Love Is an Algorithm: A Smart and Funny Novel About Dating Apps, Human Connection and What Algorithms Can't Predict about Love

“Joyful, generous and smart.” 
—Holly Gramazio, New York Times bestselling author of The Husbands

A March Book of the Month pick!

Take the uncertainty out of love with Pattern, it's more than just a dating app!

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 experiment: How do you fall and stay in love in the digital age?

Laura Brooke Robson grew up in Oregon and studied English and Creative Writing at Stanford. She is the author of three young adult novels, and her adult debut, A Curse for the Homesick, was published to stellar reviews in 2025. She lives in New York.