Teacher's Pet [Paperback]

G A Hauser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2008 | ISBN-10: 1594269408 | ISBN-13: 978-1594269400

When twenty-two year old Jeremy West decided to take a few art classes in addition to his computer engineering degree, he had no idea that one of his professors would knock him off his feet. Professor Peter Foster, a young handsome and talented thirty-four year old professional artist, put Jeremy into heat every time he sat in his lecture hall or attended his sculpture class. Soon, Jeremy's good looks caught his teacher's eye. Finding a way to meet with him after class, Jeremy learns that the object of his desire is living with a young woman he married on one drunken night in Reno a year ago. A relationship becomes inevitable as the two find the physical attraction they share too much to deny. They begin a secret affair together until suspicion is aroused and rumors begin to circulate campus. A relationship between them was inevitable, but will Peter make the changes in his life to open the door for this new love? Or will he be simply just another favored student, the teacher's pet?

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Phaze Books (September 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594269408
• ISBN-13: 978-1594269400
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,162,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

About the Author
Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer, G.A. has written over sixty novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction and is an Honorary Board Member of Gay American Heroes for her support of the foundation. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com
G.A. has won awards from All Romance eBooks for Best Author 2010, 2009, Best Novel 2008, Mile High, and Best Author 2008, Best Novel 2007, Secrets and Misdemeanors, Best Author 2007.
The G.A. Hauser Collection
Single Titles
Unnecessary Roughness
Hot Rod
Mr. Right
Happy Endings
Down and Dirty
L.A. Masquerade
My Best Friend's Boyfriend
The Diamond Stud
The Hard Way
Games Men Play
Born to Please
Of Wolves and Men
The Order of Wolves
Got Men?
Heart of Steele
All Man
Julian
Black Leather Phoenix
London, Bloody, London
In The Dark and What Should Never Be, Erotic Short
Stories
Mark and Sharon (formally titled A Question of Sex)
A Man's Best Friend
It Takes a Man
The Physician and the Actor
For Love and Money
The Kiss
Naked Dragon
Secrets and Misdemeanors
Capital Games
Giving Up the Ghost
To Have and To Hostage
Love you, Loveday
The Boy Next Door
When Adam Met Jack
Exposure
The Vampire and the Man-eater
Murphy's Hero
Mark Antonious deMontford
Prince of Servitude
Calling Dr Love
The Rape of St. Peter
The Wedding Planner
Going Deep
Double Trouble
Pirates
Miller's Tale
Vampire Nights
Teacher's Pet
In the Shadow of Alexander
The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Band of Thebes

The Action Series
Acting Naughty
Playing Dirty
Getting it in the End
Behaving Badly
Dripping Hot
Packing Heat
Being Screwed
Something Sexy
Going Wild

Men in Motion Series
Mile High
Cruising
Driving Hard
Leather Boys

Heroes Series
Man to Man
Two In Two Out
Top Men



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Sister Moonshine
Nothing Like Romance
Silent Reign
Butterfly Suicide
Mutley's Crew

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 1, 2009

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BhamGhostwriter "Patrick" (Birmingham, Alabama) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Teacher's Pet (Paperback)

This book was a total disappointment to me.

Over the last 2 or 3 years, I've bought a number of Ms. Hauser's books because her early "gay romance" novel - THE PHYSICIAN AND THE ACTOR - was such a 5-star standout in a genre which seems more and more defined by bad porn film dialogue and tired, ho-hum plots. A few of her more recent books - THE BOY NEXT DOOR, GIVING UP THE GHOST and FOR LOVE AND MONEY (worthwhile sequel to THE PHYSICIAN AND THE ACTOR) - have maintained the high quality of true romance evidenced in that first book. But now that she seems intent on publishing a book per month, others (for example: CRUISING, LOVE YOU LOVEDAY and - notably - TEACHER'S PET), come across as formulaic template with their only saving grace being that she does not usually give us the choppy, truly awful dialogue drivel ("Bed! Now! Want you now! Your hand! Here!") that other female authors in the M/M genre think of as typical gay pillow talk.

There was this beautifully balanced character interplay and sexual tension in THE PHYSICIAN AND THE ACTOR and the two guys (who WERE truly meant for each other) did not consummate their relationship until we had silently cheered them on for 200 pages. In TEACHER'S PET, the professor and his student have hopped into bed with one another after only 50 pages - way before the reader has gotten to really know them. I'm sorry but that's NOT romantic at all. And shouldn't a romance novel be, well, "romantic?"

As a mature gay male, I know I'm probably NOT the typical reader of or targeted audience for the recently developed (and possibly Yaoi influenced) M/M genre. I realize they're mostly written by women for other women. But, dammit, I just happen to like the idea of true romance in the lives of gay male couples to-be. It doesn't matter to me whether the splendor of romance and love-making is depicted by women authors like G. A. Hauser or by gay male authors such as Edward C. Patterson and J. G. Hayes (whose outstanding books, transcending M/M pulp, depict gay male love at its best, most believable - and, sometimes, most heartbreaking). After all I have identified with, read and loved the work of Patricia Nell Warren and Mary Renault over the years. As a gay male who reads perhaps 200 books a year, all I ask is that the characters, plot and dialogue ring true to me.

Hauser's THE PHYSICIAN AND THE ACTOR established itself as one of my favorite gay-themed novels. But most of her recent work hints that she has perhaps become more interested in the quantity of her work rather than its sustained quality. And that's a shame because she is truly capable of meaningful, memorable and literate story telling.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time, don't waste your money, March 2, 2010

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camille (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teacher's Pet (Paperback)

Teacher's Pet is a paint-by-numbers formulaic piece of drivel. The male characters are at best two-dimensional, the plot is perfunctory, and even the sex cannot save this stale tale because the sex is boring. Boring sex? Yes, it is possible. Byt worse than that, it is ridiculous as the main character -- a young man of 22 goes in just a few minutes from being a shy virgin to being an aggressive top. Interestingly, given that the author is female and the audience for these books is largely female, is the fact that the portrayal of women in this book is deeply misogynistic. The women are either whores or harpies who drive the men to drink or to deep unhappiness. I stopped halfway through the book and have no urge to finish it.

1.0 out of 5 stars A total waste of money and time, April 24, 2011

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Elskebook (United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Teacher's Pet (Gay Erotic Romance) (Kindle Edition)

I purchased this book because I had recently read another book from this author and loved it. However, this book is probably one of the worst malexmale stories I have ever read. The writing is riddled with errors and its as another reviewer put it "clunky". Its like one big paragraph for an entire book, which was annoying and somewhat difficult/bothersome to read. The characters were not likeable, especially the main characters. They had no depth, and the student character was frankly spoiled and annoying.
The plot is one I love about a student falling for a professor/teacher but sadly this book was just a huge disappointment, and one I write about so no one else will purchase it. I skipped over so much of the book, and ended up reading the last page just cause I hate not knowing how a book ends. But I usually can stick with a book, and read it through simply cause I love to read. Not this one.

Plot: D+
Writing: D-
Editing: F
Characters: F