I usually have a difficult time with author-insert fiction. While I'm all for being self-indulgent (who could ever blame another for wanting to find escape in this crazy world), such writing usually comes at the cost of its secondary and tertiary characters. "The Love Hypothesis" certainly does not suffer from a weak supporting cast, which makes it all the better. While the romance is wonderful, LOVE, all types of love and friendship, permeate these pages, making the world easy to get lost in and the characters so incredibly easy to care about, even when the rom-com tropes are maxed out in their ridiculousness. I'm excited to have the opportunity to revisit this in a few years when I inevitably need something comfortable to fall back into.