Last Will and Testament (Radleigh University, #1)
Dahlia Adler
Lizzie Brandt was valedictorian of her high school class, but at Radleigh University, all she's acing are partying and hooking up with the wrong guys. But all that changes when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, making her guardian to her two younger brothers. To keep them out of foster care, she'll have to fix up her image, her life, and her GPA—fast. Too bad the only person on campus she can go to for help is her humorless, pedantic Byzantine History TA, Connor Lawson, who isn't exactly Lizzie's biggest fan. But Connor surprises her. Not only is he a great tutor, but he’s also a pretty great babysitter. And chauffeur. And listener. And he understands exactly what it’s like to be on your own before you're ready. Before long, Lizzie realizes having a responsible-adult type around has its perks... and that she'd like to do some rather irresponsible (but considerably adult) things with him as well. Good thing he's not the kind of guy who'd ever reciprocate. Until he does. Until they turn into far more than teacher and student. Until the relationship that helped put their lives back together threatens everything they both have left.
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0Woohoo! I started 2016 off right with a good book (as opposed to last year where the first couple of books I read got 1-3 stars and then the next couple got DNFed). Going in to this book, I didn't realize it was New Adult, so that shocked me a little bit. I really, really like books that are set in college. This is partially because I am still in college and partially because I like the diversity and freedom a college setting lends to characters. I really liked that they made Connor more innocent and sweet than the usual devil-may-care bad boy that we usually see in these kinds of novels. For some reason, the amount (and explicitness) of the sex bothered me. I wanted to see a little more relationship development before Connor and Lizzie jumped into bed together. I also didn't like the whole Sophie-Trevor-Lizzie brouhaha. Finally, I didn't really love how the relationship between Lizzie, Tyler, and Max was portrayed. I feel like it got glossed over a lot when it really should have been one of the main focuses of the story (the focus was played more on Lizzie's struggles with the situation). I wish we had seen more of Lizzie in her other classes/with her other Professor's and TAs to offset her interactions with Connor.
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