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carolinewithane 's review for:
Unteachable
by Elliot Wake
This is a public announcement. Elliot Wake is my new favourite author.
Unteachable is not as good as Black Iris, which I shall review next, but it is so goddamn good. It managed to make someone (spoiler: me) who does not like teacher/student relationships and excessive sex scenes fall in love with the story to the point I finished it in two days, and only because I had to actually go to class and work in the meantime. Maise was a great protagonist, fresh air after all those submissive, one-dimensional wish-fulfillment MC we are so used to in erotica fiction, and Etan was everything I look for in love interests: sweet but sexy, good but not perfect, and supportive (!!!). Supportive boyfriends always get me. Send some more in my way.
Also, special mention: the prose. Lyrical but not excessive, slightly literary which made my heart go BUM and reminded me why I am studying Literature in college (hint: it's not for Fitzgerald).
I'm only not giving it a full 5-star reviews because, though I understand it's part of the genre, I am so not a fan of sex scenes, even as beautiful written as they are here. I felt that it became a bit too-much-sex not-too-much-plot in the middle of the book, before the twists and big reveals which picked up the pace to ten thousand light years per hour. Nothing that affected the storytelling too much, but it did stand out to me, especially when it came to a point when I just wanted the sex to be over so we could get to things that actually mattered. (Not that sex doesn't. It's just—I'm asexual. The appeal is lost to me).
All in all, a lovely book written in a lovely style that got this lovely author a new auto-buy fan.
Unteachable is not as good as Black Iris, which I shall review next, but it is so goddamn good. It managed to make someone (spoiler: me) who does not like teacher/student relationships and excessive sex scenes fall in love with the story to the point I finished it in two days, and only because I had to actually go to class and work in the meantime. Maise was a great protagonist, fresh air after all those submissive, one-dimensional wish-fulfillment MC we are so used to in erotica fiction, and Etan was everything I look for in love interests: sweet but sexy, good but not perfect, and supportive (!!!). Supportive boyfriends always get me. Send some more in my way.
Also, special mention: the prose. Lyrical but not excessive, slightly literary which made my heart go BUM and reminded me why I am studying Literature in college (hint: it's not for Fitzgerald).
I'm only not giving it a full 5-star reviews because, though I understand it's part of the genre, I am so not a fan of sex scenes, even as beautiful written as they are here. I felt that it became a bit too-much-sex not-too-much-plot in the middle of the book, before the twists and big reveals which picked up the pace to ten thousand light years per hour. Nothing that affected the storytelling too much, but it did stand out to me, especially when it came to a point when I just wanted the sex to be over so we could get to things that actually mattered. (Not that sex doesn't. It's just—I'm asexual. The appeal is lost to me).
All in all, a lovely book written in a lovely style that got this lovely author a new auto-buy fan.