- Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
- Publication date: 2/18/2015
- Pages: 276
If it weren’t for her best friends, Zoey and Maya, Addy Hart would be a prudish, uptight Barbie doll. Thankfully, through love and persistence, they’ve helped introduce her to her wild side. Unfortunately, even her wild side doesn’t have the courage to go after the one thing she wants more than life itself.
Dr. Greyson McDaniel has resisted his lovely teaching assistant for three years, now. He has no intentions of endangering his job or her reputation. But as spring break approaches, he’s seized with a wicked impulse. He invites her to his mountain retreat for a week. Just one week of intense escape.
What they both discover after their affair is that a week isn’t nearly enough. But as much as they long to be together, there are obstacles in their way, and the ethics of student-teacher relationships are the least of their problems. When she realizes how deeply rooted Grey’s commitment issues are, Addy begins to despair of ever having a happy ending with him. But Addy’s love might be just what’s needed to free him of his past.
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So I wasn’t totally sure of what I was getting into when I first started this book. I’ve never been about student-teacher relationships, although some authors seem to be able to pull it off. This seemed a little different as the characters were more mature and able to make “better” decisions.
One point that I didn’t enjoy in this book is how caught up Addy was with her “smart guy”. So caught up that she passed up a job with the peace corps to continue her one-sided relationship with her professor. This threw me off a little. I could understand the dedication but it wasn’t like they were in a relationship, if anything it was more of an infatuation than anything else. Addy mentioned to her friends that she felt like she was on a leash with Grey holding the lead. This didn’t strike me as a good start to a relationship even a platonic one. It made it harder to get into the book and really fall for the characters. Sure I ended up liking both Addy and Grey by the end of the book, but the start was a little rough.
Addy was a character that I could appreciate because she transitioned from this girl who was following the guy she liked (similar to a puppy) to a woman who wasn’t going to allow said guy to make all the relationship decisions. Like I mentioned, Addy was being walked all over by this guy who didn’t even believe in actual relationships and love. Then he shows some interest and it is this big game changer. Suddenly Addy is not only smart, but also brave and daring and willing to take a chance on love and a certain handsome professor. After getting through the first few chapters and getting to this point I got really excited about this book and the characters.
Grey. Greyson is the type of guy that chalks up his emotions to hormones and body urges. It’s like he can’t mentally comprehend that people can fall in love and be happy together for more than two years. This is so frustrating throughout the book because he has these little moments of true emotion and caring yet can’t seem to comprehend it. There’s a lot of back and forth for Addy and Greyson over this and I have to admit that I came to get used to their “little skirmishes”.
Everything that could possibly go wrong with these two pretty much goes wrong. I won’t go into details, but for a while, it gets pretty crazy. From crazy girlfriends to crazy students, Addy can’t catch a break. Add in drama with Grey and it gets a little ridiculous! But I like ridiculous so I would definitely read this book
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