A high school aged student taking college classes cat fishes her professor... not a pretty look. Also, shouldn't the professor know his students? Specially if you have a high school student in your class? Seems fishy and far fetched. Not my cup of tea, the emotions did not hit and the MC was unlikable.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to read this book before it was archived. My tastes have changed and I'm not sure it would be a good fit for me now.

I requested this several years ago, I will not be reviewing it now but will try my best to review it in the future. Thank you for the opportunity.

Sadly this book just didn’t grab as much as I hoped it would. I put it down and picked it up multiple times but I just couldn’t connect with it. Super bummed.

I requested this book ten years ago, and am no longer interested in reading. Thank you for the opportunity.

The Truth About You and Me is not a fun book to read.

I mean that as a compliment.

The story of this basically boils down to what would happen to Aria and Ezra (in the TV show version of PLL) in The Real World. Which is to say that it very quickly wouldn’t work out.

Told from the perspective of Maddie, a super smart sixteen-year-old who takes the majority of her classes at the local community college, The Truth About You and Me is a letter from her to Bennet, the professor she lies to and then starts a relationship with. The letter is her attempt to explain, to put him at ease, to apologize.

Through the plaintive letter, the reader can easily see how she that despite how intelligent she is, emotionally she is naive, and often manipulative. She knows she’s falling in love and she wants to relish the feeling—it’s warm and exciting and terrifyingly exhilarating. While she knows that the feeling isn’t something to be ashamed of, she also knows that the situation is completely wrong and that if they’re found out Bennet’s life will be ruined. But, because she’s sixteen and in love for the first time, she wants to be selfish.

Though you know from the beginning of the book how it will end, Amanda Grace does a great job of pacing the story and also being fair in her depiction of Maddie. My favorite thing about this book is that Grace shows you how very immature Maddie is despite her genius-level intelligence and thoroughly enunciates the difference between thinking and actually being mature.

Overall, The Truth About You and Me is a story of living and learning, feeling fiercely and letting it all go, and an example of what it means to emotionally mature.

I love forbidden stories and (embarrassingly) I went through a teenage phase when I liked reading stories with a teacher/student trope. I found this story thought-provoking, but I was disappointed with the ending. It was the most realistic ending possible, but the romantic in me loves HEA, especially stories where the protagonist gets together with the main guy in the story.

Requested and downloaded this book back in 2013 with every intention of reading it but then it expired on my device before I had the chance. Have felt bad about that and as a result haven't wanted to leave a review but with more and more publishers relying on Feedback ratings I need to clear out some of these older titles in my queue.

The thing about Amanda Grace books is they always pull you in, even if they're sometimes hard to read. It's weird to say I liked this book due to the plot, but it's such a trope in fanfic that it was interesting to read it set in the actual world where consequences are real & long-lasting.

I’ll be honest I didn’t know how I was going to feel about this novel. You know the told again tale of teacher falls for a student. In many cases, it can be…honestly….creepy. However, this tale was different. It was different in the sense that the relationship was based on lies from the beginning. You see Madelyn never told her professor that she was of college age so in her eyes she didn’t actually lie, she just admit it. She kind of justifies her lies by saying “well he never actually asked, he just assumed.”

I gave this book a 4/5 not because of the storyline so much, but mainly for the writing. The author tells this tale in a very careful matter. This could’ve gone really wrong if it was told another way. You know a creepy old teacher and young student. It’s told in letter form from Madelyn to Bennett. She tries to explain why she did what she did. While I can understand Madelyn letting things get out of control, I never think she truly understands how her actions hurt everyone around her.

The one I felt for was Bennett. He was an honest stand-up kind of guy who just fell for the wrong person, or shall I say maybe the right person just at the wrong time. Call me crazy but I did believe and buy into their “love” story. I just feel they were at totally different times and paths in their lives.

While I enjoyed this book it may not be for everyone. I’ve read mixed reviews and while I can understand why you have to go into this willing to give it a chance. Although it’s a tale that’s been told over and over again, I totally got this one.

This was a great forbidden romance YA novel. I have always been fascinated by forbidden romances and jumped at the chance to read this one - I was not disappointed! While it seems creepy initially, I really grew to like Bennett, probably moreso than Madelyn, who was frustrating with her constant lying. Despite that, we really got to glimpse into her head and see the rollercoaster of emotions she was on that caused her to continually lie and I felt for her, I really did. The strong emotions (of both intense pain and happiness) were what really made this book stand out for me. Not only was this the story of a first love (for her, at least), it was a forbidden love too, both of which made the story incredibly intriguing and heartbreaking.

I'd highly recommend this to fans of contemporary YA, especially if you enjoy forbidden romances, like I do.

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I read a good chunk of this book, then the egalley expired. At first, I didn't "get it" and wasn't really that interested. Plus I find the style (a letter to one of the characters that keeps referring to "you" off putting. And yet years later I picked it back up and finished it. And I can see why some people enjoyed it and how to certain teen girls this book would appeal. Not because everyone is going to go and sleep with their professor but how you have a crush on someone unattainable but then they notice you and it is hard to want to tell the whole truth when sins by omission keep you where you want to be. Someone sees you for yourself and not for the perfect driven robot daughter your parents expect. Also there is a sort of breathless insular "in love" thing where the rest of the world doesn't exist (until it does of course). I did find it hard to think that Bennet NEVER thought to ask her about her age. The ending was a bit dis-satisfying/anti-climatic/abrupt but does have a little sort of epilogue where the two run into each other and Maddie is forced to confront the fact that her actions had real consequences for the other person involved.

This is a really hard book to review. I enjoyed reading this book but I also hated reading this book, both feelings equally strong. I’m going to be up front about it: The Truth About You and Me is about the relationship between a 16 year old girl and a 25 (later 26) year-old college professor. *Sigh* Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I also want to point out that The Truth About You and Me wasn’t a badly written book and the characterization wasn’t bad either. They were both done rather well. But. The subject matter brought up a lot of personal feelings and for the life of me; I couldn’t get behind this relationship and I couldn’t love this book as much as I possibly could have.

I’m going right into: I wanted to slap Madelyn, our protagonist, literally the entire time I read this book. There was simply nothing I could do but cringe every time she talked to Bennett about their relationship (this book is written in the form of a long letter Madelyn wrote to Bennett). Basically, Madelyn was a very stupid, very selfish girl. See, she’s 16 and all, but really smart. So instead of going to high school, Madelyn’s taking classes at the community college. Bennett just happens to be her professor and from the very beginning, she’s in love with him. No, not love, obsessed with him.

I don’t normally do this, but I highlighted some quotes on my Kindle for this galley: regarding Bennett’s Facebook page: It wasn’t private, and I was able to see all kinds of pictures. I shouldn’t tell you this, but I saved a few of them on my computer (Loc. 343). Like, what in the hell? I stopped reading when I got to this quote because all I could think was “STALKER” and “you’re 16. He’s 25! Nononononono.” Not only that but Madelyn also spent hours simply looking at Bennett’s pictures (she even made him her computer screen saver) and imagining herself with him. Just, NO.

I was shocked that Bennett didn’t learn that Madelyn was a high school student. I was under the assumption that if a high school student is taking college courses, the professors tend to know this info. And of course, Bennett is Madelyn’s professor so dating her is kind of like giving her special treatment. I had hoped nothing happened but: You gave me an A-, Bennett. I know I didn’t earn it. You gave me that A- (Loc. 888).

The writing was in all honesty not bad at all. The pacing was great and I loved how all of the details of Madelyn and Bennett’s relationship were revealed. From the very beginning, it’s obviously that the letter writer is a more mature Madelyn when compared to 16-year-old Madelyn and I’m glad that now she realizes how stupid she really was.

Overall, I liked this book but in the end, I wasn’t able to love it completely. Sometimes you come across a book that has a subject matter you can’t get behind. I will admit that had it been a protagonist 18 years and older, I wouldn’t have had such an issue as I did with this one. Obviously, dating a teacher while the student is in the class is wrong because there is a big chance that s/he will get favoritism. I think many will like this book more than I did but I can’t in all honestly give it more than 3 stars.

I never had a chance to review this before it expired. I'm sorry!

Read this back in 2013 and I just didn't enjoy it what so ever. The subject matter of "forbidden love" between a student and teacher, as well as a under-age girl, is just not my cup of tea. I thought that I would find some redemptive qualities in the novel, but Madelyn's stupidity and naïve nature made this book a bit NO on the recommend list.

This is such an odd book to review. I like that the author tried something different in giving us a letter from the 16 year old girl who fell in love with her 26 year old college Biology professor. She wrote him a letter hoping it would help clear his name and let the police know it was all her fault.

The downside to this format is we only hear Madelyn's point of view and never anything from Bennett's. This also stunts the story itself because, well, the only story is what she has penned in a letter, so even she has to be careful in what she says.

I don't know. I liked the book, but it wasn't my favorite