Shannyn Schroeder

It was competently, if blandly, written and I was making an effort to finish it, even if the story was both uninspired and totally off the wall. But then! Hey, it's Casual Racism. The lady of the story is a school teacher in Chicago, yeah? Almost everyone in the story is white, which is dumb, you know because it's CHICAGO, but okay whatever, I'll suspend my disbelief enough to pretend that there are ZERO brown folks around. And then we get one black dude, who is the principle of the school where our intrepid (not actually intrepid) teacher works, so yeah that's awesome, at least he's an authoritative figure, right? But then, this one black dude gets described as such "His head was bald, the dark brown skin smooth and shiny. When she entered, his thick lips parted and white teeth gleamed." So, the one black dude gets the black-folks-have-such-white-teeth treatment, which is always fun, and especially since he is the one character whose lips are not given a sensuous adjective. You know, like full, or soft, or something. Which would be fine, since he's not the dudely love interest, but come on. THIS IS HOW CASUAL RACISM WORKS. It's seems fine, and then you think huh, it's funny that the black dude isn't described as sexy, even if he's like, a tertiary character. I looked up "lips" on my Kindle, it appears 59 times, of the 3 times where the lips are actually described we have the following: 1. coral-colored 2. pouty and 3. thick

AND THEN. Quinn, our teacher, is helping out with a summer school class, and in order to get the students interested in Romeo and Juliet and how does she do this? "Imagine this girl is with the Latin Kings and the boy...you guessed it. He's from a long line of Disciples." What the FUCK? Of course the students in summer school are all gang members.

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This book is my first introduction to author, Shannyn Schroeder. I am happy to report that after reading this book I will be checking out more books by Shannyn. Additionally, this book had humor to it. Looking for your next grumpy/sunshine romance then you need to pick up a copy of Under Your Skin.

Norah and Kai could not be more complete opposites. Luckily for them as the saying goes...opposites attract. I will say that in the beginning, I was not such a fan of Kai. He definitely took the role of "grumpy" seriously. Although, his sour attitude did not last long and after that I did warm up to him.

The chemistry between Norah and Kai was a slow burn. Which I was here for it. You know what happens something grows; it grows to the point that it explodes. That is Norah and Kai and their chemistry. I look forward to reading Sean's story next.… (more)