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Love Is an Algorithm
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Expected 31 Mar 26
Pattern is more than just a dating app—it’s your friendly relationship coach. It will tell you whether you should invest in learning your partner’s love language (quality time!) or pull the escape hatch (red flags galore!). The latest version of Pattern includes Bug, a friendly AI chatbot guaranteed to give you bespoke relationship advice and help revitalize that spark. Take the uncertainty out of love!
Eve wants to make music that's fueled by love, passion, and rage (feelings!). She trusts her gut and her friends and in no way wants to rely on technology, let alone AI, to tell her how she feels. Danny is anxious—about his dad, his dating life, his coffee order (why is it twelve dollars?), and about the dating app he helped create, which seems determined to serve him terrible matches.
When Eve and Danny start dating, it feels like the solution to all of Danny’s worries—except when it doesn’t. Is she happy? Should he be doing more? Or less? This becomes the catalyst for a revolutionary new version of Danny’s app that promises to quantify relationship health and potential, helping users understand what's really going on. Problem solved!
As Pattern and Bug, the ever-so-friendly AI assistant, catch fire, users everywhere begin outsourcing major life decisions to Danny’s algorithms. But as Danny reckons with his newfound success, Eve—whose career relies on her ability to write her emotions into song—grows increasingly skeptical of the app’s impact on genuine connection. Their relationship becomes the ultimate modern How do you fall and stay in love in the digital age?
Eve wants to make music that's fueled by love, passion, and rage (feelings!). She trusts her gut and her friends and in no way wants to rely on technology, let alone AI, to tell her how she feels. Danny is anxious—about his dad, his dating life, his coffee order (why is it twelve dollars?), and about the dating app he helped create, which seems determined to serve him terrible matches.
When Eve and Danny start dating, it feels like the solution to all of Danny’s worries—except when it doesn’t. Is she happy? Should he be doing more? Or less? This becomes the catalyst for a revolutionary new version of Danny’s app that promises to quantify relationship health and potential, helping users understand what's really going on. Problem solved!
As Pattern and Bug, the ever-so-friendly AI assistant, catch fire, users everywhere begin outsourcing major life decisions to Danny’s algorithms. But as Danny reckons with his newfound success, Eve—whose career relies on her ability to write her emotions into song—grows increasingly skeptical of the app’s impact on genuine connection. Their relationship becomes the ultimate modern How do you fall and stay in love in the digital age?
304 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication March 31, 2026
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About the author
Laura Brooke Robson
4 books181 followersI am the author of A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK. I live in New York.
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October 11, 2025
Love Is an Algorithm is a thought-provoking look at life and love in the age of AI. Eve is a singer/songwriter who makes music driven by emotion. Danny is the co-founder of a dating app that uses an AI chatbot which analyzes and scores users’ relationships. The two begin dating and the book begs the question: does AI make connection easier or harder?
Laura Brooke Robson explores how much we rely on technology and how that dependence might make it more challenging to communicate in our relationships. Can technology quantify something messy and human as love? I found this book refreshing, insightful, and surprisingly human for a story about algorithms. It left me thinking about how connection and communication have evolved, and what we might be losing along the way.
Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing | Park Row for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!
Laura Brooke Robson explores how much we rely on technology and how that dependence might make it more challenging to communicate in our relationships. Can technology quantify something messy and human as love? I found this book refreshing, insightful, and surprisingly human for a story about algorithms. It left me thinking about how connection and communication have evolved, and what we might be losing along the way.
Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing | Park Row for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!
October 14, 2025
Love is an Algorithm feels like a concerningly real story of people of all ages turning towards AI to be the answer to all kinds of tough relationship moments. Danny and Julian start by making an AI dating app which quickly goes beyond helping you to meet your match to grading the relationship and guiding along. I think it would have been very easy to turn the story of Danny and Eve (Julian’s sister and Danny’s eventually girlfriend) into a ‘Black Mirror’-esque dystopian tale of AI making it so humans never have a real conversation again but I think that Laura Brooke Robson gives us insight into a more realistic (and therefore scarier) future.
Love is an Algorithm is hard to put down - the prose glides along nicely the pace is enjoyable and it’s easy to get sucked in. I enjoyed how the book is separated into little sections, sometimes only about a page in length, but still keeps a rhythm throughout. I have yet to be disappointed by Brooke Robson and although this is in a much more contemporary (and conventional) setting then previous works Love is an Algorithm still delivers with an engaging story told in a lovely way.
A big thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!
Love is an Algorithm is hard to put down - the prose glides along nicely the pace is enjoyable and it’s easy to get sucked in. I enjoyed how the book is separated into little sections, sometimes only about a page in length, but still keeps a rhythm throughout. I have yet to be disappointed by Brooke Robson and although this is in a much more contemporary (and conventional) setting then previous works Love is an Algorithm still delivers with an engaging story told in a lovely way.
A big thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!
October 9, 2025
I read this as an ARC through Netgalley!
Two words: compulsively readable. Laura Brooke Robson once again demonstrates her masterful command of humor, tone, and character work. Everyone in this story was so lovable and forgivable and human. I saw myself in every one of them, even Fletcher, the embarrassing ultra runner ex-boyfriend who won’t use brand names for things. I thought the satire of tech was sharp, original, and funny; the love story was vulnerable, honest, and sweet. I will be recommending this book to everyone I know.
Two words: compulsively readable. Laura Brooke Robson once again demonstrates her masterful command of humor, tone, and character work. Everyone in this story was so lovable and forgivable and human. I saw myself in every one of them, even Fletcher, the embarrassing ultra runner ex-boyfriend who won’t use brand names for things. I thought the satire of tech was sharp, original, and funny; the love story was vulnerable, honest, and sweet. I will be recommending this book to everyone I know.
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*thank you to Park Row for the ARC*
*thank you to Park Row for the ARC*
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October 3, 2025The following book reviews have been shared by Text Publishing, publisher of Love Is an Algorithm.
‘A cutting satire of tech startups, New York City, and dating, the novel is necessary reading for anyone trying to figure out who they are and what they want in the era of social media.’
Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld
‘Warm, funny, emotional, propulsive and real—a beautiful love story.’
Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
‘I loved this book! Smart, funny, immensely readable, and deeply insightful about how we make art, fall in love, and connect with each other in the age of AI. With its sharp humour and delightful dialogue, Love is an Algorithm was exactly the book I needed—I tore through it. You will too!’
Else Fitzgerald, author of Everything Feels Like the End of the World
‘Robson has crafted a compelling love story examining intimacy, vulnerability, and communication in the modern age.’
Margarita Montimore, author of The Dollhouse Academy
‘A cutting satire of tech startups, New York City, and dating, the novel is necessary reading for anyone trying to figure out who they are and what they want in the era of social media.’
Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld
‘Warm, funny, emotional, propulsive and real—a beautiful love story.’
Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
‘I loved this book! Smart, funny, immensely readable, and deeply insightful about how we make art, fall in love, and connect with each other in the age of AI. With its sharp humour and delightful dialogue, Love is an Algorithm was exactly the book I needed—I tore through it. You will too!’
Else Fitzgerald, author of Everything Feels Like the End of the World
‘Robson has crafted a compelling love story examining intimacy, vulnerability, and communication in the modern age.’
Margarita Montimore, author of The Dollhouse Academy
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