Review: Didn't Feel This One
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
While I am a huge fan of the student/teacher genre, College Girl didn't make the grade for me.Alex Reed is 18 years old and in college.  She has no idea what she wants to do with her life as of yet, so she is doing what her mother wants and working on becoming a doctor.  Alex is pretty much a loaner at school, we don't hear of many friends except for the girl across the hall.  She doesn't get along with her slutty roommate and is usually locked out while the roommate sleeps with the guys on the second floor.  Alex is a virgin, never been kissed, so she just admires hot guys from afar until she sees the Calculus TA Ryan Bennett.Ryan Bennett is a 28 year old mess.  He is still living under his parents thumb due to the family business.  He is a bit of a black sheep because he went back to college to further his education.  Ryan's family is wealthy, something he tends to disassociate himself from.  He has a trampy ex-fiance who is still in the picture, an over bearing mother still controlling him and an idiot friend he needed to cut loose long ago.  The ten year spread is believable in this book because Ryan seems quite immature to me.Ryan sees Alex and is instantly attracted to her.  Kudos to Alex for playing hard to get at first, seeing how Ryan sounded like the whole package. I didn't feel a connection with Alex's character right off the bat.  Maybe it was because she is 18 and I am 42,I don't know, but I found her annoying.  She was either making a dumb comment or crying or wondering why Ryan wanted to be with her out of all of the girls he could have.  Ryan was the same way, he wanted her, but didn't because of her age, but did because he felt something.  I don't know, while I like the angst in my reads, this wasn't doing it for me.  I think it was the lack of character connection early in the book that made me not really care one way or the other.I did finish the book and wasn't happy with the ending either as it seemed to just drop off.  Maybe a little look see into the future a bit with them would have been nice. I like the student/teacher story when the student is a little more mature, maybe with some life altering past that makes her seem older than she really is.