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Innocents

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Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she...more

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Published August 14th 2002 by Grove Press

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Dec 08, 2011 Leah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Cathy Coote's INNOCENTS reads like the raw sexual fantasies of a hyper-articulate and sociopathic teenage girl. Coote's unnamed sixteen-year-old heroine is a manipulative control freak who feels like she's a "spy" in her own life, watching those she considers "normal" and trying desperately to convince them she's normal, too. She feels almost nothing genuinely. Her every emotion is fake, designed to elicit specific reactions from others. She's an emotional vampire who feeds off the sincerity and...more Cathy Coote's INNOCENTS reads like the raw sexual fantasies of a hyper-articulate and sociopathic teenage girl. Coote's unnamed sixteen-year-old heroine is a manipulative control freak who feels like she's a "spy" in her own life, watching those she considers "normal" and trying desperately to convince them she's normal, too. She feels almost nothing genuinely. Her every emotion is fake, designed to elicit specific reactions from others. She's an emotional vampire who feeds off the sincerity and humanity of the clueless pawns in her life. Typical enough--your standard cruel school-age nymph. The twist is that the MC has an obsessive fantasy life involving sadism and rape that manifests in her sketchbooks. When her "perversions" are inevitably discovered, the MC ends up seeking refuge with her teacher, a shy, awkward man who's besotted with her, and likewise inevitably ends up having an affair with him that marks the beginning of her (and his) sexual awakening.

INNOCENTS is strongest in its first act, when the MC revels in the cold, calculated way she manipulates others. The novel reads like a journal, though it's framed as a letter to her teacher. The MC is so brutally honest and wickedly charming that you can't help but fall a little under her spell, realizing even so that she must either be the product of childhood abuse, or else is simply a sociopath. But the novel never hints at her motivations. Is she just bad? She never examines her own past. She's obsessively focused on the moment, the sensual, the palpable now.

Coote's prose is surprisingly lyrical, especially considering the age she wrote this (19). Her MC shows precocious teenage insight into how the world really works without descending into cynicism. Instead, she seems eager to embrace it, master it. What hit me, eventually, is that this novel has the ring of autobiography, of something lived close to the bone that someone has obsessed over, and that gave it a creepy overtone. As the novel goes on, its scope shrinks. Scenes take place exclusively and claustrophobically in the home the MC shares with her lover. The world outside dissolves. Everything becomes narrow, obsessive, navel-gazing. It comes across increasingly like erotic fantasy: scenes stripped of scenery, reduced to the mechanical sensuality of bodies. The MC stops caring about all else but her sexual manipulation and dominance of her lover.

As a study in obsession and control, INNOCENTS has moments of disturbing insight, but the end effect is both suffocating and numbing. I wanted more story for the endless sexual and psychological observations to hang on. At the end of the novel, just as Coote seems about to veer into sentimentalism, she injects a shot of that cold wit which opened the book so well, and I have to applaud her for that. You realize that the entire novel is a metaphor for BDSM: a methodical, controlled manipulation of emotions in the same way fetishes are used to manipulate and control the physical senses.

I can't recommend this as a general read, but for those interested in the subject matter (teacher/student romance, sexual obsession, light BDSM themes, inversion of Lolita, etc.), this could be worth a read. I'd categorize it more as erotic fantasy than contemporary fiction.(less)

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Aug 28, 2010 Agnes Mack rated it 1 of 5 stars

Innocents is basically the story of a 16 year girl who seduces her teacher. So enamored by her is he, that he quits his job, rents them a new house and takes her away from her life. They have sex constantly and she's constantly manipulating him.

It's written sort of as a letter. Somewhere in the first 50 pages or so we discover that she's writing down an account of their affair and that this account is being written to her lover / the teacher, at his request. There are many sentences that end wit...more

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Mar 31, 2010 Emma Louise rated it 1 of 5 stars

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I was looking for this book everywhere. Being an Australian book I would have figured it would be easy to come by but I had to import it from the Book Depository in the UK. After all the effort it took to acquire it, hoping it would be similar to The Virgin Suicides, and knowing it was meant to be a perverted take on the student-teacher relationship, I was horribly bored and disappointed. I got through the first chapter, or part, or whatever it was, okay. But it felt like it all got so boring af...more

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Jul 30, 2009 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: ljtransfer, read-from-libary-book

While perusing one of the book communities I was apart of, I came across this book. The promise of intensive sex scenes certainly sparked my interest, but the initial premise of the characters also caught my eye. This book focuses on an age-gap relationship, and coming from such a thing, I was inspired to take on literature regarding this subject matter.

The plot is simple: A 16-year old girl falls for her 34-year old teacher, a la Lolita. But the complexities within the story really help to shap...more While perusing one of the book communities I was apart of, I came across this book. The promise of intensive sex scenes certainly sparked my interest, but the initial premise of the characters also caught my eye. This book focuses on an age-gap relationship, and coming from such a thing, I was inspired to take on literature regarding this subject matter.

The plot is simple: A 16-year old girl falls for her 34-year old teacher, a la Lolita. But the complexities within the story really help to shape it. Once the book gets into their relationship, it starts to taper off into less fathomable circumstances. But, isn't fiction supposed to be slightly unrealistic?

Coote was only 19 when she wrote this book, but her use of the metaphorical language is amazing. What really grabbed me about this book was how easily it was to identify with the nameless narrator. Not just because she was dating an older man (much like I had), but the way she spoke of her relationship as more a game than an actual event struck an all-too-familiar chord. The book plays out as a confessional letter to her ex-lover, explaining bit by bit the details of their relationship. It reminds me of an unsent letter I wrote to an old flame years ago, chronicling our relationship and the unspoken words surrounding it.

On Amazon (since it's my prime source for any book review), this book received mixed reviews. It was criticized, though, for the sexual scenes being too "graphic" and "obscene". They were detailed, but I didn't think they were horrific. It's certainly no Harlequin Romance cheese, but it doesn't use unfruitful language like some four-letter c words I know every five seconds, either. Or maybe my generation is just numb to those sorts of perverse things. I think the sex scenes really make the meat of the book, since the most character development happens within them.

This book was an enjoyable read mainly because it encouraged me to write a letter of my own. As I began writing the letter, I noticed my style mimicked hers: my paragraphs were short and splotchy, the original topic was dodged with a few irrelevant ones, and my writing took on a second-person narrative. I've always believed the best books are those that inspire you.

I also must commend this book for actually having an ending. Far too often I read books that merely end without much of a conclusion. This story is not for everyone, and I believe many people will have difficulty identifying with the characters, given their eccentricities. I enjoyed it immensely though, and could easily read it again.(less)

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Feb 02, 2011 Christie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Cathy Coote’s debut novel, Innocents, garnered some good press with its tale of a precocious 16 year old girl who pursues her 34 year old teacher.

"My darling", the book begins, "All of this is my fault. I know you think your to blame for what happened. You’re wrong, my love. I’ve been guilty all along".

Coote’s wrote this book when she was 19, so I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that this book hits close to home. That’s not to say that it wasn’t without its merits - but likable characters isn’...more

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Apr 29, 2010 Evan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: sexuality, _lfpl-library, yearning, 2010-reads, transgressive, grove-press, lolita-ya-ya, age-gap

This book is, ultimately, an impressive accomplishment -- a serious look at a taboo relationship from the standpoint of examining it on its own terms; with the understanding of how desire and power can work from both ends of the innocence and experience spectrum. Coote, refreshingly, examines the disturbing moral aspects without succumbing to a hamfisted, moralistic denouement.

She's 16, the student and the aggressor. He's the 34-year-old teacher, the willing recipient of her attentions. This is...more This book is, ultimately, an impressive accomplishment -- a serious look at a taboo relationship from the standpoint of examining it on its own terms; with the understanding of how desire and power can work from both ends of the innocence and experience spectrum. Coote, refreshingly, examines the disturbing moral aspects without succumbing to a hamfisted, moralistic denouement.

She's 16, the student and the aggressor. He's the 34-year-old teacher, the willing recipient of her attentions. This is one of many post-Lolita novels of recent years told from the perspective of the Lolita; manipulating the oldster and reveling in the power of her young skin and taboo aura. She ultimately finds that her posturing and manipulation, in which she thinks she has attained power, have their limits. She is an innocent who acts experienced; he is an experienced who acts innocent. The book's title obviously refers to both characters; their relationship takes them both into uncharted territory. How this plays out makes for a very interesting dichotomy. I haven't read a large number of these kinds of books yet, but based on the few I have I suspect this is one of the better examples. This does exhibit substantial literary accomplishment at times, but after awhile the story becomes a bit repetitive until the exquisitely downplayed finale. Two deus ex machina are used at the beginning, including a dying cat, to push the lovers together, which I thought was a bit chintzy, but hey, Milan Kundera has resorted to the same thing and gotten away with it.

Relatively serious though it is, make no mistake, this is a sex book, full of arousing moments. During its sensual passages, Coote captures the thoughts and feelings of her young protagonist beautifully. I did get a bit annoyed by the teacher's constant blushing; he seemed a bit too fey at times. I liked that he wouldn't let her have wine because she was too young ("drink your lemonade") but he'd fuck her. As it happens, in Australia, where this story takes place, the age of consent (EXCEPT for student-teacher relationships) is 16, which makes for interesting fodder for debate about what is appropriate according to differing rules. If he was, say, a clerk or a banker or anything else, all is legal and fine. The subject matter of the book will make some people squirm. I'm not some people.(less)

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Jul 04, 2011 Jaz E Hill rated it 2 of 5 stars

Recommended to Jaz E by: Amazon

While on my student/teacher fascination binge, I came across this book about a year ago and was eager to read it...since it Amazon recommended. I trusted you, Amazon(dot)com. Anyways, I was highly upset, especially about the ending. Nothing was resolved and the book didn't really end in my opinion. This 16 year-old girl likes her teacher. The girl, who's also the protagonist...I think...isn't even likable. She's a bit sadistic. She spends time drawing naked girls in a tormenting fashion. Oh and...more

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Sep 28, 2009 Caraleigh rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is one of the most engrossing books I've read in my entire life. The sexuality and vulgerness was definitely a tough obstacle for me to get over while reading it, but as I kept reading, I saw past it. The book just grew on me. I couldn't put it down.

It was odd though, that the author never mentioned the names of the two of them. She mentioned the names of many others, but not the girl and the teacher.

The ending, or the last two paragraphs I should say, left me in deep thought. I knew that...more

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Sep 17, 2011 Bree T rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: australian, contemporary, young-adult

When I was 16, I went to the local horse races for a big meeting. My best friend in high school, her father trained racehorses and I went to meetings a lot. My friend’s workmate was there (she worked in a local dept store and this man was one of the dept managers) with his friends, who he introduced to us. One of them, was really nice and we spent a lot of time together having bets before he asked me out. He’d already volunteered that he was a school teacher, at the primary school linked to my h...more When I was 16, I went to the local horse races for a big meeting. My best friend in high school, her father trained racehorses and I went to meetings a lot. My friend’s workmate was there (she worked in a local dept store and this man was one of the dept managers) with his friends, who he introduced to us. One of them, was really nice and we spent a lot of time together having bets before he asked me out. He’d already volunteered that he was a school teacher, at the primary school linked to my high school. I remember looking at him sideways and saying “You do know I’m 16, right?” He didn’t. And he was horrified. He said that even though he didn’t teach at my school, he could still lose his job for dating a student. He was about 25 anyway so even if he wasn’t a teacher I think he still would’ve been horrified. I didn’t look particularly old for my age, but I was dressed up for the races, so I probably looked over 18. Funnily enough about a year later he ended up being my brother’s golf pro on Saturday mornings and when I introduced him to my mother, I referred to him as “that teacher that once asked me out”. I think he was again, quite embarrassed by that!

The point of that narrative? Teachers know that it’s FORBIDDEN to go out with students, even if they’re not students at the schools they are teaching at. And yet, time and time again, in the news in real life, teachers are charged and prosecuted for relationships with students and minors. Male teachers and more recently, female teachers in their 20s and 30s are being caught in sexual relationships with teenagers. It’s not a new thing and usually all the accusations and the ire are directed to the teachers. After all, they’re the ones in positions of authority. They’re the adults. They have the duty of care and they breach it terribly when crossing the line with a student.

But what if the student is the aggressor? The one who initiates everything, who manipulates and seduces and controls? There’s much in the media of the sexualisation of youths these days with the age of sexual activity younger and younger with each passing generation. Innocents deals with this – our unnamed narrator, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle and bored with the clique at school, spots a weakness in a new teacher who is 34 to her 16. Shy and a bit socially awkward, she spots a weakness towards her, a forbidden desire and even though she’s rather innocent herself, she aggressively pursues him. When her uncle attacks her for drawings he finds in her room, she flees to the teachers house and from there into his bed. To be fair, he doesn’t exactly try too hard to resist her but neither does he pursue her. It’s all her and she simply never goes home, other than to get some clothes. She moves in and it isn’t long before he quits his job and they set up house together.

The novel is written as a letter to her lover after things have broken down and in it she confesses everything – how she exploited his desire, how she never really felt much herself, it was the power of the hold she had over him. She delighted in acting like a child, like an innocent to titillate him and so much of her behaviour was calculating, almost everything she did was designed to inflame and appeal to his desire for her. The things she goaded him in to, that she brought out of him, were often hard to read, not because of what they were but she was such a detached participant most of the time. She seems to get very little enjoyment out of the acts, her only interest coming from the power she has over him, what she can make him feel for her. Given that she’s only 16, this is disturbing behaviour but what’s more disturbing is what occurs when she pushes him too far and cannot wrest back control of the situation.

There are some topics that no matter how they’re written, are hard to read. Given that the narrator is 16, I’m unaware if this is classed as pedophilia as such because the legal age of consent in Australia is 16. But it’s definitely crossing all sorts of lines, given the age gap and her lack of maturity and the fact that he was her teacher. Despite the fact that she was the aggressor, he was still the adult in the situation and still held the balance of power and clearly should have known better. Instead he walked away from his profession for her and it was lucky that she had no parents and relatives that wiped their hands of her meant that there were no official repercussions, no police investigation.That was kind of convenient as it allowed the relationship to continue without any outside harassment or interference.

The author wrote this novel when she was just 19 years of age and I tried to find out a little bit about her but there’s not a lot of information out there on the web. Her own website is pretty spartan and contains next to nothing in the way of personal information so it’s impossible to tell if this is entirely fiction or if she was motivated or inspired in some way, either by a personal experience (not necessarily her own) or a media story.

This is one of those books that for me, is what I can best describe as an interesting read. The psychology or the relationship dynamics were fascinating with the way the girl was portrayed as the aggressor and how we only ever got her side of the story and that was in reflection. Although it was disturbing it seemed less so to read it from her point of view than to read it from the point of view of a 34 year old man lusting after a 16 year old.

I’m not really sure how to rate this one? Did I enjoy it? Not exactly. But I didn’t dislike it either. It’s probably somewhere around(less)

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Jul 14, 2010 Meha rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a VERY sexual book. If you don't like that type of subject, then this will not appeal to you. Especially with the older man and young girl setting. This is a story and it is a game. It's almost brilliant and it shows how smart and how terrifyingly smart this young girl is. It's written in her point of view, its a letter from her to him and she goes over how she played him every step of the way, not used, but used her body and her moves and how she planned and acted almost every part of w...more

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Aug 12, 2009 Alex rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book is perverted, disgusting, and disturbing. It left a horrible taste in my mouth and even made me sick to my stomach at some points.

So why not just 1-star? Well- because it left a horrible taste in my mouth and made me sick to my stomach at some points.

The author was only 19 when she wrote this, and the fact that she could write in such a way to elicit such feelings out of me is a testament to her skills.

Would I read this again? No. Would I recommend it to anyone? HELL no. But I can't...more

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Jan 01, 2010 Yoshi rated it 5 of 5 stars

I haven't read such a thought provoking book in really long time. The story in itself is very disturbing and though reminiscent of Vladīmir Vladimirovich Nabokov's Lolita it's told from the prospective of the young girl and is in the form of a letter to her teacher and lover. The language is simplistic and innocent, beautifully capturing the image of a confused teenager masking her inner turmoil by trying to be just like everyone else. Her brazen honesty is shocking through the book and at times...more

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Oct 09, 2010 Milka rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: from-library, read-during-2010

During the summer after reading 'A Season of Eden' I started to look for novels with a teacher-student relationship. It is one of those "forbidden" topics and I think that novels written about that are always very interesting. I have read a couple novels like that in English and also some in Finnish.

'Innocents' was very different from the similar novels I've read before, in a good way. The story is told through a long "letter" from a 16 year old girl to her teacher. In this letter the girl, the...more

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Jun 03, 2010 Bianca rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, novels

With the promise of redefining the stereotypes of Lolita-esque relationships, I had very high expectations for this novel. Of course, I kept in mind there is nothing completely original about turning the tables on this sort of thing; I’ve seen it many times before, and I’ll certainly encounter it again. Every professional review I read seemed to guarantee the portrayal of a twisted relationship, woven into unhealthy, erotic obsession. Ironically, for me, Innocents was a hollow and horribly prete...more With the promise of redefining the stereotypes of Lolita-esque relationships, I had very high expectations for this novel. Of course, I kept in mind there is nothing completely original about turning the tables on this sort of thing; I’ve seen it many times before, and I’ll certainly encounter it again. Every professional review I read seemed to guarantee the portrayal of a twisted relationship, woven into unhealthy, erotic obsession. Ironically, for me, Innocents was a hollow and horribly pretentious wreck.

The dialogue in this novel is awful, often reading like a pornographic film. The narrator speaks to other characters with exaggerated innocence, which would’ve been acceptable had it been the intention, but I severely doubt it was anything more than a failed attempt at nonchalance. A large portion of the dialogue reeks of thoughtless word choice and, on other occasions, shoddy page-fillers.

I viewed the relationship itself as a ticking time bomb. The reader is genuinely led to believe the narrator and her lover are doomed and that it is only a matter of time before everything crashes and burns. Instead, their one-time fallout lasts for two or so pages before the relationship is rebuilt. A page later, we are promised another disaster, one which was fully expected (and, for me, anticipated), except the book ends there.

To be frank, I absolutely loathed the narrator. And, no, she was not an anti-hero, whose antics contributed to some kind of beautifully dark growth, forever indebting my admiration; she was a boring, hypocritical mess, all in terms of the author’s sloppy, dead end writing. There is nothing psychologically interesting about her and, worst of all, nothing psychologically interesting about her relationship. You’re reading about two characters who have built a relationship solely on lust, which has mountains of potential, story-wise, when that particular passion runs out. Except, as the narrator’s interest begins to dissolve, she subsequently explores badly executed sado-masochism, which is illogical due to its immense lack of literary reasoning. Then, to further jump the shark, what throws the narrator into disgust for what she shares with her lover, is an even more blasé encounter with anal sex. Her claim of its depravity and abnormality felt even more overdramatic and pathetic than the scenes of her nausea that followed. Previously, we had gone through 100+ pages of her so-called perversion, yet for that particular scene to be her breaking point felt so ridiculous and, for lack of better word, lame.

Of course, trying to delve into the depth of this book will result in no answers, because there simply is no depth. This novel is the author’s (failed) attempt at a psychological exploration of sexual obsession and corruption. All it is, however, is a poorly strung together fantasy, riddled with clichés and futile shots at originality. What a mess!(less)

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Sep 26, 2012 Jennifer rated it 2 of 5 stars

What can I say..this was not that good. It tried way to hard to wrap up emotions with sex and such that it almost became confusing. To be honest, I am disappointed that I just lost 13 dollars. Some scenes were a bit arousing, although barely. The main character had me slightly smiling at some times with her sociopath-ic behavior, although in the end, nothing special at all. Yes the fact that they are nameless does a bit of something, although this book is nearly not as graphic as I thought it wo...more

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Jul 18, 2009 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book, although I may have blushed a few times when reading it. I love the relationship between the two of them, the constant ebb and flow of power and how both of them assume that they are in total control. I wish the ending was different though, and by ending I mean probably about the last 2 paragraphs or so. Overall I enjoyed the original style of Coote's writing mixed with a very interesting story! LOVED IT!

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Oct 11, 2011 Natasha rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

It was an interesting book. I wasn't sure how I felt about the girl. I felt bad for her on one hand since she seemed unaware of how far her powers went. But I also disliked her because she did seem aware of her power. I also felt bad for the teacher although I felt he should have resisted her better. In short, I had a lot of mixed feelings for the characters. I wasn't the biggest fan of the ending.

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May 08, 2013 Leighann Marie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Crazy. I really like this book. It's slightly unnerving because you find yourself disgusted and sympathizing with the same character. You're natural instinct is to be disgusted with the teacher, obviously what he is doing is bad. But at the same time you sympathize because he is so unaware of the manipulation she is using. She's clearly a sociopath.
It's a weird read but it's good.

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Feb 02, 2012 Courtney rated it 2 of 5 stars

Honestly it kind of reads like a virgin's idea of a kinky, far-fetched (but still somehow "safe") fantasy. There isn't really much of an actual plot. It's just "we had sex and then we had sex and also we had sex". That was it. This book ended up being a book where through the entire thing, I kept waiting for something to happen and it never did.

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Oct 09, 2010 Catherine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Exceptionally good writing for an author of such a young age - I had read once that writing erotica is not easy - it's apparently difficult to keep it from sliding into 'heaving bosoms territory'. Her main character's abiliities as a 'game player' were fascinating as was the absolute guilt-enhanced indulgence in forbidden fruit on the part of the teacher.
I agree with one of the other earlier comments on this book - the ending should have finished a few paragraphs earlier than it did; it would h...more

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Jul 20, 2010 Kayla rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: crushes-and-love, sex, family-problems, student-teacher-relationship

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Jan 27, 2012 Darien Lee rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-that-i-own

The book was okay, but I never liked the main character from the beginning. She's sadistic, manipulative, and completely annoys the crap out of me with her constant obsession with seducing her teacher. But overall, I liked the detail and how the story/letter was written. It'd be nice to read a sequel to this, though =/

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Jun 11, 2011 Sana Haque rated it 4 of 5 stars

this is one sexual book! What made it more interesting was how a sixteen year old seduces her thirty-four year old teacher. written in a letter form the lolita complex is fully described to the reader. You go Coote !

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May 21, 2012 Samantha Ray rated it 2 of 5 stars

This was an interesting read. The way it was written was really infuriating. I had to go back and re-read some pages. I felt like I was lost half the time. Anyways I feel like this book had no plot, no climax, and no issue to solve. It was boring. I feel like the author just threw in random sadistic sex scenes to make the book readable. I will not be reading anything else by this author.

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Dec 20, 2012 Maja Niksic rated it 2 of 5 stars

Okay I am honestly in love with student teacher love stories...it's so romantic and lovely. And I thought this book would be no exception. It would be about forbidden love, however, it surely wasnt. To sum it up, this book reminded me so much of 50 shades of gray except it was more perverse, but slightly more romantic (which doesn't say much). I didn't understand these characters, like what led the teacher into having a thing got younger girls? I felt little or no emotion towards these mindless...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Dirk rated it 1 of 5 stars

written as a letter from a manipulative 16 year old girl to her teacher, a retrospect of their life as lovers, I skipped some pages in the middle, boring in the end

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May 17, 2011 Maggie rated it 3 of 5 stars

The book tried hard to be overly shocking, which is probably why it fell flat for me. I do give it three stars, though, for the little gems of prose in between the stilted dialogue.

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Nov 12, 2011 Kristin rated it 3 of 5 stars

- Whoa, a smutty book haha. One of the raunchiest books I've read :-o
- I was just waiting for something to happen to this couple because what they were doing was illegal. I was surprised that other teachers didn't try to intervene, and that Cathy's family didn't seem to care that she left them.
+ This forbidden kind of relationship (teacher-student) has been happening more often in the real world, so reading this story was believable. It was interesting.
+ I like that it took place in Australia, a...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Zoe rated it 5 of 5 stars

It wont let me read it so i dont know how the hell it was!!!!

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Jan 05, 2009 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is by far my most favorite book on the planet

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