Series: The Fix #3
Genre: Romantic Comedy
~Blurb~
Abby Thompson’s love life is a disaster. Everyone around her is blissfully falling in love, while she’s busy binge watching anime. The last thing she needs is a walking temptation, in the form of ex-nerd turned dreamy astrophysics professor, Spencer Hill, aka her new client.
It’s her job to find Spencer his dream home, NOT fantasize about a ride on his space rocket. But the sparks between them are impossible to ignore, and soon, Abby is wondering if her losing streak in love could be turning around.
Can she get over her anxiety he’s got her out-brained, and can he let go of the past and the fear that the girl he crushed on in high school is still out of his league?
~Book Review~
3 Stars
Spencer Hill is
an astrophysicist working at the university in his old home town in New
Hampshire. Abby Thompson is the peppy
younger sister to Noah and Asher from the first two books. Acquaintances back
in high school, when Spencer needs a realtor, his mother knows who to call.
Like the heroes
in the series books before him, Spencer is an upstanding guy—a real gentleman.
“I’m not going to make her jealous, and I’m not going to force myself on her.”
He avoids some
popular romance pitfalls, displaying his maturity and intelligence. While Noah
remains my favorite hero from this series, Spencer is a good guy too.
Abby was a cute
supporting character in the previous books, seemingly confident and even a bit
of a matchmaker so I was disappointed when Abby’s insecurities showed in her
own relationship. Eventually she handled it well, but I would have had more
respect for her if she’d also confided in/conversed with Spencer about her
feelings.
Fitting with the
rest of the series, the story is low angst and slow burn. While the steam level
has never been high, I don’t know what happened with this one. The sex scenes
are fade-to-black or skipped over. It definitely could have benefited from some
more details and to be spiced up.
One other item
to note, which pulled me out of the story to ponder and felt a bit awkward
dialogue wise. There’s what I would deem an inaccurate exchange between Abby
and Spencer where Abby claims that all professors are doctors in regards to the
titles Spencer and his colleague go by, which Spencer confirms, and then
asserts that ‘professor’ is a cooler name than ‘doctor.’ While the later could be construed as simply
her opinion, most Ph.D holders I’ve ever known would certainly prefer ‘Dr.’
over ‘professor’ when being addressed since they put in the time and study and
earned that degree. In fact, some professors would even take offense to not
being called ‘Dr.’ The terms are not entirely interchangeable as most but not
all professors (post secondary teachers) hold doctorate degrees. You can teach
at a college level with a master’s as well (probably more likely an adjunct
position as opposed to tenure track); hence often where the ‘professor’ title
is used by the students since they can’t call them “Dr.” While ‘Professor’ is
the highest ranking position as opposed to ‘Associate Professor’ and ‘Assistant
Professor’ among the faculty hierarchy, typically students don’t pay a lot of
attention to that.
Told via Abby
and Spencer’s alternating first person POV, this third book in the series can
be read as a standalone. The previous couples make appearances.
Available at other retailers soon
~Also Available~
Carey Heywood is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author. She was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. Supporting her all the way are her husband, three sometimes-adorable children, a mischievous black cat, German Shepherd rescue puppy, and their nine-pound attack Yorkie.
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