Earth Bound

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?