Reviews for Matchmaker's Moon

The average rating for Matchmaker's Moon based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-19 00:00:00 Malcolm Turner Sometimes you just want to read an old school category romance, and that's why I ended up reading this. Plus, I never could resist a Nerd Hero. This is also a bit of an opposites attract kind of book. Sophy is the normal intellect daughter of two academic geniuses and she has a chip on her shoulder about academics. She likes cowboys. Her parents have mostly given up on making her in their image, but they are still trying to pair her up with an intellectual so they can have genius grandchildren. So of course, they push Max in her direction when he comes to Dallas for some consulting work, getting Max to meet her while he's in town. Sophy is downright insulting to Max, initially, pretty much calling him dull as ditchwater to his face, and citing her preference for cowboys. Max is enchanted with Sophy and very, very jealous of her cowboy she's currently dating. For Max, it's practically love at first sight. He resolves to spend as much time with her as possible, and he ends up seducing her into giving this academic the old college try. Stephanie James is a pen name for Jayne Ann Krentz and you can tell. Ms. Krentz/James seems to prefer intelligent, but very masculine alpha types, and well, who can blame her? I liked Max. He has a big POV, and you realize that he's a very layered man. Under his calm, intellectual exterior lurks a crouching tiger. I can see that he was more than willing to fight for his woman. I love a hero who doesn't give up on his heroine and pursues her despite all obstacles. Although Sophy did come off a little bratty at first, it's apparent, she's a very sweet person. It was her way of dealing with the hurt of always being the normal kid around overachievers. I like that even though Max massacred the steak (steak-grilling is apparently a skill all men must possess or lose their man card), she still stroked his ego about it. That was very sweet of her. She didn't have to do that. She could have destroyed his fragile male ego, but she didn't. I like that Sophy is also very well-developed. She is a talented seamstress and designer, and her flair for color and design is apparent, even in the face of people (including her parents, dismissing it as trivial). I lived in Dallas as a teenager (high school), and James captures it well. I have a book fondness for cowboys, but my real life experiences with them has left me disenchanted. Sophy's beau reminded me of some of the cowboys I went to school with, and he lives down to my worst experiences of that type. I can't say I ever met a real life cowboy I found sexy, but I will still cherish my fictional cowboys. However, nerds always win out. Max is one sexy nerd. I like that he's very supportive of Sophy and never treats her like she's his intellectual inferior. He seems to understand that being a book smart person isn't the sum total of experience. I liked that although her parents don't get her, Sophy's parents do love her, and she loves them. I think it took courage for Sophy to forge her own path, despite the fact that it took her in a very different direction from her family's aspirations. This book lives up to the charm that old school category romances will always hold for me. It's amazing how much story a skilled writer can tell in under 200 pages. I'm really glad I was drawn in by the nerd angle, and I've enjoyed all the Stephanie James books I've read--this is no exception I'd recommend this if you can get a copy of it.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-29 00:00:00 KRISTINA NELSEN 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!