Review: The science isn't headdesky!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
I read this book all backwards. I'm not that into football, and I read this one before Rush Me.Didn't matter. Great book. Football is less important in this one than in Rush Me, but it's still present and this is still satisfyingly sportsy to my not-very-refined sports-romance palate.I have a graduate degree in sociology and like reading about heroines I can identify with, but I find most intellectual heroines not up to my standards. This book passes that test. I liked the way Natalie's status as a graduate student was handled, and I thought Parr did a great job balancing the happily-ever-after requirement of the genre with what's scientifically plausible for an archaeological dig. Yes, Natalie's research is WAY more interesting than mine was, and yes, she seems to succeed at it with cleaned-up versions of the anxiety, depression, dead ends, and terrible advice we all get. But she also has a bunch of sex with a pro football player. The scientist in me didn't have to suspend any more disbelief than the girlfriend, and actually had a very similar kind of wistful fantasy reaction to the story.Well done. Five stars.