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Hope Again
by Mona Kasten
AAAAAAAH WOODSHILL! I'm so happy to be back!
Ever since I binge read the first three books last year, I knew that coming back to Woodshill and seeing familiar faces again will be a great pleasure, and it was.
The reason why it did take me so long, and why I kept putting it off, was not that I wasn't eager to finish this series, but that I had to mentally prepare myself for a romance trope I'm everything but fond of: the student/professor relationship. As much as I loved Everly and Nolan as secondary characters in [b:Trust Again|29756850|Trust Again (Again, #2)|Mona Kasten|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1459541963l/29756850._SX50_.jpg|50115709], I had zero interest in reading their love story. There is just something unrealistic about a relationship between an university professor and one of his students, that has lost his appeal ever since Aria and Ezra from Pretty Little Liars became annyoing to me. (And trust me, I adored that ship in the beginning! Now? Not so.) However, after reading two New Adult romance books that didn't satisfy me in a way Mona Kasten used to do, and knowing that I will adore the next and final book of the Again series according to my friend's fangirling, I decided to push through this. And I did. But it turned into a enjoyable binge read instead.
The romantic relationship between Nolan and Everly took me by a suprise. I must say from all tragic backstories (and there are sure a lot in this series), I have felt the ones of these two characters the most. I loved to see how Everly found a way to work on her trauma through the writing assignemts, and thus opened her heart to the one man she felt safe with - her professor Nolan. As I have loved Nolan's character in Trust Again a lot already, I was partly afraid he would get out of character in order to appeal to Everly. But this was not the case. He stayed the funny, supportive, open-minded professor Dawn, the protagonist of the second book, got to know. And his relationship to Everly felt realistic. His support and help in terms of her texts touched me, and them spending time together because of Dawn's manuscripts didn't feel forced. I actually enjoyed seeing their relationship slowly developing, and to my suprise, didn't feel it at all as if it were cringe-worthy or forced for the sake of the story.
Honestly, I still don't consider myself a fan of the student/professort trope, but I'm definitely more down to read one if it is as well executed as the one between Nolan and Everly. There is a reason why Mona Kasten made me love this genre, and it's this series.
Ever since I binge read the first three books last year, I knew that coming back to Woodshill and seeing familiar faces again will be a great pleasure, and it was.
The reason why it did take me so long, and why I kept putting it off, was not that I wasn't eager to finish this series, but that I had to mentally prepare myself for a romance trope I'm everything but fond of: the student/professor relationship. As much as I loved Everly and Nolan as secondary characters in [b:Trust Again|29756850|Trust Again (Again, #2)|Mona Kasten|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1459541963l/29756850._SX50_.jpg|50115709], I had zero interest in reading their love story. There is just something unrealistic about a relationship between an university professor and one of his students, that has lost his appeal ever since Aria and Ezra from Pretty Little Liars became annyoing to me. (And trust me, I adored that ship in the beginning! Now? Not so.) However, after reading two New Adult romance books that didn't satisfy me in a way Mona Kasten used to do, and knowing that I will adore the next and final book of the Again series according to my friend's fangirling, I decided to push through this. And I did. But it turned into a enjoyable binge read instead.
The romantic relationship between Nolan and Everly took me by a suprise. I must say from all tragic backstories (and there are sure a lot in this series), I have felt the ones of these two characters the most. I loved to see how Everly found a way to work on her trauma through the writing assignemts, and thus opened her heart to the one man she felt safe with - her professor Nolan. As I have loved Nolan's character in Trust Again a lot already, I was partly afraid he would get out of character in order to appeal to Everly. But this was not the case. He stayed the funny, supportive, open-minded professor Dawn, the protagonist of the second book, got to know. And his relationship to Everly felt realistic. His support and help in terms of her texts touched me, and them spending time together because of Dawn's manuscripts didn't feel forced. I actually enjoyed seeing their relationship slowly developing, and to my suprise, didn't feel it at all as if it were cringe-worthy or forced for the sake of the story.
Honestly, I still don't consider myself a fan of the student/professort trope, but I'm definitely more down to read one if it is as well executed as the one between Nolan and Everly. There is a reason why Mona Kasten made me love this genre, and it's this series.