Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet #1

by G.A. Hauser

When twenty-two year old Jeremy West decided to take a few art classes in addition to his computer engineering degree, he had no idea that one of his professors would knock him off his feet. Professor Peter Foster, a young handsome and talented thirty-four year old professional artist, put Jeremy into heat every time he sat in his lecture hall or attended his sculpture class. Soon, Jeremy's good looks caught his teacher's eye. Finding a way to meet with him after class, Jeremy learns that the object of his desire is living with a young woman he married on one drunken night in Reno a year ago. A relationship becomes inevitable as the two find the physical attraction they share too much to deny. They begin a secret affair together until suspicion is aroused and rumors begin to circulate campus. A relationship between them was inevitable, but will Peter make the changes in his life to open the door for this new love? Or will he be simply just another favored student, the teacher's pet?

Genres: M M Romance, Erotica, Gay, Romance, Contemporary, College, Fiction

258 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

About the author

About the Author Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer, G.A. has written over eighty novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction. GA is also the Executive Producer for her first feature film, CAPITAL GAMES. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com G.A. has won awards from All Romance eBooks for Best Author 2010, 2009, Best Novel 2008, Mile High, and Best Author 2008, Best Novel 2007, Secrets and Misdemeanors, Best Author 2007.

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Reviews

[Mandy*reads obsessively* · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't even know where to start with all the things I didn't like about this story!
A married teacher starts an affair with his 22 year old student, he complains about his evil freeloading wife, who happen to trick him into marriage while he was drunk in Vegas, but of course he tried to make it work for a year, till he decided doing his student was the better option.
Then all the women in this book were horrible stereo types, the nagging horrible guilt inducing mother, the sluty spoiled sister, the slutty girls who sleep with everyone and anyone and the more the better. Doesn't matter that the guys are doing the same thing! The co-ed Kelly then tells everyone including the dean about the inappropriate relationship, but everyone is made out to be jealous and homophobic, because that's what it has to be , it doesn't have anything to do with a person of power sleeping with his student! Nope it can't be that!
And just to show that that's how it really is, Kelly the slutty girl who wants in everyone's pants was harassing the boyfriend/student so the prof just gives her an F and happily announces she loses 6 credits! and that ladies and gentleman is the reason professors should not sleep with students!
The father of course is an alcoholic,
Oh, and they are in love and Jeremy announces his love for Pete the first time they have sex, and the next time they have sex, Jeremy literally badgers Pete ( the prof) until he says he loves him too!
And they love each other, but ..again, they haven't really spent any time together, except for BJ's and sex, they don't know each other..but alas the love is there! WTH?
Oh and then then there is Pete's brother Dorian, what a creep!
I don't like anyone or anything in this book, and if anything I feel a bit sorry for Jeremy.
I tried to think about something good to say about this book, and the best I could come up with is the cover is pretty nice!

[Darien · Rating 2 out of 5]

More of my reviews and ramblings at PANTS OFF REVIEWS

As a reader and a reviewer, I am very easy to please. I think in my whole history of reading M/M books I have given a two star rating at least three or four times. As I wrote, I am very easy to please. Therefore, it came as quite a surprise when I found myself disliking everything about Teacher’s Pet (like everything). I am a fan of G.A Hauser, but it seems her books either are a hit or miss for me.

Teachers Pet started out good enough and then turned into a story I cannot even describe without being viciously mean (I won’t be). Jeremy West is a college student getting ready for another year in school. Jeremy is gay, but hasn’t really told anyone, he uses school as a reason to why he doesn’t have a girlfriend. Until he takes some elective courses and the professor, the very male professor captures his attention.

Professor Peter Foster has the attention of all his female students, but it’s the one male student that has caught his eye. Jeremy seems interested and willing, but he is married after all. Even though his wife is a real bitch/gold digger and it’s a marriage he would rather not be apart of. Jeremy is young and attractive and he wants him, so why not have him. It would be a teacher/student relationship, but Peter is willing to risk it for a chance at sweet young Jeremy.

It sounds fabulous and wondrous, and I have been looking forward to reading it so bad. It started out wonderfully but then totally fell apart, because every character is just either too much or not enough. I liked Peter and Jeremy together (somewhat) they have an easy friendship, which I really liked. It’s the relationship aspect of it all that just seems all kinds of phoney. Peter seems to have no clue of what a relationship should be like, and I wanted him to get an opportunity to just be himself and live. He jumps into a relationship with Jeremy, after saying he also rushed into two marriages. Jeremy is believable as the young college student; I am just not in love with his character.

The sex is… I don’t even want to talk about it. Nothing about it felt right, and its coming from one of my favourite tropes (young guy gets poked by older dude) it leaves an ache in my heart. There is not one character I really enjoyed *not one*. I just wanted to love this one but I couldn’t, everything felt very contrived. I am just very disappointed, because it’s a bloody teacher/student hook-up and that’s like my thing. I can’t even bring myself to like it a lot.

[Alina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love age gap and I love teacher/student (snarry, anyone, lol), so I devoured this book in a few hours without any breaks. I liked it alot.

At first I thought, that some (ok, almost everyone else, other than MCs) characters are a little over the top, caricaturish even - I mean take Jeremy's family for example: dad's an alcoholic, mom's a harpy and the sister's a slut. But then you see them in another light in some moments, you see how they indeed feel guilty and sad about this clinic and the mom suddenly appears very understanding and almost supportive about Jeremy being gay. This little details help to build complexity in characters and I liked it.

Overall a good, light read :) I'll definitely read more from this author.

[Elisa Rolle]

Jeremy is a 22 years old college student. From a middle class family, handsome and friendly, he is like thousands of other students. But Jeremy has a secret: he likes men. Born in a conservative family, he has always thought that his being gay is a drama, something he needs to hide to no lose all his friends and the love of his family. Plus, told be truth, his family is not at all the supportive american family you see in television fiction: a spoilt sister, a father who borders on alcoholism and a mother who not loses a chance to make him feeling ungrateful.

But when Jeremy sees his art teacher, Peter, he is taken. Peter is a 34 years old successful artist who accepted a work as college professor to prove to his family that he has a worthy work. Not that like an artist he isn't doing good money, but being an artist is not a "real" work. Plus Peter is a divorced man, newly wedded to a too young bitch: a woman he has married in a drunken night in a fast marriage chapel in Las Vegas.

Both Jeremy or Peter haven't noble reasons to do what they done. Jeremy is a horny young man who has the hots when he sees his professor; when he learns that the object of his desires is married, he feels a bit of pain, but not regret and this little fact means nothing to his intention to seduce the handsome professor. And Peter doesn't think twice to engage in a relationship with a much younger man, one of his student. And the fact that he is married seems not important since the wife is a spoilt bitch who deserves only to be thrown out of his bed.

Reading this you could rightly think that I don't like Jeremy or Peter... and you are wrong! I like them both, cause they are "real", they are not the fake perfect heros of an usual romance. And also the supporting characters, in their exasperated characterization, are perfect. Everything in this romance is amplified to excess, but it's only a means to underline how the characters are "normal" and "day-to-day": don't miss the family's quarrels of Jeremy, or the jealousy's scenes of Peter's wife.

I like very much G.A. Hauser's style, all her characters are so full of faults: when Jeremy is asked to go home to support his father in a difficult moment, he regrets the lost chance to have a weekend of sex with his lover; when Peter has to face an inequity treatment, not only toward him, but also toward him being gay, he doesn't raise his head in an impetus of rightful indignation, but simple turn his shoulders and go away... Peter and Jeremy are not heros, they are like the men you cross on the street every day, maybe only a little more handsome!

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[Natalie · Rating 1 out of 5]

G.A. Hauser is hit or miss for me, and unfortunately this was a miss. The basic premise is one that I usually enjoy (professor falls in love with younger--but legal--student), but the relationship seemed to lack any real depth, and a couple of things especially bothered me. Every woman in this book is an evil shrew, and the main characters exhibit some pretty loathsome misogyny of their own. (For example, the professor gives a female student an F just because he doesn't like her. I'm supposed to be rooting for this guy?) Another thing that drove me crazy were repeated references to homosexuality as a "lifestyle." I find this both outdated and offensive, and I know I'm not the only one. When this author is good, it's in a totally over-the-top guilty pleasure sort of way, but this story really fell flat.

[Sue · Rating 1 out of 5]

The behaviour of the professor seemed completely unbelievable to me. He just jumped into a sexual relationship with one of his students without seemingly a second thought. This after having two failed marriages where he did exactly the same thing. Does he never learn?
Okay, so perhaps he thought it would be different with a man, but it still could have done with some introspection on his part before giving in to Jeremy's advances, surely.
Didn't finish beyond 40% as it was so unbelievable, and the characters were not at all attractive.

[H Beeyit · Rating 2 out of 5]

In more than two years of reading m/m romance, this is the first book I've refused to finish and deleted from my reader because of the portrayal of women in it. I've read many people's complaints about how common this is in slash, so I don't know if I've just been lucky, or if I've been reading with my head in the sand.

Very disappointing. I had had high hopes for this one, based on the blurb.

[Kimberly Be · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had really high hopes for this, because I love teacher/student, and the arts, and I'd heard G.A. Hauser's name a lot. Unfortunately, the writing was such poor quality, I had to really push myself to finish it, and that's not something that I'm overly picky about. It was disappointing when I expected so much more from a seasoned author.

[Sophie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was just a major disappointment. It could have been soo good =[.

[Carmine · Rating 4 out of 5]

So this is the fourth book I reread this year. It was almost better than I remembered! I will say, I thought I was gonna hate it because of the subject matter, but then I was reminded of the fact that Jeremy is 22 years old.

I will say this, I wasn't exactly fond of the slut-shaming, and I didn't like how almost all of the f male characters were portrayed in such a bad light.

I loved how certain aspects of the story were portrayed in a very realistic manner, like the coming out. Another positive was the fact that it was portrayed as a very messy situation, which it absolutely was.

All in all, I do recommend reading this. Also, I was certain the first time that Kevin was in love with Jeremy and I will stand by that for the rest of my life!

[Dennis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Teacher's Pet

Some people fantasize about being with a hot professor when college but Jeremy gets to make it a reality, a reality he didn't really know he wanted. I enjoyed the story and the main characters. Yes the supporting characters, some I liked like Kevin and others I didn't like as suchlike the mother, sister and the other girls. But that's how they were written and that's how some are in real life. All in all I truly enjoyed the story.

[Emeziel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was pretty nice. A bit ridiculous at times. But still ok.

[Charly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Clunky writing and characters I didn’t like

Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.

Rating: 4/10

PROS:
- Hauser does a good job of exploring the fear Jeremy feels about coming out. He has the (perceived) prejudice of his friends, his classmates, and his family to deal with, and it’s a constant source of worry for him.
- Jeremy’s friends and family turn out to be pretty cool and accepting (except for the girls at his school; all the young, single women in the story--and in many of Hauser’s other stories--are just plain evil). The coming out scenes in this book are reassuring rather than painful.

CONS:
- I didn’t love either one of the characters--not because they’re bad people, but because I didn’t have a lot of respect for them. I wasn’t a fan of Kevin’s resolve to sleep with Peter even though Peter is married, and Peter struck me as ridiculously blasé about committing adultery with one of his students. So Jeremy is irresistible…okay. But Peter calling him “babe” in front of other students and “grabb[ing] Jeremy’s bottom playfully” in class? I used to teach at a university, and I simply can’t imagine a professor being quite so obvious and stupid.
- The writing is wooden-sounding, mostly because there’s a lot of description pertaining to the characters’ actions, but not much about their thoughts. The book will say, for example, “he had a permanent smile planted on his face,” but it won’t go into much detail about WHY the character is smiling.
- There are a lot of scenes that don’t seem to serve any purpose: they don’t move the plot along, and they don’t illuminate any situation or character trait that hasn’t already been explained or established. The scenes with Jeremy’s roommate and those with the girls on campus I found particularly tedious.

Overall comments: The relationship (as opposed to an involved plot) is the focus of this story, but the men’s emotional connection felt shallow to me. I must admit to having skimmed large sections, and I found it difficult to finish the book at all. This is the second story by this author I’ve been really disappointed in; I don’t think I’ll be reading any more books by her.

[Chancey "Does not give out 5's like candy" Knowles · Rating 3 out of 5]

07/13/2020
Blurb = (Scale 1-10)
9

My Genre Scale = (Scale 1-10)
7

Odds if not your genre = (Scale 1-10)
2

What stood out =
The super quick Insta-Love

Series Notes =
At the time I 1st read this it was a standalone, but after this reread, I see they're is a 2nd that came out years later involving the college roommate Kevin. If it is still available I will probably check it out.

Rating Notes =
Hmmm. Ever read a book that had flaw after flaw, yet for some reason you are still drawn to it? That is this book for me. Actually a couple of Hauser's books are like that for me.

For the life of me I cannot figure out what the draw is, yet I've re-read it time after time. Even though It is rated higher in my personal ratings, I just could not see rating it higher here. I'm a laid back reader, but the Insta-love was almost too much for me. It would definitely bother anybody even slightly peeved by such things. The dialog was often very stilted. The m/c's never built any foundation. The only parts that flowed in a natural way were with the roommate & some friends. There was nothing even really unique or compelling about the story. The editing and proofing would drive nitpicky people crazy.

(Obviously this cannot takie into account all the various personal pet peeves of readers, though I try to take into account the common ones often bemoaned by other reviewers).

Review Factors:
Since 2009, I have exclusively read m/m. My 1st was in 2007. I am a Kindle diehard, and I never do audio for m/m. . I read at least 100+ books a year - at an average length of 220± pages; but the total number of books is usually much, much, higher. My Goodreads lifetime rating (at the start of 2020) was a 3.72 average for 1390 books. Which considering, the more you read, the better you should be at picking out books you like, I feel is a accurate average.

[Stef · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall it was an enjoyable read. I especially found the College setting quite realistic. I especially liked that I had a chance to get to know the various side-characters in Jeremy's life, without being overwhelmed by too much unnecessary detail.

Two things that I didn't quite understand were a) what Jeremy was actually studying and b) why he ended up taking Art History as well as a sculpture class. To take one credit for interest was understandable, but taking two in one semester seems very wasteful. I would have appreciated a bit more in depth to his reasoning.

Peter seems interesting enough at times, but I had a hard time getting a handle on him. On the one hand he was described as the liberal, somewhat distracted artist type, and yet his whole lifestyle screamed everything but liberal and that somehow didn't match.

Yet it was a nice trip through their relationship with realistic approaches to coming out situations and family/traditional obligations. As much as I could follow Jeremy's coming of age and developing into a secure young man it was more a story of parallel lives coming together and trying to find a common ground.

[Cheryl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jeremy is a college student. he's gay but no one knows. He's scared that everything will change if his friends knew. His first art history class he is practically drool over the professor.

Peter is Jeremy's art history professor. He thinks Jeremy is good looking. A few classes later and they are humping like bunnies on speed.

Two problems, one is the student/professor relationship is against the rules. Two Peter is married.

The relationship was too fast for me. They didn't spend time getting to know each other. They went from sex to I love you's very fast. Plus the story portrayed women in a negative light (sluts, crazy etc).

[P.J. Nevada · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ms. Hauser has to be one of my favorites, and I'm a writer too (attempting, at least!). I feel as if I am being told a true story by a friend of a mutual acquaintance. The prose is clear and concise, and the plot line is quite realistic, with just the right level of heat. I start to read and cannot put down the book until I am done, so the next time I read one of her books, I need to start in the morning! Bravo! A wonderful story by a great writer.
Thank you!

[Lyrical · Rating 3 out of 5]

Umm I liked it but again this is one of those books were the description makes it seems more interesting than it really was.. I rated it 3 stars because I think the student fall in love to quickly with the Prof. And the situations with the wife was confusing it was like going on a rollercoaster. Parts of it was funny but I did like it a little.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really can't say enough good things about this author. I LOVE her! Each book gets better. There's just so much passion in these books, that you just can't wait to finish them, but at the same time you never want them to end.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I usually love this author but this book was just a so-so.
Jeremy is gay but wont admit it to anybody.
His professor has been married twice but is probably gay. Jeremy knows just by looking at him.
I like insta love but this was just a little too much.

[Ollie · Rating 4 out of 5]

SO SEXY!

[meep]

p w/o plot 0.0

[ZK · Rating 2 out of 5]

dnf at 27% So dull. :/