seriously romantic: love and the laws of motion by amanda weaver

astrophysicist olivia romano needs a genius to help her figure out the coding to her research project. she might be a genius when it comes to searching the cosmos for proto-black holes, but computer programming is a little outside her area of expertise. luckily in her little corner of brooklyn, there's always someone who knows someone, and nicholas disantis might be the perfect guy for figuring out how to program an algorithm to search for something a telescope doesn't know it's seen.

i have to admit that maybe the fact that some of love and the laws of motion was set in an astronomy department had me predisposed to like this. though i will say, unlike the evil and horrendous grad students and advisors depicted in this story, my experience in astronomy departments, and really there's only the one i work at, is that everyone is super kind and nice. people care about each other's work and research and celebrate accomplishments.

needless to say, that's not what olivia experiences. poor olivia goes through quite a lot of trauma in this book, because she's purposely sheltered herself from experiencing anything outside her routines. she stayed in brooklyn at a lower tier school because she couldn't imagine leaving her family behind. and while nick has done the exact opposite, running from his family, from commitments, what he finds in olivia makes everything worthwhile. too bad he may only realize that when it's too late.

this was such an enjoyable story, these characters so charming, it's well worth the read.

**love and the laws of motion will publish on september 9, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/carina press in exchange for my honest review.