this is the story that I liked the least, among the three.

BELOW ZERO
Hannah is an aerospace engineer who, during a mission in the Arctic, suffers an accident that puts her life in danger. To help her, there is only Ian, her colleague, with whom she shares a stormy past.

This was the story that I liked the most, perhaps because Hannah has a particular personality, more closed than that of her best friends, or perhaps because the setting was completely different from the others.

In addition to the romantic relationships, what I liked the most about these stories was the importance given to friendship, the one that accepts you as you are and always supports you. Mara, Sadie and Hannah are all different in personality, but they manage to understand each other and always keep in touch, even when dreams and work commitments subject them to an incredible distance.

My judgment is overall positive; these are short stories suitable for a light and fun, reading with a pinch of smut. Furthermore, the constant going back and forth in time makes the narrative different and interesting.

This is my first introduction to Ali Hazelwood and I’m not sure how I feel. All 3 novellas were enjoyable I just found them a bit repetitive. Small girl ends up with “too big” brooding man and also what is with the no condom obsession? That being said they were a fun, steamy read that I read in one go which may be why I struggled with the repetition. I will definitely be checking out more from Hazelwood and see if I get on better with a full length book.

I received a copy of the ebook via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

Confirmation that Ali Hazelwood is the queen of STEMinist romance! Loved the intertwining novella format, with the tales of Mara, Hannah and Sadie twisting together throughout. Although the leading men are not exactly dumb, it’s so great to have such sharp, witty and intelligent women as the stars of their own stories. It’s about time romance novels with women in roles other than publishing, PR or media got their chance to shine.

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This was everything I want from an Ali Hazlewood book, infact it was even better because its three fantastic stories in one. Great friendships, amazing characters and a whole lot of sex...what's not to like??

Thank you NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for providing me with a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

— 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 —

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: Loathe to Love You
𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: N/A
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫(𝐬): Ali Hazelwood
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: Romance
𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝: 3rd January 2023
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 4/5

A collection of Ali Hazelwood’s three, enemies-to-lovers, signature STEMinist romance novellas. This book contains three stories: Under One Roof, Stuck With You, Below Zero.

Under One Roof
Under One Roof describes the explosive reaction of what happens when an environmental scientist and a corporate lawyer have to live together. The house might heat up, but it’s not global warming..

This was a great beginning to the book. Mara and Liam had some golden witty banter that had me smirking from the safety of my blankets. Ali Hazelwood clearly can write a likeable character as even the one who had passed away before the story’s official timeline stamp began was funny and interesting. Sadly, I think I expected more from the ‘STEMinist’ side of things, even in a novella. For example, we’re told Mara fixes a microwave, but I don’t want to be told, I want to be shown. If only to put a proper name to the spinny dish at the bottom that makes the food turn.

Stuck With You
Stuck With You is an enemies-to-lovers that takes advantage of the miscommunication trope where Sadie and Erik work for competitor companies until it becomes clear that Erik’s company is using Sadie’s sustainability pitch to poach the clients from Sadie’s employer after Erik takes Sadie in a date that ends in the best sex of her life. However, an hour together in an elevator is the perfect opportunity to unstick some truths and elevate emotions.

Ah, the communication trope. My least favourite. But, y’know what, I actually enjoyed it in this story. Maybe because it’s a novella so the angst isn’t drawn out as much? I also found this steamier than the previous book, which was a welcome sentiment. The main character, Sadie, felt like a more chaotic version than Mara, so I am going into the next novella hoping that the lead character doesn’t feel the same as the other two.

Below Zero
Below Zero begins with Hannah stuck in a crevasse in Norway, quite possibly about to freeze to death and most definitely about to lose a few toes. Thankfully, Ian tells her he’s coming for her, and although he shouldn’t even be in Norway, he shows up thirty minutes later. Hannah is meant to hate Ian after he got her funding for her project vetoed, but it’s difficult to hate someone you’re wildly attracted to. Snowstorms are no problem for this heat filled novel.

I think this is the best novella. I enjoyed it even more than the others! Which was a nice, pleasant surprise. I kinda thought that all three female MC’s would be the same, but Hannah had the best characterization for sure. I love a fierce female MC with edge. The foreshadowing is what made me love this even more though, it was done perfectly.

This collection also comes with a bonus chapter for each of the novellas, building on the stories but simply a couple of years later. I do love an epilogue that reinforces a happy ending.

Anyways, I see why people like Ali Hazelwood stories so much. They’re fun, energetic and full of likable characters. It was so easy to read, so much wit to absorb, and was overall a really great collection of romance novellas.

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When I see Ali Hazelwood now I immediately pre-order and get excited for what she writes. Not only do we get strong female's characters who are intelligent and in professions that are predominantly male. I like that they also have flaws but that this doesn't stop them from finding love. So, we can safely say that Ali Hazelwood has become a firm favourite, not only did I fall in love with Adam in the Love Hypothesis but I fell even harder for Levi in Love on the Brain. I digress though let's talk about Loathe to Love and the three Novellas that make the book. All three novellas are interconnected by three friends, Mara, Sadie and Hannah. they are fun and cute; I loved all three.

Under One Roof
This is book one of the Novella's featured and follows Mara and Liam. This is a grumpy sunshine (as most of Ali Hazelwood's books are) Mara has just finished her PHD and is getting ready to start work at EPA, one of her dream jobs. She has inherited a house in the DC area and goes off to meet her new roommate Liam. Liam is unaware that she is coming, and they get off on the wrong foot, but this is after there is a zap of attraction between the two of them. Liam is a lawyer and works for one of the big oil companies that Mara is not happy about, this is another thing The novella jumps between past and present, and you see Mara and Liam become closer and the grumpy become more sunshine. Is it love at first sight? I wouldn't say it is, do they argue and bicker, yes, they do. Is the tension off the charts yes, it is. I really liked the banter between the two and it was fun, and the spicy scenes are spicy too.

Stuck With You
Book two follows Sadie and Erik. Sadie and Erik are both engineers but are working for opposing companies. Erik is a partner of the company that Sadie bids against to get business. They meet by chance at a bakery when Sadie is getting a croissant as part of her superstitions and Erik kindly gives her his. They end up spending the day together and shall we say spending some alone time together. Things get miscommunicated and Sadie ends up blocking Erik and hiding whenever she sees him which is hard as they work in the same building. They get caught in the lift together and things are frosty, they end up talking and settle their differences. Again, the spice in this book is well spicy, there isn't lots of it but enough to add a little heat to the book which I enjoyed.

Below Zero
Below Zero is the third novella and my favourite. Hannah is a straight-talking no-nonsense character. The book is about Hannah and Liam. Liam is one of Mara's cousins, but this is a whole over story. She is best friends with Mara and Sadie and the harsher one of the groups, she doesn't suffer fools easily and has worked hard to get where she is - a dream job at NASA. She worked hard to get there and wants to prove herself. Hannah has met Liam before, she met him when she was doing a paper whilst getting her PHD. She hit it off with him, but Hannah doesn't do relationships, problem is Liam likes Hannha and this is where things end. Move forward five years, Hannah is working at NASA where Liam is, he is now the head of certain areas and there is again that spark, but they don't' take the next step and again some miscommunication and some interfering work colleagues. Things progress further when Hannah gets injured when she is doing a research expedition but who is there to support her and save her is Liam. Things progress from there and let's just say that it wouldn't be below zero anymore.

Overall, the three novellas are cute and are definitely a good filler waiting for Love, Theoretically. Remember that they are short novella's so the love is quick, not instant but the male MCs definitely fall first and harder than the females. They are all cute, romcoms, with some spicy scenes, some hilarious moments and all three books interconnecting.