A STEM girl has a one night stand with an out-of-towner and finds out that he is the CEO’s son of the company she works for three years later. It sounds like a fun, steamy story that will be full of cringing awkwardness that will having you rooting for these two people to have a happily ever after. Sadly this isn’t that kind of story.

In Susannah Nix’s debut novel “Remedial Rocket Science” the main characters Melody and Jeremy do have one night together but right after it ends you know that the book is going to be different. The story keeps up a really good pace but the way that the characters react to specific moments, which are clearly designed to bring them closer, just leave you feeling bland. There was no life or heart to the story. Then there’s the title of the book, “Remedial Rocket Science”. It had absolutely nothing to do with the book, the heroine didn’t even deal with rocket science. If Nix wasn’t going to provide us with a decent love story the least she could have done was give the main character a decent and engaging career.

As you can see, I really did not enjoy this book. I tried to give Nix the benefit of the doubt because I understand how hard it is to write a book, but the only thing that I liked was the book description. The whole thing was just a series of over described, mundane moments that really served no point to the supposed love story. The book just felt weak, like there was no heat to it. I felt really cheated by this book and I think my favorite part was when I finished it.