The Nanny and the Nerd

Nanny Love Match, Book 1

De: Krista Sandor

Narrado por: Monica King

Penny Fennimore is not winning at life. An aspiring writer with a monster-sized case of writer’s block, she’s got bills to pay and barely a dime to her name.

Enter the exclusive Nanny Match Agency and an opportunity to make bank.

The job: a live-in nanny position caring for video-gaming billionaire Rowen Gale’s six-year-old niece.

The problem? Her hot nerd of a boss!

They’re opposites in every way. He’s the king of high-tech, and she uses a flip phone from the digital dark ages. She’s not even sure he’s 100 percent human until their eyes meet and the attraction meter blows through the roof.

She’s got to put the kibosh on her libido.

But the universe doesn’t always play nice.

When Mr. Robot-Bedroom-Eyes goes MIA, she marches up to his fancy-pants video-gaming company to give him a piece of her mind and ends up rewriting his video game's storyline.

Did anyone ask for her opinion? That’s a no!

The positive? She’s writing!

The negative? Her boss needs her to keep it up.

Turns out, this video game requires a complete overhaul, and she’s the only one who can give him what he wants.

Now, she’s not only caring for his niece—she’s with him morning, noon, and night!

And that’s where it gets complicated.

When he looks at her, she gets a glimpse of what’s behind his muted veneer.

Her heart is on the line.

Could this nanny match be the match that changes everything, or will it be game over for the nanny and the nerd?

The Nanny Love Match series:

• The Nanny and the Nerd
• The Nanny and the Hothead
• The Nanny and the Beefcake

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So good

I really enjoyed this audiobook. I love the layout of the book in the theme is so good. The characters are sweet and I’d love to play some of the games that are mentioned in this audiobook.

The Nanny and the Nerd

Heat Level: 1.5/5
Dark Level: 0/5

Story: Well thought out characters that have personality. You have the ups and downs that  good books tend to have. Nothing too crazy but kind of predictable.

Narration: Very nicely done.  Each character was unique and brought to life.

very good

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!!

I love it when the couple truly becomes a team

I love it when the couple truly becomes a team, and that’s the case here. It doesn’t mean the journey to get there is an easy one though.

Penny and Rowen are polar opposite: she has no money, he’s a billionaire; she hates technology, he’s a tech mogul; she feels like no one is in her corner, he has people looking after him; she’s an escapism artist–or will be once she writes that novel–while he’s pragmatism personified. But that’s exactly why they’re made for each other. They fill the other’s missing pieces. It could be seen as too much, but it works.

They meet when Penny is hired to be the nanny to Rowen’s niece–he’s become her guardian. Let’s just say they don’t really see eye to eye at first. But there’s a lot of attraction. None of this is appropriate for a nanny/employer relationship, so of course they ignore it for as long as they can. But along the way, they learn more about each other, until there’s more than just lust.

The learning about each other isn’t easy. While Penny is more or less open–though she hides her self doubts and inner struggles–Rowen doesn’t understand socializing. He’s neurodivergent, and his traumas run so deep, that he doesn’t get social clues, nor does he have normal interactions with people. Including his family.

Family is the theme. Broken families though. Rowen was an orphan, adopted by a loving family, but there isn’t much left of it: brother and father are dead, mother is ill. Before that, his family life was awful. As for Penny, she has troubles communicating with her sisters and mother, feeling like she doesn’t belong. But the message is hopeful though: despite difficult circumstances, family can be a place of support and love, even when you don’t realize it. And it’s even truer of the family you build, like Penny, Rowen and Phoebe.

While the narrator does a great job, I feel like the audiobook would have been better with dual narration instead of solo. The female narrator’s male voice didn’t work for Rowen in my opinion–though she expressed his aloofness pretty well. The conversations were fluid and energetic. Not bad in the end, just not great.

Romantic comedy

The Nanny and the Nerd by Krista Sandor is a wonderful romantic comedy. Monica King did a wonderful job with the narration. The Nanny and the Nerd is the first book in Nanny Love Match series. The story is entertaining, interesting, enjoyable, fun, humorous, and more. I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review. Highly recommend