#2: I just had to rant.

 I spent a total of 10 years trying to find a love for reading. I explored mystery books for a large portion of that time. I hated them. 

It wasn't until I went to Barnes and Nobles with Deepti Aggarwal and two other friends last year, when they introduced me to The Love Hypothesis - a romance novel. "Have fun with the corny romance", they told me. Gingerly, I opened the first page, and never put it down until I was finished. I spent every waking minute of that day rooting for Adam and Olive's relationship. If not for this novel, I wouldn't have found my genre.

I frequently find myself rereading The Love Hypothesis, which is what I did this month, along with reading another romance novel. As I was fully immersed in the story, I came across one specific line: "'If you say another word about the woman I love, if you look at her, if you even think about her—I’m going to kill you'" (Hazelwood, 384). Basic, yes. Yet, I pondered over this. Adam had, to date, never admitted his love for his fake girlfriend, Olive. And the first time we hear the 4-letter word is in a cathartic scene, where it is so anticlimactically overlooked. Olive carries on living her life under the impression her feelings are only one-sided. Just because Olive doesn't register that Adam has confessed, we have to trudge through 2 long chapters for a confession in the last line. What's even worse? Adam and his grumpy personality was closed off until that point; so much so, that people would regard him as the worst man alive. The first time he opens up should have been a beautiful moment - perhaps with flowers and a beautiful setting, but no!