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Professor's Keeper (2012)

by Nicole Dennis(Favorite Author)

3.01 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1614955883 (ISBN13: 9781614955887)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Silver Publishing

review 1: Overall this book was incredibly stilted. The action focused itself round what just appears to be love at first sight from the marine, but he was forced into being a side character to the professors focus on his work. Although this authors writing style was smooth and a easy flow to read, Alistair's language just felt like the sentence had been written normally then attacked by a thesaurus. It reminded me of Joey from Friends trying to sound more mature until he ended up changing his name to 'baby kangaroo' it was too unnatural. There are little mistakes everywhere, some pointed out in other reviews, the one that I picked up on was the emails being sent to "Japan, France, Australia and here" yet the conference occurred with French, Japanese, Italian and Boston scientists.... more When he said goodbye to the French scientist, he used 'bonjour' which is only used as goodbye by Canadians, to a European that would have been daft saying hello to her. In the end the 'distance' that the professor put between the outside world and himself, put a distance between this being a nice flowing read, to a forced and clumsy execution. There was too much work put into trying to make this accurate, rather than making it enjoyable, causing it to jump about and to make the budding relationship more of a side plot. The character interactions were good, they were just overwhelmed by unimportant jargon that became too much of the focus.Will try to read more from this author, to see if this is just a one off issue caused by a bad focus or an ongoing issue, but I don't plan to do this anytime soon.
review 2: This is the first Nicole Dennis story I have read. Her work seem have pretty good set ups. However this one was not executed as well as I though it would have been.There is a geeky, antisocial professor who meets a war damaged, ex-Marine during an attempted convenience store robbery...sounds promising right? Well the professor was boring and robotic and the ex-Marine wasn't given mush chance to shine. So the characters were flat. I think if the characters were given some more life and time, this story could have more potential. (Alistair's words were supposed to be funny but it didn't come across as such)also I felt the price for such a short story is not worth it especially since the story wasn't that great in the end. less

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