Review: 4.5 Stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
**I received an Arc copy of Above Par from the author. This in no way effects our reviews and each author is warned that by giving us an arc they are putting themselves at our mercy and we will post one and two star reviews. **Overall Rating: 4 to 4.5 Stars - Kept telling myself “just one more chapter.”This story is about Drew a 21 year old college Psychology senior and Weston a middle school math teacher. It's told in Drew's point of view. My very first thought after realizing who the hero and heroine were was, forbidden relationship. Ok, so it's not really, I mean he doesn't teach at her school, but still it's that teacher student dynamic. I haven't read many in this genre so I was excited to see where it went.I liked this story, but I did not like our heroine. Trish and I both fully admit that we can be hard on heroines. Because of this acknowledged discrimination I try to ease up on them a bit when reviewing. I didn't hate Drew like I hate Kiera from Thoughtless, but Drew is not my favorite person.  For being a 21 year old college student about to graduate and start a masters program all I could think of was how immature she was. In fact I think it's mentioned twice in the book that she can be immature and I was like, "YES!" And don't even get me started on the graduation scene, how utterly selfish. Drew is sort of an emotional mess. She seems to blow things a bit out of proportion, the storm, updates from her parents. This chick cried enough I think she could have filled Lake Michigan on a drought year.We don't get to learn a ton about Weston, but I still liked him. It's pretty obvious from the beginning that he's got a secret. I thought I had a good idea of what it was, but you know how it is. What if I was wrong, what if there was some huge twist? I had to read to find out.Above Par uses the whole miscommunication plot line device. While my least favorite of all the plot devices I was able to over look it for the most part because I was sucked into the story enough I didn't care.  It does make the story slightly predictable in some places, but that's pretty much the downfall of the miscommunication device.Overall though, I really liked this book. It's fluffy, angsty, funny, and a bit smutty. A little lighter than what we normally read but it's there. I found myself smiling while reading quite a bit. Between the funny scenes and the sweet scenes I was a happy reader. I found I couldn't put it down and ended up reading till 2am on a night I had complained to Matt that I was exhausted and going to bed early. Definitely check Above Par out, it's worth your time.