A Surprisingly Messy, Forbidden, Workplace Romance in STEM from Ali Hazelwood
Not in Love
Up to date Romance
Berkley
June 11, 2024
e-book, paperback, audiobook
400
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A forbidden, secret affair proves that each one’s truthful in love and science—from New York Occasions bestselling creator Ali Hazelwood.
Rue Siebert won’t have it all, however she has sufficient: a number of pals she will be able to at all times rely on, the monetary stability she yearned for as a child, and a profitable profession as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the vital promising start-ups within the subject of meals science. Her world is secure, nice, and hard-fought. Till a hostile takeover and its offensively engaging entrance man threatens to convey all of it crumbling down.
Eli Killgore and his enterprise companions need Kline, interval. Eli has his personal causes for pushing this deal by means of—and he’s a person who will get what he needs. With one burning exception: Rue. The girl he can’t cease excited about. The girl who’s off-limits to him.
Torn between loyalty and an simple attraction, Rue and Eli throw warning out the lab and the boardroom home windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one among their firms will prevail. However the coronary heart is dangerous enterprise—one which performs for retains.
The world was a relentless, full-on maelstrom, and my feelings had been the one factor I might govern.
Ali Hazelwood’s newest launch, Not in Love, has stunned me. Apparently 2024 is the yr for surprises from Hazelwood together with her paranormal romance debut, Bride, which launched in February. Not in Love is a return to Up to date Romance, however as a substitute of the lighthearted quirkiness of romantic comedy, Hazelwood has given readers a grittier romance with characters who’re messy in their very own imperfect means, which made me love them much more.
Not in Love is the romance set within the biotech sector of the science neighborhood. Dr. Rue Sibert is utilizing her abilities as a biotech engineer to analysis new methods to protect and delay the shelf life of various meals. This analysis is close to and expensive to Rue resulting from a complete plethora of causes however largely because of the lack of vitamin and entry to meals that she had throughout her childhood. Rue works for Kline, an organization began by pal and colleague, however which has now been acquired by the Harkness group—an organization that appears decided to make Kline shake of their lab coats regardless of many assurances.
He was her servant. Something she wished, Eli would do it. He needed to slide his palms behind his again, lure them between himself and the wall, simply to cease himself from touching and gripping and taking.
Wouldn’t you recognize it? Our very personal Eli Killgore is a part of Harkness. In Texas along with his personal colleagues, Eli is gobsmacked to be taught that Rue is none apart from the girl he met by means of a hook-up app. The exact same one who ghosted him after he white knighted her out of a probably harmful scenario together with her brother. Eli can’t assist however be drawn to the thriller that’s the quiet, and enigmatic Rue. Neither Rue nor Eli can appear to avoid the opposite, successfully placing one another in danger throughout this tumultuous time in every of their careers. Really, one of many the reason why I adored Not in Love a lot is simply how fully gone for Rue Eli turns into. At instances I believed “oh, this man simply lives to be in Rue’s orbit,” and I like that for Rue a lot.
It’s on this dynamic that Ali Hazelwood lets her characters shine. As Rue and Eli spend extra time collectively, they share small items of their truths—the issues that anybody else would decide, pity, empathize, however for them it turns into foreign money to maintain their relationship on a mutual taking part in subject. Each Rue and Eli have points to work by means of, belief to earn, and in the end intimacy to share. I like that Hazelwood isn’t afraid to point out us completely different sides of her writing. Not in Love is each bit as addictive as her romantic comedies maybe much more so with how invested I turned with Rue and Eli’s HEA.
He sat again, assessing me calmly. I couldn’t shake the needling sensation that he understood one thing elementary, one thing nuclear about us that I couldn’t but settle for.
Jes is a self-proclaimed bookworm, who not too long ago moved from the PNW again to the Midwest. When her nostril isn’t in a e book, she’s spending time together with her husband, two children, and her three fur infants, or exploring the globe. She additionally firmly believes that it’s best to begin the day with espresso, and finish the day in mattress with e book.
