Review: Tick tick tock...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
Wow - that is the first word out of my mouth after I finished this book. Veiled Innocence was absolutely phenomenal! I usually shy away from student/teacher books, especially when one is so young, but all of the blog reviews I was reading completely sucked me in. I was glad to hear that the h was, in fact, 18 and that the H wasn't that much older, at least in book years! From the very beginning, it looks like Addison's life is one of the perfect teenager with a loving family and popularity at school. However, you soon find out that everything on the surface is a lie and there are some serious mental issues going on with her. Enter Grayson, her history teacher, who was successful at fending her off, but you can't blame the guy when she becomes too much to avoid. Instead of a dirty student/teacher story, we get one of love, understanding and acceptance. By the end of the book, I was getting nervous because of how close we were getting and yet nothing was resolved. Thankfully, we do get the HEA - I would love to read another book with them both and see just what happened after Paris. I loved Grayson's resolve, "Addison was mine, and I was going to f-ing have her" and how he stopped at nothing to get what he wanted while freeing her of her past.