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Nerds Saving the World #1
License to Nerd
Madison West appears on Peter Quincy’s doorstep as expected, when her husband, Charlie, disappears. Peter had been her husband’s best man and had promised to take care of Madison if something happened to him. Neither Madison nor Peter are what they seem, but will their lies to each other to save the world, instead fail to save them from each other?
369 pages, Paperback
First published July 29, 2014
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August 30, 2014
`We want the package, Madison.'
American author Chris Redding earned her degree in journalism form Penn State and still has as a goal to pursue her Masters in Education there. Meanwhile she devotes her time to her family in New Jersey while working in copywriting web content and product descriptions - and writing novels - 10 in all LICENSE TO NERD is her latest) and still finds time to run the local hospital CPR training center
The title of this newest book immediately catches the readers' attention - she evidently plans a series of novels about nerds. She has gone on record as have said, `I have a special place in my heart for the nerds in the world. The socially awkward, the ones too smart to tie their own shoes. So of course I have to write about them. This is a first in a series called Nerds Saving the World.'
Whether Redding keeps the same characters for her Nerds collection is up for grabs, but in this novel she introduces some very interesting if slightly off beat cast members and opens with a night on a dark street where our main character Madison West is accosted by an unknown assailant who tells her to hand over the papers from her photojournalist husband Charlie - a husband off on a mission in the Middle East. She runs and collides with the other main character, Peter Quincy from the Quincy Detective Agency who is your typical nerd who never got the girl - `He himself was no detective. His lab was his haven. He could fix anything with wires. He could make something new out of something old. Humans were a mystery to him. His brother Matt was the detective.' And as the author's synopsis summarizes, ` `Madison West walked down Main Street, Mill Hall, towards the one person who could help her. The one person with such a unique skill set, that no one else could duplicate. A skill set acquired doing things even she didn't have enough security clearance to know about. Who would have thought he could be in small town New Jersey? Why wasn't he doing something for the government instead of helping his brothers run a two-bit detective agency? That, Madison thought, was probably a story for another day. Right now, she needed him for a case. Her last case, she reminded herself. She was not going to work for the government anymore. Not that he would know her real agenda. No, she had to play this as if she was just looking for Charlie. With the sun in her face, she strode down the sidewalk looking for Quincy Detective Agency. She found it in a brick building that stood apart from those on either side, creating two alleys. She ducked into one of them to think once again about what she would say to Peter Quincy when she saw him for the first time in, well, since she married her husband.'
Yes , this is a mystery, a spicy romance, a thriller, but the book retains such a fine sense of balance between humorous and serious dialogue that it is easy to see why Redding calls this the Nerd series. Settle back and have fun and follow enough thrills to keep the lights on. This is a fast reading entertainment, light and frothy, but also involving.
American author Chris Redding earned her degree in journalism form Penn State and still has as a goal to pursue her Masters in Education there. Meanwhile she devotes her time to her family in New Jersey while working in copywriting web content and product descriptions - and writing novels - 10 in all LICENSE TO NERD is her latest) and still finds time to run the local hospital CPR training center
The title of this newest book immediately catches the readers' attention - she evidently plans a series of novels about nerds. She has gone on record as have said, `I have a special place in my heart for the nerds in the world. The socially awkward, the ones too smart to tie their own shoes. So of course I have to write about them. This is a first in a series called Nerds Saving the World.'
Whether Redding keeps the same characters for her Nerds collection is up for grabs, but in this novel she introduces some very interesting if slightly off beat cast members and opens with a night on a dark street where our main character Madison West is accosted by an unknown assailant who tells her to hand over the papers from her photojournalist husband Charlie - a husband off on a mission in the Middle East. She runs and collides with the other main character, Peter Quincy from the Quincy Detective Agency who is your typical nerd who never got the girl - `He himself was no detective. His lab was his haven. He could fix anything with wires. He could make something new out of something old. Humans were a mystery to him. His brother Matt was the detective.' And as the author's synopsis summarizes, ` `Madison West walked down Main Street, Mill Hall, towards the one person who could help her. The one person with such a unique skill set, that no one else could duplicate. A skill set acquired doing things even she didn't have enough security clearance to know about. Who would have thought he could be in small town New Jersey? Why wasn't he doing something for the government instead of helping his brothers run a two-bit detective agency? That, Madison thought, was probably a story for another day. Right now, she needed him for a case. Her last case, she reminded herself. She was not going to work for the government anymore. Not that he would know her real agenda. No, she had to play this as if she was just looking for Charlie. With the sun in her face, she strode down the sidewalk looking for Quincy Detective Agency. She found it in a brick building that stood apart from those on either side, creating two alleys. She ducked into one of them to think once again about what she would say to Peter Quincy when she saw him for the first time in, well, since she married her husband.'
Yes , this is a mystery, a spicy romance, a thriller, but the book retains such a fine sense of balance between humorous and serious dialogue that it is easy to see why Redding calls this the Nerd series. Settle back and have fun and follow enough thrills to keep the lights on. This is a fast reading entertainment, light and frothy, but also involving.
December 20, 2014
The title of this book, License to Nerd, conjures to mind, 007-esque action and as a Romantic Suspense novel I went in looking for that thrilling heart pumping action and lady killer romance that we have come to expect from our James Bond archetype. Yeah, that wasn't really this book. This book was something completely different.
For starters, Madison was more of a covert agent type, the mild mannered secretly sneaky type. While Peter, or Q as he is called, appears to be a super nerd gadget guy. But looks are deceiving and just about every time I thought I knew where things were going, we would get hit with another twist. There were several spots that I wasn't quite sure what was going on, places where we got conflicting information and I wasn't sure if it was an editing issue (it was an ARC) or if it had to do with the actual story line and being double crossed. The entire book was much more psychological than physical and I really wish there had been some good fight scenes, car chases, just something to get my heart racing. Plus, for all we have a super nerd gadget guy, there were no cool gadgets. Dang it, I really wanted gadgets, I mean with a nickname like Q, shouldn't we have had a watch with a laser, a transforming car, or at the very least a pen with a bomb in it?
Overall the story has potential, and if you like romantic suspense without too much actual scary going on, you will probably really like this. For me, it just needed a bit more - more action, more gadgets, more romance, more something to take it to the next level. I mean, I liked it, but am definitely hoping that the next book in the series will have that certain something that will make it a WOW book.
For starters, Madison was more of a covert agent type, the mild mannered secretly sneaky type. While Peter, or Q as he is called, appears to be a super nerd gadget guy. But looks are deceiving and just about every time I thought I knew where things were going, we would get hit with another twist. There were several spots that I wasn't quite sure what was going on, places where we got conflicting information and I wasn't sure if it was an editing issue (it was an ARC) or if it had to do with the actual story line and being double crossed. The entire book was much more psychological than physical and I really wish there had been some good fight scenes, car chases, just something to get my heart racing. Plus, for all we have a super nerd gadget guy, there were no cool gadgets. Dang it, I really wanted gadgets, I mean with a nickname like Q, shouldn't we have had a watch with a laser, a transforming car, or at the very least a pen with a bomb in it?
Overall the story has potential, and if you like romantic suspense without too much actual scary going on, you will probably really like this. For me, it just needed a bit more - more action, more gadgets, more romance, more something to take it to the next level. I mean, I liked it, but am definitely hoping that the next book in the series will have that certain something that will make it a WOW book.
September 27, 2014
The first in a new series titled Nerds Saving the World, License to Nerd, surprised me. A Kindle Unlimited review, I never give a synopsis of the novel, or a spoiler ending.
Why did it surprise me? I was surprised since this is not a debut novel. While self-published, I expected more in the final product, better grammar and proofreading. Yet, I was compelled to continue reading. Always a plus.
The premise and plot, along with basic characterization was good. What kept me reading was my curiosity to define the protagonist/antagonist. With the spying, lies, and character manipulation, all towards a suspicious goal, I wanted to know more. The completed ending, another surprise for a series, was unexpected. Another good plus.
I had difficulty with the massive typos and grammar concerns. There were several areas of POV confusion where I had to reread to grasp the authors intent. License to Nerd has great potential and could be a much better read.
Why did it surprise me? I was surprised since this is not a debut novel. While self-published, I expected more in the final product, better grammar and proofreading. Yet, I was compelled to continue reading. Always a plus.
The premise and plot, along with basic characterization was good. What kept me reading was my curiosity to define the protagonist/antagonist. With the spying, lies, and character manipulation, all towards a suspicious goal, I wanted to know more. The completed ending, another surprise for a series, was unexpected. Another good plus.
I had difficulty with the massive typos and grammar concerns. There were several areas of POV confusion where I had to reread to grasp the authors intent. License to Nerd has great potential and could be a much better read.
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