Just One Kiss MH Silver Books
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“You don’t know how much you meant to me.”
Despite the present, I can’t forget my past.
Eight years ago, seventeen-year-old Robby St. James was on a path of self-destruction. Only the guidance of his teacher kept him alive—until one devastating kiss ruined everything. Now Robby is working his dream job as a rising star in broadcast journalism. It’s only at night that he lets himself indulge in fantasies about the man who got away.
What doesn’t ruin you makes you stronger.
Dean Hartnett has two rules loose lips sink ships, and the past belongs behind you. Eight years ago he lost his job and was viciously outed when a student’s crush went too far. Now he’s climbed back to the top of his field to become an award-winning reporter—and he won’t let anyone or anything get in his way. Sometimes that means his love life suffers, but as his ex-boyfriends like to remind Dean, he lives to work.
We can’t go down this path again.
One fateful day, Robby is assigned to Dean’s news division. Robby wants nothing more than a second chance—and Dean just wants to keep the past buried. With so much heat and so many broken promises between them, coming together is inevitable.
This time, it may ruin them both.
Just One Kiss MH Silver Books
I am pretty sure that this is the first contemporary, non-shifter book I have read from this author, and I really enjoyed it!I personally am still not sure how I feel still about teacher/student relationships happening. Like, I can see the appeal in it being all taboo and hot, but at the same time, I'm just like "it's wrong, wrong, wrong" in my mind and I can't fully enjoy it. Anyway, we learn about what happened between Dean and Robby 8 years ago when Dean was a teacher at Robby's school, and the fallout of what happened between them.
I do think that Dean and Robby had great chemistry from the start, both in the flashbacks to high school and the present. Also, I'm a HUGE sucker for second chance/reunion love stories, and I love that these two were able to work together professionally and sensibly, and could get to know each other more as equals rather than teacher/student. I also enjoyed the investigation going on that they were were working on together. I really enjoyed the realism to it, how they talked to each other, how they were cautious in the relationship and in bed together even, it felt very grounded and real.
Looking forward to more from this author!
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Just One Kiss MH Silver Books Reviews
This was a great little story about a seventeen year old, private school student (Robbie) who is befriended by his young teacher (Dean) after said teacher discovers Robbie and another student in a compromising position. Dean knows he should stay away from Robbie rather than try and mentor him due to the fact that Dean feels an attraction to Robbie and he's noticing more and more that Robbie does too. Soon enough Robbie acts on those feelings and kisses Dean. Dean does stop the kiss but rather than turn Robbie in which would potentially out himself, he just avoids Robbie, making Robbie angry. Next thing Dean knows, he's been fired.
Several years go by, Robbie graduates college and lands a job as a co-news anchor. This was Dean's dream and therefore became Robbie's dream as well. Suddenly Robbie discovers that Dean is working there as well and when they finally begin to speak and figure out their attraction toward each other, sparks fly.
Of course you can't have a good story without a conflict. Dean discovers a trafficking ring within the city and shares the story with Robbie. Together they investigate it further, learning that there it involves so many important people in the city that even their boss is involved.
Do they risk their careers and possibly their lives to stop the corruption and save these women that are being used or do they let it get buried like they've been told to do?
It was a cool story, I just had a difficult time reading it due to spelling errors and it seemed there were actually a few words omitted that caused me to have to go back and re-read a section. I don't know whether this is an of the author, the editorial staff or . I did however enjoy how they told parts of the story as flashbacks so that we learned the full extent of Robbie and Dean's past when it would make the most sense.
I would thoroughly enjoy reading another story by this author.
Second-Chance Romances are on my top-reads list all the time. I love how the impetus behind a story where the characters have already met, already had a chance at "first" love, has to shift to being about what the characters find in each other or in themselves which makes them want to give their relationship another shot. There's usually some kind of lifestyle change or a shift in personality or perspective to bring about the desire for offering another chance at love to a partner who was found lacking in some way before.
On that note, Just One Kiss by Nora McKinley (M.H. Silver) failed to capture the idea of a "second chance" for me as a reader because the characters were not actually "together" a first time to have a "second chance." There's a lot of student-teacher romance books out there. I get this. It's a hot topic in terms of taboo relationship constructs. Student-Teacher pairings are among my favorite taboo constructs as well so when an author takes on two of my favorite topics at once? It's generally an instant Grand Slam in the reading enjoyment department for me; I feel as if I'm winning the reading lottery when I get two of my favorites in the same book. I knew going into the book the student-teacher relationship was the basis for the teacher, Dean, losing his job, being outed as a gay man, and it was stated the student, Robby, had been going through a self-destructive phase when he tried to initiate something more intimate with Dean than a student-teacher relationship.
I didn't realize how uncomfortable it would make me to read about this teenager fantasizing about his adult teacher after having set the guy up for financial and professional ruin by kissing him out of hand while he's underage. I can generally deal with age differences better. I think it's a testament to Nora McKinley (M.H. Silver)'s skill as an author for her to have made me feel so very uncomfortable when Robby was seventeen and only a bit shy of being a legal adult. She did such a magnificent job capturing Robby's broken desperation for acceptance from anyone, validation from anyone, positive feelings of any kind from anyone, all I could think was anyone in an authority role who did take him up on his desperate grab for love would be almost predatory in nature.
Dean hardly reads like a predator. Don't get me wrong. He did not encourage Robby. He didn't want to respond to Robby. He knew he was the adult. It truly was only one kiss between them which went no further than one kiss. Nora McKinley (M.H. Silver) did a great job making him a Good Guy. The reaction Dean has to Robby when meeting him again as an adult is mixed in terms of feelings in a way I understood. I didn't understand how things simply fell together for him with Robby after all the evidence to Robby's remaining immaturity is presented to him as a slap in the face. Robby is "legal" now, but is his age enough to really make it okay to get involved with him when he's clearly still a lot like the desperate youth who simply needed someone to validate him?
My main issue with Just One Kiss was the importance of the "one kiss" was alternately emphasized in an appropriate manner and then dismissed almost out of hand at the same time. Dean resolutely reads as the Good Guy to Robby's Damaged Teen then to Robby's Career Climber status. I had a hard time just simply liking Robby as a character. In all fairness, I did read this after reading the second book in this same universe -Hollywood Secrets which focuses on Dean's former boyfriend, Kip- so I knew the outcome already going into it. I don't think knowing how their relationship ended up influenced my overall enjoyment of the work. I do think knowing the outcome influenced how easy it was for me to read as it took a long while for me to finish due to a combination of not enjoying Robby as a character and not feeling that desperate drive to seek a resolution to the story by reading through to the end.
Overall, I'm grateful for having the chance to read Robby and Dean's story through Unlimited, but I only found the story enjoyable rather than stellar which is what I typically get from Nora McKinley (M.H. Silver). I'd rate it 3.5 stars which I rounded up to 4 based on the author's storytelling skills rather than the story itself. I would recommend reading this work before Hollywood Secrets for best potential reading enjoyment.
I am pretty sure that this is the first contemporary, non-shifter book I have read from this author, and I really enjoyed it!
I personally am still not sure how I feel still about teacher/student relationships happening. Like, I can see the appeal in it being all taboo and hot, but at the same time, I'm just like "it's wrong, wrong, wrong" in my mind and I can't fully enjoy it. Anyway, we learn about what happened between Dean and Robby 8 years ago when Dean was a teacher at Robby's school, and the fallout of what happened between them.
I do think that Dean and Robby had great chemistry from the start, both in the flashbacks to high school and the present. Also, I'm a HUGE sucker for second chance/reunion love stories, and I love that these two were able to work together professionally and sensibly, and could get to know each other more as equals rather than teacher/student. I also enjoyed the investigation going on that they were were working on together. I really enjoyed the realism to it, how they talked to each other, how they were cautious in the relationship and in bed together even, it felt very grounded and real.
Looking forward to more from this author!
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