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Quick Study
Bonnie Angelo, a graduate student in California, is desperate to finish her degree in Gender Studies. But when she decides to make her thesis more innovative by collecting personal sexual experiences, Bonnie has to fight off her very non-clinical feelings for the first research subject she brings home, software engineer Paul Ash.
Not knowing Bonnie's motives, Paul is blown away by their first meeting and doesn't understand why she keeps trying to avoid him. But while he focuses on the chase . . . and the delights of her capture . . . he forgets to guard his own heart.
Quick Study is a hot, romantic novella, the equivalent of about 100 print pages.
Not knowing Bonnie's motives, Paul is blown away by their first meeting and doesn't understand why she keeps trying to avoid him. But while he focuses on the chase . . . and the delights of her capture . . . he forgets to guard his own heart.
Quick Study is a hot, romantic novella, the equivalent of about 100 print pages.
- GenresRomance
100 pages, ebook
First published January 31, 2011
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Gretchen Galway
27 books368 followersGRETCHEN GALWAY is a USA Today bestselling author who writes mystery, fantasy, and romance. She lives in Sonoma County, California.
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July 4, 2013
Blech.
Read this right after I read and LOVED and five starred another of Ms. Galway's books. It was to be the start of an obsessive Galway glom through a two-week vacation. So looking forward to it.
Glom stopped in its tracks.
From the premise to the characters to the actions of the characters throughout it was just upsetting and puzzling.
The female protag is a grad student conducting a study. In this study she feels it is responsible behavior to engage in sex with the study's subjects. But wait, she isn't going to tell them they are part of the study. Or wait, maybe the plan was to tell them they were in a study, but with her first and only study "partner" she gets personally involved and just can't bring herself to break the mood by having him sign the consent form.
So she has wild passionate sex with this guy on an exercise bench. Can you say cooties? I don't care if it is in his home and it is his personal bench, seems like a great place to pick up some germs.
Then she has a conference with her advisor. Ummm, Professor Alice? Please tell me a gender studies professor doesn't use her first name with "professor" appended. So I am sitting back, waiting to hear this grad student blasted from the program for unethical, unprofessional, unusable behavior. Nope, what we get is a light remonstration, a bit of tsking, oblique references to dead parents and painting.
Again, I kept plowing through. But after an unfortunate encounter in a Starbucks parking lot (where she uses her self-defense prowess to save herself from a study subject), I just couldn't take it anymore. 60%, I am out.
I would delete from my account, but I can see myself mistakenly downloading it again. I don't want to bring back the memories.
Will I continue to read Ms. Galway? Definitely. Will I download samples before I one click? Definitely.
Read this right after I read and LOVED and five starred another of Ms. Galway's books. It was to be the start of an obsessive Galway glom through a two-week vacation. So looking forward to it.
Glom stopped in its tracks.
From the premise to the characters to the actions of the characters throughout it was just upsetting and puzzling.
The female protag is a grad student conducting a study. In this study she feels it is responsible behavior to engage in sex with the study's subjects. But wait, she isn't going to tell them they are part of the study. Or wait, maybe the plan was to tell them they were in a study, but with her first and only study "partner" she gets personally involved and just can't bring herself to break the mood by having him sign the consent form.
So she has wild passionate sex with this guy on an exercise bench. Can you say cooties? I don't care if it is in his home and it is his personal bench, seems like a great place to pick up some germs.
Then she has a conference with her advisor. Ummm, Professor Alice? Please tell me a gender studies professor doesn't use her first name with "professor" appended. So I am sitting back, waiting to hear this grad student blasted from the program for unethical, unprofessional, unusable behavior. Nope, what we get is a light remonstration, a bit of tsking, oblique references to dead parents and painting.
Again, I kept plowing through. But after an unfortunate encounter in a Starbucks parking lot (where she uses her self-defense prowess to save herself from a study subject), I just couldn't take it anymore. 60%, I am out.
I would delete from my account, but I can see myself mistakenly downloading it again. I don't want to bring back the memories.
Will I continue to read Ms. Galway? Definitely. Will I download samples before I one click? Definitely.
September 23, 2012
This was a good short story, but it had many of the flaws of a short story. The limits in character development left them and the relationship a little flat. The sex scenes were hot, and it was well-written for what it was. But it wasn't anything special. I good read for a short escape.
November 14, 2013
Short romance.
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