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Finally a book in which the narrating voice and central figure is a mature, positive one-- a woman with a healthy self esteem and a optimistic view of life! I adored Sandra, the main female character. I loved her mixture of maturity/depth--the psychiatrist healing the world--with the touch of child-like naughtiness in her. It was wonderful for once to meet a romance heroin with a great sense of humor that was non-sarcastic. Her funny Pearl of Wisdom about "Owning the Wooky costume" is something I will always remember.

I loved Alex. I loved his nearly brutal honesty and his aloof unconventionality. Penny Reid did an amazing job portraying someone with high functioning Asperger's/Autistic Spectrum Disorder and STILL manage to make him super sexy. His "woundedness" was very believable, and makes you want to cradle him in your arms.

I loved the huge amounts of laugh out loud lines AND also of heart tearing deep lines as well as the ultimate message: that the only effective healing for our wounds is unconditional love.

Finally: I loved the way the author has evolved in her comfort level with erotic scenes since her first book. I praised her first book "Neanderthal Seeks Human" for relying on non-explicit narration of sex scenes. Then I praised the second book "Friends without benefits" for offering an alternative more subtle version (PG-13 to R rated) in addition to also offering the explicit (R rated to kind of X rated) version of the sex scenes. This book is non-apologetic and generous on steamy, sexy scenes. Yet, she does such a great job building the sexual tension during the first half to three quarters of the book, that when the moment of the truth comes you are BEGGING for the explicitness.

Yet again, my favorite part is the so-well crafted characters. Other romance authors I have read before tend to recycle the same main characters with minimal variation. That is NOT the case with Penny Reid. This is the third book I read from her (and my favorite so far) and the main characters could not be more different from each other. I am very impressed.

I'm hooked now. I look forward to continuing to read more and more from this author.


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Love Hacked A reluctant romance Knitting in the City Book 3 edition by Penny Reid Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

I thought I was going to love this book but I think it's my least favorite of Reid's books so far. It started out well typical Reid funniness.

The problem was that as the novel progressed I realized that I didn't like Sandra that much, and that I found Alex's feelings for Sandra to not be credible. Sandra was nice enough at first but as she and Alex started to get involved I really felt like she treated Alex like garbage. She was frustrated that he wasn't ready to have sex with her, and she got all snitty about it. If a male hero had pulled that same schtick on a heroine who wasn't quite ready to get physical, I think most readers would have been mad. So why is okay for Sandra to do the same to Alex? It really made me dislike Sandra.

The other problem with this romance is that Alex was madly in love, and declaring his love, to Sandra before he really knew her. All he'd heard werre snippets of conversation. So for him to start making these passionate declarations very early on in the relationship just seemed off. (This may be my personal preference but I like my romances to be a little more Slow Burn. Perhaps that's why I loved Reid's Dating-Ish.) Also, Alex's career and criminal history seemed like a cobbled together pastiche, not a serious plot element.

So yeah, I didn't like this one that much. But you can't win 'em all. I've really enjoyed so many of Reid's other novels that it's okay.
I am really not sure what to think of Penny Reid's books at this point. I absolutely adored Neanderthal Seeking Human, so I thought the rest of her books would be great as well. I read the second book in the series, and it was okay... nothing to write home about, but I just figured it was a swing and a miss. After reading this one, though, I'm totally stumped. This is the most disappointing book I've read in a very long time.

The first few chapters were fairly interesting, but it went swiftly downhill as soon as the two main characters went on their first date. I really didn't feel the attraction between them, honestly, though they certainly talked about it a lot.

Regarding the hero so many people seem to be swooning over; Alex was troubled, yes, but not in an intriguing way...more in an obnoxious way. Even in the closing pages, he severely lectures Sandra for trying to use her psychiatrist powers on him. He was the one who brought the subject of his troubled past up, and she simply went with the natural flow of the conversation and tried to help him talk out some of his problems. Sounds logical to me, but he totally lost it on her. Of course, she sees his point (what point?), and is totally remorseful. So... I guess in the future they're just going to sit in silence when they have a problem, rather than trying to talk it out? Seriously, this is something I could see happening halfway through the book... but in the final pages? It totally reinforced my impression that there is NO way this couple could last in real life.

Honestly, I think that the author just lost control of how she was trying to portray her male character. He was younger than Sandra by quite a few years, but the author made it a point to mention how he 'seemed' so much older. Unfortunately, just saying that doesn't make it so. He came off as incredibly young and immature in comparison to the heroine, and it truly made me wonder why she'd even be interested in him. Besides wanting to bang him, of course, which she mentions a lot. As in, A LOT. Frankly, her pushiness for a sexual relationship was a major turnoff. Instead of recognizing that Alex is not very experience sexually and taking her time to make sure he's comfortable, she instead chooses to whine and yell pretty much every time the evening ends with both of their pants on. Sorry, but I can't imagine ANY person working in the mental health field would feel so free to push physical boundaries past what their partner is comfortable with.

It just all comes down to the fact that I don't see these two as an actual couple with a chance at happiness in the future. I get that they are into each other physically, but that really seemed to be the only level they connected on. I thought Neanderthal Seeking Human was so great, partially because the author didn't just tell the reader what was going on...she made me feel it. That seems to be something that she's moved on from, though. Here, we get told time and again how perfect the main characters are together, but at no point do the characters thoughts and feelings actually support her assertions.
Finally a book in which the narrating voice and central figure is a mature, positive one-- a woman with a healthy self esteem and a optimistic view of life! I adored Sandra, the main female character. I loved her mixture of maturity/depth--the psychiatrist healing the world--with the touch of child-like naughtiness in her. It was wonderful for once to meet a romance heroin with a great sense of humor that was non-sarcastic. Her funny Pearl of Wisdom about "Owning the Wooky costume" is something I will always remember.

I loved Alex. I loved his nearly brutal honesty and his aloof unconventionality. Penny Reid did an amazing job portraying someone with high functioning Asperger's/Autistic Spectrum Disorder and STILL manage to make him super sexy. His "woundedness" was very believable, and makes you want to cradle him in your arms.

I loved the huge amounts of laugh out loud lines AND also of heart tearing deep lines as well as the ultimate message that the only effective healing for our wounds is unconditional love.

Finally I loved the way the author has evolved in her comfort level with erotic scenes since her first book. I praised her first book "Neanderthal Seeks Human" for relying on non-explicit narration of sex scenes. Then I praised the second book "Friends without benefits" for offering an alternative more subtle version (PG-13 to R rated) in addition to also offering the explicit (R rated to kind of X rated) version of the sex scenes. This book is non-apologetic and generous on steamy, sexy scenes. Yet, she does such a great job building the sexual tension during the first half to three quarters of the book, that when the moment of the truth comes you are BEGGING for the explicitness.

Yet again, my favorite part is the so-well crafted characters. Other romance authors I have read before tend to recycle the same main characters with minimal variation. That is NOT the case with Penny Reid. This is the third book I read from her (and my favorite so far) and the main characters could not be more different from each other. I am very impressed.

I'm hooked now. I look forward to continuing to read more and more from this author.