In this heartwarming and whip-smart YA spin on The Rosie Project, a teen girl is determined to prove that love, like all things, should be scientifically quantifiedâŚright?
Iris Oxtabee has managed to navigate the tricky world of unspoken social interactions by reading everything from neuroscience journals to Wikipedia articles. Science has helped her fit the puzzle pieces into an understandable whole, and sheâs sure thereâs nothing it canât explain. Love, for example, is just chemistry.
Her best friend Seth, however, believes love is one of lifeâs beautiful and chaotic mysteries, without need for explanation. Iris isnât one to back down from a challenge; sheâs determined to prove love is really nothing more than hormones and external stimuli. After all, science has allowed humanity to understand more complex mysteries than that, and Iris excels at science.
The perfect way to test her theory? Get the popular and newly-single Theo Grant, who doesnât even know Iris exists, to ask her to prom. With prom just two weeks away, Iris doesnât have any time to waste, so she turns her keen empirical talents and laser-focus attention to testing her theory.
But will proving herself correct cause her friendship with Sethâand the tantalizing possibility for something moreâto become the failed experiment?