The Power of Friendship

Olive’s decision to fake date Adam, Anh’s pressure on Olive to report Tom, and Holden’s determination to protect Adam from Tom are all examples of the power of friendship that are included in the novel The Love Hypothesis.

Olive is so determined to see her friend, Anh, happy, that she pretends to date a man she does not even know to ensure Anh will feel free to date Olive’s ex-boyfriend. Olive has seen that there is a real attraction between Anh and Jeremy and realizes that sort of attraction does not exist between herself and Jeremy. As Olive explains to Adam after she kissed him: “Long story short, after Jeremy and I ended things, he asked Anh out. She said no because of . . . girl code and all that, but I can tell that she really likes him. She’s...