y'all, this book was boring. BORING. and the premise was a rescue from an icy crevasse in a blizzard! it should not have been boring! the most attractive part of it was when the hero offers to help the heroine with her taxes.

we get the ali hazelwood checklist here:
- tiny heroine (who i think is meant to be average height this time, at least, but is still dwarfed by her...)
- enormous hero who is inexplicably strong and also very frowny
- every in the heroine's field minus the hero is an Awful Man (i hate that ali's got me out here defending men, i really do)
- a ridiculous misunderstanding that could have been cleared up with 30 seconds of asking around

and as an added bonus, the first chapter is just how hannah got into science and then into grad school. i understand why ali includes this - it's meant to show how isolated hannah has always felt, how her family has ostracized her and how she thinks she can only depend on herself and that's why she ~doesn't date~. but it's just boring, and it would have worked much better in a full-length novel where it could have been worked in over time instead of infodumped on me as i drove to the grocery.

whatever. at this point, all my critiques of the earlier novellas in this series still stand. i think people are going to get very burned out on ali hazelwood unless the book she publishes after LOTB is, like, entirely different.