Earth Bound
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Houston, Texas, 1961 The race to the moon is on, and engineer Eugene Parsons has two enemies: danger and distraction. Nothing is more distracting than his attraction to the brilliant, beautiful computer scientist on his team, but he’s determined to overcome it since he needs her to help America win. Charlie Eason is used to men underestimating her. It comes with being a woman in engineering, but it’s worth it to join the space race—even if she can’t figure out what’s behind the intense looks one tightly wound engineer keeps sending her. But life isn’t as unemotional or predictable as code, and things soon boil over with the intriguingly demanding Parsons. With every launch, their secret affair grows thornier. The lines between work and play tangle even as Parsons and Charlie try to keep them separate. But when a mission goes wrong, they’ll have to put aside their pride for the greater good—and discover that matters of the heart have a logic all their own. space race romance mad men engineer hero computer scientist heroine 1960s texas moon secret affair, military, navy, astronaut romance NASA
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3.75 stars, rounded up to 4. I loved the idea of a brilliant mathematician trying to find her place at a fictional version of NASA in the early 1960s, and a gruff but caring engineer hero is pretty much my romance novel catnip. I definitely bought the fact that they loved working together and sleeping together, but was not thoroughly convinced that they would make it through marriage together, since there was very little time devoted to their getting to know each other outside of the office and bedroom.
I think this is the first series I've read in which one or more of the heroes from previous books are portrayed as anything less than perfect and full of marital bliss. Joe and Kit pop up to offer their thoughts about why women shouldn't be astronauts, and the implication is that their supportive-in-public wives will let them have it once they're home.
The next book in the series appears to be a F/F romance. Good for the authors for mixing it up.
P.S. I resent shelving this book under “historical romance.” I lived through it, so how can it be considered ancient history?
Series
15 primary books16 released booksFly Me to the Moon is a 16-book series with 15 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Kenjiro Hata, Emma Barry, and 2 others.
