There are three things you need to know about Sandra Fielding: 1) She makes all her first dates cry, 2) She hasn’t been kissed in over two years, and 3) She knows how to knit.
Sandra has difficulty removing her psychotherapist hat. Of her last 30 dates, 29 have ended the same way: the man sobbing uncontrollably. After one such disaster, Sandra — near desperation and maybe a little tipsy — gives … tipsy — gives in to a seemingly harmless encounter with her hot waiter, Alex. Argumentative, secretive, and hostile Alex may be the opposite of everything Sandra knows is right for her. But now, the girl who has spent all her life helping others change for the better, must find a way to cope with falling for someone who refuses to change at all.
This is a full-length, 110k word novel and is the third book in the Knitting in the City series. All books in the series can be read as a standalone.
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You know how you’ll read a series and maybe dislike some of the books, but then there will be that one that you just LOVE LOVE LOVE. That is this book for me, folks. A 21 year-old hacker with an older woman. Maybe it’s my creeping years (haha) or the fact that a sexy hacker is, well, sexy; but I loved this book with Alex and Sandra and I think you …
Nerdy, unsocialized, virginal, hot super genius meets seasoned psychiatrist while eating butter chicken and naan. Sounds yummy right ? The sparks fly in this one, they all dude out a few times, this is an awkward relationship in the beginning. I was wondering several times why someone didn’t just say “this is too off, I’m gone” Well I’m glad they …
There is something special about this book in the series. It may be the brokenness of the hero and how he is smart enough to not want the heroine to fix him, but to grow together. Sandra Fielding is a good person/heroine/psychologist. Even though almost all of her first dates end up crying and they don’t get second chances, she refers them to her …
Sandra is a psychotherapist who really has the worst luck with men. In fact most of them just end up being client referrals to her colleague. Alex is the waiter at the restaurant where she brings her dates. He is gorgeous and broody and Sandra thinks he dislikes her. How wrong she is about that. When these two start to date it is clear that they …
My favorite of the series.
Overall 4 out of 5 stars
Performance 4 out of 5 stars
Story 4 out of 5 stars
She has courage, clarity, and reality on her side. She also have a great group of friends with a couple of extra significant others with connection and clout. He’s quite, smart, introspective, different, a challenge, a welcome in to her life. Alex was …
I was so excited to finally learn more about Sandra Fields, the sassy, outspoken, life of the party of the Tuesday night knitters group.
As a psychologist she was known for making her dates cry from taking an introspective look at themselves. This all changes one night when Alex the waiter who has witnessed her dates for the last two …
Penny Reid, in my opinion, is one of the best writers of contemporary romance. I’ve really enjoyed all of the Knitting in the City Series so far. However, this book has been my favorite to date. Finding out the mystery of Alex was one of my favorite parts of this book. After having read about Sandra in the previous books, I was intrigued to …
A++. I love this book so much, I sacrificed my sleep for it. Alex is a wonderful hero. Damaged, intelligent, paranoid as all get out. Sandra is very likable, and after 29 first dates leave crying, you can’t help but feel for her. This book is funny, steamy, and emotion-packed.
Sandra and Alex.
I don’t know why it took me so long to read this third book in the Knitting series. I think I was a bit reluctant because Sandra is such a ball breaker that I wasn’t sure I was going to be fully invested in her story. I am happy to say I was wrong and in a big way. Her tale showed that she did indeed have a softer side and it …
I love this series by Penny Reid, and “Love Hacked” did not disappoint. Alex and Sandra were so perfect, and it was a fun, interesting, romantic read.
This is my favourite of this series. I love Alex and Sandra.
Sandra’s character struck a chord with me, she is vivacious, cheeky, confident and an amazing friend. But she also puts on a brave face a lot, and is looking for love that makes her Zing. While she has seen Alex over long period of time, given he works at a restaurant she frequents, she …
So this was my continuation of the Knitting in the City series, and I’d already read book 2, Friends Without Benefits, so it was good to get to know Sandra’s story. And Alex, who I didn’t quite remember that much about. I liked the younger man story, even though she really wasn’t that much older than him. This book made me totally guess and …
A really unique romance with unusual characters. Reid does a great job of mining the peculiar back stories and personality traits of her characters to build a solid foundation for the relationship between H & H. Although the books starts off quirky, funny and a bit flip, it eventually delves deeper into the emotional realm of vulnerability, need …
Another unique and funny Knitting in the City tale of love and the ups and downs that come with the before, drying and after of two people coming together and taking that plunge into happily ever after. Sandra is definitely a character, and she certainly attracts an awful lot of attention, mostly from some seriously needy men. Definitely tales …
The heroine kinda annoyed me with her making herself seem old at 28. Come authors, please start making realistic older woman/younger men. With that being sad, the hero was only 21. He was hinted at being autistic, which it showed but was never explicitly said. I love autistic heroes, so he’s now on my list of awesome heroes.
It had a confusing …
The Knitting in the City series by Penny Reid follows a group of friends in Chicago who have formed a knitting group. They meet every Tuesday to drink, laugh and talk about each others lives, often solving problems and giving great advice (and sometimes not so great…). Love Hacked is Sandra’s story. In this group Sandra is always the level head, …
Younger man and older woman read. I enjoyed the romantic and entertaining dates that Alex arranges for Sandra. His complex childhood and hacking abilities make him a very different male lead. It was nice that he didn’t allow Sandra to use her therapy qualification on him.
The creative genius of Penny Reid is really just astounding. She makes you fall in love with her characters and story-lines easily. Every. Single. Time. I loved Sandra so much and I just want to happy cry because she’s my new favorite and I never thought Janie could be bumped. I love her intelligence, directness, heart, sassy-pants, and fanciful …
Penny Reid is my favorite author for many reasons, but mostly because her characters have depth, and there is always an abundance of intellectual humor.