Georgette Gray’s latest student-teacher romance is a real page turner: there’s not only the illicit intrigue between Violet and Mr Brennan to enjoy, but also a plot with heaps of twists and turns and danger. The build up to their forbidden romance is realistic and steady – he’s holding back for obvious reasons – so […]
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Resistance by Cordelia Scott
This is a wonderful student-teacher novel. Jasmine and Sebastian have huge chemistry. 25-year-old Sebastian hires 18-year-old Jasmine to be his “fake girlfriend” to make his terminally ill father happy. Jasmine is so desperate for the money, as she wants to study music at college, that she lies about her age to get the job. Despite […]
Read MoreHer Teacher’s Temptation by Alexandra Vos
I first read Her Teacher’s Temptation on Wattpad (where it was titled “Light of the Morning”) and loved it. It’s a classic student- teacher romance with lots of sexual tension, supressed feelings and twists and turns. Set in the UK it’s gritty and realistic in parts, with a lot of drama in Maddie’s home life. […]
Read MoreThe Not Gate by Tammy Bench
This is an AMAZINGLY hot student-teacher affair book! It’s very sexy, very romantic and very realistic. 16-year-old Alice (17 by the time they get it on) falls in love and lust at first sight with her 31-year-old English teacher Tom Chambers. He tries to resist for ages, but when he finally yields… hold on to […]
Read MoreLarkspur: A Necromancer’s Romance by V M Jaskiernia
A strange and beautiful story of love and very dark magic. There is something dreamlike about it, as though the whole story could be a nightmare of death and life, sleep and wake. There were moments when Elizabeth and Pierre recalled Madeline and Porphyro in Keats’ The Eve of St Agnes. There is a bitter […]
Read MoreWhy sex scenes in romance stories need an edge
Before I started writing romance I didn’t quite get the “rule” (for there are no finite rules) that every sex scene should advance the plot. But I have found that they do so, quite naturally, and if they don’t they are kind of pointless. They need to be sexy and in some way emotionally compelling. […]
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