I love the whole premise of the forbidden nature of a teacher and student relationship especially when it's a female teacher with a male student, it adds just a little bit more naughtiness to it with the idea of an older woman taking on the younger man, so I fully expected to love Forbidden Spice and it was good, but it wasn't quite perfect.
Blaire and Jaden first meet in the bar/restaurant that Jaden works in, it's instalust and they end up hooking up the first night and then beginning a two-week passionate tryst before Jaden walks into Blaire's classroom and realises she's his new culinary professor and that's where the book started to go wrong for me. Once Blaire realises Jaden is her student she ends things with him because she can't risk her career and then the book begins to get a little jumpy with its time frame. Two weeks, months, a year it made the story feel clunky and lose some of its charm and flow as it flitted from We can't be together to I'm jealous, I will wait, I want you, and stolen moments.
I enjoyed the spice, and when the couple worked together they were great but so much of their relationship was focused on their sexual chemistry and the will we be together or not without any emotional input, that I wish it had been padded out a little more with fewer jumps and more of them just being together.