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The Wedding Season #2
Girl Least Likely to Marry
Mills & Boon Sexy series delivers what you love in contemporary romance - glamour and scandal in exotic locations…
Samuel Tucker is absolutely the last person scientist Cassie Barclay would ever date. 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, 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 but everything to do with chemistry?
220 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 23, 2013
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She loves good books and great booze although she'll take mediocre booze if there's nothing else. For many, many years she was a registered nurse which means she knows things. Anatomical things. And she’s not afraid to use them!
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July 4, 2013
Rating 4.5 stars
Amy Andrews strikes again. In Girl Least Likely to Marry, she has written such a wonderfully romantic yet funny book.
The heroine Cassie is such a complex character, with her IQ off the charts but when it comes to human emotion her IQ zero and then at her friend's Reese almost wedding she meets the best man Tuck and her IQ goes for a toss because all she can think about is him and that never happens to her. Because Cassie is all about control and her work, she eats at a certain time, sleeps at a certain time and works. Why? Because loss of control is dangerous to her and her work is God but Tuck, a jock is making her crazy so she does what her friend Gina says and feeds her libido.
Tuck maybe an ex-jock but he's also got brains and Cassie is nothing like the women he goes for. She doesn't dress up, doesn't do the mushy stuff or sarcasm but he can't get enough of her. Their first time together and the conversation that comes before it was hilarious.
‘So, does “you” mean what I think it means?’ he asked.
Cassie’s brain came back online at the verbal prompt. He was giving her a way in—a conversation-starter. And she snatched at it like the last molecule of oxygen on earth.
‘Yes,’ she said, then cleared her throat because it sounded sappy and weak again. ‘I’m not very good at this—’
‘Boy,’ Tuck interrupted with a smile, ‘how’d that one go down? Couldn’t have been easy to admit. I imagine you’re good at most things.’
Cassie glared at his interruption—didn’t he know how hard this was? ‘I’m good at everything…except this.’
‘And this is…?’
Cassie took a deep breath. ‘This is me asking you to have sex.With me.’
It was blunt and gauche and totally unsexy—and Tuck had never been more turned on in his life.
‘This is purely scientific, you understand?’ Cassie clarified as Tuck continued to watch her with his blue eyes. ‘I seem to have developed
a…thing for your pheromones.’
Tuck raised an eyebrow. ‘My pheromones?’
‘Yes. They’re chemicals the body emits—’
Tuck chuckled, interrupting her. ‘I know what pheromones are, Cassiopeia
However one night is not enough and it turns into days and then Cassie has to go. However, her concentration is still shot and she makes a call and Tuck travels almost four hours to come to her.
When this keeps happening Tuck the genius has an idea, his work allows him flexibility and he rents a place nearby and uses logic to make Cassie move in with him, after all it is only three months.
Logic, isn't that a beauty? ;)
The last few years have been tough on Tuck, his career ended so he got married that too ended and he learnt he was infertile and he has just been lost. Cassie is different she doesn't want anything serious, is leaving and doesn't care about his wealth.
What I loved about the book was how Tuck was the first one to fall and how cool Cassie was, she honestly didn't care about things like tabloids and what people said about her. She didn't believe in love so it took her bash on the head from her friends to realize she was feeling and her tear filled freak out love confession to Tuck was awesome. I gotta admit I loved this book.
Amy Andrews strikes again. In Girl Least Likely to Marry, she has written such a wonderfully romantic yet funny book.
The heroine Cassie is such a complex character, with her IQ off the charts but when it comes to human emotion her IQ zero and then at her friend's Reese almost wedding she meets the best man Tuck and her IQ goes for a toss because all she can think about is him and that never happens to her. Because Cassie is all about control and her work, she eats at a certain time, sleeps at a certain time and works. Why? Because loss of control is dangerous to her and her work is God but Tuck, a jock is making her crazy so she does what her friend Gina says and feeds her libido.
Tuck maybe an ex-jock but he's also got brains and Cassie is nothing like the women he goes for. She doesn't dress up, doesn't do the mushy stuff or sarcasm but he can't get enough of her. Their first time together and the conversation that comes before it was hilarious.
‘So, does “you” mean what I think it means?’ he asked.
Cassie’s brain came back online at the verbal prompt. He was giving her a way in—a conversation-starter. And she snatched at it like the last molecule of oxygen on earth.
‘Yes,’ she said, then cleared her throat because it sounded sappy and weak again. ‘I’m not very good at this—’
‘Boy,’ Tuck interrupted with a smile, ‘how’d that one go down? Couldn’t have been easy to admit. I imagine you’re good at most things.’
Cassie glared at his interruption—didn’t he know how hard this was? ‘I’m good at everything…except this.’
‘And this is…?’
Cassie took a deep breath. ‘This is me asking you to have sex.With me.’
It was blunt and gauche and totally unsexy—and Tuck had never been more turned on in his life.
‘This is purely scientific, you understand?’ Cassie clarified as Tuck continued to watch her with his blue eyes. ‘I seem to have developed
a…thing for your pheromones.’
Tuck raised an eyebrow. ‘My pheromones?’
‘Yes. They’re chemicals the body emits—’
Tuck chuckled, interrupting her. ‘I know what pheromones are, Cassiopeia
However one night is not enough and it turns into days and then Cassie has to go. However, her concentration is still shot and she makes a call and Tuck travels almost four hours to come to her.
When this keeps happening Tuck the genius has an idea, his work allows him flexibility and he rents a place nearby and uses logic to make Cassie move in with him, after all it is only three months.
Logic, isn't that a beauty? ;)
The last few years have been tough on Tuck, his career ended so he got married that too ended and he learnt he was infertile and he has just been lost. Cassie is different she doesn't want anything serious, is leaving and doesn't care about his wealth.
What I loved about the book was how Tuck was the first one to fall and how cool Cassie was, she honestly didn't care about things like tabloids and what people said about her. She didn't believe in love so it took her bash on the head from her friends to realize she was feeling and her tear filled freak out love confession to Tuck was awesome. I gotta admit I loved this book.
December 7, 2013
I honestly do not know how to rate this book. What was the author’s intention for writing this?
Was it a romantic comedy that played upon all the silly, ridiculous, unrealistic clichés that occur in many, many romance novels? If so, then I give this book five stars.
If the author was truly writing a unique romance novel to stir our emotions, desires and wanting the ladies to lust after the hero, then she got it all wrong and I give this book one star.
We first meet Tuck (Samuel Tucker) and Cassie (Cassiopeia Barclay) at one of Cassie’s college friend’s defunct wedding. Reece (the now non-bride) has run away from her wedding to apparently hook up with her ex-husband, leaving the guests to partake in the reception without her.
Cassie, we learn, is socially awkward and concerned only about science, her career, working on her PhD at Cornell and then eventually going to Antarctica for work. She dresses in the laziest manner, preferring baggy, shapeless clothes and pulling her hair back in not one hair accessory but two (a scrunchie for the regulated low ponytail and an Alice band to severely pull back the untamed hair strands).
On a bet/dare, Gina (one of Cassie’s other college friends) bets Tuck (which is Reece’s cousin) that he cannot charm Cassie. He basically considers himself God’s gift to women and believes that he can charm Cassie and bring her over to the Tuck side.. He is that confident in his abilities and his good looks that he is guaranteed not to fail. And guess what? He doesn’t. Just like with all the other women he has wooed in the past, Cassie practically trips over the puddle of drool she creates at the bottom of her feet and suddenly she cannot think of anything except Samuel Tucker.
Basically, that is the plot. Cassie cannot focus on her work because thoughts of Tuck invade her brain and make her stupid. She can’t think around him or speak, for that matter. All her smartness is gone whenever she is near him. Then, to top it off, Cassie had never had an orgasm in her life. But Tuck says he is an expert in that area and what do you know? God’s Gift to Women pulls through and bam! Cassie has an explosive orgasm and sees the stars. This happens every time they have sex (which is a lot).
Of course, there are a few minor problems in the story that get solved easily so that the readers can get back to Cassie, Tuck, how well they work as a couple and the sex.
Now, here is why I am deducting stars from this book:
1. The spelling of the very real and actual city name of where most of the story takes place is in ITHACA, NEW YORK. It is not ITHICA!! If you are going to use a real city in your novel, you have to be able to spell it correctly! How could the author not get this right?! I lose serious faith in an author if she/he cannot even research a city name that will be used as the story’s main setting. This happened ten times in the story (pages: 115, 116, 136, 137, 138, 149, 151, 181, 184 and 186).
2. The overuse of the phrase “nostrils flaring”. His flared, hers flared… all I kept thinking about were horses. There were 20 instances of this (pages: 23, 29, 26, 37, 49, 63, 64, 73, 76, 77, 81, 83, 84, 85, 95, 101, 119, 133, 140 and 194)
3. The overuse of the word “pheromones”. I swear, it was on practically every page. I did a search and there are 39 instances of the word (pages 23, 24, 26 ,28, 35, 43, 50, 57, 65, 66, 70, 75 (three times in ONE dialog exchange, four times for that page!), 78, 80, 82, 87, 88, 95 (we get both: nostrils flared and pheromones in one sentence), 96, 97, 107, 110, 116, 117, 121, 125, 127, 140, 161, 172, 180, 188, 191, 194, 210 and 216).
“Pheromones” and “nostrils flared” on the same page: five times (pages: 23, 26, 95, 140 and 194)
The author constantly writes about how Cassie is addicted to Tuck’s pheromones, how she cannot get enough of them and that she needs to bottle them. Which leads me to…
4. What the heck was up with all the sniffing/smelling? That is what sent me over the edge and deep into the ridiculous and disbelieving valley with all the other stupid things writers put into their books. The one or two times that Cassie was thinking about sniffing or smelling Tuck because of his overwhelming pheromones was a bit funny and quirky in the beginning but then it became disgustingly annoying and too over the top.
I did a Kindle search on “sniff” and found that Cassie had the urge to sniff Tuck seven times.
Her are some examples:
Page 23: “… as she grappled with the urge to sniff him.”
Page 33: “Maybe if she got the chance to sniff him a little this unnatural craving taking over her body, infecting her brain liker a plague of boils, would be satisfied.”
Page 40: “She’d never once had to quell the urge to sniff him.”
Page 44: “… how she’d clung and buried her nose in his clothes, as if he was her own personal scratch-and-sniff-jock.”
Page 80: “… to sniff at his temple, to smell his hair… to suck in great, big dizzying lungfuls of him.”
This is a weird one:
Page 82 (scene):“Can I just… sniff you for a while?” … she pushed her nose back into his neck, greedily refamiliarsing herself with his thick luscious tang. “Yes,” she whispered as she moved down this time. “Yes.” She sniffed at his belly, across his nipples and then she meandered her nose and mouth “into the clean scent of his armpits, feeling the light caress of downy hair against her face.” … She dropped to her knees without thinking, kneeling between his as she pushed her face against it, running her nose up and down the length of the vein, inhaling its essence. Musk and man.” “…it was inevitable that she’d return to his erection – as if that was the source of his pheromones, the mother lode – and she inhaled deeply as her lips brushed his girth. She followed it all the way to the head…”
Page 125: “… she scrambled frantically through her wastebasket, her fingers snatching at the card sitting at the very bottom, automatically bringing it to her nose for a long, deep sniff. His lingering pheromones catapulted though her system like a shooting star and any arguments her brain might have made got lost in a sea of stupid.
And don’t forget “smell” . There are 35 instances of that one (pages: 23, 23, 29, 335, 36, 37, 40, 43, 54, 57,b 57, 64, 65, 69, 73, 75, 77, 79, 80, 80, 80, 80, 80, 81, 82, 84, 84, 85, 85, 100, 101, 115, 161, 207, Loc. 2858).
The majority of the word usage was Cassie smelling Tuck – this was 30 times (Tuck is smelling her three times and there were two miscellaneous “smells” in the book.)
Other things that bothered me in the book:
Calling the paparazzi “pap” or “paps” in the book just made me think of pap smears. Definitely not an image I want in my head as I am reading a romance novel.
Reece’s love interest was referred to as the Marine. Then, there was a character named Marnie. For the rest of the book, I read Cassie’s friend’s name as “Marine”.
Tuck says, “I’ll move back to New York,” but he is already in the state of New York. Did the author forget that her characters were already in New York? I am not sure what the author mean here. Did the author mean to say New York City? (pg. 193, Loc. 2386)
Even Reece states that she has a long drive back to New York in the morning while she and the rest of the gal pals were visiting Cassie in Ithaca. (pg 204, loc. 2523)
After getting through all of the nonsense and ridiculousness of the story, the novel was okay. It was predictable, lighthearted and a quick and easy read. If you can get past all the stupidity, it’s an easy way to spend a few hours while you are waiting in line or hanging out in waiting rooms or if you need to read something light and short in between other novels.
Since I am not exactly sure what the author was really trying to do with this novel, I give it 2.5 stars.
Was it a romantic comedy that played upon all the silly, ridiculous, unrealistic clichés that occur in many, many romance novels? If so, then I give this book five stars.
If the author was truly writing a unique romance novel to stir our emotions, desires and wanting the ladies to lust after the hero, then she got it all wrong and I give this book one star.
We first meet Tuck (Samuel Tucker) and Cassie (Cassiopeia Barclay) at one of Cassie’s college friend’s defunct wedding. Reece (the now non-bride) has run away from her wedding to apparently hook up with her ex-husband, leaving the guests to partake in the reception without her.
Cassie, we learn, is socially awkward and concerned only about science, her career, working on her PhD at Cornell and then eventually going to Antarctica for work. She dresses in the laziest manner, preferring baggy, shapeless clothes and pulling her hair back in not one hair accessory but two (a scrunchie for the regulated low ponytail and an Alice band to severely pull back the untamed hair strands).
On a bet/dare, Gina (one of Cassie’s other college friends) bets Tuck (which is Reece’s cousin) that he cannot charm Cassie. He basically considers himself God’s gift to women and believes that he can charm Cassie and bring her over to the Tuck side.. He is that confident in his abilities and his good looks that he is guaranteed not to fail. And guess what? He doesn’t. Just like with all the other women he has wooed in the past, Cassie practically trips over the puddle of drool she creates at the bottom of her feet and suddenly she cannot think of anything except Samuel Tucker.
Basically, that is the plot. Cassie cannot focus on her work because thoughts of Tuck invade her brain and make her stupid. She can’t think around him or speak, for that matter. All her smartness is gone whenever she is near him. Then, to top it off, Cassie had never had an orgasm in her life. But Tuck says he is an expert in that area and what do you know? God’s Gift to Women pulls through and bam! Cassie has an explosive orgasm and sees the stars. This happens every time they have sex (which is a lot).
Of course, there are a few minor problems in the story that get solved easily so that the readers can get back to Cassie, Tuck, how well they work as a couple and the sex.
Now, here is why I am deducting stars from this book:
1. The spelling of the very real and actual city name of where most of the story takes place is in ITHACA, NEW YORK. It is not ITHICA!! If you are going to use a real city in your novel, you have to be able to spell it correctly! How could the author not get this right?! I lose serious faith in an author if she/he cannot even research a city name that will be used as the story’s main setting. This happened ten times in the story (pages: 115, 116, 136, 137, 138, 149, 151, 181, 184 and 186).
2. The overuse of the phrase “nostrils flaring”. His flared, hers flared… all I kept thinking about were horses. There were 20 instances of this (pages: 23, 29, 26, 37, 49, 63, 64, 73, 76, 77, 81, 83, 84, 85, 95, 101, 119, 133, 140 and 194)
3. The overuse of the word “pheromones”. I swear, it was on practically every page. I did a search and there are 39 instances of the word (pages 23, 24, 26 ,28, 35, 43, 50, 57, 65, 66, 70, 75 (three times in ONE dialog exchange, four times for that page!), 78, 80, 82, 87, 88, 95 (we get both: nostrils flared and pheromones in one sentence), 96, 97, 107, 110, 116, 117, 121, 125, 127, 140, 161, 172, 180, 188, 191, 194, 210 and 216).
“Pheromones” and “nostrils flared” on the same page: five times (pages: 23, 26, 95, 140 and 194)
The author constantly writes about how Cassie is addicted to Tuck’s pheromones, how she cannot get enough of them and that she needs to bottle them. Which leads me to…
4. What the heck was up with all the sniffing/smelling? That is what sent me over the edge and deep into the ridiculous and disbelieving valley with all the other stupid things writers put into their books. The one or two times that Cassie was thinking about sniffing or smelling Tuck because of his overwhelming pheromones was a bit funny and quirky in the beginning but then it became disgustingly annoying and too over the top.
I did a Kindle search on “sniff” and found that Cassie had the urge to sniff Tuck seven times.
Her are some examples:
Page 23: “… as she grappled with the urge to sniff him.”
Page 33: “Maybe if she got the chance to sniff him a little this unnatural craving taking over her body, infecting her brain liker a plague of boils, would be satisfied.”
Page 40: “She’d never once had to quell the urge to sniff him.”
Page 44: “… how she’d clung and buried her nose in his clothes, as if he was her own personal scratch-and-sniff-jock.”
Page 80: “… to sniff at his temple, to smell his hair… to suck in great, big dizzying lungfuls of him.”
This is a weird one:
Page 82 (scene):“Can I just… sniff you for a while?” … she pushed her nose back into his neck, greedily refamiliarsing herself with his thick luscious tang. “Yes,” she whispered as she moved down this time. “Yes.” She sniffed at his belly, across his nipples and then she meandered her nose and mouth “into the clean scent of his armpits, feeling the light caress of downy hair against her face.” … She dropped to her knees without thinking, kneeling between his as she pushed her face against it, running her nose up and down the length of the vein, inhaling its essence. Musk and man.” “…it was inevitable that she’d return to his erection – as if that was the source of his pheromones, the mother lode – and she inhaled deeply as her lips brushed his girth. She followed it all the way to the head…”
Page 125: “… she scrambled frantically through her wastebasket, her fingers snatching at the card sitting at the very bottom, automatically bringing it to her nose for a long, deep sniff. His lingering pheromones catapulted though her system like a shooting star and any arguments her brain might have made got lost in a sea of stupid.
And don’t forget “smell” . There are 35 instances of that one (pages: 23, 23, 29, 335, 36, 37, 40, 43, 54, 57,b 57, 64, 65, 69, 73, 75, 77, 79, 80, 80, 80, 80, 80, 81, 82, 84, 84, 85, 85, 100, 101, 115, 161, 207, Loc. 2858).
The majority of the word usage was Cassie smelling Tuck – this was 30 times (Tuck is smelling her three times and there were two miscellaneous “smells” in the book.)
Other things that bothered me in the book:
Calling the paparazzi “pap” or “paps” in the book just made me think of pap smears. Definitely not an image I want in my head as I am reading a romance novel.
Reece’s love interest was referred to as the Marine. Then, there was a character named Marnie. For the rest of the book, I read Cassie’s friend’s name as “Marine”.
Tuck says, “I’ll move back to New York,” but he is already in the state of New York. Did the author forget that her characters were already in New York? I am not sure what the author mean here. Did the author mean to say New York City? (pg. 193, Loc. 2386)
Even Reece states that she has a long drive back to New York in the morning while she and the rest of the gal pals were visiting Cassie in Ithaca. (pg 204, loc. 2523)
After getting through all of the nonsense and ridiculousness of the story, the novel was okay. It was predictable, lighthearted and a quick and easy read. If you can get past all the stupidity, it’s an easy way to spend a few hours while you are waiting in line or hanging out in waiting rooms or if you need to read something light and short in between other novels.
Since I am not exactly sure what the author was really trying to do with this novel, I give it 2.5 stars.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 28, 2013
We all know reading is knowledge and knowledge is power, and everything you know has come from books, but what if reading all the books in the world has taught you everything except when it comes to love, you know absolutely nothing and you have no idea how to act or what any of the feelings mean?
For scientist Cassie this is precisely the case. She has always put everything down to logic. But when she meets I'll-bring-you-to-orgasm-even-if-it-takes-me-all-night Tuck she is not so sure anymore. Her head is telling her that the logic in this fierce attraction to jock boy is nothing more than pheromones, after all the man is as dumb as a post and all he has going for him is his killer smile and the ability to kiss her senseless.
But her attraction to him nags on her and she is minus her precious eight hours of sleep and feels completely out of sorts. Her best friend urge her to take action by telling her it is simply her libido that needs a good dose of sex and then she will be just fine again and able to get back to her research.
So Cassie gathers all her courage and goes to Tuck comes straight out and says she wants him and she wants him now, but it is strictly in order to get her libido back on track, one night and one night only. But Tuck is more than just a pretty face and when he discovers her little sexual secret the man is out on a mission to give Cassie the full experience even if it kills him.
Only, after breaking the chains Tuck and Cassie both find they simply cannot be without each other and so follows nights of endless passion and more orgasms than either one can count. But when it comes to Tuck revealing what is in his heart, and Cassie telling him this is nothing more than logic he has to pull out all the stops to get her to start thinking with her heart and stop listening to her head.
The character of Cassie was a truly strange and unusual one, not the kind we almost always find in romance reads. No she is a nerd through and through, and I mean all the way! She does not go all out to try and dress up, no she walks around in baggy t-shirts, nerdy slogans displayed on her underwear and a pony tail is her idea of hair being just that, hair tucked away!
I found it very refreshing as it was nice to read about the other side so to speak, as oppose to the usual dressed to impress pulling out all the stops to seduce kind of heroines. However I did cringe at some of the things she says and does, for as most woman know you need to at least try and make some kind of effort with your appearance, but the author did lay out her personality very accurately which let me understand Cassie's reasoning behind it all. I liked that she in the start puts everything down to facts as it is sometimes what most things in life comes down to, but I adored that the author lets her completely go out of whack when her logic fades in the arms of Tuck.
Tuck was a really great hero, he is kind and considerate yet lets the world think he is out to party all the time with any willing woman, which he is most of the time, but only in order to forget his lost career. And because he is truly a nice guy deep down, him letting others think he has a IQ of 10 made him so much fun to read about. I laughed so hard at his idiotic replies to most of the things Cassie says I had tears streaming down my face.
I loved that he slowly goes from all around good time guy to protector of innocent Cassie, not only showing her the route to sexual happiness but to truly being there for her, without her even realizing it. Again as with Cassie the author did not create the usual kind of hero, instead she gave me as reader a yes very smart guy, sports hero and player, but unlike the usual romance hero's Tuck is fun and creative as oppose to the arrogant and overbearing kind
The backdrop settings were simply delightful and exciting to read. I was taken to the stars by the author in each and every setting even when there simply was just a ceiling to look at and not a star in sight! The dialogue was hot and passionate laced with sexy words of understanding and compassion, and yes loads of humour!
In the end I walked away with a message that is a very valuable one, you need to simply let go and listen to your heart every now and then for if you only use your head you will lose the gift of love faster than you can calculate the distance from the earth to the moon. I am also going to add that Cassie sniffing it all up, yes you read that right I said sniffing, was the most hilarious thing I have read in a long time, and if want to know just what I mean by that you will need to read the book!
The author did a truly remarkable job at taking feelings and blending in the elements of science!
A passionate, thrilling, fun, fresh, sexy and exciting read! I recommend this read for lovers of Amy Andrews books, for those looking to read about unusual characters that find themselves discovering there is more to life than just facts and playing all the time!
5/5 star review
" Reason and logic goes out the window with just one sniff"
This read is part of the KISS Wedding Season Quartet by Aimee Carson, Heidi Rice, Amy Andrews and Kimberly Lang
September 10, 2013
Despite hearing many good things, this is actually the first book I have ever read by Amy Andrews. Naturally I was excited and had high hopes. I don't think I was disappointed with the final result!
This is the second book in The Wedding Season mini-series and follows straight on from The Unexpected Wedding Guest by Aimee Carson.
Readers beware... this book is capital H hot! And has so much will-she?-won't-she? sexual tension you'll virtually be perching on the edge of your seat! (P.s. Sort of a mini spoiler - there is a faked orgasm, which was not only very brave of the author but almost made me want to cheer out loud. Lol! Immediate thumbs up!)
I really enjoyed the flow and pace of the story as well as the way the relationship built throughout the story. The growth of the characters vs. the time span is spot on and holds your interest.
I can't quite decide if there was enough of the hero to really get to grips with him, the heroine was such a detailed characters that the hero's character kind of got lost somewhere among it all. The author's style suits me perfectly, lots of spark and humour along with well thought out characters. The writing suffers from too much repetition at times, too much of the heroine 'sniffing' the hero and the word 'pheromones' appears 38 times a bit too many IMO (I didn't count, Kindle worked it out for me!). The dialogue, however, is just right and is one of the main strengths of this book.
Overall I very much enjoyed this book, it's just the kind of book I expected from the Modern Tempted series.
Recommended.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
This is the second book in The Wedding Season mini-series and follows straight on from The Unexpected Wedding Guest by Aimee Carson.
Readers beware... this book is capital H hot! And has so much will-she?-won't-she? sexual tension you'll virtually be perching on the edge of your seat! (P.s. Sort of a mini spoiler - there is a faked orgasm, which was not only very brave of the author but almost made me want to cheer out loud. Lol! Immediate thumbs up!)
I really enjoyed the flow and pace of the story as well as the way the relationship built throughout the story. The growth of the characters vs. the time span is spot on and holds your interest.
I can't quite decide if there was enough of the hero to really get to grips with him, the heroine was such a detailed characters that the hero's character kind of got lost somewhere among it all. The author's style suits me perfectly, lots of spark and humour along with well thought out characters. The writing suffers from too much repetition at times, too much of the heroine 'sniffing' the hero and the word 'pheromones' appears 38 times a bit too many IMO (I didn't count, Kindle worked it out for me!). The dialogue, however, is just right and is one of the main strengths of this book.
Overall I very much enjoyed this book, it's just the kind of book I expected from the Modern Tempted series.
Recommended.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
July 10, 2019
This book is written with the best intentions to portray a likable female scientist. It may reflect what people imagine when they think of a smart driven young woman astronomer (spoiler: she is kind of a lovable weird puppy). It makes me want to rage and cry at the same time.
Have you ever watched Big Bang Theory? Cassie is like a female Sheldon. She is described as brainy; she is underestimating everyone around her; she wears oversized geek T-shirts (which apparently are given to her by fashionable friends - so I do wonder why they are so big (?)); she is obsessed with work and is logical above all.
I can really live with all of the above. Sadly, there are more damaging traits: she constantly talks about her IQ and losing IQ points/going stupid because she is attracted to Tuck; she has not concept of "love" and is instead serving her libido by having sex with him; she is so driven that she says children will hinder her career. I said "damaging" because no girl wants to be Cassie. The truth is, no female scientist is like Cassie. It is just what people think a scientist looks and behaves like and it keeps generations of smart and imaginative women away from science. Think about it, which female characters from BBT do you want to be? Penny. Every. Single. Time.
But all in all, there is a dearth of romance novels with smart driven female scientists as lead characters so yes, I will take a book like this because it is better than nothing at all. Ms. Andrews is trying.
Have you ever watched Big Bang Theory? Cassie is like a female Sheldon. She is described as brainy; she is underestimating everyone around her; she wears oversized geek T-shirts (which apparently are given to her by fashionable friends - so I do wonder why they are so big (?)); she is obsessed with work and is logical above all.
I can really live with all of the above. Sadly, there are more damaging traits: she constantly talks about her IQ and losing IQ points/going stupid because she is attracted to Tuck; she has not concept of "love" and is instead serving her libido by having sex with him; she is so driven that she says children will hinder her career. I said "damaging" because no girl wants to be Cassie. The truth is, no female scientist is like Cassie. It is just what people think a scientist looks and behaves like and it keeps generations of smart and imaginative women away from science. Think about it, which female characters from BBT do you want to be? Penny. Every. Single. Time.
But all in all, there is a dearth of romance novels with smart driven female scientists as lead characters so yes, I will take a book like this because it is better than nothing at all. Ms. Andrews is trying.
June 27, 2013
My review cross-posted from Wit and Sin: http://witandsin.blogspot.com/2013/06...
Certified genius Cassiopeia Barclay is all about logic. Sexual attraction has no place in her life and she certainly doesn’t believe in love, so why is she drawn to former NFL quarterback Samuel Tucker? He’s a jock who wouldn’t know auroras from apples, but the pheromones he throws off send Cassie’s libido skyrocketing. Unfortunately for her, one night with Tuck isn’t nearly enough to get him out of her mind.
Tuck’s used to people thinking he’s dumb as a rock, which is why he finds it fun to tease his cousin’s brainy best friend. Cassie’s the one woman who has never fallen at his feet, but the longer he’s around her, the closer Tuck is to falling at hers. Seducing her into being his lover is easy, but trying to capture her heart…well, Tuck’s got his work cut out for him. Can he convince Cassie that something as powerful and unquantifiable as love exists?
Logic wars with emotion in the wildly entertaining Girl Least Likely to Marry . Author Amy Andrews has penned a wonderful romance that both celebrates genius and addresses the problems people more comfortable with facts than feelings face.
My absolute favorite thing about Cassie is that she’s a true nerd. Not a smart, awkward, secretly-feminine-ugly-duckling-who-finds-the-motivation-to-become-a-swan kind of heroine, but a true logic-loving brainiac whose IQ is high and EQ is low. Cassie truly doesn’t care about looks or pretty much anything other than science and her three best friends. What makes Girl Least Likely to Marry even better is that Tuck never tries to change her. He loves, respects, and appreciates Cassie for who she is and the way he woos her just makes me want to swoon. Tuck’s a heck of a lot smarter than most people give him credit for and it was a pleasure peeling back the layers to his character. He has some vulnerabilities of his own, though what they are I’ll leave the reader to discover. While it was easy for me to fall for Tuck (handsome, intelligent, loving, and laid-back — what’s not to adore?), it wasn’t exactly a smooth road to happily ever after for him and Cassie. She has a difficult time with emotion in a way you have to read Girl Least Likely to Marry to truly understand. Their romance is filled with ups and downs, has both sizzling heat and the hardships two very different but perfectly suited people trying to come together face. I was so engaged in Tuck and Cassie’s story that I read Girl Least Likely to Marry in one sitting.
Girl Least Likely to Marry can be read as a standalone, but it is the second book in the multi-author Wedding Season series. The friendship between Cassie and her fellow Wedding Season heroines is every bit as important as her burgeoning relationship with Tuck. I loved seeing the four of them pull together and I’m more eager than ever to continue the series with book three, Maid of Dishonor.
Girl Least Likely to Marry is a lovely romance with beautifully drawn protagonists. Cassie and Tuck’s story was the first book of Ms. Andrews’s I’ve read but it definitely won’t be the last!
Certified genius Cassiopeia Barclay is all about logic. Sexual attraction has no place in her life and she certainly doesn’t believe in love, so why is she drawn to former NFL quarterback Samuel Tucker? He’s a jock who wouldn’t know auroras from apples, but the pheromones he throws off send Cassie’s libido skyrocketing. Unfortunately for her, one night with Tuck isn’t nearly enough to get him out of her mind.
Tuck’s used to people thinking he’s dumb as a rock, which is why he finds it fun to tease his cousin’s brainy best friend. Cassie’s the one woman who has never fallen at his feet, but the longer he’s around her, the closer Tuck is to falling at hers. Seducing her into being his lover is easy, but trying to capture her heart…well, Tuck’s got his work cut out for him. Can he convince Cassie that something as powerful and unquantifiable as love exists?
Logic wars with emotion in the wildly entertaining Girl Least Likely to Marry . Author Amy Andrews has penned a wonderful romance that both celebrates genius and addresses the problems people more comfortable with facts than feelings face.
My absolute favorite thing about Cassie is that she’s a true nerd. Not a smart, awkward, secretly-feminine-ugly-duckling-who-finds-the-motivation-to-become-a-swan kind of heroine, but a true logic-loving brainiac whose IQ is high and EQ is low. Cassie truly doesn’t care about looks or pretty much anything other than science and her three best friends. What makes Girl Least Likely to Marry even better is that Tuck never tries to change her. He loves, respects, and appreciates Cassie for who she is and the way he woos her just makes me want to swoon. Tuck’s a heck of a lot smarter than most people give him credit for and it was a pleasure peeling back the layers to his character. He has some vulnerabilities of his own, though what they are I’ll leave the reader to discover. While it was easy for me to fall for Tuck (handsome, intelligent, loving, and laid-back — what’s not to adore?), it wasn’t exactly a smooth road to happily ever after for him and Cassie. She has a difficult time with emotion in a way you have to read Girl Least Likely to Marry to truly understand. Their romance is filled with ups and downs, has both sizzling heat and the hardships two very different but perfectly suited people trying to come together face. I was so engaged in Tuck and Cassie’s story that I read Girl Least Likely to Marry in one sitting.
Girl Least Likely to Marry can be read as a standalone, but it is the second book in the multi-author Wedding Season series. The friendship between Cassie and her fellow Wedding Season heroines is every bit as important as her burgeoning relationship with Tuck. I loved seeing the four of them pull together and I’m more eager than ever to continue the series with book three, Maid of Dishonor.
Girl Least Likely to Marry is a lovely romance with beautifully drawn protagonists. Cassie and Tuck’s story was the first book of Ms. Andrews’s I’ve read but it definitely won’t be the last!
July 22, 2013
This book is actually book 2 in a series. It was slightly confusing at first because the author needed to provide background info. Let me sum it up here. Cassie has three friends that she met in college. She is attending the wedding of one of them, Reese. Apparently in the first book, Reese left her groom at the altar to elope with her ex-husband.
This book begins with the aftermath of the cancelled wedding. Cassie is an astronomer, currently working to get her PhD at Cornell. She spots Tuck and her pheromones go crazy. She doesn't know to handle this. Her friends encourage her to proposition Tuck into a one night stand.
"This is purely scientific, you understand?" Cassie clarified as Tuck continued to watch her with his blue eyes. "I seem to have developed a...thing for your pheromones."
As you can see, Cassie does not have the best social skills. Luckily for Cassie, the attraction is mutual and they have sex. Cassie fakes her orgasm which leads them to have more sex until she has a real one.
After their one night stand is done, Cassie can't stop thinking about the amazing sex she had with Tuck. She invites him over. She still can't stop thinking of him. Eventually, Tuck suggests that she come live with him, temporarily, so that she can have all the sex she wants. Of course, she agrees.
I enjoyed watching prickly, smart, socially inept Cassie deal with her attraction to Tuck. Naturally, it takes her awhile to realize that there is more to what she feels for Tuck than just lust. Tuck is great hero because he understands Cassie. He appreciates her brain and her body.
This was a fun book to read. I enjoyed the banter between Cassie and her friends as well as Cassie and Tuck.
ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley.
This book begins with the aftermath of the cancelled wedding. Cassie is an astronomer, currently working to get her PhD at Cornell. She spots Tuck and her pheromones go crazy. She doesn't know to handle this. Her friends encourage her to proposition Tuck into a one night stand.
"This is purely scientific, you understand?" Cassie clarified as Tuck continued to watch her with his blue eyes. "I seem to have developed a...thing for your pheromones."
As you can see, Cassie does not have the best social skills. Luckily for Cassie, the attraction is mutual and they have sex. Cassie fakes her orgasm which leads them to have more sex until she has a real one.
After their one night stand is done, Cassie can't stop thinking about the amazing sex she had with Tuck. She invites him over. She still can't stop thinking of him. Eventually, Tuck suggests that she come live with him, temporarily, so that she can have all the sex she wants. Of course, she agrees.
I enjoyed watching prickly, smart, socially inept Cassie deal with her attraction to Tuck. Naturally, it takes her awhile to realize that there is more to what she feels for Tuck than just lust. Tuck is great hero because he understands Cassie. He appreciates her brain and her body.
This was a fun book to read. I enjoyed the banter between Cassie and her friends as well as Cassie and Tuck.
ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley.
March 30, 2015
Fun story. I really enjoyed reading it. I did find it a little jarring when the Texan hero occasionally thought in Brit-speak (No "expiry" dates here), and when you're in a character's POV, you're in their thoughts. I was impressed with the really lengthy love scenes that never got boring like all too many do. Not an easy thing to do. This story about a brilliant girl scientist and the brilliant but hunky jock whose pheromones take her prisoner doesn't actually have much plot, but it doesn't need it. It is a fun time.
December 7, 2013
This book made me smile, laugh and fan myself. Pretty much all the standards of a good book. Also I really liked how Cassie didnt have a makeover for Tuck. She stayed herself with her baggy, oversized geek inspired t-shirts and hair in a ratty ponytail and that was okay because Tuck liked her just the way she was. Great message.
June 6, 2013
What a terrific story. A different angle that made it all the more compelling to read. Thoroughly good read. The protagonist is certainly one out of the box.
July 6, 2013
Thanks Saly loved it.
August 2, 2013
Slick‘s review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
Review copy provided for an honest review
4.5 STARS
I have to hand it to Amy Andrews for writing a heroine who is Mensa smart but is devoid of motions. She talked about it in a letter to her readers at the beginning of the book and I wondered if I’d be able to enjoy such a heroine, I’m happy to report that despite it all I found this character beyond fascinating and add in the hero and her friends and you have an amazing cast of characters and a story that is beyond good. While Girl Least Likely To Marry is the second book in The Wedding Season series, it can be read as a standalone; however I think you’d enjoy the story more if you’ve read The Unexpected Wedding Guest.
Cassiopeia (Cassie) Barclay is an Australian genius and is very happy with her life studying the stars. Her college roommates are as different as they come and they’ve all gathered for what was to be the wedding of her friend, Reese. Now that the wedding is off, the reception is to go on as a party and Cassie finds herself dealing with Reese’s cousin and ex-NFL quarterback, Tuck.
It was really hard not to like Cassie, she is one of those people who is so smart that she doesn’t even realize when she’s talking down to a person. Although she’s pretty, she doesn’t show it she dresses down, throws her hair up in a pony tail, and wears no make-up. She isn’t out to impress anyone other than her colleagues. I love the matter of fact way she talks about sex with her lab partner and the fact that she doesn’t think she needs sex and that orgasms aren’t necessary. What I love most is that Tuck throws her for a loop, he makes her feel things and she doesn’t like it.
Tuck, wow I love this man! Yes he’s famous, and yes he’s a little bit self centered but basically he’s just a really nice guy and much smarter than most everyone gives him credit for especially Cassie. The fact that he sees something is Cassie is very telling and the fact that he won’t let her close herself off to him proves that he’s way more than the man whore reputation he’s earned.
I loved watching Tuck help Cassie experience new things especially emotions that she’s closed off all of her life. He was so patient and even when Cassie would inadvertently hurt his feelings; he understood it was because she didn’t really realize what she was doing. Their sexual exploits were beyond explosive and Tuck easily proved he was just the person to help Cassie achieve satisfaction on many levels. It was almost painful to watch Cassie come to terms with all of the new experiences and emotions she was finally dealing with, but thankfully she had good friends and Tuck there to guide her.
This wasn’t an easy, fluffy romance…it took a great deal for Cassie to come to terms with her feelings and it took Tuck giving her the space she needed to figure it out. I loved this book because it wasn’t pretty, it took work and patience and lots of understanding for them to figure things out and because of that it made this one fantastic story. Girl Least Likely To Marry isn’t a typical romance but it’s a great romance because it proves that love isn’t easy and sometimes it’s worth the wait to get what you want!
Review copy provided for an honest review
4.5 STARS
I have to hand it to Amy Andrews for writing a heroine who is Mensa smart but is devoid of motions. She talked about it in a letter to her readers at the beginning of the book and I wondered if I’d be able to enjoy such a heroine, I’m happy to report that despite it all I found this character beyond fascinating and add in the hero and her friends and you have an amazing cast of characters and a story that is beyond good. While Girl Least Likely To Marry is the second book in The Wedding Season series, it can be read as a standalone; however I think you’d enjoy the story more if you’ve read The Unexpected Wedding Guest.
Cassiopeia (Cassie) Barclay is an Australian genius and is very happy with her life studying the stars. Her college roommates are as different as they come and they’ve all gathered for what was to be the wedding of her friend, Reese. Now that the wedding is off, the reception is to go on as a party and Cassie finds herself dealing with Reese’s cousin and ex-NFL quarterback, Tuck.
It was really hard not to like Cassie, she is one of those people who is so smart that she doesn’t even realize when she’s talking down to a person. Although she’s pretty, she doesn’t show it she dresses down, throws her hair up in a pony tail, and wears no make-up. She isn’t out to impress anyone other than her colleagues. I love the matter of fact way she talks about sex with her lab partner and the fact that she doesn’t think she needs sex and that orgasms aren’t necessary. What I love most is that Tuck throws her for a loop, he makes her feel things and she doesn’t like it.
Tuck, wow I love this man! Yes he’s famous, and yes he’s a little bit self centered but basically he’s just a really nice guy and much smarter than most everyone gives him credit for especially Cassie. The fact that he sees something is Cassie is very telling and the fact that he won’t let her close herself off to him proves that he’s way more than the man whore reputation he’s earned.
I loved watching Tuck help Cassie experience new things especially emotions that she’s closed off all of her life. He was so patient and even when Cassie would inadvertently hurt his feelings; he understood it was because she didn’t really realize what she was doing. Their sexual exploits were beyond explosive and Tuck easily proved he was just the person to help Cassie achieve satisfaction on many levels. It was almost painful to watch Cassie come to terms with all of the new experiences and emotions she was finally dealing with, but thankfully she had good friends and Tuck there to guide her.
This wasn’t an easy, fluffy romance…it took a great deal for Cassie to come to terms with her feelings and it took Tuck giving her the space she needed to figure it out. I loved this book because it wasn’t pretty, it took work and patience and lots of understanding for them to figure things out and because of that it made this one fantastic story. Girl Least Likely To Marry isn’t a typical romance but it’s a great romance because it proves that love isn’t easy and sometimes it’s worth the wait to get what you want!
February 14, 2016
My impressions at 25%:
I haven't giggled this much while reading a book since I was way too young to be reading the kinds of books I've read. Cassie and Tuck are hilarious, and I love them both. Tuck is smart but pretends not be just to irritate Cassie; he's charming and funny and beautiful. Cassie is beautiful too, though she has no idea, and I love that she's so smart it makes her completely clueless. I'm in love with both of them at this point.
So in love, in fact, that I'm already anxious to pick the book back up and keep going.
My impressions at 50%:
I wish I could tell you what my impressions were at the 50% mark, but the truth is that I breezed right past it and didn't notice. I'm at 61% right now and I only put the book down for the sake of not blowing my format. I love Cassie -- I love her honesty and her simplicity, I love the ways that she's just like me. I love Tuck too, because he appreciates the way she's different,from the types of women he's used to. He doesn't shrink away from her honesty, doesn't balk at her simplicity.
I want a Tuck of my own. Too bad Amy Andrews made him up, huh? Still, she did a damn fine job of it, I can tell you that..
My impressions at 75%:
Oh. My. Gosh. This book, you guys. It's so good. It's so good I literally don't care about the few errors I've found. It's just -- I don't even have words. It's just ... it's so, so good.
Lasting impressions after reading (100%):
This book is written following British English rules, so for just a minute in the beginning the apostrophe quotations threw me off -- and I did notice them now and then as I was reading. But let me tell you, by the time I got to the first British spelling, I was already grinning and so engrossed that I hardly noticed -- which actually lasted throughout the entirety of the story. A benefit to British writing, though ... this author appears to be a stickler for the rules of writing, and the book is very well written. It doesn't hurt that Harlequin saw to good editing, either. This is a 5-star read, for solid writing AND conscientious product production.
I seriously loved this book. The story, the characters, the back stories. The humor, the sense of hope. The "aawww" moments. Cassie was such a sweet, incredibly human girl, and Tuck ... Tuck was ...
I had a Tuck once. A man that me feel again when I was sure I'd gone so numb that that depth of feeling was no longer possible for me. He made me laugh, made me want, made me feel safe enough to need again. When we didn't work out the way we were supposed to, I hurt in a way that I never had before, because I had let him inspire that kind of feeling in me again, because I had let him in, because I had let him touch my soul. Because I let him step behind the protective barriers I'd built long before he ever came along.
Cassie and Tuck give me hope that it can happen again someday, that I can feel again in a way that I haven't since him ... and that, for once, it just might finally work out right. For solid characters, solid writing, and undeniable skill, I give this book five stars. But for the hope and the laughter, the smiles and the tears, I'd easily give this book ten stars if I could.
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I haven't giggled this much while reading a book since I was way too young to be reading the kinds of books I've read. Cassie and Tuck are hilarious, and I love them both. Tuck is smart but pretends not be just to irritate Cassie; he's charming and funny and beautiful. Cassie is beautiful too, though she has no idea, and I love that she's so smart it makes her completely clueless. I'm in love with both of them at this point.
So in love, in fact, that I'm already anxious to pick the book back up and keep going.
My impressions at 50%:
I wish I could tell you what my impressions were at the 50% mark, but the truth is that I breezed right past it and didn't notice. I'm at 61% right now and I only put the book down for the sake of not blowing my format. I love Cassie -- I love her honesty and her simplicity, I love the ways that she's just like me. I love Tuck too, because he appreciates the way she's different,from the types of women he's used to. He doesn't shrink away from her honesty, doesn't balk at her simplicity.
I want a Tuck of my own. Too bad Amy Andrews made him up, huh? Still, she did a damn fine job of it, I can tell you that..
My impressions at 75%:
Oh. My. Gosh. This book, you guys. It's so good. It's so good I literally don't care about the few errors I've found. It's just -- I don't even have words. It's just ... it's so, so good.
Lasting impressions after reading (100%):
This book is written following British English rules, so for just a minute in the beginning the apostrophe quotations threw me off -- and I did notice them now and then as I was reading. But let me tell you, by the time I got to the first British spelling, I was already grinning and so engrossed that I hardly noticed -- which actually lasted throughout the entirety of the story. A benefit to British writing, though ... this author appears to be a stickler for the rules of writing, and the book is very well written. It doesn't hurt that Harlequin saw to good editing, either. This is a 5-star read, for solid writing AND conscientious product production.
I seriously loved this book. The story, the characters, the back stories. The humor, the sense of hope. The "aawww" moments. Cassie was such a sweet, incredibly human girl, and Tuck ... Tuck was ...
I had a Tuck once. A man that me feel again when I was sure I'd gone so numb that that depth of feeling was no longer possible for me. He made me laugh, made me want, made me feel safe enough to need again. When we didn't work out the way we were supposed to, I hurt in a way that I never had before, because I had let him inspire that kind of feeling in me again, because I had let him in, because I had let him touch my soul. Because I let him step behind the protective barriers I'd built long before he ever came along.
Cassie and Tuck give me hope that it can happen again someday, that I can feel again in a way that I haven't since him ... and that, for once, it just might finally work out right. For solid characters, solid writing, and undeniable skill, I give this book five stars. But for the hope and the laughter, the smiles and the tears, I'd easily give this book ten stars if I could.
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July 25, 2014
Cassiopeia knows “love is a romantic construct perpetrated by romance novels and Hollywood with no sound scientific basis”. Introverted geek girl to the max, everything Cassie does is calm, measured and logical. Why should she bothered by fashion, makeup or some boring social norms when there are so many secrets of the universe to be discovered?
Samuel Tucker is “big, blond ex-quarterback who’d obviously fallen out of the stupid tree. And hit every branch on the way down.” At least that’s Cassie’s impression. Although her comments about Sam’s intellect were very snobbish, they still made me chuckle. Who knew there were so many way’s that you can say dumb without using the actual word?
From the first encounter there is instant attraction between Cassie and Sam and biology wins out over intellect and logic. Surprisingly insta love cliche didn’t bother me much in this book, maybe because Cassie scientifically explained and reasoned in great detail why it’s happening.
When I started reading Girl Least Likely to Marry I didn’t expect much but the book surprised me with quirky heroine, likable hero who is more than a big hunk of meat, supportive group of loyal friends and a lot of funny situations . And I loved that Sam accepted Cassie’s weird personality and does not try to change her. Yes, they both have flaws but they learn to live with them.
In The End…
Girl Least Likely to Marry is light but unusual contemporary romance novel about a geek girl and laid-back ex-sport star who fall in love, against logic and reason. Perfect as a fluffy and light read that will make you smile and relax.
My rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: This text is also posted on my blog Bookworm Dreams in a little bit more styled edition.
Samuel Tucker is “big, blond ex-quarterback who’d obviously fallen out of the stupid tree. And hit every branch on the way down.” At least that’s Cassie’s impression. Although her comments about Sam’s intellect were very snobbish, they still made me chuckle. Who knew there were so many way’s that you can say dumb without using the actual word?
From the first encounter there is instant attraction between Cassie and Sam and biology wins out over intellect and logic. Surprisingly insta love cliche didn’t bother me much in this book, maybe because Cassie scientifically explained and reasoned in great detail why it’s happening.
When I started reading Girl Least Likely to Marry I didn’t expect much but the book surprised me with quirky heroine, likable hero who is more than a big hunk of meat, supportive group of loyal friends and a lot of funny situations . And I loved that Sam accepted Cassie’s weird personality and does not try to change her. Yes, they both have flaws but they learn to live with them.
In The End…
Girl Least Likely to Marry is light but unusual contemporary romance novel about a geek girl and laid-back ex-sport star who fall in love, against logic and reason. Perfect as a fluffy and light read that will make you smile and relax.
My rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: This text is also posted on my blog Bookworm Dreams in a little bit more styled edition.
June 10, 2013
My view
The Girl Least Likely to Marry is different than most romance novels plots. There is no weak heroine and a superhero. The story is based on commitment and physical attraction, but at the same time shows the feelings the characters developed.
The relationship between Tuck and Cassie is logical, witty and sexy. Both characters are portrait on a unique way and not has a common ex-NFL player and an astronomer. There are confident and knew exactly what they wanted and how to get it.
The book is an easy read with several funny moments and some unorthodox situations. Mostly, chemistry brings the attraction between the characters providing a refreshing scenario. The setup at the end of the book gave the indication that the reader can find more about this story in book # 3: Maid of Dishonor.
What I liked the most
I enjoyed the novelty both characters found on each other.
I wanted more of
I wanted more of the story after the reconciliation. Plus, I was expecting Cassie to call the hero Sam when they were together.
Who should read it
Anyone looking for a geeky romance novel.
Rate
4 out of 5
The Girl Least Likely to Marry is different than most romance novels plots. There is no weak heroine and a superhero. The story is based on commitment and physical attraction, but at the same time shows the feelings the characters developed.
The relationship between Tuck and Cassie is logical, witty and sexy. Both characters are portrait on a unique way and not has a common ex-NFL player and an astronomer. There are confident and knew exactly what they wanted and how to get it.
The book is an easy read with several funny moments and some unorthodox situations. Mostly, chemistry brings the attraction between the characters providing a refreshing scenario. The setup at the end of the book gave the indication that the reader can find more about this story in book # 3: Maid of Dishonor.
What I liked the most
I enjoyed the novelty both characters found on each other.
I wanted more of
I wanted more of the story after the reconciliation. Plus, I was expecting Cassie to call the hero Sam when they were together.
Who should read it
Anyone looking for a geeky romance novel.
Rate
4 out of 5
August 2, 2013
In Girl Least Likely To Marry: We meet Cassiopeia “Cassie” Barclay who rocks an IQ of 163. I fell in love with this quirky and nerdy genius. From the way she dresses to not caring about wearing make-up. Add in her demands to needing eight hours of sleep each night. She is very different from your typical heroine. And she is instantly attracted to Tuck and his pheromones.
Samuel Tucker aka Tuck is every woman’s dream. A professional quarterback who’s career is most likely over. He is everything a woman could want. GQ - good looking, thoughtful, smart, sexy, and a great sense of humor. I want a hero that is going to do the things for me that Tuck did for Cassie.
I found this a very enjoyable read with plenty of laughs throughout. I also enjoyed the conversations between Cassie and Tuck. Sleeping outside under the stars sounds so romantic. And the star ceiling was truly sweet. One small thing I did not care for, was the overuse of the word pheromone. I felt it was used a little too often.
4.5/5 stars
I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Samuel Tucker aka Tuck is every woman’s dream. A professional quarterback who’s career is most likely over. He is everything a woman could want. GQ - good looking, thoughtful, smart, sexy, and a great sense of humor. I want a hero that is going to do the things for me that Tuck did for Cassie.
I found this a very enjoyable read with plenty of laughs throughout. I also enjoyed the conversations between Cassie and Tuck. Sleeping outside under the stars sounds so romantic. And the star ceiling was truly sweet. One small thing I did not care for, was the overuse of the word pheromone. I felt it was used a little too often.
4.5/5 stars
I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
October 21, 2017
I read this for a Geek/Nerd Romance challenge, and while it definitely had that aspect to the story, it didn't really have much going for it besides that.
This was definitely a case of opposites attract, and while I could somewhat identify with Cassie, I also hated her. She was extremely cold and clinical, making her difficult to connect with, and her romance mostly about sex and not falling in love. She was completely clueless when it came to love, which seemed at odds with her supposed genius status.
The only thing I really enjoyed about this book was Tuck. He seemed easy to connect with, invested in the relationship, and truly interested in Cassie. His celebrity status was downplayed quite a bit, but still present, and even his playboy status was downplayed! He was just an enjoyable character overall.
I've not been impressed with this series so far, and this book was the make it or break it point of the series for me, so I think I'll be abandoning the rest of it.
This was definitely a case of opposites attract, and while I could somewhat identify with Cassie, I also hated her. She was extremely cold and clinical, making her difficult to connect with, and her romance mostly about sex and not falling in love. She was completely clueless when it came to love, which seemed at odds with her supposed genius status.
The only thing I really enjoyed about this book was Tuck. He seemed easy to connect with, invested in the relationship, and truly interested in Cassie. His celebrity status was downplayed quite a bit, but still present, and even his playboy status was downplayed! He was just an enjoyable character overall.
I've not been impressed with this series so far, and this book was the make it or break it point of the series for me, so I think I'll be abandoning the rest of it.
June 24, 2013
Cassie is all about her studies, everything is about logic. But when she meets super sexyTuck she is not so sure anymore. She wants to be logic, but she can’t stop thinking about Tuck.
Cassie is what most would call a nerd. Tuck is a Jock, but what Cassie doesn’t realize he isn’t a dumb jock. Yes we have seen stories like this in the past but this one is very very different than anyone I have ever read. It was interesting, the storyline held my attention. I enjoyed how the plot grew. It had a great message in the story about following your heart, doesn’t matter what society thinks or labels you are given.
A great nerdy romance story, very fresh!
ARC provided by NetGalley
Cassie is what most would call a nerd. Tuck is a Jock, but what Cassie doesn’t realize he isn’t a dumb jock. Yes we have seen stories like this in the past but this one is very very different than anyone I have ever read. It was interesting, the storyline held my attention. I enjoyed how the plot grew. It had a great message in the story about following your heart, doesn’t matter what society thinks or labels you are given.
A great nerdy romance story, very fresh!
ARC provided by NetGalley
October 26, 2013
This is a romance where a genius woman meets a not so dumb jock. It's mostly a two characters story. It's part of a series but I didn't feel the need to read the others.
Cassie and Samuel 'Tuck' Tucker courtship is not your average romance. It's geek scientist, Cassie, meets retired quarterback jock Tuck and sparks flies. Cassie approaches her libido waking up with logic and both Cassie and Tuck embark on a passionate, yet adorable relationship that isn't a relationship.
A quick, funny and different romance. Recommended because it's adorable and geeky.
Cassie and Samuel 'Tuck' Tucker courtship is not your average romance. It's geek scientist, Cassie, meets retired quarterback jock Tuck and sparks flies. Cassie approaches her libido waking up with logic and both Cassie and Tuck embark on a passionate, yet adorable relationship that isn't a relationship.
A quick, funny and different romance. Recommended because it's adorable and geeky.
November 3, 2013
A light fluffy contemporary which was just what I needed.
Positives:
- Loved both the h/H. Cassie was delightfully awkard and Tuck was wonderfully accomodating. He really didn't try to change her.
- I really liked the fact that Love doesn't magically cure the h in this book. She's still the same person she was at the starting.
- And Tuck being a work-at-home guy can live anywhere and he doesn't actually need Cassie to give up her career.
The biggest negative I had was the insta-love trope. It was very very irritating.
Positives:
- Loved both the h/H. Cassie was delightfully awkard and Tuck was wonderfully accomodating. He really didn't try to change her.
- I really liked the fact that Love doesn't magically cure the h in this book. She's still the same person she was at the starting.
- And Tuck being a work-at-home guy can live anywhere and he doesn't actually need Cassie to give up her career.
The biggest negative I had was the insta-love trope. It was very very irritating.
March 14, 2015
I'm giving this a five star. Because I could definitely relate to Cassie. I don't believe in love as well. We both have our heads rule our body, and not by our hearts. I am not super genius as she was though, but yeah, I'd rather lock myself in a room to read and write than have a social life.
It was so refreshing, I saw it in her eyes. A bit emotional change and she was confuse. Hell, I would be too.
I loved it. Simple as that.
It was so refreshing, I saw it in her eyes. A bit emotional change and she was confuse. Hell, I would be too.
I loved it. Simple as that.
October 29, 2013
this was a good short story only 224 pages. It was really a nice love story. Centers on Cassie a 30 yr old college student. She is going to Cornell for 3 months for her continuing study of the universal and Jupiter. She does everything logically and doesn't believe in love. She meets Tuck and he rocks her world and changes everything she believes. It is a really good read
April 12, 2015
4.5 stars!
Fun, entertaining and REALLY good!
Fun, entertaining and REALLY good!
February 10, 2014
This a really good story the geek girl Cassie and the jock Tuck fall into a relationship to help with Cassie's libido not realising that they will both fall deeply in love. Loved it
January 22, 2016
Wtf did I just read
February 21, 2021
I absolutely loved this book!
November 19, 2024
Spoilers ahead, 2.5*
A cute and funny romance between a very logical scientist and a sexy flirty former quarterback playboy.
*******
For such a quick read this book had some serious bang my head on a wall moments
Continuing with my trope of neuro divergent mcs the h fit my profile
My problem is mostly the H..... actually my only problem is the H. We meet him as he's considering hooking up with Cassie's friend. The friend, because of his cockiness, makes him a bet he can't get Cassie's number and from there he pursues her. Now it's clear the connection is there between him and the h but I hated that initial meet where he wanted the friend. Just the descriptions of the two women irritated me.
Then the author felt the need to drag my face through the fact that the H was a huge manwhore, over and over again hundreds of references to ow. Like something would happen and Cassie wouldn't have a typical reaction the H would think oh if it was any other woman xyz. Then his thoughts would be about his vast experience......over and over and over again. This irritated me endlessly
Cassie and her little scientific brain used me, some of her thoughts about the IQ of others or their intelligence weren't kind but her blunt way if thinking cracked me up. Her faking an orgasm with him had me howling 😂😂😂😂
The chemistry was fine, the h having BBS because of his pheromones would normally piss me off but it worked here
All in all this could've been one of my favourites if I didn't have the H's past manwhoring thrown in my face
***********
He held it out and she looked at it as if it was a vial of poison. His grin broadened. Most women in this situation would have begged him for it. Hell, having his phone number in their hot little hands would probably be a story they’d tell to the end of their days.
He nodded. ‘This will be the eighth paternity claim against me.’ He raked a hand through his hair. ‘Sorry, you probably don’t need this. But I can assure you it’s not true.’
Cassie frowned. ‘No
No cheating
No real drama except tabloid articles
He was a huge manwhore
She wasn't a virgin, actually had a colleague who she hooked up with occasionally but sex wasn't important to her
H is infertile
****I desperately needed an epilogue here
A cute and funny romance between a very logical scientist and a sexy flirty former quarterback playboy.
*******
For such a quick read this book had some serious bang my head on a wall moments
Continuing with my trope of neuro divergent mcs the h fit my profile
My problem is mostly the H..... actually my only problem is the H. We meet him as he's considering hooking up with Cassie's friend. The friend, because of his cockiness, makes him a bet he can't get Cassie's number and from there he pursues her. Now it's clear the connection is there between him and the h but I hated that initial meet where he wanted the friend. Just the descriptions of the two women irritated me.
Then the author felt the need to drag my face through the fact that the H was a huge manwhore, over and over again hundreds of references to ow. Like something would happen and Cassie wouldn't have a typical reaction the H would think oh if it was any other woman xyz. Then his thoughts would be about his vast experience......over and over and over again. This irritated me endlessly
Cassie and her little scientific brain used me, some of her thoughts about the IQ of others or their intelligence weren't kind but her blunt way if thinking cracked me up. Her faking an orgasm with him had me howling 😂😂😂😂
The chemistry was fine, the h having BBS because of his pheromones would normally piss me off but it worked here
All in all this could've been one of my favourites if I didn't have the H's past manwhoring thrown in my face
***********
He held it out and she looked at it as if it was a vial of poison. His grin broadened. Most women in this situation would have begged him for it. Hell, having his phone number in their hot little hands would probably be a story they’d tell to the end of their days.
He nodded. ‘This will be the eighth paternity claim against me.’ He raked a hand through his hair. ‘Sorry, you probably don’t need this. But I can assure you it’s not true.’
Cassie frowned. ‘No
No cheating
No real drama except tabloid articles
He was a huge manwhore
She wasn't a virgin, actually had a colleague who she hooked up with occasionally but sex wasn't important to her
H is infertile
****I desperately needed an epilogue here
November 14, 2024
I read this in early high school and ate it up but rereading it now it’s… not great. I really dislike when smart women are portrayed how Cassie was.
This was clearly written by someone who knows nothing about astronomy and has never met a PhD student, and as someone who has a degree in astronomy and friends doing astronomy PhDs, it kinda gave me the ick. Like maybe do some research?
referring to glow in the dark stars on the ceiling: “we mapped the whole solar system out—all geographically correct, with the constellations accurately represented…” first of all, constellations are not in the solar system and secondly, the planets in our system are not stationary.
“an ultraviolet image of a star cluster on the edge of our solar system” uhhhh the closest star cluster to us is 150 light-years away… but ok
But of course I understand that it’s just a frilly harlequin romance and isn’t that serious.
Word counts:
Libido: 56
Pheromones/scent: 69
IQ: 18
Maybe pick up a thesaurus? And people with high IQs don’t normally mention their high IQs as often as this MC did… just saying.
This was clearly written by someone who knows nothing about astronomy and has never met a PhD student, and as someone who has a degree in astronomy and friends doing astronomy PhDs, it kinda gave me the ick. Like maybe do some research?
referring to glow in the dark stars on the ceiling: “we mapped the whole solar system out—all geographically correct, with the constellations accurately represented…” first of all, constellations are not in the solar system and secondly, the planets in our system are not stationary.
“an ultraviolet image of a star cluster on the edge of our solar system” uhhhh the closest star cluster to us is 150 light-years away… but ok
But of course I understand that it’s just a frilly harlequin romance and isn’t that serious.
Word counts:
Libido: 56
Pheromones/scent: 69
IQ: 18
Maybe pick up a thesaurus? And people with high IQs don’t normally mention their high IQs as often as this MC did… just saying.
November 11, 2013
It’s a story of opposites attract. Sort of. A dumb football jock and a super geek genius? Sign me, up! After all, everyone loves oil-and-water stories, tales of people who come together because they’re simply meant to, despite all obstacles and personal differences. Beauty and the Beast. Elizabeth and Darcy. Paula Abdul and Cool Cat. (Yeah, that’s right. I went there). But in this timeless trope, it only seems to be a story of opposites. Right? Underneath all that tension and denial are two people who actually have a lot in common. Cassie and Tuck are now one of my favorite stories in this sub-genre. When Cassie insists, “One thing was for sure: should she ever drop a hundred IQ points and end up with some man he would never be of the jock variety,’ I was immediately hooked. Andrews lived up to the promise of her set-up and then some. Cassie is vulnerable and smart and not willing to risk her scientific career for lust and emotional attachment she doesn’t understand. Tuck, an ex-football star, chased by paparazzi and old demons, starts by having fun with a woman he likes and ends up fighting for a relationship with the woman he loves who is determined not to love him back. Talk about great tension.
It is part of a series that reaffirms your faith in love. I loved this quote from Cassie in Book 1 of the Wedding Season series: “In a world with billions of people, meeting The One is a statistical improbability.” And who doesn’t agree with that? So how come couple after couple after couple in romance seem to manage it so easily? Well, the answer is . . . they don’t. It’s not easy. And the odds aren’t in their favor, but they make it work anyway. Cassie and Tuck’s story is fun and flirty and (amazingly) gut wrenching. From fake orgasms to breakups, this story has incredible emotional depth in a very little package. Stories this length often cut corners by using characters with past relationships, but Andrews takes these two from the moment they meet to the moment they commit to each other. Their relationship begins as nothing more than scratching a sexual itch. It’s less than a fling. But it slowly evolves. They move in with each other. They grow to care more about each other. And they struggle with fear and jealously and love–because love isn’t simple or purely sweet. But in the end, they’re ready to make compromises. They’re ready to make it work. And what’s not to love about that?
The heroine is original and engaging. Andrews explains that she was inspired to write Cassie as a character similar to Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory:
Cassie was a true challenge because while she had IQ to burn, her EQ was practically nonexistent. It took me quite a while to get a handle on her and I think I only really managed it by getting inside the hero’s head. Tuck [the hero] totally got Cassie. And getting to know him gave me a way to understand her.
Challenging one of the core components of the genre–the gender binary in which men are logical and women are emotional–Andrews delivers a story that is unique. Ever since Elizabeth told Darcy he was a super jerk, women in romance have been training men how to show their feelings. I loved that this time, the shoe was on the other foot, as it can be in the world outside of fiction. While real women aren’t Cassie-level geniuses, we also aren’t always encyclopedia of emotional psychology either. We struggle with emotions, relationships, and understanding ourselves and our feelings, often as much as any man does . . . and it was refreshing to see a heroine that didn’t have all together in the L.O.V.E. department.
The hero is great, too. Seriously. This guys so sexy he’s scientifically irresistible. One whiff of super-hunks’s pheromones and Cassie’s body craves a night with this specimen of male perfection. Yet that’s just one side of his character. When he loses his cool after a magazine takes private photos of him with Cassie and labels her “ugly,” we see that he’s a yummy mix of protective instincts and sweetness and alpha awesome. And I love him because of the depth of love he has for Cassie. The way these two interact gets me every time:
‘I love you,’ he said. And then he said it again for good measure, weighing it up. ‘I love you.’
Cassie blinked. ‘Don’t be ridiculous,’ she said. ‘Even if I believed that such an emotion existed, and wasn’t some commercial to sell movies and Valentines, we’ve known each other for just over a month–it’s preposterous.’
Tuch shook his head. ‘It’s not.”
Oh my god! I tell you, this review doesn’t do them justice. Just buy the book!
Disclaimer: An ARC copy of this book was provided.
It is part of a series that reaffirms your faith in love. I loved this quote from Cassie in Book 1 of the Wedding Season series: “In a world with billions of people, meeting The One is a statistical improbability.” And who doesn’t agree with that? So how come couple after couple after couple in romance seem to manage it so easily? Well, the answer is . . . they don’t. It’s not easy. And the odds aren’t in their favor, but they make it work anyway. Cassie and Tuck’s story is fun and flirty and (amazingly) gut wrenching. From fake orgasms to breakups, this story has incredible emotional depth in a very little package. Stories this length often cut corners by using characters with past relationships, but Andrews takes these two from the moment they meet to the moment they commit to each other. Their relationship begins as nothing more than scratching a sexual itch. It’s less than a fling. But it slowly evolves. They move in with each other. They grow to care more about each other. And they struggle with fear and jealously and love–because love isn’t simple or purely sweet. But in the end, they’re ready to make compromises. They’re ready to make it work. And what’s not to love about that?
The heroine is original and engaging. Andrews explains that she was inspired to write Cassie as a character similar to Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory:
Cassie was a true challenge because while she had IQ to burn, her EQ was practically nonexistent. It took me quite a while to get a handle on her and I think I only really managed it by getting inside the hero’s head. Tuck [the hero] totally got Cassie. And getting to know him gave me a way to understand her.
Challenging one of the core components of the genre–the gender binary in which men are logical and women are emotional–Andrews delivers a story that is unique. Ever since Elizabeth told Darcy he was a super jerk, women in romance have been training men how to show their feelings. I loved that this time, the shoe was on the other foot, as it can be in the world outside of fiction. While real women aren’t Cassie-level geniuses, we also aren’t always encyclopedia of emotional psychology either. We struggle with emotions, relationships, and understanding ourselves and our feelings, often as much as any man does . . . and it was refreshing to see a heroine that didn’t have all together in the L.O.V.E. department.
The hero is great, too. Seriously. This guys so sexy he’s scientifically irresistible. One whiff of super-hunks’s pheromones and Cassie’s body craves a night with this specimen of male perfection. Yet that’s just one side of his character. When he loses his cool after a magazine takes private photos of him with Cassie and labels her “ugly,” we see that he’s a yummy mix of protective instincts and sweetness and alpha awesome. And I love him because of the depth of love he has for Cassie. The way these two interact gets me every time:
‘I love you,’ he said. And then he said it again for good measure, weighing it up. ‘I love you.’
Cassie blinked. ‘Don’t be ridiculous,’ she said. ‘Even if I believed that such an emotion existed, and wasn’t some commercial to sell movies and Valentines, we’ve known each other for just over a month–it’s preposterous.’
Tuch shook his head. ‘It’s not.”
Oh my god! I tell you, this review doesn’t do them justice. Just buy the book!
Disclaimer: An ARC copy of this book was provided.
June 8, 2020
This book was so incredibly good. I love stories where the female doesn’t realize her beauty and the hero defends her....and falls for her. Cassie and Tuck were meant to be together. It was difficult for them, but in the end....they were a match made in heaven. Now, if you have not read Amy Andrews’ books, I highly recommend them. I have not read ONE that I have not given 5 stars to. She is absolutely one of the best authors that I have ever read. Love Love LOVE!
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