Title: Love Lessons Learned Main Characters: John Wainwright & Brett Sanderson Author: K.C. Wells Genre: Contemporary Romance Length: 286 pages Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Date of Publication: April 14th 2014 Story: John Wainwright is having a momentous day. To start off, he lands his first teaching job. Then his brother, Evan, and Evan’s husband, Daniel, take him out to celebrate in Manchester’s gay village. An encounter with a sexy man forces John to admit what he’s been denying for too long—he’s gay. His coming out proves he’s supported and loved by his family and roommates. What more could a man want? There’s just one small problem: John’s dishy Head Teacher, Brett Sanderson, and John’s gigantic crush on him. Too bad Brett is straight. Brett Sanderson leads a double life. At thirty-three, he is the Head Teacher of a primary school. But for seven years now, during every school holiday, Brett has fled to Brighton, where he becomes ‘Rob,’ a man who has a different guy in his bed every night but has never had a relationship. Once he’s back in school, Brett is firmly back in that closet, until his newest staff member starts prying open the door. When John pulls out all the stops to get Brett’s attention, neither man is prepared for the consequences. Me and this book: I’ve been on a K.C. Wells reading spree since the Damian’s Discipline book, this was the second one on my list. Despite not having read yet the Learning To Love series where I believe this book was a spin off from, the story line alone took me from being curious to utterly over excited. And bless Madam Wells for making this applicable as a standalone because I don’t think I’d have the patience to read all of those books first since I was so ecstatic to start this one. Thank you. Review: John Wainwright was the typical I-don’t-know-for-sure-if-I’m-gay guy. Well, at least at the beginning. He had just finished his interview at this school he was applying as a teacher for and like any other person, he was nervous as hell. Good thing he had his little brother with him to keep him from breaking down. Throughout the course of the night, two life changing events had happened, one, he was accepted to the school he applied for and two, he was gay. Finally, the answer he was waiting for was given to him in a form of a smoldering kiss from a man he hardly even knew. Now, he was definitely certain that he’s gay. Good thing everyone was okay with it, the only downfall though was that he can’t afford to stay openly gay especially at his new teaching job, it will jeopardize his work and reputation. With years of hiding, John was sure that he’ll be able to work it all out, what he didn’t prepare for was meeting the head teacher, Brett Sanderson. Brett Sanderson was this typical hiding-inside-the-closet kind of man, except on his breaks where he travels to Brighton. In Brighton, he’s a different person, literally. With a different alias, he spends each night with a different man in his bed and the next morning he always wants them gone. That was how he copes up with having to deal with his life as the head teacher, with both stress from work and his social life hanging in the balance. But with years of doing the same thing over and over again, Brett eventually questions himself, “Is this all there is?” Brett wanted more to life that just sex and lust, he wanted someone to wake up to one morning and not have the urge to want them to leave. But it’s not that easy to break this routine he has had for years, it needed a special someone to do that job. It was for certain that these two will meet somewhere along the way. What wasn’t for certain was how these two overcome their desire for each other and just let themselves go. Readers will opt and root for John in this book because it plainly focuses more on him, with his journey to this new job and new home. When John gets hurt, the readers will also get hurt. When John is comforted by his housemates, the readers will also get comforted. That was how it is. So it’s normal for some people to feel upset and angry at Brett’s actions towards John, it’s understandable. Some (including me) might even think that Brett needed more of the guilt, regret and self-loathing scenes than what he got but it can’t be helped, John was just too forgiving. In the end, this is a must read for those in love with the way K.C. Wells writes and makes her books. They are just so different from the others that I think I can tell which one is from others and which ones are hers. Pacing-wise, this was amazingly done well. The author was able to pace all the needed scenes well and she even included a fun booze filled night for all of us readers to enjoy. My only complaint is the fact that maybe John was a little too forgiving for my taste but aside from that everything else was fine. Let us not forget about the secondary characters as well, every character was well done and every dialogue was precise and full of emotion may it be a scene from school or from John’s home. This wasn’t also a book where readers already knew what’ll happen just form the description, there are a lot of surprising events that even I never expected to see and I guarantee it will catch the reader’s attention. So in short, this was a great read that will definitely spark the interest of readers every chapter along the way. |
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