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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
I'm bred from the same area this book was written about and the author painted the picture realistically.
This book is sad, dirty, beautiful, and innocent. No millionaire bay boys in So IL. When I cross that bridge all I've ever seen is how you painted STL and I'm glad someone got it right finally. No fluff. Thank you for writing this book. Thank you for every page of pure poetry. I will support you 10000%.
Now, eff you for ruining all other books I've ever read. Because I have forgotten them all. I am going to try to forgive you for making some of my favorite books seem like a Sweet Valley High episode on repeat.
This is my first time writing a review. I am a reader, not a writer. I have beef with Goodreaders but now I feel like a bitch because that's how I came across this book.
This book is sad, dirty, beautiful, and innocent. No millionaire bay boys in So IL. When I cross that bridge all I've ever seen is how you painted STL and I'm glad someone got it right finally. No fluff. Thank you for writing this book. Thank you for every page of pure poetry. I will support you 10000%.
Now, eff you for ruining all other books I've ever read. Because I have forgotten them all. I am going to try to forgive you for making some of my favorite books seem like a Sweet Valley High episode on repeat.
This is my first time writing a review. I am a reader, not a writer. I have beef with Goodreaders but now I feel like a bitch because that's how I came across this book.
A 3 on retrospective but a 2-2.5 while reading? Makes sense? Both the characters are fucked up and obsessed and that obsessiveness made me cringe most of the times but surprisingly I understood. The ending was clichè and typical while the rest of the book was so intense and brooding. It could have been better. Although it got way better than how it started. Full review to come.. maybe?
Eck. i really didn’t like evan/eric. Whoever he is. Eck.
"Maise O’Malley just turned eighteen, but she’s felt like a grown-up her entire life. The summer before senior year, she has plans: get into a great film school, convince her mom to go into rehab, and absolutely do not, under any circumstances, screw up her own future.
When Maise meets Evan at a carnival one night, their chemistry is immediate, intense, and short-lived. Which is exactly how she likes it: no strings. But afterward, she can’t get Evan out of her head. He’s taught her that a hookup can be something more. It can be an unexpected connection with someone
That someone turns out to be her new film class teacher, Mr. Evan Wilke."
I liked this book. The characters weren't awful and had more than one dimension, which is kind of rare in romance novels. I think, had Evan not hidden his past, it could've saved them a lot of trouble. But other than that, I found it enjoyable.
When Maise meets Evan at a carnival one night, their chemistry is immediate, intense, and short-lived. Which is exactly how she likes it: no strings. But afterward, she can’t get Evan out of her head. He’s taught her that a hookup can be something more. It can be an unexpected connection with someone
That someone turns out to be her new film class teacher, Mr. Evan Wilke."
I liked this book. The characters weren't awful and had more than one dimension, which is kind of rare in romance novels. I think, had Evan not hidden his past, it could've saved them a lot of trouble. But other than that, I found it enjoyable.
This book was very hard for me to rate. The topic, the whole situation between Maise and Evan, it was weird for me. When I read [b:Losing It|16034964|Losing It (Losing It, #1)|Cora Carmack|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348459319s/16034964.jpg|21807237], I didn't really have a problem with the teacher student thing, but in this book, there was a huge age difference! Huge! Fifteen years! And I have to admit, it bothered me! I've had hot teachers before, and they were not that much older, and I always thought I was creepy for liking them. I don't know, it just isn't for me. But in the end, I had to admit that I loved this book.
If not for the plot, than for the writing! The author says she writes 'pretentiously lyrical YA' and I have to say that she's right. But it wasn't horrible! I loved it. The emotions, the surroundings, the rush of every thing was so perfectly described, they were tangible. I felt like I was there. I felt like I was in love.
The age thing will be the only thing that keeps this book from going on my favorites shelf, but the author was so brave to write about it. To not keep it safe and make the teacher a little younger. To show how they both liked the hotness factor taboo brought to the relationship. To allow everyone to have an opinion and then discard them all, because it was love. And that ending.
This book is recommended to anyone who wants to push their boundaries. Or you know, everyone.
If not for the plot, than for the writing! The author says she writes 'pretentiously lyrical YA' and I have to say that she's right. But it wasn't horrible! I loved it. The emotions, the surroundings, the rush of every thing was so perfectly described, they were tangible. I felt like I was there. I felt like I was in love.
The age thing will be the only thing that keeps this book from going on my favorites shelf, but the author was so brave to write about it. To not keep it safe and make the teacher a little younger. To show how they both liked the hotness factor taboo brought to the relationship. To allow everyone to have an opinion and then discard them all, because it was love. And that ending.
This book is recommended to anyone who wants to push their boundaries. Or you know, everyone.
I'm not sure how to rate this one.... I gave it 4 stars because the writing is phenomenal....I did have some issues with the plot. full review coming soon...
Wow is my first thought at the end of this book.
Maise is an 18 year old girl in the last year of high school and she has a preference for older men maybe due to abandonment by her Father at an early age. Evan is an man in his 30's she meets. He is her teacher. It challenges your morals and ethics. As a lecturer myself there were some times I felt discomfited by the nature of Evan and Maise's relationship. However, it's definitely a favourite and the writing is engaging, absorbing and beautiful to read.
Maise is an 18 year old girl in the last year of high school and she has a preference for older men maybe due to abandonment by her Father at an early age. Evan is an man in his 30's she meets. He is her teacher. It challenges your morals and ethics. As a lecturer myself there were some times I felt discomfited by the nature of Evan and Maise's relationship. However, it's definitely a favourite and the writing is engaging, absorbing and beautiful to read.