If I could arrange for Ali Hazelwood to write my obituary, I'd die a happy girl.  "joy thieving comparison" it's like she takes all the mush inside my head and turns it into articulate gold.

I'm rarely a simp for novellas, but Ali did it right with the years of backstory and intentionally making it the start of a relationship (that could be happily ever after) and not a drop my whole life after a first kiss.

I saw Chandler Ainsley compared it to Love On The Brain (one of my FAVORITE AH books, and arguably the most underrated).  And I think LOTB was like TLH but improved and this further improved those tropes.

Yes it's Ali Hazelwood so he's big and hulky and athletic and she's a petite and clumsy carbivore. Yes they're both dorks.  And while this has the sapiosexual themes of all Ali's books, it leans more heavily on the demi-sexuality of her main character which I missed.

I just like that she can write books that are hot with heart.