Unteachable
This subject is taboo yet I was still drawn to this book like a bee to honey, I just could not get enough of it. Maise and Mr. Wilke a.k.a Evan just couldn’t get enough of each other either and that was before she realized he was her teacher. This attraction acted like a hot poker in a fire, it just kept getting hotter the more it sat. The age span between the two of them sparks the fire and their attractiveness for each other fuels the flame. Away from each other, they just cannot stop thinking of each other and when she sees him at the front of her classroom, she’s speechless. I had mixed feelings at this point as they are both clueless about their titles in this dance that they were orchestrating. She lied to him about who she was so he had no idea she would be sitting there in his classroom and she didn’t know he was a high school teacher, but what are the chances they would meet like this. It gets messy with friends, her mother trying to be a mother, teacher crushes, and lies that just keep stacking upon one another. I can’t stop thinking where I stand in this whole mess, she is 18 and to me, she is an adult plus there are other issues that led me to believe that Maise wasn’t being manipulative with Evan. I think what bothers me when I see this on the news is when other people get hurt in the process. When these issues happen in the news, husbands, children and parents are the ones who get hurt in the process too. If the issue goes sour, the parties end up getting hurt but these innocent victims get pulled into the mess or the parents get involved. Some parties do it for glamour too and as I was reading, all of this was going through my mind. The age difference is huge and Maise and Evan both know it but they are having a good time and I’m watching for something to happen, my eyes are peeled but what they have for the moment is what they need. The sneaking around, the secrecy is just another element to their taboo romance. The sex is breathtaking and it’s another education for both of them. Sometimes the language is raw and intense cutting right to the chase, pure adrenaline one minute and a few lines later tender and sensual. Stripping them both down until their souls were exposed, creating a desire and franticness as they devoured each other, the room getting smaller and smaller until their bodies connect and the room disappears. They were so right, so on but life get complicated and lies somehow just never work out. The ending, it was fantastic. Mature subject matter and language makes this book for mature readers only.
I received this book from NetGalley and Atria Books in exchange for an honest opinion.
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