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Goode Girl #0.5
Goode Grades
FREE short story --> Love came when she least expected and it was wrapped in an uptight, neurotic little package.
Professor Yvonne Montero is perfectly content teaching her classes at Goode College and living her quiet, if not monotonous, life. That all changes when Carolyn, parent to one of her student’s, storms into her office like an axis-shifting natural disaster.
Despite Carolyn’s initial effort to jeopardize her job, Yvonne starts to see the woman in a new light. As they get to know each other, Yvonne wonders if the sparks of dislike can turn into something else. Something scorching.
Get hot for teacher in this delightful enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance!
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Professor Yvonne Montero is perfectly content teaching her classes at Goode College and living her quiet, if not monotonous, life. That all changes when Carolyn, parent to one of her student’s, storms into her office like an axis-shifting natural disaster.
Despite Carolyn’s initial effort to jeopardize her job, Yvonne starts to see the woman in a new light. As they get to know each other, Yvonne wonders if the sparks of dislike can turn into something else. Something scorching.
Get hot for teacher in this delightful enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance!
AVAILABLE BY JOINING THE MAILING LIST
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J.J. Arias
36 books1,232 followersHello! And thank you for finding me!
I am an independent author writing about fictional lesbians of all varieties.
My writing journey began with fan faction, and as much as I LOVED being part of a community of super fans, I got tired of working with other people’s characters to tell my stories. I started asking myself: Why should we string together pieces of subtext when our community deserves well-developed main-text about LBGT people and those who love them! So, that is what I aim to deliver.
If you want to know a little more about me personally, J.J. Arias is my pen name. I do have a day job, and due to the industry I’m in, I can’t write under my given name. Although who knows, maybe one day I can write full-time and come out of the … office? I am a Scorpio woman (I know, I know, but I’m a nice one I PROMISE) happily married to a uniquely wonderful Cancer lady. Together we have several fur babies of the feline and canine varieties.
So, here I am, and I hope you enjoy my writing! I’m very open to thoughts, comments, critiques, and knock-knock jokes, so please feel free to message me with any of the above – or anything else you would like to say!
I am an independent author writing about fictional lesbians of all varieties.
My writing journey began with fan faction, and as much as I LOVED being part of a community of super fans, I got tired of working with other people’s characters to tell my stories. I started asking myself: Why should we string together pieces of subtext when our community deserves well-developed main-text about LBGT people and those who love them! So, that is what I aim to deliver.
If you want to know a little more about me personally, J.J. Arias is my pen name. I do have a day job, and due to the industry I’m in, I can’t write under my given name. Although who knows, maybe one day I can write full-time and come out of the … office? I am a Scorpio woman (I know, I know, but I’m a nice one I PROMISE) happily married to a uniquely wonderful Cancer lady. Together we have several fur babies of the feline and canine varieties.
So, here I am, and I hope you enjoy my writing! I’m very open to thoughts, comments, critiques, and knock-knock jokes, so please feel free to message me with any of the above – or anything else you would like to say!
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July 24, 2022
Dating an overbearing parent.
This is a short story of the Goode Girl series and I think it's suppose to precede the first book but it can be read as a standalone so it shouldn't matter.
The interesting thing is, I found one of the characters highly annoying but I also realised somewhere in the middle that I like this story a great deal. This story is written in the single POV of a college professor, Yvonne, who finds herself having to deal with an overbearing and overly concerned mother of a student. Yvonne is an average and likeable character and I like her, but Carolyn is a different story. She's neurotic and insufferable and I'd tell Yvonne to stay the hell away from her if I could. But I realise after a while that Yvonne has the patience of an owl and I really love it whenever she tries to calm Carolyn down.
A short story that's pretty good in general, I guess.
This is a short story of the Goode Girl series and I think it's suppose to precede the first book but it can be read as a standalone so it shouldn't matter.
The interesting thing is, I found one of the characters highly annoying but I also realised somewhere in the middle that I like this story a great deal. This story is written in the single POV of a college professor, Yvonne, who finds herself having to deal with an overbearing and overly concerned mother of a student. Yvonne is an average and likeable character and I like her, but Carolyn is a different story. She's neurotic and insufferable and I'd tell Yvonne to stay the hell away from her if I could. But I realise after a while that Yvonne has the patience of an owl and I really love it whenever she tries to calm Carolyn down.
A short story that's pretty good in general, I guess.
December 26, 2025
I enjoyed it. Short, I'd say slow burn and pretty cute.
September 2, 2022
I didn’t expect to warm up to Carolyn but her high strung personality won me over in the end.
November 13, 2021
I like J.J. Arias. I read Objecting to Her and The Goode Governor and liked them a lot. I also have Undercover Madam on my (next 5) physical TBR pile. She makes really interesting characters and introduces and develops them well. I believe all of the above are Enemies to Lovers / Ice Queen romances.
Goode College is a small private school in Tallahassee, Florida. The only Goode Girls tale I'd read before had alumnae of the college. This novella has professors, students, and parents. In particular, Yvonne is an English professor, Sophia is one of her students (who'd just received a B for her first paper of the semester - the second highest grade awarded ), and Carolyn is Sophia's mother who sweeps into Yvonne's office like a tornado and demands that this travesty of a grade be fixed.
Turns out, eventually, that when Yvonne and Carolyn actually get to know each other, both adjust their initial impressions and things work out a lot better.
The characters are interesting. Their interactions as they get to know each other are solid and plausible. The problem is, this was way too much story to tell in a 68-page novelette (or whatever this is). I can understand how mutual attraction quickly grows into lust. (I guess "Is this a date?" "Do you want it to be?" "Yes" combined with "I haven't had a date in 15 years" might lead to that.)
But, a couple of days of dating, followed by hurt feelings and mutual missing of each other and self reflection for a couple of months, followed a couple of months later by, essentially, an epilog at the end of the semester, was not enough. As I said, well defined and interesting characters, but a lot of missing story to get from point A (the beginning) to point B (the end).
It was an amusing story, but I can't give it more than 3 stars; I'm not likely to reread it. Even if I had time to reread stories. :)
Goode College is a small private school in Tallahassee, Florida. The only Goode Girls tale I'd read before had alumnae of the college. This novella has professors, students, and parents. In particular, Yvonne is an English professor, Sophia is one of her students (who'd just received a B for her first paper of the semester - the second highest grade awarded ), and Carolyn is Sophia's mother who sweeps into Yvonne's office like a tornado and demands that this travesty of a grade be fixed.
Turns out, eventually, that when Yvonne and Carolyn actually get to know each other, both adjust their initial impressions and things work out a lot better.
The characters are interesting. Their interactions as they get to know each other are solid and plausible. The problem is, this was way too much story to tell in a 68-page novelette (or whatever this is). I can understand how mutual attraction quickly grows into lust. (I guess "Is this a date?" "Do you want it to be?" "Yes" combined with "I haven't had a date in 15 years" might lead to that.)
But, a couple of days of dating, followed by hurt feelings and mutual missing of each other and self reflection for a couple of months, followed a couple of months later by, essentially, an epilog at the end of the semester, was not enough. As I said, well defined and interesting characters, but a lot of missing story to get from point A (the beginning) to point B (the end).
It was an amusing story, but I can't give it more than 3 stars; I'm not likely to reread it. Even if I had time to reread stories. :)
July 13, 2021
J.J. Arias creates such wonderfully complex characters and has such a great sense of humor that she can take you in emotional roller coaster that’s hard to get off of. This story addresses so many real life issues and makes the reader see them objectively that is was impossible for me not to gift the book to several of my friends. Enjoy!
February 28, 2021
Very good novella in the Goode College series.
October 25, 2022
Short book and pretty good. Carolyn is definitely a helicopter mom and Yvonne is just super nice. It was pretty good.
November 8, 2022
This is the second time I’ve read this and it still entertained me. The turn-around both characters made seemed pretty quick, but it was a relatively short book.
June 25, 2024
A novella as part of a series I like; some extreme behavior that made it a bit unbelievable but I like how the author writes, stuck with it, and liked it.
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