Review: Geek Sex-ay!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
Leading lady Kenzie is a smart, professional PR gal who, as successful a career-woman as she is, still can't help getting wound up by an unflattering assessment of herself made by her twin sister, Riley. According to the sis, Kenzie's a frigid miss who wouldn't know passion if it bit her right on her classy backside. Suitably perturbed, Kenzie stalks off to her fave coffee place in full-on, "I'll show her" mode and, when she arrives, spontaneously decides to pick up cute-dude-in-torn-up-jeans, whom she's been eyeballing for a while, now. Naturally, hijinks ensue. I find Kenzie incredibly endearing as she struggles to overcome her natural reticence by coming on to a stranger. (I find the stranger endearing for other reasons, which would possibly melt my keyboard to go into right now.)Ahem.Turns out, said stranger, Scott, is a high-powered gamer and software developer/owns his own company/used to chicks going after him for his ducats kinda guy. Because Kenzie's so different from everybody else who wants a piece of him, Scott finds this clearly out-of-her-element beauteous blonde intriguing. They enjoy some hot moments in his "love van" but must part ways. Here's the thing about Scott, though -- he's been ticking off one of the Suits investing in his company with his "bad-boy/no verbal filter" ways and now all the investors want him to subject himself to grooming so they can rake in more money. Uh, I mean, so his image can be a credit to the company.So guess who's hired to groom him?Kenzie's determined to keep their relationship professional. (Sorta.) Scott's determined not to. (Totally.)I found myself smiling (a lot) through the first few chapters because Scott and Kenzie are so much fun when they first connect. Theirs is a very modern, sexy romance between two career-oriented folks. I really enjoyed seeing Kenzie realize that, actually, it's very natural to her to be a temptress. And Scott...well, W00F, OK? Just W00F. Plus, he seems like he'd be a fun team-member in a death-match game of Pictionary.Anyway, as folks gear up for long holidays and vacations, "Conflict of Interest" is just the kind of good-time, light-hearted reading with which folks can unwind. Recommended!