Neanderthal Seeks Human

A Smart Romance, Knitting in the City, Volume 1

By: Penny Reid

Narrated by: Jennifer Grace

Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

This is a full-length, 115,000-word novel and is the first book in the Knitting in the City series.

There are three things you need to know about Janie Morris:

1. She is incapable of engaging in a conversation without volunteering TMTI (too much trivial information), especially when she is unnerved;
2. No one unnerves her more than Quinn Sullivan; and
3. She doesn't know how to knit.

After losing her boyfriend, apartment, and job in the same day, Janie Morris can't help wondering what new torment fate has in store. To her utter mortification, Quinn Sullivan—a.k.a. Sir McHotpants—witnesses it all then keeps turning up like a pair of shoes you lust after but can't afford. The last thing she expects is for Quinn—the focus of her slightly, albeit harmless, stalkerish tendencies—to make her an offer she can't refuse.

©2013, 2014 Cipher-Naught (P)2023 Cipher-Naught

Started off dry and slow but worth the listen

First off, the Romance Package "hot damn" on the steaminess is wrong. I've felt this way for several books I've listened to in this package. Do characters in the book have a lot of sex, yes, but they go into very little detail. Let's just say, you won't blush lol.

This was a sweet, smart romance with likable characters. The main character is VERY smart and very into details. The first few chapters are a lot of (I thought) unnecessary very small, random details. I realize this is her personality but it was a little hard to get through.

There was a good amount of humor and I think could've been a little more generous on the swearing but I did chuckle a few times. This is just more of a sweet romance than what I am used to or normally go for. If you're looking for a pretty tame but still entertaining (eventually) romance, this is for you :)

*The narrator did okay. She did best with the female voices. Her male voices were just so-so.

Great funny romance

I have read this book twice already and when I saw it on audible I had to hear it. I really liked the narrator and of course I love all of penny Reid’s stories

Hey nerds this romance is about you

I wasn’t expecting to run across a heroine who was nearly exactly like me but it was honestly a treasure. Thank you for writing her. This book was unexpected and a lot more fun than I was expecting.

Fun romance.

I enjoyed the writing and the narration was really good. However, I found the heroine incredibly annoying. I recognize she had Asperger's or some other condition causing her to behave in a socially awkward fashion, but it was cringeworthy, at times. Anyway, it was a sweet story oversll.

this story makes me impatient

This story is impatient. Realistically, this girl would have zero friends and would be likely in residential care. Epic intelligence does not equal social intelligence and the ability to navigate society. Romance books like this make light of a real problem and imply that she is "fixable."

Sweet Easy Read

Easy listening with an uncomplicated plot. Everyone fit in the stereotypical boxes, and the sex scenes were on point.

Like it when the nerdy girl hooks up with her rich boss/billionaire? Do you like devotion on sight between characters? How about ex gets put in his place by billionaire boyfriend? This book has all of that.

definitely not what's expected....

enjoyed all of it & hoping the couple go on .. get married, the story is so nice,it's got to have more goings-on!! with all those ladies, can't wait to see them again &all the troubles....trials and tribulations that can and will be happening.

Perfection

I was so upset whenever I finished this book. I did NOT want it to end! :)

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Great story. I love how we get to go along woth the 2 main characters as they get to know each other. This is the kind of sory that keeps a romantic like me filled with hope.

Cat and Mouse

When you’re the three when you’re the mouse he won of three sisters you never think that someone would ever want you because you’ve never had anybody bring out the inquisitiveness of you they always think that you’re a brainiac or that you’re weird when you finally find someone who wants and engages in your weirdness you become quite flustered and don’t really know how to act until all the dots lineup and you realize that maybe you’re not the mousy one