Getting Schooled by Emma Chase

Pages: 310
Publish date: June 26, 2018
Publisher: –
ASIN: B079DX2VBS
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Getting Schooled:

I received an e-arc of Getting Schooled by Emma Chase from Inkslinger PR in exchange for an honest review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book. 

Since I’ve really started to read romance novels, I wanted to pick up an Emma Chase book, so when I was given the chance to review her latest novel Getting Schooled, I knew I had to take it. And while I didn’t love it like I thought I would, I still really did enjoy it. And makes me want to read more Emma Chase in the future. This second chance romance is addicting, beautiful and put a smile on my face. 

Getting Schooled by Emma Chase follows Callie and Garrett, high school sweethearts that reconnect after Callie movies back to their hometown to help her parents. After their break up, Callie and Garrett both tried to move on, but these high school sweethearts were always on each other’s minds. With Callie back in town and just so happens to be working at the same school as Garrett, old feelings come to the surface and everything starts to turn very interesting. 

The premise of Getting Schooled is what caught my eyes right away. A second chance love between high school sweethearts – yes, please. It did take me a while to get into though, and I am not entirely sure why. Everything about this book was appealing, but there was just something not there for me that made me really enticed. In saying that, I still really enjoyed the book and after a couple of chapters I was really into it. 

Not only was the premise of Getting Schooled intriguing, so was both protagonists. They were both charming in their own ways and as the novel went on you could see how much they cared for one another. 

I really enjoyed Callie as a protagonist, she was sweet and really took the story for me. After receiving an amazing job opportunity, she is needed back home after an ‘accident’ with her parents. And while for a lot of people it might be the end of the world for them, she really takes it in her stride and comes back to where it really all began. Of course, she told herself that she would not be tempted by Garrett, but them working as colleagues at the same school, of course she is tempted. Who wouldn’t?

I really liked the growth of Callie throughout the novel. Even though had some substance at the start of the novel, the way that she takes everything in during Getting Schooled. The way that she starts caring for her students is something that put a smile on my face and just made me like her even more. 

Garrett is pretty amazing himself. I’ve been reading a lot of romance recently, and I’m getting sick of alpha males and all macho man. So it was really nice to see a calm and charming male protagonist and love interest. From the start of Getting Schooled, you are able to tell how much Garrett cares not only about his family, but his students and those around him. He is the teacher that makes that one class something you look forward to. But it wasn’t just his passion for his students that made me really enjoy him. But his passion for Callie. 

When Callie and Garrett were together the sparks were everywhere and I just love second chance romances. What I love about second chance romances is there is already this relationship that has already there. The romance in this one starts off that. And that is exactly what happens in Getting Schooled. Through the novel, the reader is able to see Callie’s and Garrett’s before the book and how it’s different now. Emma Chase really knows how to write a fantastic second chance romance. I loved how Callie and Garrett just fell back into everything even though they had spent so many years apart. 

In saying all this, there were still things that didn’t make me love it. I felt the writing style of Emma Chase wasn’t as captivating to me as other romance authors that I love. It was good and I didn’t hate anything about it really, but it just lacked a spark for me. There was also parts of the Getting Schooled that felt dull to me. I don’t know how to explain it right. I just felt that at times there were unnecessary scenes and nothing really happened to keep the plot going. 

Overall, I enjoyed Getting Schooled. It was a really nice second chance romance read that put a smile on my face. It explores the notions of growing and changing, a second chance, and family. Through the novel, we see Callie and Garrett both reconnect, lean on and love each again and it just great. I wish I loved the writing more than I did, but I still did enjoy the book. If you love a good romance that just sweeps you away, then this is the book for you. 

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About the Author

Emma Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the hot and hilarious Tangled series and The Legal Briefs series. Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children, and two naughty (but really cute) dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.

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