I liked that it wasn't River the scientist and Jess being baffled by numbers. She is kind, witty, and smart she is shown to have a full life outside of the relationship we are reading about her goal isn't for a relationship to fix her problems but to strengthen her support system. I particularly liked the tensions between personal and professional actions. But aside from this oddity, I did genuinely find River's character journey in this book to be well done and interesting. It was a little odd when I realized that all their conversations about his earlier behavior were funny.

It wasn't like he was the worlds most terrible person, but he was shown to be a bad tipper who kind of doesn't care about other people because he is very in his own head, which is kind of addressed, but he mostly just seemed so incredibly different once they got together. My least favorite bit of this book is I don't think River's behavior before the pair started dating was adequately addressed.

She mostly seemed to have appropriate kid behavior and was great for providing levity and pushing the plot forward. That will totally be a personal factor in picking this book up or not I found Juno, her daughter, a fun character. There is an eight-year-old in this book I think she is in the book an appropriate amount, it is clear that being a mom is a material part of Jess's everyday life but the whole book isn't about motherhood. I really liked the meta element of Fizzy, Jess' best friend, being a romance author I also just thought Fizzy seemed like an excellent and supportive friend, which I always love in romance. There are little nods to the absolute nonsense surrounding that company other people also obsessed with this will be delighted by the little nods to that.

You could tell that the authors thought deeply about how this kind of company could run ethically at all, they address racial bias, don't stigmatize people wanting to select for social factors in addition to the DNA stuff, you can absolutely tell at least one of the authors was obsessed with the larger narrative around Theranos. There were so many factors about this book that I genuinely really loved. The pair begin to date privately, both very aware of the incentives the other has to make this relationship work. From here, the company convinces Jess to give River a shot offering her money in exchange for participating in press. River is the grumpy and slightly hostile regular at the coffee shop she frequents, who is also one of the company's founders. She ends up with a match, the highest match in the companies history, with River. The Soulmate Equation follows single mom statistician Jess, whose best friend cajoles her into joining a DNA-based dating site. I really had an excellent time reading this book.

The soulmate equation book review