The Perfect Lessons The Perfect Series Book #2
Multicultural & Interracial Romance, Romantic Comedy New Adult Fiction
Cindy Ziegelman Enterprises LLC;
Jan 20, 2023
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Trudie, a middle school English teacher, is on her way to another psychology conference when she walks into a wall of hard pecs and abs named Dr. Alexander Pierce. The nationally-acclaimed psychologist specializing in childhood trauma who looks like a Grecian god is to be her lecturer all week.
Too bad he’s not half as humble as he is smart.
His superiority complex inadvertently puts Trudie on the defensive. When he challenges her and she pushes back in front of hundreds of attendees, she cracks Dr. Pierce’s veneer, something he certainly didn’t plan on happening this week—or ever.
Trudie needs a teacher to heal her past emotional wounds. Alex needs a reason to get off his high horse. They need a way to work out their differences, or the consequences could be devastating.
The Perfect Lessons will leave you panting with pleasure—all while getting to the heart and soul of what makes us happy.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
This book goes beyond just romance, it is also a lesson in treating childhood traumas and at-risk children in the school system which unfortunately is an on-going problem. On the romance part, it is a hate to love relationship which at times seems more hate than love.
Trudie Gonzales is a middle school teacher with daddy issues. Since she was a child, she has been unable to forgive her father for the way he treated his family being gone often and when home making everyone walk on eggshells. She keeps looking for a way to get over her past and keeps attending psychology conferences with the hope someone will have an answer that will help her. Now she is attending a psychology conference much better than all the others she attended because she entered a contest and won a free penthouse suite, freeing up her money for other fun things.
Her excitement took her mind temporarily off where she was going, and she found herself bumping into a Greek God with the personality of a Greek thug. Banging into the man knocked his phone out of his hand and when it dropped the screen cracked. He insists that she pay for the repair, and she doesn’t hesitate to tell him no. As far as Trudie is concerned the accident was as much his fault as hers since he was talking on the phone and not paying attention.
She is angry, he is angry and as if that wasn’t bad enough, he is the keynote speaker at the three seminars she has been signed up for. She does her best to hide in the room, but Dr. Alexander Pierce sees her and does everything in his power to make her uncomfortable and embarrassed. Trudie is not a girl who will take his behavior without standing up for herself and the more she does the more he seems to be interested in her and in a very inappropriate way.
Unlike Trudie, Alex comes from a very wealthy family and despite the wealth he has a bad relationship with his parents. His parents’ life is ruled by money and Alex is ruled by his determination to help children. His degree emphasizes childhood trauma, but he can’t seem to keep his holier than thou attitude under control. The relationship between Alex and Trudie started off on the wrong foot but sometime between leaving the conference and heading home the two of them found themselves in a motel and in bed. Alex is determined to teach Trudie how to achieve a sexual awakening and he does exactly that.
Even after having the best sex, she ever had she still found herself finding fault with something Alex said and they are right back to where they first started. School starts and Trudie is busy getting ready to welcome her incoming students and never expected to find Alex in the principal’s office. He has been hired as a consultant by the school board to help the school reach excellence and the principal has assigned Trudie as his liaison.
Despite Trudie’s determination to stay strong and keep Alex at arm’s length it proves to be an exercise in futility, every touch, every word makes her melt and desire him. Trudie (student) and Alex (teacher) have many more lessons and they won’t come easily.
The book ends in a cliffhanger but that is not terrible because book three is coming out in August and I can’t wait to see what happens between Trudie and Alex because they have so many things standing in the way of a relationship.