BLURB
I
met him at a carnival, of all corny places. The summer I turned eighteen, in
that chaos of neon lights and cheap thrills, I met a man so sweet, so
beautiful, he seemed to come from another world. We had one night: intense,
scary, real. Then I ran, like I always do. Because I didn’t want to be
abandoned again.
But
I couldn’t run far enough.
I
knew him as Evan that night. When I walked into his classroom, he became Mr.
Wilke.
I
don’t know if what we’re doing is wrong. The rules say one thing; my heart says
screw the rules. I can’t let him lose his job. And I can’t lose him.
In
the movies, this would have a happy ending. I grow up. I love, I lose, I learn.
And I move on. But this is life, and there’s no script. You make it up as you
go along.
And you don’t pray
for a happy ending. You pray for it to never end?
Sandy B's Review
“There's
something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know
exactly what you're missing. Your body knows precisely how to shape itself
around the ache, the hollowness that wants to be filled.” – Which one of us doesn’t
understand this feeling? It is
bittersweet to know the loss of that which once was and is no longer. A lover’s kiss, a caress on the cheek from
that man you’ve been wanting or even that sexy late night call when you’re not
expecting it.
“I
turned my head, watching the slim, sinuous lines of my body joining to his, the
rolling curve of my spine, my hair slithering and lashing like some strange
spidery creature. He felt so thick inside me, so excessive. Pushing me to the
limits of my skin. To the edge where my body met the world, where reality
blurred with internal fiction, and I wasn’t sure who I was anymore aside from
hollowness and fullness, ache and relief, repeating over and over.”– I adore this paragraph. It is lyrical, it is raw, it is beautiful.
Maise
O’Malley and Evan Wilke meet one magical night at a carnival. She is young, reckless, an unstoppable force
of nature. One look at Evan Wilke and
she knows that before the night is over she will “have” him in the biblical
sense of the word.
Evan
is drawn to her like a moth to a flame.
There is a sadness in his eyes.
The lights from the carnival called to him – much the same way this
beautiful creature does. He can see that
she’s very young. Most guys would just
take the roll in hay and move on but not Evan.
He wants more than a quickie in the front seat of his car.
Do
you think it’s possible for two people to unknowingly recognize the brokenness
in each other? I do. These two have a sexual encounter in Evan’s
car that night and we would think they never meet again. At least that was Maise’s plan. Well, then you’d be wrong. Maise walks into her new class and to her
dismay (and delight) realizes that her gorgeous new teacher is her one night
stand. Neither one has been able to stop
thinking about the other. Now how to get
around the small problem that he is her teacher? Even in this day and age the student/teacher
romance is taboo. However in the hands
of Leah Raeder it becomes something oh so right!
Maise
is determined to LIVE. She will not be
taken down by the drug addict textbook tragedy that is her mother, Yvette. Evan has skeletons in the closet which
include an alcoholic mother whose irresponsibility cost her everything. Throwing in the usual high school stuff like
the best friend that is really in love with you and the requisite mean girl is
like a cherry on the sundae – it just rounds everything all out.
Unteachable
is, of course, sexy. It is also VIVID in
its intensity, smart, romantic, funny, heartbreaking and angsty. The undercurrent always is this should not be
but darn I must turn the page and see what happens next. The illicit and forbidden excitement of
kissing, touching & feeling each other in Evan’s classroom where they could
get caught at any moment is just delicious.
Their need is palpable. Truth is
that this relationship, it becomes so much more than sex and secrets. The love jumped off the page for me and hit
me right between the eyes. You want these two people to end up together with a
big fat happily ever after.
Is
Unteachable perfect? No! There were times when I wanted to smack one
or the other. Times when I thought no way that would happen. However, as I read the last word my thoughts
were WOW that was satisfying. I almost wanted to light a cigarette. :-)
Wish I could delete it from my memory so that I could experience it all
over again like it was my first time.
That ladies and gentlemen, for me, is the mark of a great read.
Leah
Raeder I’m all over whatever you right next.
Writes pretentiously lyrical YA and adult fiction of various genres. Loves zombies, velociraptors, and other world-ending things.
http://www.leahraeder.com/
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