“She frowned. ‘I asked if I could kiss you, and you said yes.’’Incorrect. You asked if you could kiss me and I snorted.’’I’m pretty sure I heard you said yes.’He lifted one eyebrow, and for a minute Olive let herself daydream of drowning someone. Dr. Carlsen. Herself. Both sounded like great options.”

Olive, is a third year Ph.D. candidate in biology. In a panic she fake kissed professor Adam Carlsen to persuade her friend to start dating her ex. From a fake kiss, starts fake dating. But suddenly she feels scientifically drawn to this mysterious and grumpy man.

This book has been hyped all over TikTok or other social platform. To see what it was all about I decided to read this romance with the classic trope fake dating. Although I never got the appeal to this fake dating thing, I must admit it does deliver some real funny and awkward moments. And I’m here for that. Love awkwardness. Cranky men however is not my style. So feeling any attraction through this cranky attitude was a challenge. But still, I get why this is so hyped. The attraction is there, the friends are amazing, their hilarious and this girl is a dead-on smart ass. It even discusses themes that women, in scientific field, are considered as purely decorative and why that’s utter bs. So, read this book as it is worth the hype, it executes the classic trope fake dating perfectly, has lovely humor and has a steamy romance.