Review: It was a nice story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
This book has a taboo subject.  High school teacher falls for a student in his senior class.  However, the girl is 18 years old and she is repeating her senior year because of a tragic car accident the year before which had her missing months of school.The story overall had a great concept.  Wrenn lost her parents and brother in a car accident.  She moved into her aunt’s house and attended the boarding school that her aunt was headmistress. Dalton fresh out of college, gets his first teaching job at the boarding school.Wrenn is trying to go over the death of her family as Dalton has his own concerns since he may be carrying a gene and get the disease that killed his father years before.  Dalton is Wrenn’s high school teacher for 8 weeks. During that time, they discover they have a lot in common even though there is a five year age difference.When I first started reading the book, I could not stop.  I loved the meeting, the flirting, and the initial sparks.  Somewhere at 53%, I lost the connection with the characters and the story.  There was a lot of “we need to stop seeing each other” even though Wrenn was graduating mid-year to go to college and Dalton was only a substitute teacher.  There was also the obvious drama that I saw coming from the first chapter.More and more authors are doing the dual POVs. I really liked Dalton and I liked Wrenn.  However, I think that the switch in POVs happened too quickly.  I would have preferred that majority or the entire book was in Wrenn’s POV. The book started in Dalton’s POV as a 12 year old boy which I think was written beautifully.  However, with the switch in POVs happening so frequently,  I did not feel any intensity in the story since I knew the characters’ thoughts and feelings  immediately.A copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.  Thank you.