A Kiss Remembered

When I first read this as a teenager, I was utterly absorbed. I couldn't fathom being twenty-six, and had absolutely no frame of reference for meeting a teacher after ten years. No, I had massive crushes on multiple people at the time and was very much in the present. Eighteen years later, especially with how society has changed...I cringed at several parts. Smoking is mentioned in this book, as is home ec and secretarial work. Something about how women were viewed and interacted with one another, too. Not to say that doesn't happen today, just -how- it was written here. All of that made me think, "Okay, 1970s." I checked the copyright date, and it's 1983 on the edition I read. I settled down quite a bit upon realizing this. Cringed way show more less and kept turning pages. Jenny Trout once remarked in a recap she did of a book, "I'm positive that somewhere in her house, (the author) has a treasure trove of late 70s/early 80s romance novels." This book helped me understand that remark, and how the author may have perceived her own work, powerfully. I'm glad for that.

This book was...eh, fine. I'd be really excited to read books with some of these tropes, just with different dynamics. The pacing was off. Much was made of their pasts, but serious elements were never explored. The fact that both student and teacher were attracted to one another ten years ago is rehashed often, often, often. Sure takes up tons of page time when that could have been spent exploring other themes or character development. Or plot, even. The student sure moved on quick to reconcile with her teacher after she broke up with him. Just--ugh. I wanted to feel bad -with- the student. I wanted to suffer a little -alongside- her, you know? Nope, she flings herself right back into her teacher's arms after he says a sentence or two. The breakup occurs late in the novel. I would have liked it to be at the halfway point. No, it was rushed through and then a few pages were dedicated to a wedding. Dissatisfying.

This was blisteringly erotic to me when I read it nearly twenty years ago. Now, it's--nipple enjoyment, which is fine, there's just a lot of it, and the book's very wordy about kissing. At first, I thought it was going to be a buildup somehow, but no, not really. Thick chest hair is taken as a sign of masculinity, and I sighed to myself. People have no real control over how thick their body hair comes in. They can control how much of it they keep and how, but not how it grows in. The characters lost points for shaming the jerk for having little chest hair. Let him be a jerk, people. Don't make it about the chest hair. So this...was not erotic to me on second read.

Despite my disappointment and annoyance, I'm glad I got to read it as an adult so I could learn how much my opinion changed. show less

ACK. The only reason I finished this book was the fervent hope that Grant (the "hero") would grow a brain and tell Shelley (the spineless idiot "heroine" that thinks other people's opinions matter more than her own) to take a flying leap. Don't bother even picking it up off the shelf!

I almost finished this book. I kept reading because I simply couldn't believe that this apparently very prolifid author had managed to write an entire book based on nothing. This is my first and last book by Ms. Brown. I'm assuming this is not an aberration, but a continuation of her "style." Thre are too many wonderful books that deserve our reading time .

This book kinda creeped me out. I like the story line I like the happy ending. I dont like the fact of the age she was when he first showed interest in her. I think its weird but still kinda enjoyable.

This must be an older book for Sandra Brown. I have read several of her books and this seemed old fashioned. The forbidden love...the man who must possess her...the woman child afraid of everything until he shows her the way.

Really? Or in the famous words of 'Grey's Anatomy'....Seriously? I did on some level enjoy the book and if you like these types of stories, then you would love this book. I do like the premise. Not one of her better stories but it is a quick read.

I won this book in a first read scheme which automatically makes me happy as I never win anything. This isn't really my style of book but it wasn't terrible if very dated now. I think if you like this sort of thing you'd enjoy it, but it just wasn't for me at all.

A Kiss Remembered by Sandra Brown
Shelley had kissed her teacher, Grant when she was younger. They both knew it was off limits and ended it then.
10 years later: she was back at the university and he was her professor. She had given up pursueing her education and him by marrying Darrell because she couldn't be with the one she loved. She ended up leaving college to go to work so he could get his medical education and career going. After he got his degree he left her. that's when things changed for her.
She knows she shouldn't be after him and this time he isn't going to leave her alone. She just wants one kiss and she relishes that contact.
She agrees to grade the exams, at nights, sometimes at his house and there are a lot of sensual show more descriptions of what happens.....
He tells her of his past and why he left the last school and she looks up to him for what he stood up for.
A student sexually approaches Grant in hopes of becoming his lover and he won't have any part of it although she states she will tell the president of the university.
Her ex goes to her house one morning after she's been helping the professor grade papers the night before and it got late so he stayed over. Darrell warns her to stop or he won't be able to marry the hospitals presidents daughter. Grant shows him why that can't matter. Just when you think it can't get any worse: A student, Prudence then throws a paternity suit against him. show less