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Higher Learning (2011)

by Ellen Holiday(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1613721234 (ISBN13: 9781613721230)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: Keeping in mind that anthologies are a mixed bag, I read every story and truly enjoyed about three. That's pretty good, actually. The last one by Eve Ocotilo was a well-characterized slow-burn featuring two people from very different walks of life. I loved the pacing, the show-not-tell writing style, the sweet passion without resorting to counting fingers and body parts. I hope Eve Ocotillo writes and publishes more. I also enjoyed "Bug Boy" by Jeanette Grey for it's sweet and brainy portrayal of two guys who overcame their preconceptions of one another, and "Close distance education" by Mar Davison for it's fairly-tale feel that somehow came across just right in its contemporary setting. The rest of the stories were acceptable, although there were two or three I just flew... more through with rolling eyes. I won't tell you which those were, since tastes vary. Overall, I'm inflating the rating on this anthology by half a star just to flag the three writers I mentioned by name. I'm definitely looking them up for future releases!
review 2: For someone like me who got int o m/m romance through fanfiction and loved fanfic AU with hight school and college settings this anthology is perfect. Not every short-story is a full hit, but most of them are romantic, erotic, with cute/interesting/peculiar characters, like the young college student covered in the most delightful freckles or the bug boy with his fascination for spiders and the likes. Not all stories are about students, some are about teachers and professors, janitors and security guards on campus. Most of the stories are about falling in love and proclaiming that love to one another, but there's one story with a committed couple as well, and one featuring an older Romanian distance learning student. And it's all set in rooms and halls and dorms of higher learning. less

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