Review: Wildest Dream by RC Boldt (Teach Me #1)
Note: This ARC was provided by RockStar Lit PR in exchange for an honest review.
After his time as a Navy SEAL and losing two of his closest friends while in combat, Callum Mackenzie decides to pursue his dream of becoming a math teacher. While recovering from his own battle injuries, Mac is taken in by the family of another close friend and decides to start his life anew in their hometown. His childhood left him with deep emotional scars, making him refrain from forming any sort of attachment to almost anyone. But he found brothers while serving and now in Florida, he's found a family that's welcome him as one of their own and a new set of friends composed of fellow teachers. It's his friendship with science teacher Raine Thompson that means the most, both considering one another best friends. They can't help the attraction that's been there from the beginning, but neither one wants to cross the line, afraid that doing so will result in the loss of each other's friendship. When the time comes that they give into temptation, they both agreed it would be a one-time thing...only to learn once is not enough.
Wildest Dream is the first novel in the Teach Me contemporary romance series from debut author RC Boldt. It's a friends-to-lovers story between Callum Mackenzie, a former Navy SEAL turned math teacher, and Raine Thompson, a science teacher in the same school Mac now teaches at. Unlike a lot of other books that follow this familiar trope, RC Boldt lets readers experience how Mac and Raine's friendship came about. The attractions been there from the start, but it's not as if the two main characters are pining away for each other. They spent a great deal of time together and with the rest of their circle of friends and they did date other people as well. This was something that I really appreciated because the whole putting your life on hold for someone else is rather sad and pathetic. There's a genuineness to the friendship, even though I must admit that it felt really stretched out after a while and I kept wondering when the heck these two would wake up and just admit to their feelings and get on with crossing the line from friends to lovers.
Aside from the love story itself, we get to meet supporting characters who I suspect will get their own stories told down the line. Laney Kavanaugh and Zach Mayson's romance will be the second book, Hard to Handle, and based on one particular scene in book one, I'm guessing Tate Donnelly will share her story with Miller (whose last--or maybe first--name wasn't mentioned). I may be wrong but it's possible Adam (no last name in the text) has a history of sorts with Foster Kavanaugh, and if I'm right, I'm definitely on board with that one. That just leaves Lawson Briggs and I honestly can't recall if he actually hit it off with anyone in particular in the story. Hey, this is what I do when I read--wonder and take a stab and figuring out who's going to end up with whom. What I'm trying to say here is that after meeting the rest of the cast of characters, I'm already looking forward to seeing where their own stories will lead them. With a familiar story line told rather well (even with a misused word here and there), I'm giving Wildest Dream four stars. ♥
Date Read: 09 December 2015
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