Review: The Secret

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Dear Fellow Bookworms,

I need your help.

I, Rachel Rose, am in quite the pickle with a hot-as-sin English Lit professor by the name of Ty Winslow, and I don’t know how to get out of it.

Let me break it down for you:

Girl meets Guy.

Girl gives Guy her underwear on a dare but nothing else identifying (like her name or number) because she plans to never see Guy again.

But Girl does see Guy again, in a very professional setting, where she is to be the Teaching Assistant to his Professor for an entire semester.

Girl would like to ignore all events of the past, but Guy is a whole list of tempting things that are hard to resist. (See below:)

#1: Insanely attractive.

#2: The most fun a girl could ever have.

#3: Successful and intelligent.

#4: He can quote Walt Whitman at the drop of a hat—which I’m sure you know is a dangerous thing for a literature-lover.

#5: Smooth with a capital S. He could charm the panties off a woman WITHOUT the help of a dare.

And now, Mr. Hot Professor, the man I’m determined to resist, is challenging me to a competition—a playful, secret game, so to speak—where the winner takes all.

My plan? Play the game long enough to win—long enough to walk away with the upper hand—without doing something stupid like falling in love.

It’s possible...right?

If you have any advice, please reach out to me soon—before it’s too late.

XOXO,

Rache 

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: April 2021

Mature content: yes

 

Review: I was a bit disappointed by The Secret. Granted, there are some amazing passages, almost the kind you can frame and hang in your wall. But they represent just a few sentences in a nearly 500 hundred pages book. 

The beginning of the story threw me off completely. I didn't read any of the previous books in what is apparently a series featuring the Winslow brothers - not that Amazon tells you much about it, so I assumed at first it was a stand alone book - and I must have missed something important because the first few pages (and a few later on too) made little sense to me. 

Then, there's the fact that Ty and Rachel are supposedly book lovers, but other than a visit to a bookshop you never really see them reading a book. And Ty is featured in a few classes, but other than that you don't seen him work all that much either, which doesn't fit at all what I expected from a literature professor.

I believe that the potential was there, yes, but The Secret would have benefited a lot from less sex scenes and more plot and character development.

 

Happy readings otherwise,

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