Publication Date: February 3, 2026
I told myself I had to wait to read this book until I’d been productive, mostly because it comes out in February and it is only August. But boy was it worth the wait and then some. Love and Other Brain Experiments was the sweetest combination of two brilliant people being complicated with dating. Lewis and Frances completely jumped off the pages, and I was so immediately invested in their love story.
The love story between Lewis and Frances is so much more than the embodiment of my ever-faithful fake dating trope. They’re so funny in their intellectual banter. It was wonderful to see them fight for one another even before they realized what was truly there between them. Once again: this trope slapped!!!
As a non-STEM girly (longtime humanities girly!), sometimes the science behind these kind of books gets confusing. I appreciated how Hannah Brohm made it clear how incredibly intelligent Lewis and Frances were in their field, but she did so in a way that made sense in my brain. I love a good intellectual love story and I really felt that this book scratched my brain in this way.
Thank you to Atria Books for the opportunity to read and review this book! I received a free advance copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review. All opinions expressed are my own.
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