Release Date: June 28, 2016
Publisher: Kensington Books
Pages: 320
Genre: New Adult, Romance, Erotica
*I received this book as a NetGalley ARC in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All opinions are my own. Thanks NetGalley!
Summary
Data, research, scientific formulae--Annabelle Coffey is completely at ease with all of them. Men, not so much. But that's all going to change after she asks Dr. Charles Douglas, the postdoctoral fellow in her lab, to have sex with her. Charles is not only beautiful, he is also adorably awkward, British, brilliant, and nice. What are odds he'd turn her down?
Very high, as it happens. Something to do with that whole student/teach/ethics thing. But in a few weeks, Annie will graduate. As soon as she does, the unlikely friendship that's developing between them can turn physical--just until Annie leaves for graduate school. Yet nothing could have prepared Annie or Charles for chemistry like this, or for what happens when a simple exercise in mutual pleasure turns into something as exhilarating and infernally complicated as love. --Goodreads description
The Rundown
Smart. Funny. Steamy. Awkward.
This book had it all!
This is a fun book about a sort of taboo love, friendship, and accepting others right where they are. What starts as a no strings attached thing quickly becomes something much more heated, causing Annie & Charles to face their fears honestly as they start to see that they're the best version of themselves with each other.
I found myself at the end of this book really wondering if just maybe sometimes there are soulmates, hearts that were meant to find their counterpart in another, but one got so damaged along the way before they met that both end up bruised and bleeding from trying to fit the pieces together?
The hopeless romantic in me is sighing.
Sometimes the dialogue got away from me a little, but maybe it's really just how doctors and people who graduate college with honors in degrees like biochemistry talk. I would actually shake my head at times and be very grateful that I lasted one semester on a pre-med track before throwing in the towel and studying history instead!
And the end! OMG cliffhanger! But, according to the ARC, the author promises a sequel with more Charles & Annie in 2017! So if you read this and find yourself like me going, "No! NO! You can't do this to me! You can't leave them like that!" fear not!
Bonus for all of my Hoosier readers: guess what college it takes place at? That's right! Good ol' IU! Which was the cherry on top of this fun sundae as I could actually picture places like Kilroys and walking down Kirkwood (though I'm an AU Raven, I spent a lot of time visiting friends in B-town!).
I liked this book quite a lot and can't wait for the sequel!
Rating: 3.5/5 stars!
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