Hi, book friends. I have a book review for you. I’m covering my shirt today because I am wearing a work shirt that tells you exactly where I work. And I don’t really need you know on that. So book review, this is wickets handle by Rachel Lee. I’ve been meaning to get this book review out for several days, but mentally I just haven’t been able to do it. So we’re gonna give it a try today. Okay. It is car confessional, so you will hear my AC cuz it’s hot as a out here, even though today is better than other days as far as he goes, but still.
So wicket scandal, Rachel Lee, this will be available on Amazon June 28th. So it hasn’t hit the market yet, making it an arc book for me, an advance reader’s copy book.
This is a reverse age gap. So this is definitely more on the taboo end here. When I say reverse age gap, what I mean is your female lead, who is her name is Catherine in this book, is older than your male, her male counterpart, which is 18 years old? His name is Wilder. And as in previous age gap books before, where the age is very eighteenish, some of you may know that is not my favorite age gap to read. Didn’t know I would be so triggered by that. But if you have teen in the name, you’re still a teenager regardless if you’re just about to graduate high school or not.
But this book made it a little bit different because I don’t think the age, like the reverse age gap really played a whole lot into it as far as why it wasn’t as bad as some of the other ones that I’ve read on this one, the H gap is a lot shorter. So I think that’s where it was fine. And then there were no other red flags in the book that would have, that would go against it. So it wasn’t, it didn’t give me the egg. Did I like it as much? Not really. Cuz again, it’s just not my thing. But overall, I would say this is a very good read. You have a social media kind of influencer who is very popular and he is about to graduate high school within a couple weeks when this book takes place. And you have a teacher who is in her 20s, though, I would say late 20s, mid to late. And she’s coming from a home life that is not very great for her. She’s married to the current mayor of town and nobody realizes what an this guy really is and how abusive he is. There are topics of domestic abuse and there’s implication, there’s in, you know, implied drug use. Not on any of the character’s part, just kind of backstory. She’s got this horrible secret that she carries around, therefore this is why she can’t leave her husband or why she thinks she can’t leave her husband and leave the situation.
Wilder becomes very suspicious because Catherine’s always wearing turtlenecks and long sleeves, even in the heat of summer. And so he’s very kind of triggered by this. He’s like, something’s not right. And he starts to suspect. He develops a relationship with someone on social media who he is not aware is his teacher. So they’re having conversations back and forth, very innocent, but some, they’re drawn to each other. And they are in the classroom, too. He even kind of gets teased a bit about being in love with the teacher. And so really it’s him kind of discovering what’s going on with her, trying to be supportive of her, that in our conflict about it being wrong. And so really Wilder tries to help her out of the situation she’s in. When it escalates, it turns into basically like a murder mystery towards the end, like a who done it. They go on the run to protect their images and it becomes that murder mystery towards the end.
This is a very slow burn. I was over halfway through the book before any sort of heat really came into play, which I guess is fine by me with the age gap being what it was, it didn’t bother me as much. But it was more building of that relationship and seeing where she came from and seeing how, you know, where he came from. But again, this will be available on the 28th. It’s a very, it’s a pretty good read. Give it a try. We could scandle by Rachel.