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DNF at 70%. Lol this was all kinds of terrible!

You should only read this if you like: teacher-student relationships, taboo relationships, blackmail, insta-love, hot sex, erotica, dominant hero, doormat heroines, stalker, possessive hero.

I mean, I'm not one to point fingers since I did pick up this book knowing its trashy premise. And yet, somehow I'm still appalled? I get forbidden romance is a thing. Normally, that would be totally up my alley. I'm all about the whole secret meetings, and passionate makeout sessions. All the angst to be mined from two people who want to be together and can't? Sign me up for that shit. I have weird taste in romance so who am I to say anything about people's kinks.

SPOILERS up ahead. Read at your own risk.

But man, this book crosses over from fantasy to delusional wish fulfillment. Seriously, in what universe is sleeping with your student OK? Making him an 18 year old stud who dominates the hell out of the teacher does not make it OK. But never mind that she's sleeping with her student, that's not even the most fucked up thing in this book. No that would be the author's idea of what constitutes love and dating. Never mind that your protagonist is sleeping with her student. But for a grown ass woman to decide after banging him a couple of times that, hey. I'm in love with this child. This is what the hole in my heart has been all along? Wow. You know its true love when a manchild makes you whole, gives you purpose in life and validates your existence. Because that's literally how love or healthy relationships work.

Not to mention the whole thing with the student actually stalking his teacher? Honey, I don't know about you but if the guy I'm sleeping with tells me he's been obsessed with me for the better part of the year, going so far as to stalk me everywhere I go and then try to peek through my bedroom window when I'm at home??? I would get the fuck away from that creep! I would pack my bags and run. And call the police. Because stalking isn't romantic. It sure as hell isn't a declaration of love. Have you not seen the movie The Boy Next Door? This kind of obsessive shit only ends up in murder!

Ugh! This book just pisses me off so much! And its not even that the plot (LOL what plot) or characters are shitty. But because this is what passes for good contemporary romance. L.J. Shen is heralded as one of the bestselling authors of contemporary romances. From the ratings on this book and the others in this series, she's pretty popular. So it gals me that women, young women, would buy something like this and think this is what romance is supposed to be all about. That obsessive, stalkery behavior like this is OK, even romantic. It terrifies me that people would read this and hold boys to this kind of standard. I'm disgusted by this book.