This is definitely a love note to Pride and Prejudice, but done in a VERY modern way. Fighting becomes foreplay, sexual tension crackles between them, and it’s not long before these enemies see the… benefits… of their arguing. Arlo is a temperamental, traditionally-inclined kind of guy, and their disagreements quickly escalate into something altogether unexpected. She’s excited to teach using some non-traditional methods, but one of the established teachers in the department thinks she’s going about it all wrong. The story follows Greer, an English teacher starting out her first year at a prestigious school. It’s a slow emotional burn that turns everything you think you know about teachers on its axis, and it’s an intense, entertaining journey from start to finish. I liked him right away, but you really have to be paying close attention to pick up some of the subtleties here, because this romance is blatantly sexual on the surface. He’s a cardigan-wearing, dirty-talking, emotionally unavailable, grumpy contradiction of a man who has a lot more vulnerability than it appears on the surface. If you’d described this hero to me prior to reading, I’m not sure that would’ve had much enthusiasm for him, but Arlo is the kind of guy you’ll love – if you’re paying close enough attention. Intensely sexy, tension-filled, and bursting at the seams with comedic moments, this felt like something different from Quinn while still retaining everything that makes her books consistently excellent.
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