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lisa606's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 stars
I didn't enjoy reading Ben and Honey's book. Ben was an asshat. I can't wait for Abby and Rissell's book.
I didn't enjoy reading Ben and Honey's book. Ben was an asshat. I can't wait for Abby and Rissell's book.
littlegirlbigbook's review against another edition
4.0
4⭐️ this was sweet and fluffy and fun and sexy. Everything you want and expect from Tessa and it didn’t disappoint.
I love how Ben is so bent outta shape over Honey for what seems to him no reason but he’s just infatuated with literally everything about her and I think it’s so romantic.
Honey is so sweet and such a southern belle and so caring but she’ll give as good as she gets. Her prowess and drive is admirable. Her dedication to literally everyone around her. I liked her a lot.
I loved Ben and Honey’s transition. The escalation. The pining. The desire. The way he just up and went to her. Changed his life a bit for her. Like damn professor, yes. The conflict was understandable and inevitable but meh with how it happened imo. That Peter dude fkn sucks. I digress. Honey’s family is so funny. The fighting but not enough to let him starve on the porch thing was hilarious. Quick and fun, the narrators did a great job!
”Watching you get into that cab . . . I didn’t survive it. I was dead until I got here and saw you again.”
• student x professor
• roommates boyfriends’ best friend (mentionable micro trope)
• small town in the big city
I love how Ben is so bent outta shape over Honey for what seems to him no reason but he’s just infatuated with literally everything about her and I think it’s so romantic.
Honey is so sweet and such a southern belle and so caring but she’ll give as good as she gets. Her prowess and drive is admirable. Her dedication to literally everyone around her. I liked her a lot.
I loved Ben and Honey’s transition. The escalation. The pining. The desire. The way he just up and went to her. Changed his life a bit for her. Like damn professor, yes. The conflict was understandable and inevitable but meh with how it happened imo. That Peter dude fkn sucks. I digress. Honey’s family is so funny. The fighting but not enough to let him starve on the porch thing was hilarious. Quick and fun, the narrators did a great job!
”Watching you get into that cab . . . I didn’t survive it. I was dead until I got here and saw you again.”
• student x professor
• roommates boyfriends’ best friend (mentionable micro trope)
• small town in the big city
lydialou419's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
lindsaymck's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
The forbidden romance of Honey Perribow and Professor Ben Dawson had its steamy moments, but their downfall for me was the age-gap in the teacher/student relationship. He is a 25 year old English Professor at Columbia and she is his 19 year-old pre-med student. Ben is a man who usually plays it ‘safe’ by dating older women who don’t want anything serious in an effort to do the exact opposite of his dad, a professional athlete who ruined his entire life (and that of their family) with a statutory rape case after an affair with underage girl. Honey is a country girl with big dreams in the big city for the first time. She has been deeply attracted to him all along and he eventually shares that attraction when he learns her full identity, but he messes up - pretty colossally - time after time while trying and failing to hold himself back from being so obsessed with her. She doesn’t seem to really consider how she is putting both his career and her own future in jeopardy, forgives him for every idiot move he makes, and eventually they end up mutually obsessed with one another. It is hard to fully get behind this couple who knows they are playing with fire, make stupid decisions, and risk both of their futures.
Their official meet-cute of being locked in the dark closet together at their mutual friends’ party helps Ben realize that the beautiful student in class, the amazing writer from class, and the girl his friends are trying to set him up with are all one in the same. However, she uses this darkened space to essentially seduce him after recognizing his voice, compromising his morals and robbing him of the choice of how to handle the potential relationship between them. His strong morals are referenced here but they are pretty questionable (at best) from there on. After the closet encounter, he digs his own grave by insinuating she is using him to get a good grade, then he can’t seem to function without being near her to the point of bringing a date to their friend group’s outing and then following her to Kentucky when an accident brings her home to help on her family’s farm. He makes a total ass of himself in front of her hometown friends and ex-boyfriend as well as her parents when his most colossal f*ck-up is revealed and she gets (temporarily) kicked out of college because of his letter to the Dean that throws her under the bus to cover his own ass. On top of that, he gets the Dean to undo her expulsion with a veiled threat of blackmail. I want to think Ben is a good guy, but when it comes to her, he is nothing but irrational, violently possessive, and impatient. Honestly, it would’ve been two months before she wasn’t his student anymore!
Maybe I would feel differently if she was a senior at Columbia or a post-grad, but her being a teenager was an un-ignorable ick when he is her professor. As a teacher myself, I don’t see this being a trope I could ever get behind. I also would’ve liked for her friends/roommates, Roxy and Abby, to be more vocal about taking things slow, being patient, and letting this relationship bloom when they are not in class together. Where were they when their friends had love-goggles on?! It’s telling that after the win-her-back grand gesture and “I love you’s” at the end, Honey doesn’t even know where Ben lives. They’re insta-love in all the wrong ways, but it will definitely not stop me from reading more from Tessa Bailey.
read_by_andrea's review against another edition
5.0
I enjoyed this book! It was a quick read, but enjoyable! I love how Tessa Bailey balances the plot and timing in all of her books. There is good character development and the story line unfolds at an organic pace without dragging at all. Another great book from this author.
bex_bookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
I’m not sure how I feel about the character of Honey. She was a little manipulative, but Ben…Ben was a dreamy character. The story was okay, the back for forth between Honey and Ben was steamy. The power dynamic of the two was interesting.
weepypotato's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
ea82625's review against another edition
Dnf @ 9%, went into this one blind, saw the audio book on Libby and gave it a shot. Not for me, didn’t realize there was a 6 yr age gap with the fmc being 19, just felt wrong. Also, they were both obsessed with the other one physically, with the mmc not even bothering to know the students in his class names.