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Summary: Refreshing...
Review: I really think this is different. Usually in romance novels, we could see alot of action done by the gentlemen. But, Genevive is the 'hero'-ine here. She is the one with the action and she is the one the inventor.
Read for your self, it is a fun read. I hope though that the secondary love scene between her mother and her boss is not taking so much space. Bcs, by the time we got back to Gen and Jack, we lose the certain feeling that we got from their previous scene.
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Summary: Wow...big let down...not what I was led to believe....
Review: I was thrilled to finally read a 'stranded on a deserted island' book at last, (they are hard to come by)and was immensely let down.
Slow and off-track, the story begins okay, then takes a sharp nosedive in which it never recovers.
Too many secondary characters getting the limelight for too long.
The humor was forced and frankly...not funny.(wince, sorry) Too many hillbilly jokes and talk, reminded me of a certain show...in Beverly Hills? Hillbillies...hmmm...
The hero was supposed to be a nerd, that I expected, but he was just plain dorky, feminine and weak. Not hero material. He whined and complained like a teenage boy at times and I wanted to strangle him, lol. Ther heroine was the true 'hero' of the story.
Not that she was such a deep character herself. She patronized the hero to death and spoke to him as if she were above him. Frankly she irritated me to no end. They didn't belong together. It was far from the sexy stranded on a deserted island story I was expecting.
I struggled through this one, or waded so to speak.
In short, its about a nerd who gets stranded with his dream woman from work on an island in the South Pacific and finds out she is all the woman he ever dreamed she'd be and she finds out he is no nerd who works in the computer room at work, but a sexy and great guy she needs to catch.
Fair warning, the book is taken halfway with her mother's romance and her boss's lives. Not much 'screen time' for the main characters.Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: Because I love Kelly Ripa...
Review: I bought this book because I find Kelly Ripa so adorable, and she choose it for her book club. It was a book that was painful to finish...you know the type, you start skimming just to finish it. It was so silly and I hate when reading a book feels like a waste of time. It was really that bad. Just for the record, I really did want to like this book! The "About the Author" was the only funny page.
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Summary: WOW! Loved this sexy, sassy, very different book!
Review: I love romances, all kinds, but it's so hard to find one that's really different. This one really is! The hero is this lovable, smart "nerd" who comes into his own when he's stranded with the girl of his dreams. Their hot, sensual relationship is wonderfully balanced by the secondary romance between the heroine's mother & boss (just loved that autumn romance!) I also really loved Gen's younger brother--what a great, true teenager. The humor was terrific--sharp and campy, at the same time. Loved the Elvis underwear story, loved the way Gen fell back on her mountain roots to help them survive on the island. Just loved it altogether!
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Summary: Geek Me
Review: Vicki Lewis Thompson is a charming and witty authoress, as her latest foray in fiction proves. With a prolific & impressive back catalogue, one is astonished at her continual inventiveness & relevance. This book is no exception, tackling the pertinent issue of masculinity in an evolving culture.
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Summary: Great Romantic Comedy
Review: Genevieve Terrence is really a hillbilly at heart. Her mother moved her and her brother to Hawaii to give them a better life than what they could have gotten in the hills and hollows of Tennessee. Genevieve and her mother have both tried hard to bury their roots. Genevieve works as a secretary for a software firm. She's heard all the rumors about her boss Nick and his "business trips" to Maui but she knows that if he ever takes her, she'll be the woman to settle him down. When Nick finally asks Genevieve to accompany him to Maui, she jumps at the chance. Jackson Farley is a genius at writing software, but he is a total social misfit. He's color blind so his clothes often don't match and he gets so wrapped up in writing his software that he forgets everything, and everyone, else. Jackson fell in love with Genevieve the moment he saw her. She's always been kind to him and they've developed a nice friendship. When Jackson is asked to accompany Genevieve and Nick on the trip to Maui, he thinks maybe he can protect Genevieve from Nick.
During the flight, Nick proves to be a real jerk and ends up bailing out of the plane with the only parachute. This is a real problem because he's the pilot. Jackson end up putting all his hours playing with his computer flight simulator to use and crash lands the plane in water off the coast of a deserted island. Jack (a man that can crash land a plane safely should be called Jack instead of Jackson) and Genevieve swim to shore where they set about working to survive the night. Genevieve puts all the skills she learned growing up in Tennessee to use and does a lot towards saving them. Jack turns out to be a hunk under all his nerd clothes and to be very chivalrous. He is what a romantic hero should be. Ms. Thompson writes with a lot of humor. I would highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Tries too Hard to be funny
Review: I wanted to like Nerd in Shining Armor. I really did. After all, I'm a nerd, and its nice to see one of us get some time in the spotlight at least once and a while....But this book's humor fell flat and seemed forced at least to this reader, and I disliked the 'hillbilly' humor which I felt was quite corny, and at times embarrassing bad. The heroines says things like: "Tarnation Jackson, you're slower than a coon dog with a full belly!" I don't know... I really cringed. It just wasn't even remotely funny and seemed quite hard for me to believe that a modern heroine would speak like that.
Also, I felt the writing especially at the beginning needed some improvement. The writer tells us things and doesn't SHOW us. Do we really need the silly tale about Elvis's underwear, and the whole Beverly Hillbilly thing about coming to Hawaii? Couldn't that have been edited out, in favor of dropping us into some form of juicy office scene illustrating the situation for the characters?
What I DID feel the author did well was when she wrote things from the male perspective, in particular Jackson's point of view. These sections and insights into the hero's character were actually really good, and I wish were expanded in favor of dropping some scenes with the secondary romantic couple (a redundant romance involving her mother). Jackson needed more 'air time' and the secondary cast needed a little less.
Overall, this author's brand of humor just did NOT appeal to me. I found myself skipping over parts to get to the end to find out what happened... This might appeal to people who can overlook modern people saying things like "Tarnation, moonshine, etc." For me, it left me feeling let down.
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Summary: Revenge of the nerd!
Review: Generieve Terrence's scheme to jump in the sack with her GQ-hunk of a boss Nick Brogan when she accompanies him on a trip to Maui turns nightmarishly awry. The twist comes when Nick is an psychotic embezzler who concocts a plan to crash the plane along with geeky programmer Jack Farley and her secretary and parachute his way out. The full-length debut by Harlequin veteran Vicki Lewis Thompson is at once a heart-thumping revenge of the nerds which chucks stereotypes to the bin. It is boisterous fun and sass as readers soak themselves in the sunny chemistry between Jack and Gen and fan themselves under the heat of their sizzling passion. Jack charms with sincerity as the leading alpha-male who saves the day while Gen regains her former feisty self as a triumphant survivor in poverty-stricken Tennessee. And no less compelling is the secondary romance between Gen's mother Annabelle and Matt - the acting executive at Gen's company. Ms. Thompson's characters are immensely amicable, complete with tart parlance and wits to make this a riotous trip of love and fun.
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Summary: A sexy, funny read
Review: This book was one of the best I've read this year. It was sexy, funny and sweet. I'd highly recommend it to anyone needing a break from the alpha hero. Trust me, Jack is yummy without being alpha.
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Summary: Wishing for my nerd in shining armor
Review: Jackson "Jack" Farley has lusted over Genevive Terrence for months... actually since the first time he saw her at the company they both work. She's a secretary and he's a programer and lives immerse in his computer and his own virtual reality.
Genevive is beautiful and sophisticated and is everything Jack wants. Unfurtunately for Jack, Genevive thinks that Nick (her boss) is the man of her dreams. So when Nick finally asks her to go with him to a "meeting trip" to Maui she is more than willing to go... with a good amount of condoms for a day! However, and too bad for Genevive and Nick's plans, Jack is also sent in this trip to fix a program for a company in Maui. Little did they knew that Nick had other plans of his own, so Jack and Genevive end up stranded in an island far from Maui. No one knows they are there. They have no food, water, but they DO have a very nice host (a shark that comes out everytime they hit the water). Soon Jack discovers that Genevive is not as sophisticated as he thought, but instead of being turned off by this new image of his goddess, he's even more attracted (talk about prince charming!) And Genevive discovers that this nerd is a knight in shining armor, more than willing to do anything it takes to keep her safe (God, I need one of this!).
The story is well paced, funny, heart warming and very real. It is not "Oh my god! I'm in love" after 5 minutes of being in the island together. Their attraction grows and you can see, easily, why she falls in love with him, and why she fears this. But even if he didnt have enough self confidence to go after her before, after everything that happens between them in the island, he gains some self confidence and is willing to gain her and prove her that what they have is AT LEAST worth a shot.
One of the things I really loved about the book, is that despite the fact that she's a hottie, she has brains and manners and even more, she's not fussy about things and is very nice to Jack even before they got stranded. In short she's as nice as they get. And Jack is not the typical alpha male (thank god for that), but he puts his foot down when he has to. He's too cute for his own good. He has brains, manners, chivalry, sweetness and firmness.... and a body to drool over!
I really did enjoy this book and I highly recomend it.
I just wish I could get a Jack for myself!!!!
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