Tutored in Love

By: Barbara J. Adamson

Narrated by: Aubrey Warner

Grace Ebert is focused on graduating college and launching her career as a recreational therapist, but one monumental challenge stands in her way: math. Desperate for help as she struggles to complete her final college course, she hires Noah Jennings to tutor her. Naturally outgoing, Grace is determined to get to know the surly math whiz, but when she pushes too hard for connection, Noah makes it painfully clear that they will never be friends and cuts ties with her.

Noah feels his rejection of Grace’s friendship is perfectly justified, but when he’s unexpectedly stuck working with her again, he can’t help but admire her caring heart and determination. As Noah addresses his mental health and Grace confronts her guilt, they form an undeniable bond over the similarity of their haunting grief; still, they must resolve the volatile past that stands between them if they hope to build a future together.

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Clean, feel good, love story.

Loved it! Great chemistry between the two main characters. Ready to read the next one.

An enjoyable and unique debut

An enjoyable and unique debut.

This book is written in the most unique format I’ve possibly ever seen. Told in three parts, the first section is written from the POV of Grace, with the second being told from Noah’s POV. The final section is dual perspective. The sections are linear in the timeline, so we get several months from Grace, with the following several months from Noah’s voice, and finally get thoughts from each.

This book is more women’s fiction/men’s fiction than romance (is men’s fiction a thing? Because it is in this book), though we do get some near the end. I’d say that each section, with its respective POV, almost reads like a different genre. The first being women’s fiction, the second men’s fiction, and the third romance.

I really liked the character arcs in this book. It’s a highly character driven book, and both Grace and Noah have a lot of growing up to do. And I love that they do so. They both have hard things happen to them, and learn the hard way through a couple of things about the wrong ways to process their emotions and feelings.

Noah’s character development was my favorite of the two. I feel like he went the furthest, because he had the farthest to go. I really liked where he ended up. I didn’t really like him much at first, but I was a fan by the end.

The math tutoring was a fun element to this story that I really liked. I relate to Grace in some ways because I am also terrible at math and also needed math tutoring during my college years (though I got mine over with right away, rather than waiting until the end).

If you enjoy women’s fiction style writing and really wide character arcs, I would recommend this book.


*Audiobook Review: I like this narrator and feel like she does a good job. In this book, I felt like she narrated Noah’s voice as more angry than I thought he actually was, which threw me for a loop a few times. Overall though, I do usually like this narrator.


**Many thanks to the author and publisher for the copy of the book. These thoughts and opinions belong only to me.