Review: Teach Me

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Title: Teach Me 
(There is Something About Marysburg #1)
Author: Olivia Dade
Genre / Themes: Contemporary romance, teachers
Release date: 30 May 2019

Author's links: Website / Twitter / Goodreads
My rating: 5 Stars

Blurb

Their lesson plans didn't include love. But that's about to change...

When Martin Krause arrives at Rose Owens's high school, she's determined to remain chilly with her new colleague. Unfriendly? Maybe. Understandable? Yes, since a loathsome administrator gave Rose's beloved world history classes to Martin, knowing it would hurt her.

But keeping her distance from a man as warm and kind as Martin will prove challenging, even for a stubborn, guarded ice queen. Especially when she begins to see him for what he truly is: a man who's never been taught his own value. Martin could use a good teacher--and luckily, Rose is the best.

Rose has her own lessons--about trust, about vulnerability, about her past--to learn. And over the course of a single school year, the two of them will find out just how hot it can get when an ice queen melts.

Review

This a warm hug of a book and I couldn't be happier I got a chance to read an ARC of it. Such a lovely, heart-warming, life-affirming, joy-bringing book!

I loved both MCs, each not being the typical romance MC - she is fat but there is nothing soft about her, she is confident and fierce, has a killer fashion style and np hang-ups about her body. I adore Rose and want to be her when I grow up.

Martin is softest cinnamon roll hero, unassuming and shy, quiet, carrying a lot of baggage from the past. I loved how caring he was with is daughter, with his students with heroine. Kindness means so much and at the same time is so underrated in real life and in romance.

They are both teachers and liked how much their professional life was part of the story, their dedication to their students was a joy to read. Often the professions of the MCs in romance are barely noticeable but here they had a central place in the story because they had a central place in the character's lives.

I appreciate how their romance progressed, the character development worked perfectly for me, both Rose and Martin are hesitant to start a relationship, they have their scars and we seem them getting closer with time, opening up to each other, putting an effort into being together and making it work. I liked how he stood his ground without being aggressive or pressuring her. Her big gesture was so over-the-top but also the sweetest possible apology and it was so fitting to the story and worked so well and I loved it so much. 

The story also has incidental queer representation which I liked, together with complicated family dynamics (exes, Martin's daughter. Rose's ex-inlaws, they were all very interesting characters and had an important role in the story).

Highly recommended read!

CW for abuse in the family (in the past)

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