How can something so cuddly and adorable be so destructive? The teddy bear robot decimating his lab is only the first disaster of the day for roboticist Forbes Pohle. If he can figure out how to end its rampage, he still has to interview applicants for the position of research assistant and convince the time-traveler on his doorstop that they should be making their future right now. Oliver Lennox didn’t travel back in time to have a quickie in the blast chamber—but it certainly is fun. This younger Forbes is a sweeter, more innocent version of his lover. And it will be hard to leave him behind in the past.
If you like sexy nerds, humor, plenty of action, and a love story not even time can disrupt, this romantic adventure has the perfect credentials for the job.
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Cat gives this one 3.5 Meows...
Cat gives this one 3.5 Meows...
22-year-old Dr. Forbes Phole is working on a Teddy bear robot when he gets a persistent visitor at his door. He is set to hire an assistant today and annoyed this one won't let up on the bell. When Oliver walks in he is ready to hire on sight, but Oliver isn't an applicant. Yet. The Teddy goes on a rampage as does Oliver in a different way. He decides to take his lover's virginity before they move on to business. The business of Oliver trying to fix something in the future as he is Dr. Forbes partner in the future. Oliver has a secret he wishes he could change but isn't sure he should tamper with things too much of his reason to be there. Helping Forbes hire the right assistant and a subtle message to start a nanobot project sooner.
I liked the story. It is cute for a very short story. I think if it were a little longer I wouldn't have been so confused over a few things. There was so much mentioned and going on in both the past and future it was a bit hard to follow. I do think it is an excellent set up for a series and hope the next book is longer. Time travel isn't usually my thing, but this book was fun to read and kind of interesting. It didn't have a lot of big words or weird settings. The crazy teddy bear, in the beginning, made the story.
If you like scientists, time travel, robots, short stories and some sweet but hot man-sex, I think you will like this story a lot.
Author Guest post...
Unlikely Time Travel Devices
by Aidee Ladnier
Oliver isn’t the only time traveler to have a unique device
that will allow him to visit the past. Some of my favorites include these
simple items:
Toaster. After
fixing a toaster that his hand got stuck in, Homer Simpson became the first
non-Brazilian person to travel back in time. This classic television segment occurred
in the 1994 “Treehouse of Horror V” episode of THE SIMPSONS.
Hot Tub. A time
machine of rather dubious scientific origin which runs on regrets and blackout
drunkenness, it was able to transport three friends and a nephew back to a
seminal moment in their lives to correct their mistakes. This time machine was
used in two comedic movies, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (2010) and HOT TUB TIME
MACHINE 2 (2015).
By claire rowland from london, uk (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0]
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Phone Booth.
Similar to the TARDIS, the time traveler Rufus visits 1988 in a time machine
disguised as a phone booth to ensure that slackers Bill and Ted make a passing
grade on their history project. Strange things are indeed afoot at the Circle K
in the movie BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE.
DeLorean DMC-12 Head on photo with doors open
Photographed by Kevin Abato www.grenexmedia.com
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So did I miss your favorite unique time machine? Want to set
me straight on the best one on the list? Just comment below and let me know ;)
Excerpt from The Applicant...
Forbes Pohle worked the needle-nose pliers carefully behind
the eye sensors of his teddy bear. He needed to make one little adjustment—
The buzzer on the door sounded, nerve-jangling and
insistent, from the speaker overhead.
Startled, Forbes jerked the wire he was fiddling with free
from its connection, rendering the small robot blind. The head-plate spring
snapped, and the access panel clipped his hand as it closed. Forbes swore and
shook his stinging fingers as the front door buzzer blared again.
Frustrated, he threw down the pliers and ran both hands
through his mop of brown hair. Reacting to the clatter, the tiny robot turned
its head left and then right before running off the table.
Luckily the teddy bear caught itself with its face when it
hit the floor.
Undaunted, the bear scrambled to its furry feet and darted
toward the other side of the lab. Forbes sighed at the sound of another
imperative buzz.
“You won’t get the job if you don’t stop with the doorbell.”
He stood and shoved the ends of his wrinkled white dress shirt back into his
khaki pants. He typed in the power-down sequence for the bear before shutting
the lab door and walking toward the front of the house. His visitor had
graduated to using the door buzzer as percussion, the drone now going off and on
in a jaunty rhythm.
Forbes still wasn’t sold on hiring a research assistant, but
he wanted a lab assistant and he needed an administrative assistant.
Most of all, he longed for a friend.
Hiring someone wasn’t the best way to go about finding one,
but working with somebody was a good start, right?
Forbes checked his reflection in the foyer mirror. The dark
brown of his eyes was almost invisible against the bloodshot whites. His
stomach rumbled, and he promised himself he’d take a break and eat as soon as
the interview concluded.
At the next buzz, he spun and yanked open the large front
door. Holy crap.
He wished he’d gotten a little sleep last night instead of
staying up to tinker with the bear.
A wiry man stood on Forbes’s doorstep. He was dressed in a
T-shirt, tight black jeans, black nail polish, and red Chuck Taylors. His
strawberry blond hair was spiked up in front. The corners of his eyes and his
freckled nose wrinkled.
Forbes blinked back his surprise and opened his mouth,
expecting words to come out. He cleared his throat and tried again. “Come in.”
Forbes waved him inside the house. “I’m Forbes Pohle. I’m the one who posted
the job listing.”
The man grinned and held out a hand. “Very pleased to meet
you, Dr. Pohle. I’m Oliver Lennox. Please call me Oliver.”
Forbes blushed at the title as he clasped Oliver’s warm
hand. Forbes was a PhD three times over, but he hadn’t put that in the
advertisement.
“If you’ll come this way, we can talk in the lab.” He turned
and walked back down the hallway to the adjacent laboratory, assuming the
applicant would follow.
“Oh, I didn’t come about…,” Forbes heard him say before he
ran into Forbes’s back. To be fair it wasn’t his fault. Forbes had stopped
short in the lab doorway.
During the few minutes he’d stepped out to answer the door,
the laboratory had been destroyed.
Aidee Ladnier, an award-winning author of speculative fiction, began
writing at twelve years old but took a hiatus to be a magician’s assistant,
ride in hot air balloons, produce independent movies, collect interesting
shoes, fold origami, send ping pong balls into space, and amass a secret file
with the CIA. A lover of genre fiction, it has been a lifelong dream of Aidee's
to write both romance and erotica with a little science fiction, fantasy,
mystery, or the paranormal thrown in to add a zing.
You can find her on
her blog at http://www.aideeladnier.com
~ or on her favorite social media sites:
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Congrats on the new release Aidee. Time travel always grabs people's imagination.
ReplyDeleteThe DeLorean is my favorite time travel machine by far.
Not a machine as such, but I also liked the jump of the Brooklyn Bridge in the movie Kate & Leopold.
Oooo! I'd forgotten about Kate and Leopold. I remember thinking Hugh Jackman was so romantic in that movie. I need to watch it again!
DeleteMy favorite time machine is the Tardis. Of course anything with David Tennant stepping out of would be good!
ReplyDeleteLOL! I totally agree. Is he your favorite Doctor?
DeleteThank you so much for hosting me today!!! And thank you very much for the review. I really appreciate you taking the time and your kind words about the story. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a great fan of Time Travel stories and I loved "Back To The Future" with all the different modes of transport and I remember the Homer Simpson" incident. But one of my favourites has to be when Bart got a special pocket watch that could make time go backward or forward with hilarious consquences.
ReplyDeleteYes! The pocketwatch! Wasn't that in a Treehouse of Horror episode too?
DeleteI love the DeLorean best...don't we all need a flux capacitor?
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I could definitely use a flux capacitor. Or maybe just a toaster. LOL!
DeleteI'm going to go with the DeLorean also. I loved those movies back when they came out (which is dating myself, I know). I also like the idea of the hot tub, although I think I would want to just stay in it rather than going back in time. ;-)
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I'm unsure about the Hot Tub. It seems like a terribly headache inducing way to get to the past.
DeleteI'm afraid that the only thing I know on the list is Hermione's time turner. It was given to her by Professor McGonagall & it was indeed used to save Buckbeak (the hippogriff) from its impending death & to free Sirius Black (the animagus) from Azkaban.
ReplyDeleteYep! A Harry Potter fan here. ;) So, I must say that it's my favorite if not the best on the list.
The other machines look so cool too but Tardis & the hot tub took the center stage for me. How cool is that that you get to travel inside those badass machines?! *insert sparkling eyes here* lol!
And before I forget, I like the pink door time traveling machine on the Japanese manga/anime 'Doraemon' with the unexpected visits of pre-historic dinosaurs deleted. LMAO!
Thanks for coming by to Tammy's Two Cents, Miss Ladnier! I enjoyed this particular post so much. <3
Oooo! I haven&t seen Doraemon. *runs to check it out*
DeleteThere is absolutely no shame in being a Harry Potter fan. I am a huge one and actually even own a copy of Hermione's time turner.
Doraemon's a funny & sometimes can be a heartwarming show. I'd always loved watching it as a kid.
DeleteTrue. ;) That's cool!
Conrats and thanks for the post. I love history, and fell in love with time travel when I was a kid, watching the old tv show, "Time Tunnel" - Purple Reader
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Time Tunnel!!!! I love that show. It was on early in the morning a few years back and I'd get up before work to watch it!
DeleteI love Hot Tub movie! It was so funny! I loved to see how they had to adapt their old selves to the 80s, lol. Of course, movie #1 was way better than movie #2, the latter was kind of lacking some details and characters.
ReplyDeleteI know! They needed John Cusack back for the second one. Although, I did love the ending of the second movie. So silly but fun.
DeleteI think I would go with Time Turner. so simple and just requires me to carry it instead of going to a specific place.
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And pretty! Although, I always wondered about the chain. It seemed to magically lengthen and shorten depending on whether Hermione is using it or she's looping it around Harry's neck as well.
DeleteAidee, you have given us some marvelous time machines here and Oliver's is certainly the easiest to wear, but I'm afraid you haven't given us my favorite unlikely one. Like the belt buckle it's so compact no one would think it's capable of taking one all through time on marvelous adventures. Oh, you know it now, it's a book. ;)
ReplyDeleteOMG. You're totally right, Carolyn!!! You are a wise wise woman. ;)
DeleteI'm rather partial to the time travel story in the Outlander series. It doesn't sound like the trip through the standing stones would be much fun though.
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True Confession Time - I haven't read Outlander yet. It's in my TBR and I've heard nothing but good things, though. And you really can't go wrong with handsome Scotsmen.
DeleteFavorite unlikely time travel machine. Well, there's the bed in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, but I guess I'll have to pick the Tardis over that. It's bigger on the inside than on the outside!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your new book release! Thank you so much for the great post and excerpt. I had forgotten about some of these movies. My favorite is Hermione's tume turner. Small and easy to conceal.
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