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k_champagne 's review for:
Class Act
by Gianni Holmes
⭐️3.5 rounded up
So…. Mixed feelings.
This book was downloaded on my kindle for MONTHS before I got into the mindset to give it a go. I knew it’d be good, how good I wasn’t sure, mostly because it’s age gap (not a HUGE fan) & cheating - and it did suck me in - or rather, the character of Emery sucked me in. He was such a genuine person, who deserved love and someone to care for him. I’m happy he got it.
That’s said, my main issue with this book is the fact it takes place in a high school setting, which was completely unnecessary. Purely had to be for the ‘wow’ factor, for lack of a better term. That wasn’t the only thing that didn’t serve the plot but instead seemed to be for that - for example, Emery being a cam boy - it made sense because he needed money to escape his home life. But then it disappeared. Nothing came of it and it wasn’t spoken about again really after being made out and built up the first half of the book as if for some big moment that really jusg fized and died… But I digress
back to HS being unnecessary.
The younger MMC, Emery is repeating his sr year. He is 19 years old. Coach could have very well been a coach at a nearby college where Emery was enrolling or something.
College Student / Faculty romance is okay. The youngest they can be generally is still an adult. But romance in a setting where there are literal kids - it will ALWAYS detract for me especially where a *healthy* relationship is meant to be portrayed. It’s an oxymoron, bcuz all I can think of is it is never okay for a HS teacher to have that mindset while at work. ITS INESCAPABLE IN MY MIND.
So…. How did I rate this positively then?
Simply by completely ignoring it. Yes. I very much pretended a large piece of this books plot dead ass did not exist. Once I did that I was able to properly root for MMC Emery, cuz boy deserves it.
If you can put that out of your mind like me, you might be able to enjoy this read too. Overall it was a look at how “cheating” has a million shades of gray, always wrong and ends up hurting someone, and served as a hood palate cleanser between heavier reads (not that this didn’t include heavier content… bcuz it absolutely did)
So…. Mixed feelings.
This book was downloaded on my kindle for MONTHS before I got into the mindset to give it a go. I knew it’d be good, how good I wasn’t sure, mostly because it’s age gap (not a HUGE fan) & cheating - and it did suck me in - or rather, the character of Emery sucked me in. He was such a genuine person, who deserved love and someone to care for him. I’m happy he got it.
That’s said, my main issue with this book is the fact it takes place in a high school setting, which was completely unnecessary. Purely had to be for the ‘wow’ factor, for lack of a better term. That wasn’t the only thing that didn’t serve the plot but instead seemed to be for that - for example, Emery being a cam boy - it made sense because he needed money to escape his home life. But then it disappeared. Nothing came of it and it wasn’t spoken about again really after being made out and built up the first half of the book as if for some big moment that really jusg fized and died… But I digress
back to HS being unnecessary.
The younger MMC, Emery is repeating his sr year. He is 19 years old. Coach could have very well been a coach at a nearby college where Emery was enrolling or something.
College Student / Faculty romance is okay. The youngest they can be generally is still an adult. But romance in a setting where there are literal kids - it will ALWAYS detract for me especially where a *healthy* relationship is meant to be portrayed. It’s an oxymoron, bcuz all I can think of is it is never okay for a HS teacher to have that mindset while at work. ITS INESCAPABLE IN MY MIND.
So…. How did I rate this positively then?
Simply by completely ignoring it. Yes. I very much pretended a large piece of this books plot dead ass did not exist. Once I did that I was able to properly root for MMC Emery, cuz boy deserves it.
If you can put that out of your mind like me, you might be able to enjoy this read too. Overall it was a look at how “cheating” has a million shades of gray, always wrong and ends up hurting someone, and served as a hood palate cleanser between heavier reads (not that this didn’t include heavier content… bcuz it absolutely did)