Title: After MathAuthor: Denise Grover SwankPublisher: CreateaspacePublish Date: 12 March 2013Pages: 250ISBN: 9781482658644Source: AToMR toursGenre: New Adult, romanceSeries: Off the SubjectOther books in series: Redesigned (10 June 2013), Business As Usual (late summer/early fall 2013)Other books by author: Rose Gardner Mysteries series, On the Otherside series, The Chosen series, Twin River FallsRating: really likedScarlett Goodwin’s world is divided into Before and After.
Before she agreed to tutor Tucker price, college junior Scarlett was introvert, struggling with her social anxiety and determined to not end up living in a trailer park like her mother and her younger sister. A mathematics major, she goes to her classes, to her job in the tutoring lab, and then hides in the apartment she shares with her friend, Caroline.
After junior Tucker Price, Southern University’s star soccer player enters the equation, her carefully plotted life is thrown off its axis. Tucker’s failing his required College Algebra class. With his eligibility is at risk, the university chancellor dangles an expensive piece of computer software for the math department if Scarlett agrees to privately tutor him.Tucker’s bad boy, womanizer reputation makes Scarlett wary of any contact, let alone spending several hours a week in close proximity.
But from her first encounter, she realizes Tucker isn’t the person everyone else sees. He carries a mountain of secrets which she suspects hold the reason to his self-destructive behavior. But the deeper she delves into the cause of his pain, the deeper she gets sucked into his chaos. Will Scarlett find the happiness she’s looking for, or will she be caught in Tucker’s aftermath?
What happens when you mix a socially introvert with the
school’s most popular jock? Scarlett
never thought this would ever happen to her.
The only encounters she has had with Tucker, the college’s star soccer
player, was running into him outside her class and occasionally seeing him on
campus. She was alright with that.
Scarlett got anxious in social situations. This happened when she was put in situations
that were outside of the norm. She was
fine tutoring in the Math Lab. Math
equations calmed her. Then one day, her
world was turned upside down. Tucker
came into the lab needing to be tutored.
He had to do better in his Algebra class or he would risk losing his
soccer scholarship.
Scarlett didn’t want to help him as soon as he walked into
the room. She wasn’t that lucky,
though. He came to her station. She helped him and thought that that was the
end of it. Then the director of the Math
Lab informs her that the Chancellor of the college requested that she tutor
Tucker on a regular basis. Scarlett
doesn’t want anything to do with this, but she is told that the math department
is counting on this to get a program that they need. Will Scarlett be able to get over her
anxiety and tutor Tucker? What will
happen between Scarlett and Tucker? Will
Tucker be able to save his soccer scholarship?
When I heard that Swank had written this book, I was anxious
to read it because I had participated in the blog tour of Here and it was well written.
I wasn’t disappointed in this book.
It seems that the New Adult category is just blossoming and there are a
lot of books in this category. The
storyline starts out as the classic: the jock is being tutored by the “nerd” in
order to stay on the [insert sport] team.
There are twists and turns in the book that make it worth the read. Scarlett has some skeletons in her closet
that have given her the anxiety disorder that she has. She finds out that Tucker has some also. I liked the way that Swank wrote in the
discoveries of these skeletons. As with a
lot of books, I was disappointed that the book ended.
There is an excerpt posted on Goodreads of After Math. Here is the link:
Sounds like a great read. Thanks for the review and recommendation.
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