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Teacher's Pet (Teacher's Pet #1)

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When twenty-two year old Jeremy West decided to take a few art classes in addition to his computer engineering degree, he had no idea that one of his professors would knock him off his feet. Professor Peter Foster, a young handsome and talented thirty-four year old professional artist, put Jeremy into heat every time he sat in his lecture hall or attended his sculpture cla...more

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Apr 21, 2009 Elisa Ramblings added it

Jeremy is a 22 years old college student. From a middle class family, handsome and friendly, he is like thousands of other students. But Jeremy has a secret: he likes men. Born in a conservative family, he has always thought that his being gay is a drama, something he needs to hide to no lose all his friends and the love of his family. Plus, told be truth, his family is not at all the supportive american family you see in television fiction: a spoilt sister, a father who borders on alcoholism an...more Jeremy is a 22 years old college student. From a middle class family, handsome and friendly, he is like thousands of other students. But Jeremy has a secret: he likes men. Born in a conservative family, he has always thought that his being gay is a drama, something he needs to hide to no lose all his friends and the love of his family. Plus, told be truth, his family is not at all the supportive american family you see in television fiction: a spoilt sister, a father who borders on alcoholism and a mother who not loses a chance to make him feeling ungrateful.

But when Jeremy sees his art teacher, Peter, he is taken. Peter is a 34 years old successful artist who accepted a work as college professor to prove to his family that he has a worthy work. Not that like an artist he isn't doing good money, but being an artist is not a "real" work. Plus Peter is a divorced man, newly wedded to a too young bitch: a woman he has married in a drunken night in a fast marriage chapel in Las Vegas.

Both Jeremy or Peter haven't noble reasons to do what they done. Jeremy is a horny young man who has the hots when he sees his professor; when he learns that the object of his desires is married, he feels a bit of pain, but not regret and this little fact means nothing to his intention to seduce the handsome professor. And Peter doesn't think twice to engage in a relationship with a much younger man, one of his student. And the fact that he is married seems not important since the wife is a spoilt bitch who deserves only to be thrown out of his bed.

Reading this you could rightly think that I don't like Jeremy or Peter... and you are wrong! I like them both, cause they are "real", they are not the fake perfect heros of an usual romance. And also the supporting characters, in their exasperated characterization, are perfect. Everything in this romance is amplified to excess, but it's only a means to underline how the characters are "normal" and "day-to-day": don't miss the family's quarrels of Jeremy, or the jealousy's scenes of Peter's wife.

I like very much G.A. Hauser's style, all her characters are so full of faults: when Jeremy is asked to go home to support his father in a difficult moment, he regrets the lost chance to have a weekend of sex with his lover; when Peter has to face an inequity treatment, not only toward him, but also toward him being gay, he doesn't raise his head in an impetus of rightful indignation, but simple turn his shoulders and go away... Peter and Jeremy are not heros, they are like the men you cross on the street every day, maybe only a little more handsome!

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Sep 02, 2011 Alina rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love age gap and I love teacher/student ~~(snarry, anyone, lol)~~, so I devoured this book in a few hours without any breaks. I liked it alot.

At first I thought, that some (ok, almost everyone else, other than MCs) characters are a little over the top, caricaturish even - I mean take Jeremy's family for example: dad's an alcoholic, mom's a harpy and the sister's a slut. But then you see them in another light in some moments, you see how they indeed feel guilty and sad about this clinic and the mom...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Charly rated it 2 of 5 stars

Clunky writing and characters I didn’t like

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Rating: 4/10

PROS:
- Hauser does a good job of exploring the fear Jeremy feels about coming out. He has the (perceived) prejudice of his friends, his classmates, and his family to deal with, and it’s a constant source of worry for him.
- Jeremy’s friends and family turn out to be pretty cool and accepting (except for the girls at his school; all the young, single women in the story--an...more Clunky writing and characters I didn’t like

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Rating: 4/10

PROS:
- Hauser does a good job of exploring the fear Jeremy feels about coming out. He has the (perceived) prejudice of his friends, his classmates, and his family to deal with, and it’s a constant source of worry for him.
- Jeremy’s friends and family turn out to be pretty cool and accepting (except for the girls at his school; all the young, single women in the story--and in many of Hauser’s other stories--are just plain evil). The coming out scenes in this book are reassuring rather than painful.

CONS:
- I didn’t love either one of the characters--not because they’re bad people, but because I didn’t have a lot of respect for them. I wasn’t a fan of Kevin’s resolve to sleep with Peter even though Peter is married, and Peter struck me as ridiculously blasé about committing adultery with one of his students. So Jeremy is irresistible…okay. But Peter calling him “babe” in front of other students and “grabb[ing] Jeremy’s bottom playfully” in class? I used to teach at a university, and I simply can’t imagine a professor being quite so obvious and stupid.
- The writing is wooden-sounding, mostly because there’s a lot of description pertaining to the characters’ actions, but not much about their thoughts. The book will say, for example, “he had a permanent smile planted on his face,” but it won’t go into much detail about WHY the character is smiling.
- There are a lot of scenes that don’t seem to serve any purpose: they don’t move the plot along, and they don’t illuminate any situation or character trait that hasn’t already been explained or established. The scenes with Jeremy’s roommate and those with the girls on campus I found particularly tedious.

Overall comments: The relationship (as opposed to an involved plot) is the focus of this story, but the men’s emotional connection felt shallow to me. I must admit to having skimmed large sections, and I found it difficult to finish the book at all. This is the second story by this author I’ve been really disappointed in; I don’t think I’ll be reading any more books by her.(less)

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Sep 09, 2012 Mandy*reads obsessively* rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: age-gap, cinderfella, cheater, ebook-owned, evil-ex, gfy-ofy, heaps-of-sex, hurt-comfort-disability, insta-love-lust, jerk-mc, m-m, only-read-if-i-want-a-headache, you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I don't even know where to start with all the things I didn't like about this story!
A married teacher starts an affair with his 22 year old student, he complains about his evil freeloading wife, who happen to trick him into marriage while he was drunk in Vegas, but of course he tried to make it work for a year, till he decided doing his student was the better option.
Then all the women in this book were horrible stereo types, the nagging horrible guilt inducing mother, the sluty spoiled sister,...more

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Jul 06, 2010 Stef rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, college, ebook, m-m

Overall it was an enjoyable read. I especially found the College setting quite realistic. I especially liked that I had a chance to get to know the various side-characters in Jeremy's life, without being overwhelmed by too much unnecessary detail.

Two things that I didn't quite understand were a) what Jeremy was actually studying and b) why he ended up taking Art History as well as a sculpture class. To take one credit for interest was understandable, but taking two in one semester seems very wa...more

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Jan 25, 2012 Cheryl rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-challenges, 2012-read

Jeremy is a college student. he's gay but no one knows. He's scared that everything will change if his friends knew. His first art history class he is practically drool over the professor.

Peter is Jeremy's art history professor. He thinks Jeremy is good looking. A few classes later and they are humping like bunnies on speed.

Two problems, one is the student/professor relationship is against the rules. Two Peter is married.

The relationship was too fast for me. They didn't spend time getting to kno...more

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Mar 02, 2013 Sue rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: did-not-finish

The behaviour of the professor seemed completely unbelievable to me. He just jumped into a sexual relationship with one of his students without seemingly a second thought. This after having two failed marriages where he did exactly the same thing. Does he never learn?
Okay, so perhaps he thought it would be different with a man, but it still could have done with some introspection on his part before giving in to Jeremy's advances, surely.
Didn't finish beyond 40% as it was so unbelievable, and th...more

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Jan 17, 2012 DarienMoya rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads, piss-of-books-of-2011, my-m-m-lovin, young-guys-get-poked-by-oldermen

More of my reviews and ramblings at PANTS OFF REVIEWS

As a reader and a reviewer, I am very easy to please. I think in my whole history of reading M/M books I have given a two star rating at least three or four times. As I wrote, I am very easy to please. Therefore, it came as quite a surprise when I found myself disliking everything about Teacher’s Pet (like everything). I am a fan of G.A Hauser, but it seems her books either are a hit or miss for me.

Teachers Pet started out good enough and then...more More of my reviews and ramblings at PANTS OFF REVIEWS

As a reader and a reviewer, I am very easy to please. I think in my whole history of reading M/M books I have given a two star rating at least three or four times. As I wrote, I am very easy to please. Therefore, it came as quite a surprise when I found myself disliking everything about Teacher’s Pet (like everything). I am a fan of G.A Hauser, but it seems her books either are a hit or miss for me.

Teachers Pet started out good enough and then turned into a story I cannot even describe without being viciously mean (I won’t be). Jeremy West is a college student getting ready for another year in school. Jeremy is gay, but hasn’t really told anyone, he uses school as a reason to why he doesn’t have a girlfriend. Until he takes some elective courses and the professor, the very male professor captures his attention.

Professor Peter Foster has the attention of all his female students, but it’s the one male student that has caught his eye. Jeremy seems interested and willing, but he is married after all. Even though his wife is a real bitch/gold digger and it’s a marriage he would rather not be apart of. Jeremy is young and attractive and he wants him, so why not have him. It would be a teacher/student relationship, but Peter is willing to risk it for a chance at sweet young Jeremy.

It sounds fabulous and wondrous, and I have been looking forward to reading it so bad. It started out wonderfully but then totally fell apart, because every character is just either too much or not enough. I liked Peter and Jeremy together (somewhat) they have an easy friendship, which I really liked. It’s the relationship aspect of it all that just seems all kinds of phoney. Peter seems to have no clue of what a relationship should be like, and I wanted him to get an opportunity to just be himself and live. He jumps into a relationship with Jeremy, after saying he also rushed into two marriages. Jeremy is believable as the young college student; I am just not in love with his character.

The sex is… I don’t even want to talk about it. Nothing about it felt right, and its coming from one of my favourite tropes (young guy gets poked by older dude) it leaves an ache in my heart. There is not one character I really enjoyed *not one*. I just wanted to love this one but I couldn’t, everything felt very contrived. I am just very disappointed, because it’s a bloody teacher/student hook-up and that’s like my thing. I can’t even bring myself to like it a lot.(less)

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Dec 20, 2008 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: glbt

This is a good book. It's not perfect, but the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Jeremy and Peter are great characters. Jeremy is a pretty typical college student in many ways, but he's also very mature. I never really felt like I was reading about a 22-year-old. Sure, he lives with a roommate in a messy college dorm, he drinks when he should be studying, he eats too much fast food, and he fights with his trampy younger sister. But he also deals with some very adult issues that make him seem...more This is a good book. It's not perfect, but the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Jeremy and Peter are great characters. Jeremy is a pretty typical college student in many ways, but he's also very mature. I never really felt like I was reading about a 22-year-old. Sure, he lives with a roommate in a messy college dorm, he drinks when he should be studying, he eats too much fast food, and he fights with his trampy younger sister. But he also deals with some very adult issues that make him seem far older than most college students. Peter is the cool professor everyone wants in college. He dresses casually, he curses in class, and he flirts with his students. He hates the harpy he married on a drunken night in Reno, but he tries to make it work because he's just a nice guy with a noble (though misguided) sense of duty.

My favorite character in this book is Kevin, Jeremy's roommate. Ms. Hauser obviously really liked him, and she did a great job characterizing him. I wish he had played a bigger part in the story. He and Jeremy have great chemistry, and there are a couple of brief exchanges between the two guys that I really wish had been explored further. I'd love to see him get his own book. He needs his HEA.

Peter's brother is another great character in this story, and I wish we'd gotten to know him better, too. Ms. Hauser really could have done great things with him. I hope I get to see him again.

I do have a few complaints about this book, but they're fairly minor. The first is just a personal preference of mine, so take it with a grain of salt: I didn't care much for the tone of this book. I know some pretty serious stuff was happening, but I still don't think it warranted such a melancholy tone. It was only a minor distraction for me, and it may not matter at all to most people, but I still feel the need to address it.

Second, a few seemingly important subplots were seriously neglected. I thought the Kevin issue deserved more attention, and so did the family problems, but the most neglected subplot of all involved the skank wife--and wasn't she pretty central to the story?? The climax of this story was really an anticlimax, and that rarely works for me. I guess I just felt that a few loose ends could have been tied up a bit more neatly.

I have no problem with the infidelity in this story. The wife is a troll. You'll hate her, too, and you'll be happy that Pete cheats on her. I promise. I don't even have a problem with the teacher/student relationship. I'd feel differently if Pete were 60 years old and in love with a minor, but I have no problems with a 34-year-old man dating 22-year-old college guy--even in a teacher/student capacity.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. I usually have a hard time relating to Ms. Hauser's writing style or the characters in her books, so I didn't really expect much out of TEACHER'S PET. Though I prefer a lighter tone in my romances, I do love these characters.

All in all, this is a very pleasant read. Good protagonists and supporting characters, great sex, believable chemistry, and an interesting storyline.2(less)

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Nov 01, 2010 T'Lar rated it 2 of 5 stars

In more than two years of reading m/m romance, this is the first book I've refused to finish and deleted from my reader because of the portrayal of women in it. I've read many people's complaints about how common this is in slash, so I don't know if I've just been lucky, or if I've been reading with my head in the sand.

Very disappointing. I had had high hopes for this one, based on the blurb.

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Dec 04, 2011 Natalie rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: age-difference, first-time, gfy-ofy

G.A. Hauser is hit or miss for me, and unfortunately this was a miss. The basic premise is one that I usually enjoy (professor falls in love with younger--but legal--student), but the relationship seemed to lack any real depth, and a couple of things especially bothered me. Every woman in this book is an evil shrew, and the main characters exhibit some pretty loathsome misogyny of their own. (For example, the professor gives a female student an F just because he doesn't like her. I'm supposed to...more

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Aug 13, 2011 Kimberly Be rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who wants a sample of poor writing

Shelves: m-m-romance, theme-arts, contemporary, theme-academia, own, group-m-m-r

I had really high hopes for this, because I love teacher/student, and the arts, and I'd heard G.A. Hauser's name a lot. Unfortunately, the writing was such poor quality, I had to really push myself to finish it, and that's not something that I'm overly picky about. It was disappointing when I expected so much more from a seasoned author.

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Apr 06, 2009 Angela rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Erotica, m/m,

Shelves: erotica, fiction, ebook, m-m-romance

I really can't say enough good things about this author. I LOVE her! Each book gets better. There's just so much passion in these books, that you just can't wait to finish them, but at the same time you never want them to end.

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May 15, 2012 Sophie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, m-m, short-stories, student-teacher-romance, erotica-m-m, age-gap

This was just a major disappointment. It could have been soo good =[.

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Dec 19, 2012 Jessica marked it as couldn-t-finish

p w/o plot 0.0

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About the Author Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time...more

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