The ending went a little too fast paced for my taste. My one only real complaint was I wish the mains had had another date together or something since they needed more time as a couple. Since the mains fit well together, they had this underlining buzz of chemistry together for most of the book. Even with both characters being in their 30’s, you still have the taboo of student/teacher so the romance had to move slowly. The mains were pretty opposite at times but they still fit really well together. And you have Carmen, a bit of an ice queen whose ambitions have been tampered from the real world. We have Molly who is young, ambitious, and wants to change the world. I talk a lot about characters in my reviews and I’m happy to say that I felt connected with both mains early on in the book.
The time period added some good tension to the book that would not have been quite the same if it was current. I could understand why a poli-sci professor would want to stay in the closet when she had it hard enough being one of only a couple women in the whole department. Ellen had just come out on national TV, so there was some actual progress, but there was also boycotts and people acting like the world was ending when she did. I thought the time period worked really well for the book. I knew this was a student-professor romance -just to let you know the student is 30 years old and in grad school so there is nothing insidious here- but I did not realize that this took place in the past, in the late 90’s. If Ivins’ debut is this good, I can only imagine how good her future books could be. It’s very well written and I didn’t notice any of those newbie bumps that are so common for debuts. I’m actually a little shocked that this was a debut. And what made this all the sweeter was that this is a debut book for Ivins.
I’m happy to say that if anything, this book exceeded my expectations. After noticing the very good early reviews, I had some high hopes for this book.
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