Review: This teacher was alwaying thinking with the wrong head
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
Let me say that I think Ella Frank is an excellent author. The woman can write, that is for sure.I do not know how to review this book.  This book is disturbing.  I have given it 3 stars because it is well written and I enjoyed the dual POV, but I felt sad and sick while reading this.  I have never read a book where I didn't fall for at least one of the main characters. This isn't the first time that I've read the forbidden teacher-student story, but this one just felt so wrong. I was so disturbed by Mr. McKenrick taking advantage of his mentally-ill student. Addison was clearly not well mentally. She always came across as a child.  Not at any point in this story did she seem mature.  There is lies the problem in my opinion.Addison is an extremely attractive manipulative student in Mr. McKendrick's class. She pursues him relentlessly.  It is obvious to me that she is mentally disturbed, but Mr. McKendrick is thinking with his other head throughout this book and is unable to ward off her advances.  He frustrated me because he never denied what he was doing was wrong, yet he was unable to contain himself. I could not enjoy this taboo story.  I do not see how he could fell like he was in love this child.  This relationship was about raw sexual need. The sexual tension was strong. In any other story, it would have been exciting, but it felt sick to me.Anyway, I plan to read more of Ella Frank's work.  As I mention earlier, she is quite the story teller.