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A review by missriki
Consent by Nancy Ohlin
4.0
This is an intensely passionate and deeply moving story of a student-teacher romance that is doomed from the start, yet bound to work out. Bea is an intriguing main character, a girl with many talents and just as many secrets, living a quiet life of pain. I absolutely fell in love with the way the author describes Bea's intense love affair with the pain and classical music. As a classical musician myself, I could relate immediately to the way Be a falls into the music as an escape, and also how that escape can be so intensely emotional for her. It is only fitting that music would be the intense passion that pulls Bea and her teacher, Dane together. The love affair that blossoms between them almost inevitable, and it is steamy and real.
The novel's title is really quite apt, because the book does an excellent job of opening up question of consent and what that word means to a teen like Bea who is basically living her life on her own with very little parental supervision, and yet is still technically a minor.
This book is a little on the dark side and quite atmospheric, with delicious descriptions of classical music and the emotions tied to making that music. The romance is well developed and intense, and although I think it turned out quite pat and easy in the end (which is probably pretty unrealistic...), I enjoyed the way the story wraps up. It is a novel, after all, and I can suspend disbelief for the sake of story.
Ohlin's prose is beautiful, and I'd definitely pick up other novels she has written.
The novel's title is really quite apt, because the book does an excellent job of opening up question of consent and what that word means to a teen like Bea who is basically living her life on her own with very little parental supervision, and yet is still technically a minor.
This book is a little on the dark side and quite atmospheric, with delicious descriptions of classical music and the emotions tied to making that music. The romance is well developed and intense, and although I think it turned out quite pat and easy in the end (which is probably pretty unrealistic...), I enjoyed the way the story wraps up. It is a novel, after all, and I can suspend disbelief for the sake of story.
Ohlin's prose is beautiful, and I'd definitely pick up other novels she has written.