Sandra was a former strong woman until she met Alex. She had to have been a therapist. She knew the right questions to ask, or she carried the aura of a shrink because she created space for these men to open up to her, and by open up, I am talking about details that they hid from the world, that they hid from themselves, details that could make one cry.
Sandra had to be aware that she had that feature because it was too precise. While she was having a conversation with these men, it would appear as if she didn’t know what she was doing until these men started to cry. At first, Sandra was the in-thing. She had all their Love Hacked.
The easiest example one can see is Chuck, the date that the author was narrating in chapter one. Chuck was promising. From the narrator’s narration at the beginning of the book, Chuck was surely going to dominate Sandra, but we were shocked. Okay, let me speak for myself. I was shocked.
- Part 1: Story Line of Love Hacked
- Part 2: Main Characters of Love Hacked
- Part 3: Evaluate Love Hacked
Part 1: Story Line of Love Hacked
Chuck looked ambiguous. Bald headed. Nothing speaks of masculine dominance more than a bald man. No matter how tomboyish a woman is, she would hardly be comfortable except if she is ill. Shout out to the strong ones!
So, Chuck was asking Sandra all the right questions and responding with all the right quirks that would throw her off, but along the line, he just cut his slack and went off in the fan belt. Chuck started narrating the most. Okay, I think I know what Sandra did.
Or, do I? She asked him if he wanted to tell her about how she reminds him of his mother. Chuck started it, by saying that Sandra reminded him of a female that he used to know. Sandra, being a psychotherapist or whatnot, started working on him.
Actually, she had been working on him since. Sandra had all their Love Hacked, indeed. The author tells us that Chuck was her twenty-ninth date and that all the men ended up crying on their way home, and she ended up giving them her assistant’s number. They turned to her friends. Sandra was the queen of friend-zoning these men. The line was drawn for Sandra when the waiter that had always been serving her when she brought all these men to this same restaurant that Chuck was in, piqued an interest in her.
Alex had seen all of Sandra’s twenty-nine dates, including Chuck whom he just witnessed leaving the restaurant in tears as the other twenty-eight men had.
While Sandra was still conversing with Chuck, she confessed that she was not sure Alex liked her. He didn’t behave like other typical men that she came across, and for some reason, he kept a stern expression with her. Alex already knew what Sandra would order. It was the same thing she ordered with every single one of these men that never succeeded in taking her home.
Sandra always sent them home. At this point, I would love to believe that Alex couldn’t take it anymore. He had seen Sandra disgrace twenty-nine men, and he just could not hold back anymore, so he sat in Chuck’s seat as soon as Chuck left, waiting for Sandra to return from sending Chuck away, and giving him her assistant, Thomas’s card as usual.
By the time Sandra returned from seeing Chuck off, she saw Alex on the seat Chuck was sitting on initially, and he was eating the food she ordered, and drinking her wine. This was the beginning of one different romantic relationship for Sandra after failing twenty-nine times.
, she didn’t fail, the men failed her, apart from Alex. Alex was stoic. It was not easy to get Love Hacked like the other men that Sandra had conquered.
Part 2: Main Characters of Love Hacked
Sandra
Sandra was a shrink. She could make the men open up to her to the extent that they lost their sense of self and burst into tears due to untreated childhood trauma.
It was a regular occurrence and Sandra had started to accept it for what it was. She might never end up securing any of these men, but she would end up as friends with them. The queen of friend-zoning. According to the author, it always ended up like this.
The men will be interested in Sandra, invite her to dinner at the restaurant she likely would pick by herself, and then she would work her magic on them, make them cry, and become their go-to friend later on in life for whatever therapy they needed.
All this changed when Alex entered her life through the front door. If Sandra thought that she had all the means Love Hacked, Alex was about to show her that he could have her Love Hacked too.
Alex
Alex was a waiter at the restaurant where Sandra brought all the men that took her on a date to. He had witnessed every single one of them break into tears at the end of the date, and he could not imagine himself not knowing what Sandra was about.
What was she telling them that made them cry so passionately? And after the date, she would pat them as if they were her sons, and then send them home. He had witnessed this happen for long enough until the last straw, Chuck. After Sandra sent Chuck home, Alex came forward to meet her officially. Unlike other men, he didn’t give her an avenue to toss him around.
That had to be what she was doing to these other men that made them lose their masculinity the way they did, right? And, at the end of the day, Sandra fell for Alex. Someone different from everyone else, someone that she could not lead by the tip of her fingers.
Part 3: Evaluate Love Hacked
Love Hacked is a witty book. I guarantee that you will hardly be able to drop this book as soon as you start reading from the first chapter.
As cliche as the plot is, the author, Penny Reid did justice to it. But, why were those men crying every time? It was funny to read that part. When I read the synopsis of the book, I initially thought that Sandra, the lead female used to hit these men when they became too masculine her. It could be ordinary words that they said innocently that triggered her and then she hit them.
That was what I thought. Unknown to me that they used to open up to her and trigger unhealed past traumas in their lives and start crying. I also loved to see that she met someone that she was not able to break the way she had supposedly broken other men. It’s a ten out of ten from me for this brilliant book.
