Dear Sir, I'm Yours

This was one of the stranger reads I have had and I am grateful to the person who made me read it. I do not ordinarily read professor/student books, being an academic myself I just cannot relate to it. So I as trepidatious - and favourably surprised when it turns out that that the actual relationship will happen years later, when she is older.

I loved the fact that the book is concentrated almost exclusively on their relationship - not only sexual but emotional development. I loved the way the author played with the mind games and gave the characters a depth rarely found in erotic fiction. I loved the fact that the characters never come over as stupid or crude as to appeal to a wider audience. It is a sensual and open novel, playing show more with the mental as well as physical concepts. The only thing I would gripe about a little was the actual sex. in comparison to many books it was well described and developed, but there is space for deeper sensuality and better thought out scenarios.

No matter, I loved the sensual draw of the book, the language and the play on symbolism. show less

This was one of the stranger reads I have had and I am grateful to the person who made me read it. I do not ordinarily read professor/student books, being an academic myself I just cannot relate to it. So I as trepidatious - and favourably surprised when it turns out that that the actual relationship will happen years later, when she is older.

I loved the fact that the book is concentrated almost exclusively on their relationship - not only sexual but emotional development. I loved the way the author played with the mind games and gave the characters a depth rarely found in erotic fiction. I loved the fact that the characters never come over as stupid or crude as to appeal to a wider audience. It is a sensual and open novel, playing show more with the mental as well as physical concepts. The only thing I would gripe about a little was the actual sex. in comparison to many books it was well described and developed, but there is space for deeper sensuality and better thought out scenarios.

No matter, I loved the sensual draw of the book, the language and the play on symbolism. show less

This was one of the stranger reads I have had and I am grateful to the person who made me read it. I do not ordinarily read professor/student books, being an academic myself I just cannot relate to it. So I as trepidatious - and favourably surprised when it turns out that that the actual relationship will happen years later, when she is older.

I loved the fact that the book is concentrated almost exclusively on their relationship - not only sexual but emotional development. I loved the way the author played with the mind games and gave the characters a depth rarely found in erotic fiction. I loved the fact that the characters never come over as stupid or crude as to appeal to a wider audience. It is a sensual and open novel, playing show more with the mental as well as physical concepts. The only thing I would gripe about a little was the actual sex. in comparison to many books it was well described and developed, but there is space for deeper sensuality and better thought out scenarios.

No matter, I loved the sensual draw of the book, the language and the play on symbolism. show less

I really liked this book. So much so that I went and got the 2nd book and downloaded the short story on the Authors web site.

This book starts out with her writing a letter to her Professor about her feelings over his spanking her and why she is leaving. She is fully aware that he will not read it, but has to put her pain for leaving in words.

Each chapter begins with a letter Rae has written to Conn describing her life as it currently is, how conflicted she was about leaving him, her awful marriage, and how much she still loves him. She never sends these letters.

Current day starts with Rae going to Conn's grandmothers home for a job. Conn has been searching for Rae for 5 years and is amazed to see her under his grandmothers home! This show more story is how they reconnect.

This book hooked me from the beginning. Rae's pain at leaving college and Conn, her fathers accident and disability, her marriage to a man she thought was safe but was anything but really drew me in. Conn is conflicted enough about his dom tendencies that after Rae left he searched for help and training so if he ever found her again he would better know what to do and how to make her safe.

Throw in a Grandmother who carries on conversations with her deceased husband, who plots and plans at every turn & hopefully you'll see why I really enjoyed this book. show less

I liked the poetry. I thought it added an interesting texture to the story, but other than that I agree with amf0001's review. I think if there hadn't been all the unnecessary Lifetime movie of the week elements added it would have been a million times better, because then we could have watched Rae and Conn figuring each other out without all the unnecessary sidelines (Rae's ex-husband, who seemed like a vanilla guy then turned into crazy controlling stalker dude, the housekeeper's crazy controlling husband who gets killed because he's a diabetic and she made him brownies, the sexual predator mayor who somehow doesn't know who Rae is even though she's a business owner in the town, which reminds me... how do Rae and Conn not know that show more each other live there? And how is the college town where Conn works far away and then suddenly close enough for him to commute to?)

Yes, anyway, other than the inconsistencies, the weird side-stories/filler and Rae's all-over-the-place responses to Conn, I did mostly like this story. There are enough elements that work that make me willing to give the author another shot, anyway, even though I'm not sure that I'd ever read this particular story again.

Edit to add: I re-read this after thoroughly enjoying books two and three in this series. I enjoyed it more the second time through. The problems I mentioned earlier didn't bother me as much this time through, although I was more bothered by the dynamics Rae and Conn's student-teacher relationship. I'm glad I read it again, but I still much prefer books 2 and 3. show less

Uneven BDSM romance. Has some really hot, engrossing moments, but then the characters do something that just plain irritates me, or the plot drags weirdly. I actually began to agree with Rae's fears -she is too clingy and miserable and I would certainly never have a relationship with her, but Conn keeps talking her back from the ledge and tying her up again (but only with her consent, it's all about her safety and trust, she has all the power in the rel, I get it, I get it, by the 5th time I'm just bored with the both of them!) However there are hot moments, especially at the beginning, before they have sex, the sexual tension is through the roof. So it's not a complete wash out, but I don't know how often I would reread this or how show more strongly I would recommend it. I guess I started skimming a lot - I hated all the poetry quoting which just felt contrived to me - but I stuck with it, so a 3 star rating feels fair to me. show less