The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Soulmate Equation
AUTHOR: Christina Lauren @christinalauren
Publisher: Gallery Books @gallerybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: May 18, 2021
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I love Christina Lauren’s writing style. This one reminds me a lot of John Marrs’ The One without the thriller element.
💜 What I liked:
- I connected with both Jess and River right off the bat which made reading a pure enjoyment. I also was very thankful that there wasn’t a stubborn character that refused to see the proof of their feelings and relationship. In this case, there are MAJOR pride and prejudice vibes.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- This isn’t a dislike, but instead there are statistics, numbers, or science jokes that got lost to me. This doesn’t ruin the story itself at all though.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Juno as a 7 year old was a smart little character. All the characters in this book jive together well and are totally believable.
🚦 The Ending:
- Pretty perfect.
💭 Reminds me of:
- The One meets Pride and Prejudice.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary:
Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents–who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno–Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. After all, her father’s never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before Juno was even born. Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard…and lonely.
But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands. At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. River Pena. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Pena. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. Jess–who is barely making ends meet–is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the “Diamond” pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist–and the science behind a soulmate–than she thought.
Funny, warm, and full of heart, The Soulmate Equation proves that the delicate balance between fate and choice can never be calculated.