Sophie Penhaligon is my go to book author and will read her books more and more. Will read more of her books.

SAFETY IN NUMBERS - SOPHIE PENHALIGON

I AM A SUCKER FOR WOMEN IN STEM! There, I said it.
Seraphina is a brilliant scientist - a mathematican and computer whiz - but her life was turned upside down after an unfortunate accident. Now, her brain is playing tricks on her, leaving her with mental and speech issues. This waivers her confidence, her social life becomes kind of a hinder.
Up until, she comes across the chance of a lifetime: she gets promoted as a research assistant for her company's grumpy CEO, Milo.
He is tenacious, gets after what he wants, and when he realises there's something special about Seraphina, he doesn't hesitate to go after her.
I thought this book will be a lot tamer, than it turned out to be, but I'm glad it wasn't. The chemisty between the characters was definitely palpable and well-written.
The only thing that was a bit hit-and-miss was the character development. Seraphina was way ahead of Milo in this regard, I would've preferred a bit more even playing field.

This was such a cute read! I enjoyed getting to know the characters and reading their story. I felt the book was a little slow at times, but overall I still enjoyed it.

I found Safety in Numbers to be an easy, sweet romance read. The main character Seraphina is coping with aphasia (loss of use of words) as a result of her traumatic brain injury suffered in a car accident a year previous.
While she has her arsenal of work-arounds and coping tools, she's determined to live as independently as possible and start to work again. She ends up at Grant Technologies and naturally comes to the CEO's attention
HOHO I have always loved the name séraphina , AND THIS BOOK THE TROPES

- workplace romance
- ceo romance
- boss x employée romance

I held onto this one for far too long. What a fabulous story! I decide to buy and read and I was not disappointed

This was sweet read. Cute and sweet.
It was not a nind blowing book, but a okay read. 3 stars for me

This story was vastly differnet from ones I've read before, touching on how disability can affect ones everyday life. It was nice to see our mc have a redeeming arc. I tend to enjoy books about women in stem and this one was good. I love that we go to see her foster a relationship and a normal life.

When Seraphina suffers a traumatic brain injury after an accident, she’s left learning to live with a disability. She’s determined to begin living a normal life again and finds herself working as a research assistant to one of the most brilliant minds in the field. Turns out, her grumpy new boss was exactly who she needed to help her get outside of her comfort zone.

Grumpy/sunshine, dual pov, STEM MCs! A fast paced easy to read romcom with disability rep

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an arc!

Indie books aren't much on my tbr list, I will be very honest about it. Most probably because most of the indie books that I have read have always failed to reach the mark of a good book in my opinion. But I have a soft corner for this book. Most probably because it has disability rep and I know someone who has Aphasia and i couldn't help but feel with the character. And i really love the fact that it's a sweet romance, something I desperately needed after reading some very disappointing books.

This was a quick and sweet romance read. I did love that their was representation of characters with disabilities however, I do not feel that the character ever truly came to love and except herself. While reading I noticed that the character was ashamed of her disability and comments were made that seemed very ableist. Regardless of those minor things the little love story was cute and worth a read or recommendation to others.

This was a great coworkers-to-lovers romance with lots of skeletons in everyone's closets and I definitely loved it!

A cute rom-com with a smart, but socially challenged woman and a rude love interest who falls for the FMC. Witty banter, longing looks between the main characters and a budding romance.

Safety in Numbers had all of the right intentions and even the building blocks had potential for a sweet story. Instead, it felt like a hashed-up combination of some of best selling romance novels from the recent years. No feeling of originality left the story feeling tired and uninteresting.

Heart-wrenching at times, thoughtful it its execution. Fantastic representation with a beautiful storyline. Please read this book as this is just what the romance genre needs.

The writing style was light and quite enjoyable. It's definitely a great summer book. I apretiate what author tried to do, talking about head trauma and the things people with dissability has to deal with, however I'm not a dissabled person, so I can't say if it was handled well. It was strange to me, that the main character was portrade as broken.
The one thing that I couldn't look over to was the male main character Milo. He was a one huge walking red flag. He was overprotective and extremely jelous. I couldn't stand the moments when he bought clouthes to her, or decided before even talking to Seraphina which people she should talk about her dissability. Seemed like Seraphina was like a trophy to him.
Seraphina was a very weak character to me. She let him take over her life in a blink.
All the time I was reading this book I felt irriated.
Maybe somena will find this book enjoyable, so give it a chance.

This one was a solid read, but I read significantly better STEM in STEAM romances in 2022 and this one wasn't as good.

I read a little bit of this book and then I decided not to continue with it. I went on goodreads after I started to feel uncomfortable with the disability rep. And found this book wasn’t a great representation of a person living with a disability. So I decided to put it down.

Thanks the NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review. I sped through this book and found it an easy read. I didn’t think the Seraphina character would have gained confidence with Milo so quickly- the head massage… really? It just felt a little forced. I’m not sure whether her disability was portrayed accurately or not but it was refreshing to see a different type of lead.

I love a female lead in STEM and I love reading disabled characters, but this book just didn't work for me. There was a lot of focus on the disabled female lead referring to herself as BROKEN. Of course, these feelings may be a struggle to overcome for disabled individuals, but the character saying it/thinking it this many times in one book starts to feel really problematic. This book ended up in my DNF pile.

Safety in Numbers was a good romance novel. I loved reading about women in STEM. I love the awareness that this book has.

i am a sucker for cartoon cover romance stories. this one did not disappoint!! super cute but not super lighthearted! does talk about traumatic events