Single mom Jess 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’s never been 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% compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. River Pena. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Pena. 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” pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist—and the science behind a soulmate—than she thought.
Have you ever had a book on your TBR for so long that it starts to scare you? You start to think “what if it’s not good? What if I’ve been looking forward to this for so long and I absolutely hate it?”
I was feeling this way about The Soulmate Equation until I finally took the plunge and read it.
… And I absolutely loved it!
I read this book straight through, in less than six hours! It was hard to put this down to be a person!
The Soulmate Equation is the story of Jess, a statistician who sits in a coffeeshop every day with her best friend Fizzy, an author, to focus on their work. They often see this grump picking up his order in the coffeeshop, and when they overhear that he created a company that uses DNA to match people to their soulmates, they need to know more!
The two best friends send in their DNA to the company, and Jess is convinced nothing really is going to come of it… until she gets called in one day to hear the news that she has a match. A 98% compatibility match. With the grumpy founder of the company.
There’s a bit more details and mystery to the book than that, but as I said before, I really loved reading this book! I’m definitely kicking myself for letting this book rot away in the depths of my kindle for two years (despite buying and owning a copy all this time…), and I may even use this experience as an excuse to pick up more books by Christina Lauren!
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