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    Kissing Tolstoy

    By Penny Reid

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    About this ebook

    Proceeds for the month of November go to hurricane relief efforts!

    What do you do when you discover that your super-hot blind date from months ago is now your super-hot Russian Lit professor?
    You overthink everything and pray for a swift end to your misery, of course!

    ‘Kissing Tolstoy’ is the first book in the Dear Professor series, is 46k words, and can be read as a standalone. A shorter version of this story (28k words) was entitled ‘Nobody Looks Good in Leather Pants’ and was available via Penny Reid’s newsletter for free over the course of 2017.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenny Reid
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9781942874355
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    Kissing Tolstoy
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    Penny Reid

    Sign up for the newsletter of awesome: www.pennyreid.ninja/newsletterPenny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of the Winston Brothers and Knitting in the City series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she writes kissing books. Penny is an obsessive knitter and manages the #OwnVoices-focused mentorship incubator / publishing imprint, Smartypants Romance. She lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, three kids, and dog named Hazel.FOLLOW PENNY:Facebook: www.facebook.com/pennyreidwriterTwitter: www.twitter.com/reidromanceInstagram: www.instagram.com/reidromanceJust Released:December 13th, 2022: Drama King, Three Kings Series, Book 2Upcoming Releases:2023: All Folked Up, Good Folk: Modern Folktales, Book 3Currently Working On:2023: Pride and Dad Jokes, Ideal Man, Book 1

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    • 5/5
      Kissing Tolstoy by Penny Reid (Audiobook)Narrated by:Fiona Fisher and Stephen DexterSeries: Dear Professor Volume 1 5 Stars! - Loved this book. So good. Penny Reid’s wit and writing is amazing. I devoured this story and still wish I had more. Characters had great chemistry, was a wonderful slow burn kind of thing. The narration was done well and I am super glad I read this.~Paragraphs and Petticoats~
    • 5/5
      Loved the characters. Both so likeable. PR creates the best angst
    • 4/5
      Not my favourite Penny Reid book, but it is well written with great literature references.
    • 1/5
      Ick.

      Generally speaking, I love Reid’s books, but this just fell completely flat. I have a degree in English, and even I found their protracted debates boring.

      My primary complaint, however, is with the unethical, whiny, self-indulgent man-child who is supposed to be the “hero”. Maybe I am so disgusted by him because I once had a creepy professor who came on to me. Maybe it’s because I am a former teacher. Maybe it is because I currently have a beautiful, vulnerable daughter in college right now. Or maybe it’s just because I recognize manipulative pigs when I see them.

      **SPOILERS**


      When Anna accidentally emails the wrong person, instead of being honest and emailing back “Hey, Wrong number, but you sound really cool. I’d love to still meet up”, instead he basically just tricks her. Then he is such an immature man-child that he can’t handle having her in his class. He completely ignores her, to the point of refusing to provide feedback on graded assignments because he just knows he won’t be able to control himself if he actually starts talking to her. Gag. When she confronts him in his office about the way he is treating her and not offering fair feedback on her assignments, he grabs her, shoves her against his door and aggressively kisses her. But, I guess that’s supposed to be okay because he’s hot. Eye roll.
      When she tries to drop his class because his behavior is stressing her out, he uses his position of power to block her request, so her only options are to go back to class or take an F in the class. She chooses the F. He emails her repeatedly to try to push her back into the class. When she doesn’t do what she wants, he stalks her at work, buys her a five hundred dollar bottle of Cristal, grabs her and kisses her at her work then insists she follow him to discuss things. After which he gives a ridiculous apology and tells her he’ll understand if she reports him to his department chair (but since his family provides most of the financial support for the department, that is a meaningless offer).

      Eventually, he excuses himself as the party responsible for her grades, but so what? Too little. Too late. His Creepy McCreeperson vibes are already in full swing. What in the world is attractive about a man that has zero self-control, whines to himself about how awful it is that his family has so much wealth that he doesn’t have to support himself, and is egotistical and manipulative? Reid tells us over and over how physically attractive he is. That’s it. The only thing about him that is attractive at all.

      This book left a bad taste in my mouth. At its core, it is the story of a predator who tells himself he isn’t a predator because he is sensitive, and a weird caricature of a young woman who is equal parts an obnoxious know it all and shy ingenue. She makes horrible life choices. So does he.

      This is one of those relationships that if it were real, would lead to nothing but regret.



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    • 4/5
      I partially listened to this on Audible and partially read the e-book. I really liked the narrators on the audio and thought they fit my idea of the characters. Anna is a college student and Luka is a professor of Russian Literature. Anna loves reading and takes Luka's class as a summer course. Unbeknownst to her, Luka happens to be the guy she had a failed blind date with a few months prior. That date ended with her fleeing the scene embarrassed even though there had been an attraction between them. There is a lot of reference to Russian literature that I wasn't that knowledgeable on, but I wasn't bothered by it. I liked their interaction and how they got to know each other once they got to the point of pursuing a relationship. When they got to that point, I liked how Luka took things slow at the beginning. They only thing I would have liked to have seen was more of the other people in their lives being part of the story. I really liked Luka's sister and we didn't even get to see him show off Anna to her. All in all, I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more like it from Penny Reid.
    • 4/5
      After a weird date, Anna is shocked to find the guy is her new Russian Lit professor. Luca is hot and very smart, especially when it comes to one of Anna's favorite subjects. They argue Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in this cute novella as they fall in love. I'm going through Ms. Reid's back catalog as well as the SassyPants books while I'm waiting for Billy and Claire's book. I haven't hit a sour note yet. Each story is great and I love how they all interconnect. Luca and Anna are a cute couple and I love how they discuss Russian Literature. It's so refreshing to have intelligence in a romance sometimes. I would have liked this to be a full novel, but it's still a good read.
    • 5/5
      The audiobook was even better than the newsletter serial or the finished book.