Could they really last? The professor and the student? Dr. Matt Fraiser and grad student Mary Madeline Tucker could rationalize their feelings, question their forbidden love and even push one another away. When it comes to love, though, theirs was the most passionate in the universe... or at least, at the university.
This is a well written story but you definitely need to read the first book before you read this one or you will be lost as to what is going on. I wanted to like this one more but it seemed that the main characters were less likable. Both Mary and Mait seem to be making the same mistakes that felt they should have been over by now. The actions of the family are even more upsetting and while Mait seems to be upset by what they do he really doesn't call them on it. At most he retreats and almost seems to pout instead of dealing with things head on. I'm not sure I believe that they will really have a truly happily ever after until they both come to better terms with the past and present family issues.
The beginning of this book was somewhat disconcerting because it referred to significant events that happened in the past. Once I progressed from there I found the book to be good overall. I was disturbed by the scene in which Coulson locked Mary in a room with her attacker and expected her to forgive the attacker simply because he told her to. He then seemed more concerned about the damage to his door and souvenir baseball bat than about Mary. Coulson was portrayed as the morally upstanding brother but he showed blatant disregard for patient confidentiality in the scene in the hospital. Overall, a good read.