Below Zero

This was my favourite of the STEMinist novellas.

On the third instalment of “The STEMinist Novellas” we get to know Hannah, who discovered late in her adolescence a passion for Space and puts a great effort to be able to join NASA, and Ian, who is a genius working at the space agency since he was 18.
The story is told by interspersing the present and the past, allowing us to get to know Hannah and to understand the passion flowing between them.

As the previous novellas, the conflict arises from miscommunication. However, despite my hate for the trope, in this case it didn't bother me too much.

I enjoyed both Hannah, which is a badass scientist, and Ian, which is amazing and falls hard. I feel this story could have been novel length as there are a lot of things about the characters, we don't have the opportunity to know and that could have been explored. Additionally, it would have been interesting to know more about the projects, about working in Nasa and what happened to Dr. Merel.

I think this story might suffer being the last of the three. There are a lot of similarities between the novellas and even with the Love hypothesis. It is becoming hard to review each story independently because they mostly read the same. I really hope Ali will write something different next time, avoiding miscommunication and BIG guys.

This was an entertaining read and I recommend it for contemporary romance readers.