The Love Algorithm – Camilla Isley

True Love
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At 28, with a Ph.D under her belt and a meteoric rise to head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics, Reese feels her decision to put her career first has worked out pretty well for her. Sure, she doesn’t have many personal relationships to speak of, but she does love her team and they like her too. So when she’s called to the Big Boss’s office and told she will be looking after his son while he does a rotation in her lab, she’s not thrilled that her hard work and achievements have boiled down to being a glorified babysitter – especially to a billionaire playboy with zero experience of mechanical engineering. But then tall, blond Thomas walks into her office, and Reese realizes this assignment is going to be even harder than she thought. Because the CEO’s son is not only extraordinarily gorgeous, chiseled, and charming… he’s also on course to become her new boss one day, and so extraordinarily out of bounds. As the pair get to know each other, can Reese hold her nerve and her beliefs, or will she fall victim to the billionaire charm?

This book contains:

Public sexual interactions
Workplace relationships
Inappropriate power dynamic relationship
Toxic masculinity regarding a woman’s professional knowledge, competence and ability.

Reese is the embodiment of so many women in the workplace. She’s a woman, in a STEM field, as a boss at a young age, excelling. And yet, as soon as certain men don’t get what they think they deserve from her, they try to tear her down and smear her reputation. And yet she doesn’t let that stop her and just keeps doing what she loves. That is the strength of so many women, and she embodies it perfectly.

Thomas on the other hand is (at first) a classic nepo baby being handed his career on a silver platter. He’s the opposite of Reese in so many ways. And yet, in the end, he surprises you in many good ways that you must read to find out.

Thomas’s father has a plan for Thomas to work hard to learn about the business, earning the respect of the other managers before it’s time for him to take over as CEO of the entire company. And the first step of this plan is for Thomas to rotate through all the areas of the business, starting with Reese’s department.

We follow Reese and Thomas as he spends time in her department, learning about robotics engineering. And whatever he can about Reese.

I consider myself to be a feminist, even if by some feminist’s standards I don’t even hit the base bottom rung of their expectations of what a feminist should be.

But I think regardless of what you think feminism is, Reese and surprisingly, Thomas, embody what you’d imagine positive feminism to be. At least, I think so.

Reese achieved her position through her skill and brilliance. Thomas is attracted to her BECAUSE of her brilliance. And when her success is challenged or threatened by other men, Thomas backs her up and supports her dreams.

While he does have his moments of typical nepo baby idiocy. He’s a surprisingly mature, supportive and all-around good guy. The type of guy that you’d want to hate (because he’s a nepo baby), and yet you just can’t because he’s so authentically nice and sincere.