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amhoxie 's review for:
Unteachable
by Elliot Wake
This book is beautifully written, which is really refreshing in a genre that is jam packed with books reeling with grammar and spelling errors. Calling this a new adult novel makes me feel like I am diminishing the excellent prose, but it is definitely new adult. Unteachable made me uncomfortable from the beginning, but I feel that way about most stories involving a teacher-student relationship. It felt different than other taboo love stories or a Nabokovian deep dive into the psyche of a predator. The characters were really well developed, including the MC, Maise. She exhibits agency the entire book, regardless of how much sex she has and with whom she has sex. The prose read like a nostalgic dream sequence. I thought I knew where the plot was going to veer, and then it would change directions on me. Unteachable could have been a different book about an eighteen year old taken advantage of by a predator, but that wasn't this story.