Unteachable
18yo heroine just started her senior year in high school & sees that her film-class teacher is the 32yo man recently met at the town’s carnival & had sex with. Both try to hide their history & their continuing attraction to each other from others. They’re also trying to make sense of their feelings for each other, their relationship, & other facets of their lives that surround their relationship. As others clue into their secret affair, their forced to make decisions about their relationship. This is more of a new-adult chick lit & not a contemporary or new-adult romance. It centers on the 18yo heroine & her identity crises as she’s faced with a secret affair with her high-school teacher, a new male classmate who seems to have feelings for her, college decisions, a mostly drugged-out mother, & threats between her mother’s drug-dealer & a blackmailing classmate who wants drugs. The colorful writing evokes the confusion, realization, & angst of heroine as she wades through all these. There is much detail about her romance with Hero (including some explicit sex scenes) but this book is truly more about her finding herself as she survives each stressor. I was concerned about it having an HEA(happily ever after). It points to it but there’s some ambiguity about the ever-after part because it allows for heroine’s change in the future. It really is more of a HFN(happy for now) than an HEA.
Moderately recommended. A unique chick lit book because of heroine’s age & her age-related issues.
