Review: Writing 5, Premise 1, Execution 1
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2012
I really like the way the author tells a story.  The only problem is this story.  Teachers and students a big no no. There is just too much of a power difference between a student and a teacher that it should never be shown as a good romance.  Not to mention the other issues that the reader discovers on the last couple of pages.For the entire semester the teacher ridicules her and still she goes back for more.  Believing, without proof that there is something good inside.  In real life, what a person is willing to do in public is just a taste of what they are willing to do in private.  Projecting a "good" personality on someone who only puts out negative is delusional and leads to more problems.On a college campus, the author could have easily set this story in such a way that it was not a student/teacher relationship and still come up with a romance.However, she still would have had to have a proper courting of the two, because having their romance happen in an afternoon of truth telling is a fallacy.  Because even happy people can have major trust issues.SPOILER SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILER SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILER SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSSo what do I see in this story.  A young girl deprived of love from her parents searching for it in a man who is just as emotionally withdrawn as her father.  Hoping all of the goodness is just being hidden and not nonexistent is delusional and a set up for a different type of abuse.In him, he doesn't trust anyone or anything, yet is drawn to the pretty girl, in whom he sees "purity".  What happens in the day to day.  When that "purity" becomes mundane.  It is like a monkey looking for anything shiny.  To be thrown when the polish is worn off.CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONWhile I believe the author is a very good writer.  Her light treatment of this subject makes my stomach hurt.  I would not recommend this story to anyone.  However, I would be willing to read something else by this author.ETA "by this author" & spelling