Let me just start this off by saying that I did not read this whole book. I read the first and the last chapters and was able to save myself some time by skipping the middle. I don't usually write about all the books that I start and don't finish here, but this one needed to be spoken about. This, like all my other posts, is not a book review. It's just me, talking to you, about a book that I read.
Obviously I didn't like the first chapter or I would have read more. I knew that the story was controversial. I'm cool with that, but I was looking for a good story, not a listing of the ways this woman can get off in her middle school classroom. If there had been a good story with a good hook I would have been on board. If this had been a love story I would have been on board. If this had been a convincing profile of a psychopathic woman I would have been on board. This book is none of those stories.
It's the story of a 26 year old woman who starts her first year of teaching with the express purpose of getting it on with a 14 year old boy.
I'm not a prude. I like sexy books. I even liked 50 Shades of Gray since it had a great story regardless of the writing. But this book was not sexy it was just plain too much. I don't know if it's because I work in a public school or if it's the fact that I don't understand how anyone could be attracted to 14 year old boys except 14 year old girls. Even when I was 14 I wasn't attracted to 14 year olds. When you are an 8th or 9th grade girl you are always crushing on the 16 and 17 year old boys.
I just found it weird, and unbelievable, in a bad way. I like unbelievable, but make it believable or the story will be no good. This was no good.
I love writing and I love writers. It's a hard job. I feel for Alissa Nutting. It sucks to get bad press especially after everyone has tried so hard to pump up and talk about her book. I hope I'm wrong about this book. Maybe all the middle parts are redeeming... but I doubt it.
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