27 June 2018

Book Review + New Release | Getting Schooled by Emma Chase (@emmachase)


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GETTING SCHOOLED
By Emma Chase

Head of the class...

Garrett Daniels has this whole life thing figured out.

The cocky, charismatic former high school star quarterback is an idolized football coach and "cool" teacher in the hometown where he's not just a golden boy — he's platinum. He has good friends, a great house on the lake, and the best damn sidekick a man could ask for: Snoopy, the albino beagle.

Then...Callie Carpenter comes home.

And knocks him right on his tight end zone.

Back to school...
Callie has a pretty sweet life herself...on the other side of the country. But circumstances — that she'd prefer to never speak of again — have brought her back home, helping out her parents and substitute teaching at her old high school.

Now she's facing bickering, raging hormones, constant gossip, awkward weirdness, and drama galore...and that's just the teachers.

Just like old times...
When Garrett offers to show his former high school sweetheart the secrets of his winning teacher ways, Callie jumps at the chance - and then has to stop herself from jumping him.
Good friends are all they can ever be.

Or...these teachers just might end up getting schooled — hard — by love.

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Review: 5/5

Getting Schooled is such an epic read. It was funny, sweet, steamy, witty and full of heart. It wasn’t just the romance that would make your eyes water, there is so much more.

Callie has finally come home due to an unfortunate car accident of her parents. That itself was pretty much a legend-in-the-making. I couldn’t help but gasp, and LOL. Her parents are cool, way cooler than Callie, I suppose. After years of working in a theatre company, doing what she loves best, she came home to take care of them for a while. She got a temporary job teaching theatre in their local high school. Their own is so small that she could easily bump into her old high school sweetheart, Garret.

Former star-player, now coach and history teacher - Garret is the kind of teaching you’d like to ogle and listen to during unholy class hours. He knows about teenagers - he understands them and he listens to them. He’s a great coach and even a greater teacher. He’s one of those who touches lives, and the one you’d remember fondly during reunions.

It’s high school all over again. Only that, this time it allows us a glimpse of it from the other side of the fence. Being an adult in a world full of brooding, hormonal teenagers. It is chaos and fun all at once. Garret was teaching Callie ‘the works’ of being one of them. But more than just teaching them - the old sparks ignite, and soon they found themselves back in each other’s arms. Will they finally get their HEA? What happens when Callie goes back to her job?

Complicated. Nevertheless, this novel was well-written, with all those moments that would keep your heart warm and make you go - awww. It reminds me of loads of things, especially my teachers when I was in school, the cliques, the personalities - every single person who made a difference and mold lives. I love the fact that this novel is a second-chance romance. But more than just romance, Getting Schooled offers more complex subjects that will bring back memories and will touch hearts. A must-read!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emma Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the hot and hilarious Tangled series and The Legal Briefs series. Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and two naughty (but really cute) dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.




EXCERPT

High school parking lots are one of the most dangerous places on earth. I don’t have statistics to back that up…but I know it’s true.
I pull into the school parking lot Monday morning in my Dad’s giant, newly repaired mint-green Buick, with Back in Black by AC/DC blasting from the speakers. I feel tough, powerful—like I’m driving a tank.
I’m a badass teacher—I’ll run you down even if you’re a student—I’ve got twenty-nine more in class just like you.
The outfit helps too—leather boots, blue jeans, a starched white blouse and a black leather jacket. It’s my armor. The morning air is cool and crisp today, but I barely feel it. I’m locked and loaded and ready to roll. 
As I march towards the main entrance, I spot Garrett and Dean and Alison Bellinger outside the doors. They pause when they see me, waiting.
“Damn,” Dean chuckles. “Callie’s got her shit-kickers on. Did you dig them out of a mosh pit from 1993?”
Garrett crosses his arms. “Somebody’s channeling Michelle Pfiefer in Dangerous Minds.”
He looks fantastic. His hair is tousled from the breeze and kisses his brow, and he’s wearing a dark blue sweater that’s snug around his biceps and soft, worn, light blue jeans. I remember his arms around me yesterday on my parent’s porch. The wonder and exhilaration of the moment.
Of him.
The intensity in his eyes, the desire and possessiveness in the grasp of his hands. The scorching feel of his mouth, his wet talented tongue that made my stomach swirl and my head spin.
So much for not complicating things.
But I’m not going to play head games with myself or Garrett—we’re too old for that shit.
I have feelings for him—I always have—our break-up had nothing to do with either of us not wanting each other desperately. But these aren’t just leftover echoes of a sweet, first love—this is something new. A throbbing, breathless attraction to the amazing man he’s become. I want to be near him. I want to know him, inside and out, all over again.
And he feels the same way. Garrett wants this version of me as much as he always did—maybe even more. I heard it in his whispered words and felt it in his kiss.
I don’t know if we have a future, if it can go anywhere. We have separate lives on opposite ends of the country. But I’m not going to worry about that—for now, I’m going to take each day as it comes and enjoy every moment we can.
Except for now. Now is not the time for enjoying or worrying or relationship building…now is the time for focusing. Now is the time to be ice and steel—don’t smile, don’t waver.
“Little fucknutters don’t know who the hell they’re dealing with,” I growl.
Allison pumps her fist. “That’s the spirit.”
Garrett opens the door for me. “Go get ‘em, Gangster’s Paradise.”
  

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