The Truth about You & Me

by Amanda Grace

[Rowena]

Madelyn is really smart. Her high school has a college program where kids from their school can participate in the program and attend college courses during the day to earn college credits and finish high school, only to enter college as a junior. That’s how Madelyn meets Bennett. Bennett is her biology professor and he’s ten years older than her. He doesn’t know that he’s ten years older than her so when she starts seeing Bennett around town and strikes up a friendship that turns into something more, he’s trying to do the right thing and stay away because he’s her professor. He has no idea that he should stay away from her because she’s minor. But Madelyn does. She knew all along how old she was and what they were doing could get Bennett in trouble but she does it anyway because she’s got some big time feelings for him.

And here’s what I don’t understand. When you’ve got minors in your class, aren’t professors supposed to be made aware of that? When students are part of a high school program, aren’t the teachers and administrators of the college supposed to know? I can’t believe that Bennett was a professor and didn’t know that he had minors in his class.

And another thing that I don’t understand is how girls can think that they’re in love with a guy that is so much older than them and think that the relationship can survive lies that can land the guy in jail. If you love someone, why in the world would you risk their job and their future jobs by getting them in trouble for cavorting with minors? It never fails to amaze me at how selfish these young girls are…that they think only of the lust coursing through their veins and not the consequences of their actions.

It was hard to get through this book. I spent most of the book wanting to choke Madelyn out and even in the end when she’s trying to “save” Bennett from jail, I couldn’t like her. I didn’t think that she was a bad person but she was a selfish person and even though she learned her lesson, she still wasn’t a character that I could say that I liked. But I did like the way that this book ended. It ended the way that it was supposed to end and even though I didn’t love this book, I didn’t hate it either.