Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts
AUTHOR: Charlie Cochet
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 68 pages
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Julian “Quinn” Quinetro, a gruff, tough Miami SWAT officer, has been injured on the job, and all he’s looking for is a little peace and quiet to recover—difficult to achieve with his large Cuban family. An adventure in picking up his prescriptions puts him in the path of his geeky, brownie-baking neighbor, Spencer Morgan. Spencer sweeps into Quinn’s life like a tropical storm of sunshine and rainbows. Not surprisingly, it’s chaos at first sight. Quinn’s in need of a little tender loving care, and Spencer decides he’s just the man for the job. Their very different lives might clash, but they might also find some common ground—and maybe more.
REVIEW:
Wounded in a police raid run by his SWAT Team, Quinn is stuck at home. His already grumpy nature is not exactly helped by his injuries, but the constant ‘check-ins’ by family and friends is close to making him explode. When he finally convinces everyone to give him some peace and quiet he thinks it will mean he will be getting some well deserved R&R. Then his neighbor, Spencer, runs into him (literally) and he starts to find rest is the last thing he wants. But Quinn and Spencer are so different that they might never work.
I enjoy quite a bit of what Charlie Cochet writes, and the blurb to this book sounded interesting, so I thought I would pick this book up for review. Initially I had a hard time getting into it. A combination of my lack of understanding of the Spanish (at least I think it was Spanish) a lot of the characters spoke added to the fact I didn’t really connect all that much with Quinn to begin with, led to the first part of the story feeling a bit flat to me.
But Spencer made me want to continue on. I do love a good geek who knows how to rock the superhero underwear! Once Spencer and Quinn were interacting, this story really took off. It might seem like an odd combination–especially when everyone in the story is saying so–but Spencer, who is bright and a tad clumsy, and Quinn, who is gruff and a bit standoff-ish, really work. Spencer smooths out Quinn’s harder edges, and Quinn inspires Spencer to do things he’d never even thing of doing.
I did want to kick Javier down a hill covered in cacti and into a pond populated by dick-eating piranhas, though. That dude was a right prick. How he is capable of keeping friends, I will never know. He must have hidden depths or something. Deep, deep, deep down.
This was a good story, overall, and I enjoyed it.
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