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A review by bookwormymegan
Academically Yours by Jennifer Chipman
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
DNF @ 28%
There isn’t inherently anything wrong with this book. For the right person, I’m sure it could easily be a favorite. However, for me, it was just way too slow.
Matthew and Noelle don’t want to date for various reasons, but they seem so flimsy since they’re both extremely attracted to one another. I can appreciate that Chipman is trying to toss in a forbidden element but it’s not like Noelle is underage. She’s not only a grad student, but a university employee; not to mention her major has nothing to do with Matthew’s department.
It didn’t feel like there was any plot. I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to revolve around the forbidden romance and self-made not dating pacts, but there just wasn’t enough there for me to care. I was reading the words but not holding on to them.
The writing and editing also left a lot to be desired. It was very tell, not show. Rather than let a quirk be discovered, for example, we’re just handed everything. Example: “Were my cheeks warm? I thought they might be. I hoped the back of my neck wasn’t all splotchy in the way that it got when I was embarrassed, but from the way she was looking at me, well… I rather thought that it was. “Oh my god,” Noelle gasped. “Are you blushing?” That’s a lot of sentences to talk about blush when it could’ve been something short, sweet, and to the point. And the whole book is like that. There’s also so many grammatical and syntactic errors, it’s entirely too distracting. Example: “Has anyone ever told you you’re insane?” she asked me, and I couldn’t help but laugh. I couldn’t help but laugh. “No. I think you’d be the first.” I copy / pasted that straight from the book, and it’s an error that should’ve been caught right away.
Overall, there just wasn’t enough intrigue to keep me invested, and the problems within the text itself were far more distracting than the book was entertaining.
There isn’t inherently anything wrong with this book. For the right person, I’m sure it could easily be a favorite. However, for me, it was just way too slow.
Matthew and Noelle don’t want to date for various reasons, but they seem so flimsy since they’re both extremely attracted to one another. I can appreciate that Chipman is trying to toss in a forbidden element but it’s not like Noelle is underage. She’s not only a grad student, but a university employee; not to mention her major has nothing to do with Matthew’s department.
It didn’t feel like there was any plot. I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to revolve around the forbidden romance and self-made not dating pacts, but there just wasn’t enough there for me to care. I was reading the words but not holding on to them.
The writing and editing also left a lot to be desired. It was very tell, not show. Rather than let a quirk be discovered, for example, we’re just handed everything. Example: “Were my cheeks warm? I thought they might be. I hoped the back of my neck wasn’t all splotchy in the way that it got when I was embarrassed, but from the way she was looking at me, well… I rather thought that it was. “Oh my god,” Noelle gasped. “Are you blushing?” That’s a lot of sentences to talk about blush when it could’ve been something short, sweet, and to the point. And the whole book is like that. There’s also so many grammatical and syntactic errors, it’s entirely too distracting. Example: “Has anyone ever told you you’re insane?” she asked me, and I couldn’t help but laugh. I couldn’t help but laugh. “No. I think you’d be the first.” I copy / pasted that straight from the book, and it’s an error that should’ve been caught right away.
Overall, there just wasn’t enough intrigue to keep me invested, and the problems within the text itself were far more distracting than the book was entertaining.