A Modern Fairy Tale Duet #1

Beauty & The Professor

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What The Vibes Are

What It’s About

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful college student…

Erin cleans Mr. Morris’s house twice a week to pay her tuition. The reclusive ex-soldier intimidates her, but she can’t help but feel sympathy for him. Then she walks in on him touching himself, and she has much darker, much more sensual feelings.

And a beastly professor with scars he can’t hide…

Blake Morris knows he’s scarred both inside and out. He’s reclusive and surly. Nowhere near good enough for the smart and beautiful young woman who cleans his house.

He receives an offer to return to his alma mater as an associate professor. This is his chance to reenter the world–and to be worthy of the woman he dreams about. He never expected to see her sitting in his classroom on the first day of the semester.

Author’s Note: This book was previously published as a serial in multiple parts, including Beauty Touched the Beast, Beneath the Beauty, and Broken Beauty. They’ve been collected into this volume and revised for new readers.

BEAUTY AND THE PROFESSOR is the first book in A Modern Fairy Tale duet.

What I thought about it

***Possible Spoilers below

I rarely rate books less than 4 stars, so this is an anomaly for me. Loving anything that is based on Beauty and the Beast, I was disappointed with the way things turned out in this book. There were a lot of plot holes, and the book was very rushed.

The heroine, Erin, walked in on Blake, her boss, masturbating to thoughts of her. Now, having had a crush on him, she wanted to make his fantasies a reality. In the next chapter, she was all over him, seducing him. I felt that it was super rushed. There could have been a bit more anticipation regarding the build-up of their relationship.

The rest of the book was filled with sex scenes and Blake doubting himself because of his appearance. There really wasn’t that much of a plot or resolution. The only conflict was with Blake’s ex-fiancee and even that was an anti-climactic “conflict.” Every chapter consisted of at least two sex scenes with no plot development. Each character was pretty two-dimensional. We never really got to know each character, and the POV switched between both of them, so that’s saying a lot.

Having read some of Skye Warren’s previous books and loving them, I was super disappointed with this one. It had so much potential to be good, but fell short when it came to key points when writing a novel.

♡ G&P