Review: Yowza!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
Before I begin my review on this scorching, five-star read - I want to talk about why reviews are so important. I came across Veiled Innocence via a book review blog I follow, Scandalicious Book Reviews (awesome site by the way). After reading the review—which hit several YES spots for me—I was hooked. Reviews draw in readers. Period. If you've read a book and fell in love with it, do the author a favor, don't keep it all to yourself. Share so we can all enjoy it.Having spent a good two weeks in editing deadline hell (no offense to my kick-ass editors) I took a personal day and devoured Ella Frank's novel. Holy hotness *fans face* I'll admit I'm a sucker for student/teacher forbidden romances. In real life, no way (unless maybe I'm the 18 year old and it's my hot, slightly older teacher we're talking about), but in fiction - YES YES YES!GENRE - Erotic Contemporary, Mature YA (heroine is 18, but still in high school)RATINGMY OPINION - What I enjoyed most about the book, aside from the seriously mouthwatering sexual tension (and subsequent release of said tension) was the premise, the back and forth between past and present. The story unfolded before my eyes and kept me guessing, hoping, wondering how in the hell these two would find their HEA. You could SEE the opposing trains coming head on, and as a reader, you were helpless to stop the collision. Their love bordered on obsession—a kind of attraction I totally dig—so if you are looking for a nice romance, you won't find it here.If you enjoy taboo student/teacher romance books where the characters are just this side of unstable, do yourself a favor and take a personal day. I didn't regret it, not one single second of it.