Lucy London got a PhD in microbiology by age 20, but she has no clue about people. She does not understand emotions, so when she got a grant to study emotion as a pathogen, she jumped on the opportunity... and got completely stuck. She had no idea how to create study about something she does not understand. Enter Jensen Walker... Her neighbor in the duplex. Jensen's love life is a matter of campus legend... messy, emotional, complicated... the perfect candidate for her study. After wearing him down to participate, they found each other intriguing, and soon Lucy was feeling those emotions that she wanted to study... But can she study them while giving in to them?
While the meeting and coming together was interesting, the relationship was basically mostly physical and sweet, but little else. We learned plenty about Lucy, how she'd loosened up after a little love, which can be seen as both sweet and empowering... or terribly trope-ish. I don't have much of a feeling for Jensen at all, don't feel his personality. The deadline about Lucy's project just feels forced upon the relationship as a problem. However, the author's writing style is quite easy to read.
All in all, there are enough pros and cons that I decided on a 3/5 rating, but I still suggest you give it a try, as I find the last quarter of the book a bit of a let down from the first parts.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Female Spock needed help from a male Lothario to learn about emotions of love to do a scientific project, but she doesn't know anything about that... can he teach her?
Overall Rating: 3/5 (But still recommended!)
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