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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
WOW GUYS I /LOVED/ THIS. Like. Wow. Probably more like a 4.5. Wow wow wow. WOW.
3.5. Beautifully written but I honestly had some issues with the subject matter.
I wanted to read a different love story and this book fit. It is about a student/teacher relationship. The girl is 18 and they meet over the summer before they know they are teacher and student. There were times in the story when I didn't know if I should be rooting for them till the end or if I didn't want them to make it because it is a little messed up. I didn't know how the story would end and I didn't know how I wanted it to. I felt like the author did an amazing job at making you feel the same emotions as the characters. Maise has a drunk and druggie for a mom and no dad. I certainly did not grow up that way, but I felt like I understood why Maise did the things she did. I was drawn in to their crazy messed up world. I even cried at parts. If you want something different then this is the book. (The F word is used a lot)
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HOLY. SHIT.
Unteachable is a story that moves you. I felt so many different things while reading. The writing is really flawless. Every word belongs. Every sentence is beautiful. This is a page-turning book that will keep you sucked into the story until the very end.
Unteachable is a book that you don’t just want to tell people to read. Just telling them about this story will not be enough. You want to slap them in the face with this book and be like, “READ IT!!!”
Unteachable smacks you in the feels and knocks the breath out of you. Reading this book is really an experience. You go along for the ride as Maise discovers who she is and the transformation that she makes is remarkable and beautiful at the same time.
Maise is a 18 year old who meets a guy one night at a carnival. They ride a ride together and then hook up in his car. Maise doesn’t stick around after that and she doesn’t think that she will ever see him again. Well, mystery man turns out to be her teacher. Maise and Evan are still attracted to each other and their relationship is wrong but it’s so right at the same time.
Maise is funny, rebellious, and sassy. I loved her attitude. I understood her. Maise is also keeping things hidden from others. Evan was sweet and caring. I liked him but Maise really stole the show.
Unteachable is addictive, has angst and tension, and is unputdownable. I was glued to every page. The writing flows smoothly. It’s beautiful and poetic. It makes you feel.
Unteachable brings something special to the NA genre. It’s original, unique, and refreshing. There’s nothing in this book that reminds me of another. Unteachable is a story that I will reread time and time again. I really loved this one, guys.
I would recommend this story to anyone looking for a new book to read that has a forbidden romance and is beautifully written.
HOLY. SHIT.
Unteachable is a story that moves you. I felt so many different things while reading. The writing is really flawless. Every word belongs. Every sentence is beautiful. This is a page-turning book that will keep you sucked into the story until the very end.
Unteachable is a book that you don’t just want to tell people to read. Just telling them about this story will not be enough. You want to slap them in the face with this book and be like, “READ IT!!!”
Unteachable smacks you in the feels and knocks the breath out of you. Reading this book is really an experience. You go along for the ride as Maise discovers who she is and the transformation that she makes is remarkable and beautiful at the same time.
Maise is a 18 year old who meets a guy one night at a carnival. They ride a ride together and then hook up in his car. Maise doesn’t stick around after that and she doesn’t think that she will ever see him again. Well, mystery man turns out to be her teacher. Maise and Evan are still attracted to each other and their relationship is wrong but it’s so right at the same time.
Maise is funny, rebellious, and sassy. I loved her attitude. I understood her. Maise is also keeping things hidden from others. Evan was sweet and caring. I liked him but Maise really stole the show.
Unteachable is addictive, has angst and tension, and is unputdownable. I was glued to every page. The writing flows smoothly. It’s beautiful and poetic. It makes you feel.
Unteachable brings something special to the NA genre. It’s original, unique, and refreshing. There’s nothing in this book that reminds me of another. Unteachable is a story that I will reread time and time again. I really loved this one, guys.
I would recommend this story to anyone looking for a new book to read that has a forbidden romance and is beautifully written.
Este libro está escrito de una manera demasiado hermosa. Creo que nunca había leído algo TAN bien escrito. De verdad. Es espectacular <3
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Review later, tengo muchos sentimientos encontrados
You know you're reading a good book when you are smiling goofily to yourself half of the time. Highly recommended. The writing is stunningly beautiful.
Received a copy from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Wowza.
That was one hell of a read. UNTEACHABLE is not for the faint of heart. I don't think there's really one genre that it fits into. It felt a lot more erotica than New Adult due to the sheer number of love scenes. Not that I'm complaining. But... I have to admit it was slightly overwhelming at times. That being said, this book was fascinating and incredibly well written. A lot of people have approached the teacher-student relationship and it's felt contrived or forced. Not for one second did I not want these two to find a way to be together.
I was totally into every bit of this story. I particularly appreciated Leah Raeder's nods to film tropes and styles. She paints a vivid picture--in the best way possible.
If you're looking for something to get the pulses racing, but still make you feel like a giddy teenager falling in love for all the wrong reasons... Get into it!
The ending was perfect, by the way. Again it could've been an eye-roller. But it was like the perfect little button.
I may have swooned a bit...
Wowza.
That was one hell of a read. UNTEACHABLE is not for the faint of heart. I don't think there's really one genre that it fits into. It felt a lot more erotica than New Adult due to the sheer number of love scenes. Not that I'm complaining. But... I have to admit it was slightly overwhelming at times. That being said, this book was fascinating and incredibly well written. A lot of people have approached the teacher-student relationship and it's felt contrived or forced. Not for one second did I not want these two to find a way to be together.
I was totally into every bit of this story. I particularly appreciated Leah Raeder's nods to film tropes and styles. She paints a vivid picture--in the best way possible.
If you're looking for something to get the pulses racing, but still make you feel like a giddy teenager falling in love for all the wrong reasons... Get into it!
The ending was perfect, by the way. Again it could've been an eye-roller. But it was like the perfect little button.
I may have swooned a bit...
Girl meets man on a roller coaster. Man loses girl. Man gets girl back when she finds out he’s her teacher (HUGE turn-on). And that’s only the first two chapters.
It’s a hard knock life for Maise O'Malley, what with a druggie mom and an absent dad, but luckily for her, her parents did manage to give her symmetrical facial features. Maise is hot and she knows it. Just call her Helen of Troy, since simply seeing her causes every penis in the near vicinity to rise against its will (you could say she launches a thousand...you get it). Or you could call her Snow White since there’s a point in the book when Wesley, a teenage boy, USES THAT DESCRIPTION to identify Maise.
It’s a little extra.
18 year old Maise wants to make movies so it makes sense that she’s constantly viewing her life as though through a camera lens. She often breaks the fourth wall to speak directly to the reader about what’s occurring, reminiscing to an earlier moment in time, arguing with herself, rationalizing things. There are montages, fades to black, camera zooms. Maise claims her life is an insane love story. Indeed, the love story drove me nuts. I should admit that despite that, I couldn’t put it down, couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. It definitely kept my interest.
These two. Oy. I mean, it makes sense that Maise would fall for Evan/Mr. Wilke (there were a lot of references to Lolita, natch). She’s got Daddy issues, they both come from broken homes, hate their mothers, love to escape into movies, and they could both TOTALLY be actors (they’re hot). There's a lot of talk about him giving her an "education" in film, when really all they do is have movie night and have sex on the couch. They're just extremely irresponsible.They're hooking up in the classroom? Not to mention sharing lingering looks DURING CLASS? Don't tell me that only two people pick up on it. C'mon. They could've at least tried to be discreet, but what's sexy about being responsible adults? Who doesn’t love forbidden fruit?
And who doesn’t love looking at Maise? Even her best friend Wesley loves to, it’s like his #1 hobby (he’s like that creep from American Beauty). I got tired of reading about how hot Maise was. Evan’s reaction to everything Maise does: “You look incredible,” he breathed. Seriously, the guy has no depth. All he does is gape at Maise.
More of how incredible Maise looks at every point in time:
I pushed my gigantic smile at him, knowing how my face looked: rapturous, flushed, the sort of pupil-dilating ecstasy that makes guys lose it. I didn’t care if it was teasing. I gave zero fucks.
I couldn’t stop looking at myself in the mirrors. I knew I was pretty. I’d never been one of those angsty girls who needed constant reassurance. When your mom’s skeezy “business partners” hit on you when you’re twelve, you learn fast. I’d been aware of male attention since before menarche . I knew I was desirable. I knew how to wield that as both a tool and a weapon. I’d never really thought of myself as beautiful, though. The girl in the mirror was beautiful.
The funny thing was, even in my hillbilly attire and zero makeup, I looked a hundred times better than this girl who’d spent all morning tweezing and abrading just to end up resembling a chihuahua.
Easy, Action.
As much as I wanted to slap Maise, I couldn’t help laughing out loud at her zingers, her ability to lob a well crafted comeback the way that teenagers do in movies, none of that staircase wit, nuh uh. Of course the teenagers in this book are well beyond their years, although they do spend a lot of time talking about their inner children (which, given the subject matter of the book, felt creepy at times).
Also? The prose was lovely:
Wesleypedia once told me that the heart and brain are 73% water. Even our bones are full of it. It made sense, then, why I couldn’t stop fucking crying. My body was made from this stuff. Hydrogen, the same thing stars burned to shine, smashing atoms together until they fused in a brilliant burst of light, the same thing it felt like my heart was doing to the water inside me.
The ending felt like more of a HFN to me, because Maise and Evan are clearly doomed. They can't run on Lolita fumes for much longer. Am I supposed to root for them because they’re pretty? Nah. ETA: I feel like I should mention Siobhan, Wesley's mom, who serves as a mother figure for Maise. She and Maise's mother reflect the lives that Maise could have, with Siobhan being the preferred outcome. While their affection for each other was sweet, I felt sometimes that Siobhan existed merely to condone what Maise was doing.
I couldn’t decide how many stars to give this book. I think 3 cover it. It was extremely well-written, I just wanted the majority of the characters to die fiery deaths.
-Got an ARC for an honest review
It’s a hard knock life for Maise O'Malley, what with a druggie mom and an absent dad, but luckily for her, her parents did manage to give her symmetrical facial features. Maise is hot and she knows it. Just call her Helen of Troy, since simply seeing her causes every penis in the near vicinity to rise against its will (you could say she launches a thousand...you get it). Or you could call her Snow White since there’s a point in the book when Wesley, a teenage boy, USES THAT DESCRIPTION to identify Maise.
It’s a little extra.
18 year old Maise wants to make movies so it makes sense that she’s constantly viewing her life as though through a camera lens. She often breaks the fourth wall to speak directly to the reader about what’s occurring, reminiscing to an earlier moment in time, arguing with herself, rationalizing things. There are montages, fades to black, camera zooms. Maise claims her life is an insane love story
Spoiler
she also calls it a fucking drug thrillerThese two. Oy. I mean, it makes sense that Maise would fall for Evan/Mr. Wilke (there were a lot of references to Lolita, natch). She’s got Daddy issues, they both come from broken homes, hate their mothers, love to escape into movies, and they could both TOTALLY be actors (they’re hot). There's a lot of talk about him giving her an "education" in film, when really all they do is have movie night and have sex on the couch. They're just extremely irresponsible.
And who doesn’t love looking at Maise? Even her best friend Wesley loves to, it’s like his #1 hobby (he’s like that creep from American Beauty). I got tired of reading about how hot Maise was. Evan’s reaction to everything Maise does: “You look incredible,” he breathed. Seriously, the guy has no depth. All he does is gape at Maise.
More of how incredible Maise looks at every point in time:
I pushed my gigantic smile at him, knowing how my face looked: rapturous, flushed, the sort of pupil-dilating ecstasy that makes guys lose it. I didn’t care if it was teasing. I gave zero fucks.
I couldn’t stop looking at myself in the mirrors. I knew I was pretty. I’d never been one of those angsty girls who needed constant reassurance. When your mom’s skeezy “business partners” hit on you when you’re twelve, you learn fast. I’d been aware of male attention since before menarche . I knew I was desirable. I knew how to wield that as both a tool and a weapon. I’d never really thought of myself as beautiful, though. The girl in the mirror was beautiful.
The funny thing was, even in my hillbilly attire and zero makeup, I looked a hundred times better than this girl who’d spent all morning tweezing and abrading just to end up resembling a chihuahua.
Easy, Action.
As much as I wanted to slap Maise, I couldn’t help laughing out loud at her zingers, her ability to lob a well crafted comeback the way that teenagers do in movies, none of that staircase wit, nuh uh. Of course the teenagers in this book are well beyond their years, although they do spend a lot of time talking about their inner children (which, given the subject matter of the book, felt creepy at times).
Also? The prose was lovely:
Wesleypedia once told me that the heart and brain are 73% water. Even our bones are full of it. It made sense, then, why I couldn’t stop fucking crying. My body was made from this stuff. Hydrogen, the same thing stars burned to shine, smashing atoms together until they fused in a brilliant burst of light, the same thing it felt like my heart was doing to the water inside me.
The ending felt like more of a HFN to me, because Maise and Evan are clearly doomed.
Spoiler
Because Evan is clearly suicidal. And his attraction to barely legal girls is CLEARLY a trend...yeeshI couldn’t decide how many stars to give this book. I think 3 cover it. It was extremely well-written, I just wanted the majority of the characters to die fiery deaths.
-Got an ARC for an honest review
So, UNTEACHABLE. It's not a sugar-coated book. It's not a nice book. It's not a meek book. UNTEACHABLE is a brave book about a flawed, brave, REAL girl. Maise is possibly the BEST heroine I've read about in a LONG time in YA, NA, etc, because Maise doesn't front. She knows she has issues, and it takes her some time, but Maise grows and starts to do things FOR HERSELF. She changes the parts of her life she doesn't want.
And she's unflinchingly honest about her relationship with Evan, her teacher. YA and NA -- and hell, adult -- needs Maise. And many more characters like her. (YES to unapologetic characters who aren't portrayed as ice-queens/etc. FUCK YES to books that are sex-positive. I could write an essay about this.)
UNTEACHABLE is incredibly well-written; the prose is beautiful. Stark when it needs to be stark. Lyrical when it needs to be lyrical. The characters are all incredibly developed, and the plot, despite some escapist moments that feel unreal, is solid. And the romance. It gave me so many feels. And yes, there WAS romance, and seduction, and lust. And it was brave and perfect.
Bravo, Leah Raeder.
And she's unflinchingly honest about her relationship with Evan, her teacher. YA and NA -- and hell, adult -- needs Maise. And many more characters like her. (YES to unapologetic characters who aren't portrayed as ice-queens/etc. FUCK YES to books that are sex-positive. I could write an essay about this.)
UNTEACHABLE is incredibly well-written; the prose is beautiful. Stark when it needs to be stark. Lyrical when it needs to be lyrical. The characters are all incredibly developed, and the plot, despite some escapist moments that feel unreal, is solid. And the romance. It gave me so many feels. And yes, there WAS romance, and seduction, and lust. And it was brave and perfect.
Bravo, Leah Raeder.