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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Wow. Such a wonderfully, vividly written book. This should be on the big screen.
Stopped reading at 61%. Not bad but I just didn't care for the characters or what happened. This book would never have been more than a 3-star book and decided to stop reading. I did enjoy the writing.
First,I would like to thank Ms. Leah Raeder for a signed copy of this book and I would like to praise her for how beautifully she wrote this book. Thank you also to Camille for making it happen. It's definitely worth reading this.
Unteachable is about a student-teacher relationship. It took me a while to read this but that doesn't mean I got bored on the story.
Seriously, I love everything about it. Sometimes Maise O'Malley gets on my nerves for being so whiny. She's a girl who lived in a miserable family where she's looking for a parental image. It makes my heart wrenched that someone like her have to endure all these pain at a very young age. She just didn't deserve a drunk mother. Despite of that, she is the strongest character in this book. Her angst and passion prevails which made me love her.
As for Evan Wilke, he is HOT,compassionate and sweet. Gosh. I love this guy. Nothing gets in his way when he found Maise. He will do everything to make her happy and love her with all his heart. I can't help this giddy feeling!
“You can call it love or you can call it free fall. They’re pretty much the same thing”
- Probably the best quote that describes to what I feel about this book. I fell in love with the characters and how it was written... Everything!
The last part of this book made me say:
"YES! HELL DAMN YES!"
You know that feeling when you thought it's a bad ending and surprised that it wasn't? I love that kind of twist that will make you dance from happiness. Seriously, it was a freefall ending.
and as I am browsing... I saw this poem "Teach Me" by Michael Faudet which reminded me of this book.
Definitely recommended if you love reading New Adult books. Kudos to Leah Raeder!
Unteachable is about a student-teacher relationship. It took me a while to read this but that doesn't mean I got bored on the story.
Seriously, I love everything about it. Sometimes Maise O'Malley gets on my nerves for being so whiny. She's a girl who lived in a miserable family where she's looking for a parental image. It makes my heart wrenched that someone like her have to endure all these pain at a very young age. She just didn't deserve a drunk mother. Despite of that, she is the strongest character in this book. Her angst and passion prevails which made me love her.
As for Evan Wilke, he is HOT,compassionate and sweet. Gosh. I love this guy. Nothing gets in his way when he found Maise. He will do everything to make her happy and love her with all his heart. I can't help this giddy feeling!
“You can call it love or you can call it free fall. They’re pretty much the same thing”
- Probably the best quote that describes to what I feel about this book. I fell in love with the characters and how it was written... Everything!
The last part of this book made me say:
"YES! HELL DAMN YES!"
You know that feeling when you thought it's a bad ending and surprised that it wasn't? I love that kind of twist that will make you dance from happiness. Seriously, it was a freefall ending.
and as I am browsing... I saw this poem "Teach Me" by Michael Faudet which reminded me of this book.
Definitely recommended if you love reading New Adult books. Kudos to Leah Raeder!
This book was crazy good!!
Teacher-student romances are my drug of choice, and Unteachable did not disappoint. I love the sparkling fair lights on the cover!
Maise is one hot mess. She is a screwed-up individual, basically raised herself, absent dad, druggie mom, and she fills the daddy void in her life with meaningless sex. One summer... her life is changed. This story is about obsession and being addicted to each other and second chances and never looking back.
Evan and Maise's story is magically powerful. I love, love, love them. I loved the angst and self-discovery threaded throughout this book. Read this. You won't forget about these two characters for a long, long time.
Teacher-student romances are my drug of choice, and Unteachable did not disappoint. I love the sparkling fair lights on the cover!
Maise is one hot mess. She is a screwed-up individual, basically raised herself, absent dad, druggie mom, and she fills the daddy void in her life with meaningless sex. One summer... her life is changed. This story is about obsession and being addicted to each other and second chances and never looking back.
Evan and Maise's story is magically powerful. I love, love, love them. I loved the angst and self-discovery threaded throughout this book. Read this. You won't forget about these two characters for a long, long time.
"desperate to win some giant lice-ridden teddy fresh out of a Taiwanese sweatshop."
And you call this a "cynical and worldly" remark? Nope, I just see a very outdated and rude stereotype toward Asian people, thank you very much. The book is set in 2013, and if you're still using "Taiwanese sweatshop" as a joke, go educate yourself.
And you call this a "cynical and worldly" remark? Nope, I just see a very outdated and rude stereotype toward Asian people, thank you very much. The book is set in 2013, and if you're still using "Taiwanese sweatshop" as a joke, go educate yourself.
4,5 stars
I know the NA genre is not the most beloved one here on goodreads, but I have to say that the few books I have read from this category were pretty great in my opinion, although none of them had quite the stunning writing this one has.
This is, in my opinion, the highlight of the story.
The beautiful, lyrical, incredibly atmospheric writing that completly mesmerized me and had me turning pages like I was breathing words instead of oxygen.
Just to give you a little taste of it:
"That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths."
I really think the setting and the mood is perfect for the dark and mature content of this story. And I am not refering necessarily to the sex, but to the very heavy, dark issues.
Our protagonist, Maise, struggles with some serious fucked up problems since she was a child, and the way she handles them and wears them on her shoulders is raw and real.
She is such a diamond in the rough. Complex, hurt and vulnerable as well as strong, brave and fierce.
You can tell she is hurting even without her having to explicitly tell you, by the way she isolets herself from her classmates and loses herself into her own little world.
The author captures the feeling of being hurt very accuretly, and so much better than many other characters of different books who may be hurting or have a troubled past, but they do not feel like they actually hurt, where the "issues" they have seem like a trick to get the reader to sympathize with them or to appeal to the love interest. But not once they really express this pain. And not only has she got enough on her plate already, but she is dealing with the feeling of growin up and uncertainty as her high school graduation approaches.
As much as I adore Maise, I can't bring myself to love Evan.
I know his dark pastwhich through me off so fucking much. I kept thinking the only real reason for his attraction to her was her age throughout the rest of the novel as well as the fact that he is the authority figure in the relationship has contributed to my apprehension, the main reason is that I couldn't see why Maise had fallen so hard for him.
Sure, he was kind, which was very refreshing from the "asshole" trend we have in NA and YA, but he wasn't very interesting in my opinion.
He wasn't particularly funny, nor smart... I don't know what was missing from him, but there is something I don't like about him. I can totally see him falling for her, but is Maise falling for him what I can't quite wrap my head around, apart from the whole "forbidden relationship" appeal.
I like the way he treats Maise though.
He looks after her and puts her first. There are a many situations in which he risks being exposed to make sure that she is fine, that she really wants the relationship and, most importantly, that it doesn't affect her negatively. Although he doesn't always succeed, his intentions are always good and looking for Maise's interest.
Also, the fact that they met before they knew they were teacher-student and they being legal brought a tiny bit of light into this wrong realtionsip.
The secondary characters were also, very well developed.
In particular, Maise's mom. Their relationship was so messed up and somehow beautiful at some points??. And Maise's fear of growing up and ending up just like her was so well written and human and real, especially at her age.
I have to say I really, really enjoyed it and I am for sure picking up more books from this author.
I know the NA genre is not the most beloved one here on goodreads, but I have to say that the few books I have read from this category were pretty great in my opinion, although none of them had quite the stunning writing this one has.
This is, in my opinion, the highlight of the story.
The beautiful, lyrical, incredibly atmospheric writing that completly mesmerized me and had me turning pages like I was breathing words instead of oxygen.
Just to give you a little taste of it:
"That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths."
I really think the setting and the mood is perfect for the dark and mature content of this story. And I am not refering necessarily to the sex, but to the very heavy, dark issues.
Our protagonist, Maise, struggles with some serious fucked up problems since she was a child, and the way she handles them and wears them on her shoulders is raw and real.
She is such a diamond in the rough. Complex, hurt and vulnerable as well as strong, brave and fierce.
You can tell she is hurting even without her having to explicitly tell you, by the way she isolets herself from her classmates and loses herself into her own little world.
The author captures the feeling of being hurt very accuretly, and so much better than many other characters of different books who may be hurting or have a troubled past, but they do not feel like they actually hurt, where the "issues" they have seem like a trick to get the reader to sympathize with them or to appeal to the love interest. But not once they really express this pain. And not only has she got enough on her plate already, but she is dealing with the feeling of growin up and uncertainty as her high school graduation approaches.
As much as I adore Maise, I can't bring myself to love Evan.
I know his dark past
Sure, he was kind, which was very refreshing from the "asshole" trend we have in NA and YA, but he wasn't very interesting in my opinion.
He wasn't particularly funny, nor smart... I don't know what was missing from him, but there is something I don't like about him. I can totally see him falling for her, but is Maise falling for him what I can't quite wrap my head around, apart from the whole "forbidden relationship" appeal.
I like the way he treats Maise though.
He looks after her and puts her first. There are a many situations in which he risks being exposed to make sure that she is fine, that she really wants the relationship and, most importantly, that it doesn't affect her negatively. Although he doesn't always succeed, his intentions are always good and looking for Maise's interest.
Also, the fact that they met before they knew they were teacher-student and they being legal brought a tiny bit of light into this wrong realtionsip.
The secondary characters were also, very well developed.
In particular, Maise's mom. Their relationship was so messed up and somehow beautiful at some points??. And Maise's fear of growing up and ending up just like her was so well written and human and real, especially at her age.
I have to say I really, really enjoyed it and I am for sure picking up more books from this author.
"What I really wanted was to read other people's stories. Other girls and boys who'd fallen for a teacher, and how it ended. Depressingly common tropes: power imbalances, surrogate parent figure, midlife crisis. Worse were the ones that ended when the parties realized taboo was all that held them together. That was what we'd finally been forced to confront: if our relationship was based on forbiddenness, what would happen when it was no longer forbidden?"
At a loss when it comes to rating this one. On the one hand, Raeder's prose is gorgeous and vivid. Words drip off the page like liquid light. Additionally, I do think the book attempts to fully explore the nature and morality of a student/teacher relationship, and of forbidden/taboo relationships in general (see quote above).
That being said, I had too many problems with the characters and their relationship to truly enjoy this read. Something about them, and their love affair, left a bad taste in my mouth. This...ickiness led me to find the sex unsexy, led me to feel a nasty sense of unease throughout the novel, and also led me to feel slightly angry with the nature of the ending. I guess when it comes down to it, I don't think this is a romance that anyone should try to emulate, or aspire to have. I just wish I knew whether or not the book agreed with me on that one.
I do think Raeder's writing was great, so I will be checking out 'Black Iris' ASAP. Maybe with a different subject matter, I will enjoy the read a bit more.
At a loss when it comes to rating this one. On the one hand, Raeder's prose is gorgeous and vivid. Words drip off the page like liquid light. Additionally, I do think the book attempts to fully explore the nature and morality of a student/teacher relationship, and of forbidden/taboo relationships in general (see quote above).
That being said, I had too many problems with the characters and their relationship to truly enjoy this read. Something about them, and their love affair, left a bad taste in my mouth. This...ickiness led me to find the sex unsexy, led me to feel a nasty sense of unease throughout the novel, and also led me to feel slightly angry with the nature of the ending. I guess when it comes down to it, I don't think this is a romance that anyone should try to emulate, or aspire to have. I just wish I knew whether or not the book agreed with me on that one.
I do think Raeder's writing was great, so I will be checking out 'Black Iris' ASAP. Maybe with a different subject matter, I will enjoy the read a bit more.
Well, that happened. This was very different from what I was expecting and I don't really know how I feel about it.
Infinite stars for this book!
Read this in one sitting!!!!!
this is how I see Maise, chocolate cascade falling and framing her beautiful and seductive face.
Him I just keps on imagining Ezra (PLL) even though he was kinda blonde.
Now, I just love it so much from beginning to end!
It's a beutiful story of a complicated love...
The descriptions on this book couldn't be better, she not simply uses colors and shapes, but Reader describes it perfectly with feelings, and I felt every part of if, I could even smell it sometimes!
I don't have much to say about his book, but boy... it was beautiful!
One of the best I've ever read so far!
If ever questioning about what book to read, well, this one is just perfect!
Read this in one sitting!!!!!
this is how I see Maise, chocolate cascade falling and framing her beautiful and seductive face.
Him I just keps on imagining Ezra (PLL) even though he was kinda blonde.
Now, I just love it so much from beginning to end!
It's a beutiful story of a complicated love...
The descriptions on this book couldn't be better, she not simply uses colors and shapes, but Reader describes it perfectly with feelings, and I felt every part of if, I could even smell it sometimes!
I don't have much to say about his book, but boy... it was beautiful!
One of the best I've ever read so far!
If ever questioning about what book to read, well, this one is just perfect!