{"id":31300,"date":"2024-07-01T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=31300"},"modified":"2024-06-30T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T00:12:47","slug":"review-not-in-love-by-ali-hazelwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/01\/review-not-in-love-by-ali-hazelwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-31300\" data-postid=\"31300\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-31300 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_ekai805 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-narrow tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_quhj805 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_1y0q805 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-31276\" title=\"not-in-love-ali-hazelwood\" alt=\"not-in-love-ali-hazelwood\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=400%2C600&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ltsp805 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rue Siebert might not have it\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">all<\/span>, but she has\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">enough<\/span>: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through\u2014and he\u2019s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can\u2019t stop thinking about. The woman who&#8217;s off-limits to him.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business\u2014one that plays for keeps.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_n3x5806 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_px8e806  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16466 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-hearts-1.jpg?resize=135%2C44&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jun 11, 2024<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Love on Cue<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>2<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $11.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rue<\/strong> loves her job as a biotech engineer at a promising start-up company. She has a very supportive group of friends, and she is finally financially stable. In her eyes, things are heading in the right direction until her company announces it is facing a hostile takeover. Rue is a bit distraught, especially since the lead for the job is handsome, which makes it very hard to resist.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Eli<\/strong> is ready to take over the company but must get past his feelings for Rue. She is technically the enemy, off limits, but somehow, he can\u2019t fight his initial attraction to her. They manage to agree to secretly give into their desires, but only until a final decision about the company is made.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have a love\/hate relationship with Ms. Hazelwood&#8217;s books. Most of the time, I enjoy them, and then there are other times when I don\u2019t. The one thing I can say is that she knows how to really delve into the STEM world. Seeing all the women in that field and gathering research for it is truly amazing.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rue and Eli have a lot of passion that spills out on the pages. However, outside of the bedroom and the smoldering conversations, I didn\u2019t get the love part. Rue is very guarded in her career. She never really opens up to him, and Eli seems to only focus on the physical aspect of the relationship. I think they had the promise of being a super couple, but the romantic development is lacking.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, I enjoyed the story and recommend it for fans of STEM romances.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Samantha<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_vj3r806 customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4cnodJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/4eLZVe0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood\/1144059428?ean=9780593550434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a 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src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg\" title=\"not-in-love-ali-hazelwood\" alt=\"not-in-love-ali-hazelwood\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood.jpg?resize=400%2C600&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rue Siebert might not have it\u00a0all, but she has\u00a0enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.<br \/><br \/>Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through\u2014and he\u2019s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can\u2019t stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.<br \/><br \/>Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business\u2014one that plays for keeps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-hearts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jun 11, 2024<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Love on Cue<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>2<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $11.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rue<\/strong> loves her job as a biotech engineer at a promising start-up company. She has a very supportive group of friends, and she is finally financially stable. In her eyes, things are heading in the right direction until her company announces it is facing a hostile takeover. Rue is a bit distraught, especially since the lead for the job is handsome, which makes it very hard to resist.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Eli<\/strong> is ready to take over the company but must get past his feelings for Rue. She is technically the enemy, off limits, but somehow, he can\u2019t fight his initial attraction to her. They manage to agree to secretly give into their desires, but only until a final decision about the company is made.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have a love\/hate relationship with Ms. Hazelwood's books. Most of the time, I enjoy them, and then there are other times when I don\u2019t. The one thing I can say is that she knows how to really delve into the STEM world. Seeing all the women in that field and gathering research for it is truly amazing.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rue and Eli have a lot of passion that spills out on the pages. However, outside of the bedroom and the smoldering conversations, I didn\u2019t get the love part. Rue is very guarded in her career. She never really opens up to him, and Eli seems to only focus on the physical aspect of the relationship. I think they had the promise of being a super couple, but the romantic development is lacking.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, I enjoyed the story and recommend it for fans of STEM romances.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Samantha<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4cnodJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/4eLZVe0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/not-in-love-ali-hazelwood\/1144059428?ean=9780593550434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/not-in-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Ali_Hazelwood_Not_in_Love?id=0m3WEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31307,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions\/31307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}