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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
4 stars because of that ending.
Got this bad boy for $3.00 on my kobo. Can't wait
Got this bad boy for $3.00 on my kobo. Can't wait
She's 18. He's 32. It's grooming.
Evan says to her while in a hotel room, "I'm going to teach you to make love."
Puke.
Evan says to her while in a hotel room, "I'm going to teach you to make love."
Puke.
The smut isn’t good. The writing overall isn’t to good. I can’t follow along with the story, I’m just not connecting to it. The hero feels a bit unrealistic and I’m not a fan of the heroine.
Well, you know, for a book that's about a teacher/student-relationship, this one is a lot more realistic than Slammed (by Colleen Hoover).
4.5/5 stars. So swoony and sweet and unexpected and *happy sigh.*
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Yikes
this is my third leah raeder novel. i could only take so much damaged/fucked up main characters, you know? that is probably the author's own manic pixie dream girl version. and oh, there's also too much sex, apparently. the endless sex is so unnecessary, repetitive and mechanical. you know that term, umay? yeah, that. i just sigh whenever there's one (and another and another). the only good thing in this novel is maise and wesley's friendship and how she dealt with her mom
Being miserable is even worse without an audience.
“Look, shit got weird. It’s not the end of the world. I miss you, okay?”
“You miss having an audience.” (ooh burn)
We made out on my bed but he didn’t want to have sex in the house because I’d grown up there, been a little girl there. I told him that made it even hotter and ran my tongue in the seashell of his ear, but he just laughed and called me incorrigible. (seashell of his ear? say what now?)
the ending was eh. i hoped that they wouldn't end up together. kinda defeated the purpose, ugh
i have high hopes for n.a and i am always willing to give it a try. but if it's like this, no thanks
Spoiler
I can’t be your manic pixie dream girl. (you annoying main character you. of course you are one. denial denial denial)Being miserable is even worse without an audience.
“Look, shit got weird. It’s not the end of the world. I miss you, okay?”
“You miss having an audience.” (ooh burn)
We made out on my bed but he didn’t want to have sex in the house because I’d grown up there, been a little girl there. I told him that made it even hotter and ran my tongue in the seashell of his ear, but he just laughed and called me incorrigible. (seashell of his ear? say what now?)
the ending was eh. i hoped that they wouldn't end up together. kinda defeated the purpose, ugh
i have high hopes for n.a and i am always willing to give it a try. but if it's like this, no thanks
3 stars. This was the epitome of an okay read. It wasn't bad but I wasn't thrilled or hooked into it either. It is what it is and that kind of makes sad because the story and subject matter is so interesting.
Like I said, the story and subject was so interesting. The whole student/teacher relationship is fascinating in a weird way but I just feel like the author didn't take full advantage of Maise and Evan's situation. I never felt like the stakes were high even though you know that they are. It didn't feel dangerous enough to me considering that Evan had so much to lose if their relationship was found out.
Maise was so annoying and immature for an nineteen year old. The writing was great and I appreciated Maise's voice and everything but I just didn't like her as a character. I completely understood why she was the way she was but still. She seemed like a such a stereotype that it wasn't even funny. She didn't want to be like her mother and hated her so much but basically was doing the exact same thing as her. I didn't get it. Again, I get it. Her life was messed up but still. I did like that she wanted to go to college at least.
Evan was an okay character. He didn't really have a backbone to me. I wanted him to be stronger and a bit more assertive. I didn't understand his reaction when he found out Maise was his student. He wasn't angry that she had lied to him or anything, he was just okay with them sneaking around from the get go. Didn't get it.
I feel like this book would better as a movie, that way Maise and Evan's relationship can really be pushed to its very limits. 3 stars.
Like I said, the story and subject was so interesting. The whole student/teacher relationship is fascinating in a weird way but I just feel like the author didn't take full advantage of Maise and Evan's situation. I never felt like the stakes were high even though you know that they are. It didn't feel dangerous enough to me considering that Evan had so much to lose if their relationship was found out.
Maise was so annoying and immature for an nineteen year old. The writing was great and I appreciated Maise's voice and everything but I just didn't like her as a character. I completely understood why she was the way she was but still. She seemed like a such a stereotype that it wasn't even funny. She didn't want to be like her mother and hated her so much but basically was doing the exact same thing as her. I didn't get it. Again, I get it. Her life was messed up but still. I did like that she wanted to go to college at least.
Evan was an okay character. He didn't really have a backbone to me. I wanted him to be stronger and a bit more assertive. I didn't understand his reaction when he found out Maise was his student. He wasn't angry that she had lied to him or anything, he was just okay with them sneaking around from the get go. Didn't get it.
I feel like this book would better as a movie, that way Maise and Evan's relationship can really be pushed to its very limits. 3 stars.
So I went into this book expecting a realistic portrait of student-teacher relationships, and why they are so toxic, consuming and never work. For the first half of the book it looked promising. Maise and Evan's relationship was definitely consuming, passionate and taboo - but I felt it lost its way in the second half of the story.
For starters, Maise is a troubled teen who fully acknowledges why she likes to have sex with older men - she is brutally honest and frank with herself and I really liked that about her, there were no girlish delusions of 'true love'. She has a druggie for a mother and generally had a tough upbringing. I felt the book should have concentrated more of the toxicity of Maise and Evan's relationship and how it changes Maise and I wanted Evan to be more predatory then he was portrayed as. We are told that Despite this, the reader is constantly led to believe that Evan is a truly nice guy who has nothing but pure love for Maise. It would have been so much better if he just used and abused Maise and the whole thing was a cautionary tale and a learning curve - making Maise further respect herself in future. Would have also been great if
Instead the reader gets a bizarre side plot of I mean, what the hell? Also Is that realistic? After all That whole scenario was a gaping plot hole for me.
So after all that, and she begs Evan to go with her and he of course refuses so I was thinking, finally a realistic ending to this story - I was beyond disappointed with the ending of this book, but it was an enjoyable read at first so that is why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1.
For starters, Maise is a troubled teen who fully acknowledges why she likes to have sex with older men - she is brutally honest and frank with herself and I really liked that about her, there were no girlish delusions of 'true love'. She has a druggie for a mother and generally had a tough upbringing. I felt the book should have concentrated more of the toxicity of Maise and Evan's relationship and how it changes Maise and I wanted Evan to be more predatory then he was portrayed as. We are told that
Spoiler
Evan lied about his first name and that in his last job he knocked up a 17 year old student, while he professes that he basically found her annoying and used her for his own perverse needs.Spoiler
Maise ended up falling in love with Wesley, who I felt was the real hero of this story.Instead the reader gets a bizarre side plot of
Spoiler
Maise being blackmailed by an Iranian fellow student, who she has to sell cocaine to. Maise then approaches a drug lord so she can deal drugs.Spoiler
after Maise and Wesley film said student taking drugs, they give the video to her insanely rich father who thanks Maise for her discretion by giving her 10,000 dollars?Spoiler
Maise was the one who was dealing his daughter drugs in the first place, is it realistic he wouldn't be mad about that and reward her with money?!So after all that,