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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I'm really not sure why I picked this up or thought I'd enjoy it (sometimes the whole remembering to read books I sent myself weeks ago backfires) but meh? It centers around a relationship between a 22-year-old and a 17-year-old student, and the younger people get, the more I believe in the half-plus-seven rule and that just made me SUPER uncomfortable basically the whole way through. I think this book needs to say A LOT MORE ABOUT DEPRESSION because heellllOOOOO yes, she was depressed, can we perhaps talk about it? Give some constructive solutions other than hooking up with teenagers? Another missed opportunity. ( ) Now, if Prep’s protag was an awkward teacher lost at an upper-class prep school and not an awkward student lost at an upper class prep school, you’d have Corinne Sullivan’s Indecent. When Imogene Abney lands a teaching position at the all-boys prep academy, she’s delighted. She’s always been charmed by prep school life, despite a solidly working-class background. But her inexperience with teaching, teenage boys, and privilege in general leads to trouble. There is a deeply cringey relationship here (but it’s impossible to look away), when Imogene falls in an all-consuming first love. This is a tale of a young teacher-in-training at a boarding school who has an affair with a student. If you're thinking this isn't going to end well, you're right. As I read this novel, I felt a lot of empathy for the main character but I also want to tell her (as one friend did) that only heartbreak and unhappiness lie on the path she was taking. Well, sigh, at least someone tried. If you're looking for something to help recall youthful relationships and the bad decisions that can result, this book offers a thorough exploration. I just could not relate to this character, and did not find her compelling. The author's attempt to paint a very black-and-white issue (adult teacher in a sexual relationship with a minor student) in gray shades I found morally questionable. I couldn't help wondering if this book would have been written or well-received if the sexes were reversed: male teacher taking advantage of a female student. no reviews | add a review
Blurring the lines of blame and moral ambiguity, Indecent by Corinne Sullivan is a smart, sexy debut audiobook. Shy, introverted Imogene Abney has always been fascinated by the elite world of prep schools, having secretly longed to attend one since she was a girl in Buffalo, New York. So, shortly after her college graduation, when she's offered a teaching position at the Vandenberg School for Boys, an all-boys prep school in Westchester, New York, she immediately accepts, despite having little teaching experience-and very little experience with boys. When Imogene meets handsome, popular Adam Kipling a few weeks into her tenure there, a student who exudes charm and status and ease, she's immediately drawn to him. Who is this boy who flirts with her without fear of being caught? Who is this boy who seems immune to consequences and worry; a boy for whom the world will always provide? As an obsessive, illicit affair begins between them, Imogene is so lost in the haze of first love that she's unable to recognize the danger she's in. The danger of losing her job. The danger of losing herself in the wrong person. The danger of being caught doing something possibly illegal and so indecent. Exploring issues of class, sex, and gender, this smart, sexy debut by Corrine Sullivan shatters the black-and-white nature of victimhood, taking a close look at blame and moral ambiguity. No library descriptions found. |
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