The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science—or is it fate? Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One.
Cassie's Review
I am a sucker for single parent romances, and Christina Lauren blew me away with this book. River and Jess’s relationships starts in a very unusual way, and it makes this book standout brightly.
River was amazingly swoony. Smart, driven, slightly grumpy, made him into an instant book boyfriend.
Christina Lauren have a gift for creating these stories with amazing family dynamics. Especially the families the characters choose as their own. Readers easily fall in love with them because they feel so real.
The side character of Fizzy was an utter delight. She kept me laughing all the way through the book.
I already am looking forward to the next book this author duo writes!
Ashley’s Review
I've read and enjoyed a few books by Christina Lauren over the last few years, and the synopsis of The Soulmate Equation immediately attracted me. - Soulmates discovered through DNA? Tell me more.
Single mom Jess Davis is a skeptic, but her author best friend buys her a test kit. During a particularly low moment, she spits in the vial despite her doubts. When she matches, at an unheard of 98%, with the DNA matchmaking company's super hot founder Dr. River Pena, the statistician in Jess cannot ignore it. The woman in Jess cannot ignore Dr. Pena when his company pays her to fake date him ahead of the company's launch.
Fake dating, single-parent romance? Sign me up. This is a funny, warm, easy read that I definitely recommend.
Thank you to Netgalley and Gallery Books for the eARC!
Blurb
Single mom Jessica 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 was never 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 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: one of GeneticAlly’s founders, Dr. River Peña. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Peña. 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 Match” that could launch GeneticAlly’s valuation sky-high, 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.
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