Review: Goddess & the Geek – Louise Cusack

Computer whizz Julian Wilde has a month booked at an island hideaway to finish his PhD, but when he arrives, sexy oyster farmer Natasha Barri grabs him thinking he’s a burglar and suddenly asthma isn’t the only thing making Julian breathless. The house has been double booked so they’re forced to share and Julian readily agrees to cook, hoping to use the voodoo potions he’s discovered online to make Tasha fall in love with him. Disaster follows debacle as Julian tries to impress her, and she tries not to kill him.

Read Goddess & the Geek to see if Julian can crack open Tasha’s hermit-shell heart and prove he’s the geek for her…

Series: Hapless Heroes
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Publisher: Flirt Press
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Iris
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I honestly wanted to enjoy this book. I read the synopsis and thought to myself “Well shoot, this one sounds like it could be a good one.” So of course, with high hopes, I pick it up and proceed to read. Unfortunately what started off as an interesting premise and promising plot just did not click with me. I found a lack of connection not only between the characters, but between the characters and the reader.

I found not a shred of anything that made me connect with the characters. At first it was too much like the school nerd doing the head cheerleader’s homework in hopes she’d notice he’s alive. As a matter of fact the similarities were uncanny. Julian spends the entire time they are on the island catering to Tasha’s very need. He cooks for her and cleans up after her to the exclusion of everything else. Including the project he originally came to the quiet island to work on. She in turn is a slob who only places demands on him about what she wants him to cook and when and doesn’t even help do dishes. If anything, she only insults him and continuously makes nasty comments to him. I just found no redeeming qualities in their character. Nerd or not, he just reminded me of an overly eager to please puppy panting and begging for the tiniest scrap of attention. She just reminded me of that popular girl in school who knew she was attractive and took it as her due that all the boys would do whatever she wanted them to if she so much as deigned to look in their direction and said a few words.

With likeable characters, this may have been a passable story, but I’m sorry. the characters only annoyed me and the fact that I could feel no emotional connection with either one only made things worse.