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Showing posts with label nerds. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

REVIEW - GIRL LEAST LIKELY TO MARRY

"Tuck is used to people assuming he's all brawn and no brain, and amuses himself by winding Cassie up. But when he finally takes her to bed, suddenly it's Tuck who can show Cassie a thing or two! Can he convince her that love and sex have nothing to do with logic and everything to do with chemistry?"

Author: Amy Andrews
Pages: 224 pages
Publisher: Harlequin Publishing on July 23rd 2013
Form: E-book (from NetGalley for an honest review)
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: Wedding Season: Miniseries #2
Amazon: Buy / $4.99 (Paperback)EU price, click to see yours )
Barnes & Noble: Buy / $4.99 (Paperback)
Harlequin: Buy / $3.99 (E-book)
Excerpt: Chapter 1

"Talk nerdy to me...

Samuel Tucker is absolutely the last person scientist Cassie Barclay would ever date. Yes, he's gorgeous, but he's also far too cocky for his own good and thinks that Pi is a tasty afternoon treat. So when he asks her to dance at her friend Reese's non-wedding she's wondering why on earth she says yes!

Tuck is used to people assuming he's all brawn and no brain, and amuses himself by winding Cassie up. But when he finally takes her to bed, suddenly it's Tuck who can show Cassie a thing or two! Can he convince her that love and sex have nothing to do with logic and everything to do with chemistry?"  ~ From Goodreads


This is the second book in the miniseries Wedding Season, where I wasn't fan of the first book I absolutely adored this one! Then again I've always been nerdy, an astronomy geek and sci-fi fan evident by my FinnCon Weekend. ;) Cassie is like Big Bang Theory's Sheldon, just female and slightly less comical, she can't fathom why Tuck is her choice of drug, and she's mad as hell she can't focus on work with him in the same city. Cue in one night in bed to appease the lust to clear head... that turns into three nights in bed and soon Tuck has some logic she finds hard to argue with when he moves into her University town.

I loved Cassie, though her logic was infuriating at times, pretty much anything you threw at her she brushed off with logic, not just saying she didn't mind ( like us females tend to do ), but really, not giving a shit. Which left Tuck slagged jawed. Of course Cassie's innocence sex wise was adorable, she'd never orgasmed in her life, and Tuck was more than happy to open those gates for her. Of course for there to be a happy ending she needed to do some thorough girl time to figure out what us readers already knew.

Then Tuck, ex-quarterback, playboy, used to of blond and silicone sees a challenge in Cassie who brushes off his advances at a Wedding, next morning she's back to her nerdy clothes but to Tuck's surprise she's still attractive to her. Where Cassie's story arc is pretty much consistent through out, minus the end, Tuck's is much more broad, he's developing psychologically, emotionally and  providing that springing board to Cassie as well. It's lovely to see a guy appreciate a woman for other than make-up and good looks, or slim waist and giant boobs - he truly dig into why he liked Cassie, the brain, the care not attitude her ethics and her quirky ways. Loved a guy as sexy as Tuck fall for a nerd girl with genius IQ.

This for all us nerdy, high IQ girls out there... and to those who love a sexy blond quarterback with a geek girl fetish. ;)

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Monday, April 15, 2013

REVIEW - THE GEEK GIRLS AND THE SCANDALOUS EARL

"Micah Axelby, Earl of Dunnington, has just kicked one mistress out of his bed, and isn't looking to fill it with another—least of all this sassy, nearly naked girl who claims to be from the future. Jamie and Micah are worlds apart. She’s wi-fi. He’s horse-drawn. But soon the pair will do anything to avoid a Game Over..."

Author: Gina Lamm
Pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Sourcebook Casablanca on March 2013
Form: E-book (from NetGalley for an honest review)
Genre: Paranormal Romance / Time-Travel
Series: Geek Girls #1
Amazon: Buy / $5.79 (Kindle)EU price, click to see yours )
Barnes & Noble: Buy / $5.59 (Nook)
Sourcebooks: Buy / $6.99 (Paperback)
Excerpt: Chapters 1 & 2

"THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER…

An avid gamer, Jamie Marten loves to escape into online adventure. But when she falls through an antique mirror into a lavish bedchamber—200 years in the past!—she realizes she may have escaped a little too far.

Micah Axelby, Earl of Dunnington, has just kicked one mistress out of his bed, and isn't looking to fill it with another—least of all this sassy, nearly naked girl who claims to be from the future. Yet something about her is undeniably enticing…

Jamie and Micah are worlds apart. He’s a peer of the realm. She can barely make rent. She’s wi-fi. He’s horse-drawn. But soon the pair will do anything to avoid a Game Over."  ~ From Goodreads


The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl is a light spirited romance with lots of giggles, faux pas of societal nature and story of love that surpasses the London ton's norms and 200 years and whole lot of clothing differences. Gina Lamm writes both funny and heartwarming, it's no chore to read The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl when so much happens on both fields, plus she has great way of writing dialogue that is genuine and entertaining.

Jamie was your typical geek girl, a hint of fandom and online gaming and lot of spunk and guts, I liked her putting some things in order in regency England, and her battle with clothing and what a girl is supposed to be doing in that time, I knew no matter how much she loved the Earl that eventually she just couldn't stay.

Micah was your perfect aristocratic, arrogant and uptight man, straight out of Jane Austin novel! As annoying as that was, I quickly warmed up to him when he begun to warm up to Jamie. Then again when he thought he was doing all the right things he was annoying again - I suppose I had a love and hate relationship with Micah, not too different from Jamie. ;)

The romance was sweet, it was slow burning but when it got hot, boy it got hot! Of course being 200 years apart gave a healthy dollop of problems to them, as well as the pesky wench ex-mistress of the Earl's and her murderous twists.

In all this story was great for us little bit geeky girls who love to read historical romance!

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