Kim Lowery's Reviews > Teaching Tony

This book is NOT well written. And to finish it I’d have to drink and squint past all the errors of both grammar and editing.

It’s like English is the third or fourth language of the author. Or it was originally written in a foreign language and was translated by a really bad AI.

Examples:

“He showed me her picture on math department website,…” — on the

“I guess Dr. Huff’s humiliating treatment pissed me and seeing her…” — pissed me off

“I could ogle her all I wanted for a full hour a time.” — at a time

“Just imagine how good it is to kiss her lush lips and bury my nose in her snowy valley.” — would be, and snowy valley? That’s no sexy.

“I’m sure she would like me to do these to her, too. I swear I see her blush, and she stared into my eyes too long, and she tried to hide her ring.” — these things, saw, and just so fucking awkward

“Fuck, she won’t be hard to get. None of them is.” — are

So then I had the thought that maybe this author is doing a Twain and having her character think in the same way he speaks. Maybe he’s an uneducated rube who doesn’t have have a firm grasp on the language? But no. Because the heroine…

“You don’t want to end up transferring to a different college and start all over.” — having to start

“…a bar and restaurant I’ve been working for fifteen years.” — working at

“…not bothering to hide his contempt over the other sex.” — contempt for

“He’s never married but is always seeing someone.” — been married

And side characters can’t speak either…

“Woman and math—I still find it hard to imagine.” —women

“You could live in comfort for the rest of your life, without working for another day.” — working another day

Set up was great. She’s 36. He’s in college. Get ‘im, girl! She’s not the smartest because she left school in her junior year to support her boyfriend-turned-husband. Who the hell does that? So weak. Twelve years later and she is still bartending to put herself through graduate school. Why not get a job teaching actual math and go to school at night? It’s what most people do. So there’s also a reality issue here that I might be able to overlook, but for the…

I cannot get past the crap writing. No idea what the 4 and 5 star reviews read because it wasn’t what I read. I think this is the second book by this author I’ve attempted. I’m done.