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An Academic Affair
by Jodi McAlister
Almost a perfect romance.
In An Academic Affair we follow two PhD professors who decide to get married to get a job they both want but only one got. They are also always at each other's throats for one reason or the other, and that made their dynamic só fucking fun.
I love how in this book it's totally believable that these two are adults, they don't act like teenagers and you might think this is the bare minimum but the number of times I've read adults behaving like 12 year olds is crazy. I've also waited so long for an author to be brave enough to not use the same resolution to a fake dating arrangement( no third act break up here either).
The talks they have about literature are so interesting, and the way life as an academic is portrayed is pretty accurate from what I know of it. I believe the author has a PhD herself, so that's probably why.
I like everything about this: the slow burn(we're talking SLOW), the banter, the side characters are great(I would read an entire book about them, please Jodi do it for me), the writing, the pace. The only thing I didn't like, the reason for the missing .5 star is that I don't like the conflict at the end and how rushed the resolution is. But that's totally a preference, it didn't affect my reading experience I'm just trying to be more critical nowadays.
I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who likes romance.
Thank you Edelweiss and Atria for the ARC!
In An Academic Affair we follow two PhD professors who decide to get married to get a job they both want but only one got. They are also always at each other's throats for one reason or the other, and that made their dynamic só fucking fun.
I love how in this book it's totally believable that these two are adults, they don't act like teenagers and you might think this is the bare minimum but the number of times I've read adults behaving like 12 year olds is crazy. I've also waited so long for an author to be brave enough to not use the same resolution to a fake dating arrangement( no third act break up here either).
The talks they have about literature are so interesting, and the way life as an academic is portrayed is pretty accurate from what I know of it. I believe the author has a PhD herself, so that's probably why.
I like everything about this: the slow burn(we're talking SLOW), the banter, the side characters are great(I would read an entire book about them, please Jodi do it for me), the writing, the pace. The only thing I didn't like, the reason for the missing .5 star is that I don't like the conflict at the end and how rushed the resolution is. But that's totally a preference, it didn't affect my reading experience I'm just trying to be more critical nowadays.
I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who likes romance.
Thank you Edelweiss and Atria for the ARC!