He doesn't care about social gatherings, but as a professor, he is in a rotation and has to go once in a while. Got Volunteered: This happens to Adam on a frequent basis.The two serve to give them some (sometimes biting) insight into their relationship and support them in times of strife. Gay Best Friend: Olive and Adam have Malcolm and Holden respectively they even end up becoming a couple.Olive wants Anh to date Jeremy without feeling bad, and Adam wants Stanford to think he will not move on to Harvard because his “girlfriend” is in Stanford. Fake Relationship: The entire premise.Tom tries exactly that later to hurt Adam. Anh asks Olive if Adam is blackmailing her to be in a relationship with him, which Olive thinks is ridiculous.Turns out, he probably did say yes, since he was pining for her for about 3 years. When Olive kisses Adam, she quickly asks him if it is alright, and thought she heard a yes, which he denies.Once her mother died, she had to go to foster care.

Disappeared Dad: Olive's dad left before she was born.Deadpan Snarker: Adam snarks with every sentence.Apparently, his shoulders are swoon-worthy. Curves in All the Right Places: A male version in which Adam gets countless stares playing Frisbee shirtless.“Apparently, weeping silently was her new baseline state.” Character Tics: Olive is prone to silently weeping.Once Holden tells her Adam could easily research without Tom, and that Tom is gunning for Adam's career for a long time, she shows Adam the proof of Tom blackmailing her. Break His Heart to Save Him: Olive tries to do this, and breaks up with Adam, so he can work with Tom.So much so, that even Tom at Harvard heard of him dating Olive. They went on a few dates, but broke up because he was more interested in Anh. Amicable Exes: What Olive and Jeremy are.In fact, people are appalled about their relationship, and ask Olive if she is alright because she is dating a known jackass. Despite being good-looking, Adam isn't pursued by women due to his asshole-tendencies. This novel contains examples of the following tropes: What better way to get his money back than having a fake girlfriend? Stanford froze his grands because he doesn't have any roots in California and, therefore, is practically at flight risk. Carlsen, though, isn't completely unhappy about this. Which is Adam Carlsen, professor and destroyer of Ph.D.-Dreams. When she sees Anh walking towards her that night, she panics -and kisses the closest man nearby. She was only pretending to make Anh believe she is really, actually, over her last date, Jeremy. candidate Olive told her best friend, Anh, that she is on a date. The Love Hypothesis is a 2021 Rom Com novel written by Italian author Ali Hazelwood.

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