Review: Hot, funny nerd loving!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2012
Sandra Ross has managed to turn a boring old stereotype into a funny, sympathetic character that you can't help but cheer for.  `Explosion' tells the story of geeky nerd Ron, who has managed to make it to college with lots of great achievements, but none of them happen to be shedding his virginity.  He finally decides to pluck up the courage, sort of, to ask out the most popular, sexy girl he knows.  Adriana is also an overachiever, but she's also popular and pretty to boot.Ron decides to play it safe, and devises a plan to woo his dream girl through over the top, anonymous romantic gestures.  Cyrano de Bergerac he isn't, but eventually he succeeds, and Adriana agrees to go out on a date.  There is just enough of Ross' signature sexiness to the erotic `final achievement' to prevent the story from being just another sweet, but silly, nerd meets girl, nerd gets him some, everybody wins type of story.Ron is described as pretty pathetic, but I think Ross has hit on many a woman's secret fantasy of the fantasy nerd who is super romantic and hot in bed.  He manages to please the hottest girl he can find, and the two characters keep the story fun and interesting the whole way through.As previous reviews mention, it does kind of remind you of the old movie `Revenge of the Nerds', but I think that's because there are genuinely so many nerds that fantasize about this exact scenario.  Having been a bit of a female nerd, I won't deny I had my eye on a few of the cute, popular boys on campus, but was way too shy to do what Ron did!  I later matured to find that I preferred the slightly nerdy boys, who always seemed to know the sweetest things to say to a girl!I liked the fact that Adriana didn't seem to be just using Ron to get what she wanted, and vice versa.  They actually seemed like a cute college aged couple, and I was rooting for them to get together the whole time!  Plus, Adriana's admission that she kind of liked nerd boys reminded her of me a little.The buildup to the sex scene was hot!  After all, there is just something so urgent about that lusty period during college, especially for virgins desperate to lose that title.  Once the two finally got together, it was great, and I couldn't help but think that Ron was way cooler than he had actually been letting on.  Maybe he was acting a little nerdier to get Adriana into bed?  Either way, it was a great, fun little read, and one that I will surely recommend to my friends!