Time for “Good Shit vs. Shit to Avoid,” with special guest PK, who is looking for a particular kind of heroine:
Oh baby, talk nerdy to me.
There was a great ad for some sort of high end kitchen appliance years ago
that featured a very cute lady with naughty librarian glasses and lab coat
standing next to a male model in a designer suit and it said “IQ meets GQ”
and it always made me smile. I love smart girl protagonists, I love quirky
geniuses! I love sexy doctors/scientists/academics/etc. I am looking for
books with heroines like that. Geeks, nerds, scholastic overachievers, etc.
There seems to be a good chunk of mainstream films where the nerd gets the
incredibly hot girl but I want books with nerdy heroines and perhaps not so
nerdy heroes.I am planning a vacation and would love to load up my Nook with tasty beach
reads and could use some help.
Ready, set, go – bring on your recommendations!
Molly Harper’s paranormals. She’s written both heroes and heroines who are total geeks. The heroine in Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs? Former librarian, total bookworm, bottomless pit of random trivia. The hero of The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf? Made his fortune by developing the mythos behind the in-universe version of World of Warcraft, and when the heroine tried to pull the standard ‘claim I hate you so you’ll leave and not be at risk’ move, he RECOGNIZED THE TROPE.
Harper is awesome at averting tropes, at that. When something comes up that looks like it’ll lead to a Big Mis? THEY HAD A FIVE-MINUTE CONVERSATION AND CLEARED THE WHOLE THING UP.
Heartstrings by Rebecca Paisley is a great book. The heroine is a very book smart nerd and she goes to Texas from the east to work with a scientist and is escorted by a common sense smart cowboy. She brings along her smart mouthed parrot, it’s a really fun book.