A review by reading_and_rambling
Present Perfect by Julie Olivia
4.0
I received an ARC of this book for my honest review.
This was a fun read about Asher (who we have met before when Saria visited Foxe Hill in the book In the Wild and in the first Foxe Hill book) a 30 something English department head at the community college and Delaney a student who is working at the college and taking a class for 6 weeks over the summer. This story avoided cookie cutter story telling and brought the characters to life by giving them more depth and surrounding them with other engaging characters. I felt like I was getting to know Asher and growing with Delaney throughout the book. I sometimes felt like the story was a mix of a good sitcom and a romantic comedy. The characters had great chemistry, and I loved seeing them interact with an array of characters in various settings.
I wish the story telling of after they became a couple had a little more time in the book. It felt like a lot happened quickly at the end and it was bookended by a quick wrap up of what it looked like once Asher and Delaney were together. In the Into You series I felt like I got more closure with the characters than I got in this book.
While the book is technically an enemies to lovers I never felt like they were really in the enemies role. They also technically fall into student/teacher relationship but as the book points out many times they’re existing in that as a gray area since they are also semi colleagues. Some may also consider this an age gap relationship, though that played very little into the story.
While we see Asher in previous books, there is no need to read those before reading this book. This is also the second book in this series, but you do not have to read the first book prior to reading this one.
Overall this was a great read. Took me about 3.5/4 hours to read and spice starts around 60/65% into the book. I’m looking forward to the rest of this series!
This was a fun read about Asher (who we have met before when Saria visited Foxe Hill in the book In the Wild and in the first Foxe Hill book) a 30 something English department head at the community college and Delaney a student who is working at the college and taking a class for 6 weeks over the summer. This story avoided cookie cutter story telling and brought the characters to life by giving them more depth and surrounding them with other engaging characters. I felt like I was getting to know Asher and growing with Delaney throughout the book. I sometimes felt like the story was a mix of a good sitcom and a romantic comedy. The characters had great chemistry, and I loved seeing them interact with an array of characters in various settings.
I wish the story telling of after they became a couple had a little more time in the book. It felt like a lot happened quickly at the end and it was bookended by a quick wrap up of what it looked like once Asher and Delaney were together. In the Into You series I felt like I got more closure with the characters than I got in this book.
While the book is technically an enemies to lovers I never felt like they were really in the enemies role. They also technically fall into student/teacher relationship but as the book points out many times they’re existing in that as a gray area since they are also semi colleagues. Some may also consider this an age gap relationship, though that played very little into the story.
While we see Asher in previous books, there is no need to read those before reading this book. This is also the second book in this series, but you do not have to read the first book prior to reading this one.
Overall this was a great read. Took me about 3.5/4 hours to read and spice starts around 60/65% into the book. I’m looking forward to the rest of this series!