Release & ARC Review: Teacher’s Pet by R.K. Lilley

Teacher’s Pet by R.K. Lilley is live!

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Blurb

CLASS IS NOW IN SESSION

Mr. North didn’t sleep with students. Everybody knew it because every girl in school was at least a little bit in love with him. Including Nova Monroe.

Mr. North was perfect, big and gorgeous, a former college football player turned high school coach, he was a hunk as well as a studious professor.

No one could look at him and not crave his approval.

She wanted his approval. But above all, she wanted his attention.

Nova was a problem for him; his most vexatious student.

She offered him her virginity on a silver platter. Taking what she offered would destroy his teaching career, moreover, it went against everything he believed in, but he’d never wanted anything more.

When he finds out she’s homeless, he offers her a place to stay. They end up living together, and things get even more out of hand.

Can he resist her? Or will he risk it all and give in to temptation?

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Review

2 stars

An age gap forbidden teacher/student romance that is more erotica than love story, this is a steamy read!

This book is a standalone but it is loosely tied in with R.K. Lilley’s other series, including cameos from the Up in the Air and Wild Side series and, more recently, Tyrant, which I absolutely loved!

Carter North is a high school English teacher (and secret romance writer) who is shocked to discover that a series of anonymous sexy texts he has recently received have been sent by one of his students. Nova Monroe is gorgeous, but way too young for him (she is 18, he is 30), and she’s a student. He’s never even looked at one of his students in that way before, but Nova’s forwardness tempts him like nothing else.

Things start to get inappropriate when Nova is kicked out of home, and Carter offers her a room at his house. He intends to keep things strictly platonic, but Nova has other ideas. She is infatuated with her professor and pleads with him to take her virginity. He puts up a fight for a little while, but the lusty feelings are all too overwhelming, and they soon embark on a steamy forbidden affair.

Holy. Freaking. Smut. This book is seriously steamy, and quite kinky with a dom/sub feel in the bedroom that includes control, filthy talk, degradation and name calling. It’s all very consensual, but it’s pretty intense, and gave me the feeling that the relationship between the two of them is more lustful obsession than actual love.

It’s a messy situation that gets messier, and there is some drama, but there is a happy ending for these two.

I wasn’t too sure what to think about this book. The writing is different from Lilley’s usual emotive stories – it moves quickly, with little emotional build-up, the characters don’t have much substance, and I didn’t feel invested like I usually do with her books. Which is probably why it didn’t really feel like a romance to me. They were obsessed with each other, and that’s pretty much all I felt.

It was an ok read. Not what I was expecting, and after loving every moment of Tyrant, this one missed the mark for me.

2 stars.

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

Meet R.K. Lilley

R.K. Lilley lives in Texas with her husband and their two beautiful sons. She’s had a lot of interesting jobs, from being a first class flight attendant, to being a stablehand, but swears she never knew what hard work was until she had children. She’s been addicted to both reading and writing fiction since she can remember. She loves to travel, read, hike, paint, game, watch anime, and make the most of every single day. She is the author of In Flight, Bad Things, and Breaking Him, to name a few.