Year of the Poet Book

I'm so pleased to finish the year on a high! I stumbled across this little gem by accident as someone I follow on here is clearly binging on Stephanie James books. When I researched further this book popped up and it caught my attention enough that I hunted it down and devoured it in one go through the midnight hour into the start of a new day.

I LOVE both MC's in this they are both pretty adorable.
The H is a total genius nerd with questionable fashion sense, Clark Kent glasses and a physique under his dorky clothes to match (although how he achieves this considering his profession is anyone's guess, mark a point for the rules of romance that no H may not be a lean mean fighting machine)
He can even do a type of karate/judo because its all about angles and force etc, love him!

The h is the opposite of the H, the spawn of academics who expected her to be equally brilliant she struggled through they advanced classes and once university and adulthood beckoned got her degree and moved away to be normal. Despite this she still has an awesome relationship with her parents.

The H is dragged out of university to consult for the company the h works for and as he knows her parents well they ask him to look her up as they are hoping she will matty a braniac and produce genius grand children for him. He is instantly dazzled by the bright h who has adopted Texas as her home state and has a penchant for cowboys, bbq and dressmaking. H wants a piece of that and comes up with all kinds of ideas outside of his mathematical comfort zone to win his dream woman. He even manages to ruin a BBQ and the h tries to cover for him despite setting him up to fail.

He makes his move when her cowboy boyfriend is caught cheating and takes advantage of her sad state to seduce her, there is no forcing though so more H points here. The h has regrets though,she doesn't want a relationship with a wizard (her pet name for brainy types).

H respects her wishes while still hanging around and trying new things to win her, he defends her, listens to what she wants leaves her to give her time to need him and moves jobs to accommodate her at the end.

This H can do no wrong (other than dobbing her in to the bosses) the h is just what he needs and I have no doubt that an epilogue would have seen him dressed sharply by his artistic missus while being distracted by tons of kids he helps to raise!

Bloody lovely characters and just the book I needed!