4.5 stars for enjoyment but I don't like to pretend that a book is amazing just because of that. Loved the setting as I am a grad student working in academia/humanities. The tension between Olive and Adam actually got to me which doesn't happen often. But I will say that most of the romance aspects of this felt either trope-y or forced. It didn't help that the author uses a side character to basically entangle the protagonist and her fake boyfriend into all sorts of romance genre cliches. Yes, I did internally scream in happiness at them all yet technically, it didn't feel cleverly executed.