Review: Fireball

Fireball by Lainey Davis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Samantha invented an app/program that allows scientists to share data and findings, she's on the brink of a massive IPO which could bring her and her staff multi-millions, but rapid expansion has meant that she spends all her time on CEO stuff and doesn't get to code anymore. At an open day for local scientists and press she gets flustered and inadvertently tells a public school science teacher that it wouldn't be a good idea for his students to come to their offices. The teacher, AJ Trachtenberg already has a chip the size of an oak tree on his shoulder about being a teacher rather than something that could earn him $$$, it's the reason his last girlfriend dumped him and dissing his class who never get to go on field trips is just fuel on the fire!

Can sunny Sam win over grouchy AJ? You betcha.

This was a reasonably cute opposites attract romance. I liked that AJ was Jewish and it was treated as an everyday thing, nothing to make a fuss about. However, I found Sam's fascination with his hairy pelt on his back a bit off-putting, she mentioned it so often and it is such a turn-off for me it made me feel a bit squicky. Also, when AJ jumped to conclusions in the inevitable misunderstanding it felt a bit too manufactured.

A Kindle freebie at the time of writing.

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