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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The reviews made me expect a lot more from this book, but it just felt "eh." It was good and the writing was nice, and the sex scenes were actually really good but I don't think the story itself was amazing or anything. This is a nice solid three-star book for me.
My heart has been blown to smithereens.
Also, how the fuck am I supposed to wait for Black Iris? You're too cruel, Ms Raeder,too cruel. (But I still adore you.)
Also, how the fuck am I supposed to wait for Black Iris? You're too cruel, Ms Raeder,too cruel. (But I still adore you.)
Ahh, it's 1:47AM, I've got to stop doing this.
Elliot Wake's writing is beautiful. That's a well known fact. He has a way with words that I haven't seem in any other author out there. That already makes this book worth reading because it's just so readable while poetic as heck.
As a feminist, I like how this book looks. You've got this woman who's entirely in control of her sexuality. She's not being used, she's making choices and her beauty is hers. You can be sexual and a feminist.
I also loved how cinema looked. It's clear the author has done some research and Maise's passion for it was done well.
Nevertheless, it's hard for me to find more positive things. I wasn't really rooting for the romance and when you don't root for the romance in a book like this, you lose something essential. I didn't feel like I knew Evan or cared about him. There was too much sexual stuff and not enough character development.
Additionally, the plot didn't compel me as much as it could have. Sure, it was interesting but no more. I want to know more about Hayim, more connections within the storyline, more depth, more themes interconnecting, just more. I know Elliot Wake can do better than this.
what I'm taking with me:
• where are the older woman/young man relationships at?
• Wesley was pretty much me so I respect that. I could totally fuck up like that and slide by somehow.
• Fuck, I don't want to grow up.
Elliot Wake's writing is beautiful. That's a well known fact. He has a way with words that I haven't seem in any other author out there. That already makes this book worth reading because it's just so readable while poetic as heck.
As a feminist, I like how this book looks. You've got this woman who's entirely in control of her sexuality. She's not being used, she's making choices and her beauty is hers. You can be sexual and a feminist.
I also loved how cinema looked. It's clear the author has done some research and Maise's passion for it was done well.
Nevertheless, it's hard for me to find more positive things. I wasn't really rooting for the romance and when you don't root for the romance in a book like this, you lose something essential. I didn't feel like I knew Evan or cared about him. There was too much sexual stuff and not enough character development.
Additionally, the plot didn't compel me as much as it could have. Sure, it was interesting but no more. I want to know more about Hayim, more connections within the storyline, more depth, more themes interconnecting, just more. I know Elliot Wake can do better than this.
what I'm taking with me:
• where are the older woman/young man relationships at?
• Wesley was pretty much me so I respect that. I could totally fuck up like that and slide by somehow.
• Fuck, I don't want to grow up.
This is a hard one for me to judge. Writing wise it was definitely closer to 5* as it was really beautifully written, I have no doubt this author is talented AF! But I was kind of hot and cold about the age difference/power dynamic which keeps the rating lower.
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Ok honestly I generally don't care about an age difference I think it may have had something to do with the previous relationship ruining things for me... I don't know, I am so confused right now!
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Ok honestly I generally don't care about an age difference I think it may have had something to do with the previous relationship ruining things for me... I don't know, I am so confused right now!
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.
I found out about this book on Tumblr and I'm so glad that I decided to read it! The writing was really beautiful and I felt very connected to the main character, Maise. Definitely recommended!
Maise has slept with older men before. She has accepted the fact that boys her age would never meet the cut. She is eighteen, about to start a senior year of high school and is determined to conquer her fears. The night she met Evan on the roller coaster, she didn’t expect anything to come from it. He was hot, the sex was hot and she was gone. Until she walked into her Film Studies class and there her stood. Evan Wilke. Her teacher. She had no idea. He had no idea. Yet here they were together and the temptation was too much to resist. The affair had begun before either of them had a chance to stop it. But now the secrecy begins and the teacher and student fall fast into each other and into a deception they may not be able to climb out of.
Well this caught me completely by surprise. From the very first page I was lost in Maise’s life. This book was so many things: intoxicating, thrilling, sexy, addicting, detailed and forbidden. I wanted to get lost in a story and I did. I was completely lost in this forbidden but legal relationship between Maise and Evan. The adult in me wanted to hate the idea of a teacher and student ever being intimate in any shape way or form. But the teenager in me, that was attracted to older men, and was intrigued by the mystery of being with someone even a few years older and the mystique that age can cast, loved every single second of it. Raeder captured the voice of an 18 year old like I’ve never seen before. Maise is witty, flawed, beautiful, confident and frightened all at the same time. She is a ball of emotions and insecurity and can be a walking contradiction but she felt so amazingly, wonderfully real. Her relationship with Evan was intense and passionate and hot, oh so hot. These characters were so well developed and so beautifully sculpted. The plot unfolded amazingly. When I thought something was slightly predictable it imploded in my face to show the reality and I was forced to stay on my toes. I couldn’t stop reading. I didn’t want to stop reading.
Raeder’s Unteachable easily gets 5 out of 5 stars from me. I crashed into this book and loved every second of it. My heart was racing through this story. There were just so many beautiful elements to Raeder’s writing. She created a novel where the intensity was palpable in every page, along with lust, fear, love and danger. There are so many things I didn’t even mention like the druggie mom, the forgotten father, the nuances of being in high school but it’s all there adding intensity and depth to the story. I couldn’t get enough. Some people may not be able to get past the idea of a teacher secretly dating his eighteen year old student so that could scare people away. I completely understand. But this is fiction and I got lost in the story. I loved it and I would take that ride again. If Raeder can keep producing books like this than I may have to get every single one.
Well this caught me completely by surprise. From the very first page I was lost in Maise’s life. This book was so many things: intoxicating, thrilling, sexy, addicting, detailed and forbidden. I wanted to get lost in a story and I did. I was completely lost in this forbidden but legal relationship between Maise and Evan. The adult in me wanted to hate the idea of a teacher and student ever being intimate in any shape way or form. But the teenager in me, that was attracted to older men, and was intrigued by the mystery of being with someone even a few years older and the mystique that age can cast, loved every single second of it. Raeder captured the voice of an 18 year old like I’ve never seen before. Maise is witty, flawed, beautiful, confident and frightened all at the same time. She is a ball of emotions and insecurity and can be a walking contradiction but she felt so amazingly, wonderfully real. Her relationship with Evan was intense and passionate and hot, oh so hot. These characters were so well developed and so beautifully sculpted. The plot unfolded amazingly. When I thought something was slightly predictable it imploded in my face to show the reality and I was forced to stay on my toes. I couldn’t stop reading. I didn’t want to stop reading.
Raeder’s Unteachable easily gets 5 out of 5 stars from me. I crashed into this book and loved every second of it. My heart was racing through this story. There were just so many beautiful elements to Raeder’s writing. She created a novel where the intensity was palpable in every page, along with lust, fear, love and danger. There are so many things I didn’t even mention like the druggie mom, the forgotten father, the nuances of being in high school but it’s all there adding intensity and depth to the story. I couldn’t get enough. Some people may not be able to get past the idea of a teacher secretly dating his eighteen year old student so that could scare people away. I completely understand. But this is fiction and I got lost in the story. I loved it and I would take that ride again. If Raeder can keep producing books like this than I may have to get every single one.