Geek Life: Book OneWhen opposite worlds collide, it’s anyone’s game.Proud geek and comic book artist Morris Proctor wants nothing more than to live in semiseclusion with his devil cat and gamer friends. Despite what his well-meaning family thinks, he’s perfectly content with his status quo. The last thing he needs is to date another nongeek hell-bent on changing him.Then he meets his adorkable … him.
Then he meets his adorkable new neighbor, Theo Boarman, who doesn’t know Star Trek from Star Wars, but who tempts him like no other.
Theo has spent the last year recovering from the loss of his parents and trying to play both roles for his teenage brother, while working to keep the family restaurant afloat. Dating is the last thing on the menu, especially with a man who thinks the height of dining is shoving a packaged meal into the microwave.
But if Morris gives him one more shy smile or flaunts that kilt he wears so well, Theo will be forced to convince him that a hot summer fling is just the recipe to let off a little steam.
When that fling gets serious fast, Morris has to decide if he’s willing to give his heart to Theo on the chance that they’re a perfect mix.
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The characters were entertaining and informative for me. The tension sometimes scared me, because I liked the charters and enjoyed them being happy…
Help me learn about some other groups in society, and I learned to love them, too. I wasn’t tragic, but I did get scared for my friends along the way…
Morris & Theo are great characters. They have good arcs, and all of their families get explored.
I appreciate the racial diversity.
There are a lot of secondary characters who have the potential for their own stories. This looks to be a good series.
Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team
Sarah –
This is the story of the unlikely romance between a comic book writer and self-professed ‘geek’ and a chef running his family business.
Morris and Theo are both very likeable characters and I enjoyed learning about their lives and their jobs. But this is a much heavier book than the cover or the blurb suggest. Theo is the oldest of four siblings who have just lost their parents. When he meets Morris, he is already struggling to balance his restaurant responsibilities with his new role as his teenage brother’s guardian. Morris’ life is somewhat simpler but he struggles with his relationship with his large family, and running his own business takes a whole lot out of him.
This really isn’t a sexy read. Like most romance readers, I read to relax and to escape from the demands of my own life for a while. Theo and Morris’ struggles to find time for their relationship between family and work commitments is a little bit too realistic. There is one point when Morris reflects that he doesn’t think of Theo as sexy – more boy next door. Unfortunately, this comes across to readers in the way the two relate to each other. Morris and Theo build a friendship and a relationship but there isn’t ever much spark between them.
I like Morris and Theo and I enjoyed their interactions with family and colleagues. I like the relationship that builds between them, but this is a romance without much romance and there were times the story dragged some for me.
Reviewers on the Wicked Reads Review Team were provided a free copy of A Little Side of Geek (Geek Life #1) by Marguerite Labbe to read and review.
A Little Side of Geek by Marguerite Labbe was such a pleasure to read! I don’t take enough opportunity to read simple, sweet, fun books like this so it was a welcome distraction.
The two main characters both have family issues, so I’m not belittling their drama, but they’re both mild and easy to work through. Morris has a lovely, supportive family and he has to learn to let their criticisms roll off his back. He’s also a bit of a commitment phobe, but that’s another easy one to overcome, being has he’s found himself in a relationship with Theo.
Theo’s dealing with something a bit more intense, but he’s also got a good support system in place and everything just needs to work itself out.
Labbe draws these dramas out throughout the book and it is very well done. There was even one tearjerker moment (and for me, that’s hard to accomplish, so kudos to Ms. Labbe). The cast is full of colorful characters and there’s a sweet peek into comic/geek/games culture.
I really enjoyed this one and highly recommend it to folks looking for a well written, sweet story. I’d also love a copy of the amazing recipes Theo dreams up!