The plot line in one line:
Smart and caring student Emily falls for her professor, but the intelligent man so confident in the lecture hall, has a surprising layer of insecurities which only her patience and understanding have the power to cut through.
The good and the bad:
Entirely unexpected and adorable, this book set at a university in America, gave me good feelings from start to finish.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that this wasn’t the usual story about a sexually-experienced, cocky alpha male seducing a woman who desires/needs a dominant man to get her hot. Instead, Professor Victor Hanover is inexperienced and has secret insecurities about his body. On paper, that might not sound sexy – generally speaking, us women are expected to be turned on by hot-and-he-knows it, sexually accomplished men, but Penny Reid shows how a man of the contrary character is tasty in the eyes and mind of the right woman.
Emily is indeed the right woman – she’s compassionate and intelligent and it was utterly delightful to read how she slowly and sensitively worked with Victor to understand him and break down his barriers, resulting in a strong friendship-based relationship.
While there is sexual tension between Victor and Emily, this is not a book that is all about the moment when the protagonists finally have sex - it’s very much about them bonding emotionally and mentally. When the sex moment comes, it’s delicious and is used to show how unified they are as a couple, rather than to just titillate the reader. The whole book made me melt inside.
Reid’s books are moreish and while Kissing Galileo is littered with intellectual discussions which you will only understand if you know uni-level science (or Googled all the terms), these bits are not essential to understand – they are included to demonstrate how well-matched intellectually Emily and Victor are, and to build tension between the two.
The only point at which I found myself a bit annoyed with the writing was when Reid used the acronyms DM and D&D several times (which apparently Emily and Victor are!) and didn’t explain what these stood for or indeed even what they generally referred to. I think it is some American university reference, so needs some explaining to us non-Americans. But this was one teeny-tiny thing in what is overall a brilliant book.
Reid is now solidly established as an author on my Fantastic Author Billboard (FAB). I cannot get enough of her!
P.s., you can read this book before the first book in the series, and it won't ruin the first.
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