Author: Penny Reid
Language: English
Format: ebook
Rating: 4 stars
Reading challenge: A less known book by a well-known author*
No of pages: 196
Date read: 11.11.2017
BLURB:
What do you do when you discover that your super-hot blind date from months ago is now your super-hot Russian Lit professor?
You overthink everything and pray for a swift end to your misery, of course!
‘Kissing Tolstoy’ is the first book in the Dear Professor series, is 46k words, and can be read as a standalone. A shorter version of this story (28k words) was entitled ‘Nobody Looks Good in Leather Pants’ and was available via Penny Reid’s newsletter over the course of 2017.
I have actually been reading this story in Penny's newsletters over the course of 2017 one torturous chapter a time, but re-read all of it now in one go as well. There was something oddly pleasing about the torture of reading only one chapter a month, but it was imminently more pleasing to read it all in one go as well. Penny expanded her story a bit in this version and I have to say that the added chapters add a lot to the overall story and I really, really enjoyed Luca's POV.
When I was reading the story in Reid's newsletters, I felt that Luca was not a very nice man, but Luca's POV in the expanded version gave me so much more information about the man that I couldn't help thinking that he is actually a very nice man who did his best to not take advantage of a student of his.
While the newsletter version was all in Anna's head and it was enjoyable as far as I'd rate it 3/5 in my enjoyment scale, Luca's POV simply upped the rating by a full star. That's how much I liked those chapters.
The one con I have with this book ... is that I am not actually a fan of the cover photo. The garish pink simply doesn't do anything to me but make me turn my head away. Thankfully I have a Paperwhite so all covers are gray.
While the newsletter version was all in Anna's head and it was enjoyable as far as I'd rate it 3/5 in my enjoyment scale, Luca's POV simply upped the rating by a full star. That's how much I liked those chapters.
The one con I have with this book ... is that I am not actually a fan of the cover photo. The garish pink simply doesn't do anything to me but make me turn my head away. Thankfully I have a Paperwhite so all covers are gray.
* I'll think of Penny as a well-known author because of two reasons: Amazon chose her book Dating-ish as one of the best romance novels of 2017 AND because two of her books were nominated in Goodreads Choice Awards and made it as far as the semifinals (at least). Maybe even further, but as of this review, we haven't gotten past the semifinals stage.
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