Erin kept telling me how much I would love this book, and she was totally, totally right. I love the setting (alternate NASA in the 60s, trying to send a man to the moon). I love Charlie, who is a PhD and works with computers and has steeled herself for a life of everyone underestimating her and refusing to take her seriously, when she's always the smartest person in the room. I even love Parsons, who is kind of a perfectionist jerk, because he treats Charlie with all the respect she deserves. He loves his job and just wants to do it well. She loves her job and does it well, so he doesn't have all the sexist garbage baggage all her other bosses do. It is a match made in math-nerd heaven.
Would you enjoy a romance between two people who love their work, and science, and not having feelings? A romance where they refuse to admit a romance is going on, and pretend it's just (very hot) hook ups in a seedy hotel where they NEVER talk about feelings? A romance where the hero, whom everyone believes is a ball of rage with no ability to recognize other people's feelings turns out to be entirely gooey pudding feelings inside? A romance where the heroine is NOT here for romance because it might interfere with the work that she loves, but sure, she's up for some crazy sex stuff, if you INSIST? (Until the end, of course, when they realize they can have science AND feelings.)
It's just awesome. I liked them both so much, and I liked them together even more.
Grade: A
#45 in 2016
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