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    Love by the Numbers
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    Love by the Numbers
    Audiobook10 hours

    Love by the Numbers

    Written by Karin Kallmaker

    Narrated by Kathleen Rochè-Zujko

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    About this audiobook

    As a behavioral scientist, Professor Nicole Hathaway's work strips away the foolish mystique that surrounds the human mating dance. When her academic tome is treated as a viral "love manual" her ecstatic publisher books her to appear all over the U.S. and Europe.

    Worse yet, her quiet, managed life has been shattered by a series of incompetent assistants. And she's certain this Lily Smith creature isn't going to be any less a burden than the last assistant they sent her. Or the one before that. Or before that...

    Lillian Linden-Smith needs this job. With a relentless TV lawyer and public mob still out for her blood for crimes committed by her "American royalty" parents, getting out of the country is her only hope for anonymity. If that means cleaning up and presenting an antisocial know-it-all PhD for bookstores, clubs and lectures, fine. Dr. Hathaway may have succeeded in driving away all the others, but not this time.

    From their first meeting the sparks fly, and each is thinking: She has no idea who she's dealing with.

    It's hate at first sight in this love adventure from the author of Above Temptation, Roller Coaster and dozens of other best-selling, award-winning novels.

    An Open Book audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Book Audio
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    ISBN9781594938948
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    Love by the Numbers
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    Karin Kallmaker

    Karin Kallmaker's novels span lesbian romance, lesbian erotica and lesbian science-fiction/fantasy. More than five dozen short stories have appeared in anthologies and standalone collections. Her writing career began with the venerable Naiad Press, continues with Bella Books and includes more than two dozen novels in print. In 2008, she joined Bella Books as the press's first Editorial Director. When she isn't writing books she is thinking about books.In previous lives, Karin worked as a non-profit accountant for a senior housing association and a low-income housing lender, and had a brief stint as a document processor on an oil refinery. She is the mother of two teenagers and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner. She is descended from Lady Godiva, a fact which she will tell anyone who will listen,and she likes her chocolate real and her iPod loud.Lambda Literary AwardsWinner, three Lambda Literary Awards for The Kiss that Counted and Maybe Next Time in Lesbian Romance and In Deep Waters 2 in Lesbian Erotica, with multiple additional shortlist nods for Lesbian Romance, Lesbian Erotica and LGBT Science-Fiction Fantasy works.GCLS Goldie AwardsWinner of the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award for The Kiss that Counted, the 2011 Trailblazer Award, with another six awards won for Frosting on the Cake 2: Second Helpings, Above Temptation, Just Like That and Sugar in Lesbian Romance and 18th & Castro and In Deep Waters 1 for Lesbian Erotica, along with numerous finalists.BookmarksRichards LaBonte - Kallmaker transcends cliche with vivid characterization, logical plotting, and plenty of deep research...Friends and FamilyHer characters are so real you can't help but picture them in your mind...Lambda Book ReportCarol LeMasters - The best romances don't simply evade issues; they offer us another way of dealing with them. After all, the issues with which these women struggle--homophobia, mortality, barriers of age and class--are ones we all encounter. More than enjoyable diversions, they can offer humorous insights into how we conduct relationships and truths we can take with us into "real life." Situations may be cliché but not the authors' treatment of them, and no matter how far-fetched the circumstances, the characters' emotional experiences ring true.

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    • 4/5
      This is a review for the audio version of the book...

      Book: 3.6 stars
      Narrator: 4.25

      I have mixed feelings on the book. I think it's fairly good and believe most people would enjoy it. It's well written but it comes off a little bland to me, not in the premise or even the characters but there are long periods where not a lot happens. Nicole and Lily travel all around Europe and into America on a book tour and there is scene after scene of them together with very subtle shifts and many scenes of them being apart and in their heads thinking about what the other is thinking/perceiving/believing.

      Lily is a dynamic character, outgoing and the person who lights up a room. Nicole is the complete anti-thesis and a person I could only interpret as being on the Autism Spectrum...At least, that was the way I could make the most sense of her character. And, in that light, it's interesting how a person on the spectrum could couple with a person who's not and what they find appealing about each other...

      I could get why Nicole would be intrigued by Lily but less so the other way around. Not that it couldn't happen but I think I needed a little more of showing what pulled Lily in. Perhaps it was Nicole's factual, truth based, non-manipulative approach to life where Lily was used to living around people with lies and ulterior motives.

      I'm not mentioning the Autism Spectrum in a denigrating way, by the way. I have sons with Autism and from them and others I've met am familiar with how very different a person on the Autism spectrum can interpret and behave in the world while also being connected and loving.

      Nicole is also an Indian character so I appreciated the author having ethnic diversity with her characters.

      Anyway, the characters are strong, the story is sweet...and very angsty. This is also a slow burn romance. If you're into that, you may especially enjoy it.

      I thought the narrator, Kathleen Roche-Zujko, did a fantastic job (minus the British accents. lol) and kept the story buoyed. The audio book came to 10 hrs in length so it's a full, entertaining story to listen to.

      If you want an ignition of heat and chemistry in your love story you may find this lacking. But, if you want a sweet, slow burn romance you can find it here.
    • 3/5
      I love books where characters don't fall in love immediately and have time for a friendship to build then a romantic relationship and love. This book did exactly that, ironically it spent too much time building the relationship and the characters were never actually a couple in the book. This was disappointing to say the least. If not for this one caveat, the book would have been fantastic. Readers or rather listeners don't get a chance to experience the characters as a couple, so I feel shortchanged after 10 hours of listening.
    • 4/5
      its a great book but to short, i will like to know what happen next
    • 5/5
      Everything that a Karin Kallmaker romance is supposed to be. Interesting characters, lots of tension between them, engaging story, and the requisite HEA. I rate this a 4.5 but since there's no half star, I'm quite willing to round it up.

    • 4/5
      Dr. Nicole Hathaway has written an accidental best seller about love and compatibility, and now her publisher is making her take a book tour to promote it. She has managed to run off two or three (one never showed up) personal assistants, and she fully expects to run off the next one, too. Lily Smith is determined to keep this job. She needs the money, and it'll get her out of the country for a few months. After dodging the paparazzi and a Nancy Grace clone since her parents' Ponzi scheme crumbled, all she wants is a bit of normalcy.I really liked the chemistry between Lily and Nicole. They go from disliking one another, to tolerating one another, to liking one another, etc. It's a relatively slow build, which is nice; I don't think it would be in-character for Nicole, especially, to jump into something. Nicole really reminded me of the character of Bones in a way: aloof, brilliant, and forthright to the point of social awkwardness. It's interesting to watch her grow and mature. Just the way she talks changes; in the first few chapters, Nicole is almost clinically detached from her life, but by the end, she sounds completely different.The book is well-written, descriptive without being overly so. I do think the last few chapters got a tad too "busy," but I buzzed through this book in just a few hours, so that testifies to its readability. I'll definitely be picking up more by this author.