This book..... I tried, I wanted to, but I couldn't! I was really excited to read this book. I love the teacher/student forbidden love dilemma but this book makes me never want to read this particular genre ever again!Where do I begin; the heroine Siobhan. She was an annoying, weepy, incredibly insecure and just dumb. She follows her boyfriend to college only to get dumped. She totally falls apart and all you keep reading about constantly is her crying about something trivial. She keeps making "drunk" passes @ her professor and when he rebuffs her she falls completely apart....Again! There's one thing I cant stand and that's a weak bitch which Siobhan clearly is.Then there is Professor Michaels. I hated him too. He didn't come off as sexy, confident or enticing @ all. He came off like a creepy old perv who sleeps with his pretty, naïve and/or gullible female students. That spells "past your prime" LOSER to me!Also, I just didn't feel a fire or a connection between Siobhan and the professor and I felt no connection to them as the reader. I didn't care about them and I really wanted to. Next on my "Why I hate this book" list is the writing. The writing is extremely simplistic, rushed and oh so predictable. When I read a book I want/expect the author to paint a picture for me that's detailed enough for me to feel like I'm there with the characters, experiencing the story with them. This book did no such thing. A good book should be an entertaining escape for the reader. This book made me want to escape and find another book to read. I actually dreaded the idea of having to finish this book. I absolutely HATE not finishing a book once I begin to read it, but life is too short and I didn't feel like wasting anymore time. Most importantly: Sex. I love me some sex in my books!! I gotta have it and it better be good (just like in real life, LOL!!!). Make it hot, raw, kinky and frequent! Sometimes I only continue to read some books because I know some hot steamy sex is coming my way. Not the case with this book. Oh no! Since I only got to page 82, the one and only sex scene I read was brief and disappointing. After that there was no way I was going to continue to torture myself by turning another page! The sex scene was completely rushed and lacked any kind of heat. How dreadful! Lastly, Professor Michaels turns out to be wealthy. How original. How predictable. Oh my God this has been done to death! The old story of the wealthy older man who teaches the "virginal" younger character how to give and receive sexual pleasure. I'm so over this. ***Newsflash*** WE NEED A NEW TYPE OF HERO!!!!!!I'm so tired of this same old story. Do all us readers a favor and put this tired cliché of a love story out of its misery!To conclude my review: yes, I hated this book, but I don't think the author is untalented or unable to write a good book. I just think the storytelling could've been much better than this. Much better. There was nothing fresh, unique or exciting about this story. Would I give this author another chance? Probably not, but I'm just one person and thank God for that because if I ran the world this book would be.....let's just say there would be one less book wasting space on the book shelf. Happy Reading Well until about the 30% mark, I wasn't too sure about this book. There were hints of other books in it which kind of bugged me-at first. As the story went on and I got more of this sexy Professor, my mind changed quickly.Siobhan is a senior in college, (so the age gap isn't creepy) and lives with her bestie. She chose this University to be close to her long time boyfriend Liam. For the past few years things have been going great for Shiv and Liam, until he breaks her heart by cheating on her. Of course she is done with him and there is one thing that will quickly help her over the heart break, the sexy Professor Grayson Michaels.Grayson Michaels isn't just a Professor. He is a millionaire playboy. He isn't looking for a relationship, just a quick lay with no strings attached. Of course all of his female students are in awe of him, however he hones in on the beautiful, sad Siobhan. Grayson watched the whole Liam thing unfold, so he knows she will be ripe for the picking.Grayson and Shiv enter into a strange relationship, but one that will protect their hearts. Even in this relationship, the teacher/student aspect is present. Shiv has only been with Liam, so she can learn a lot from Grasyon and he is only happy to oblige. We are now on the emotional roller coaster ride that is Grayson and Siobahn. This is where we see how young she really is, lots of accusing and crying from her which was a tad bit annoying at times. On the other hand Grayson is a hard man to handle (pun intended), he has rules and a life that she isn't ready for at all.The situation is bad, people are trying to break them up and in the midst of all of this, somebody is messing with Shiv. The book is well written and I am so glad I suck with it as quite the story unfolded towards the end. It's set up nicely for a second book which is out already.
What do You think about Forbidden Attraction (2014)?
Honestly it's like reading a cheap version of Gabriel inferno.. :((
—loulou
