Defy is a smutty, insta-love, insta-lust short novella. It is a prequel to Vicious (Sinners of Saint #1) and can be read as a complete standalone with a HEA.Now an international bestseller. My name is Melody Greene, and I have a confession to make.I slept with my student, a senior in high school.Multiple times.I had multiple orgasms.In multiple positions.I slept with my student and I enjoyed it.I … slept with my student and I enjoyed it.
I slept with my student and I’d do it all over again if I could turn back time.
My name is Melody Greene, and I got kicked out of my position as a teacher and did my walk of shame a la Cersei Lannister from the principal’s office, minutes after said principal threatened to call the cops on me.
My name is Melody Greene, and I did something bad because it made me feel good.
Here is why it was totally worth it.
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People tend to like forbidden things. They enjoy the adrenaline of doing and experiencing forbidden things. Maybe at that time they do not think about the consequences but the pleasure. Have you ever fall in love with any of the teachers you had during college? Some of us have fallen in love with some of our teachers perhaps had a little fantasy but what about the consequences? When we fall in love we don’t care about what others will think however people around us will support us or criticize us. Family and friends may intervene for our own good or selfishness.
Defy is a book that touched the subject of a forbidden love between a student and his literature teacher. Melody did really have a hard time to do the correct thing for her and her student but deep inside her she wants what is forbidden for her and Jamie didn’t make it easy.
“I was fucking my student, and my future, all at the same time. Nonetheless, I couldn’t stop”.
Mel has a past that make her unhappy and Jamie is like a fresh air to her life. She is older and he is younger but that doesn’t matter for them, well maybe a bit for her. Little Ballerina has broken dreams and Giraffe Tongue will build new dreams for both of them.
“So lost. So confused. So fucking mine. Owning someone has never felt this good”.
Jamie is one of the 4 Hot Holes. He is the kind of bad boy with an angel face. All girls have dropped their panties for him. We can think he is like any other popular boy but he is more mature than any of his age. He can deceive others but his true face is other which only Mel will discover. He was the one who link the 4 Hot Holes together a guy who will be by your side no matter what.
Mel and Jamie make a perfect couple with their imperfections. The world around them will burn but that doesn’t matter if they stay together at the end of all the obstacles they can have.
“Dancing was my life. But Jamie? Jamie is my life”.
Opinion
This is the first time I read a book written by L.J. Shen and I don’t regret it. Defy is a short novella, a prequel of Sinners of Saint Series. It can be read as a standalone. The story is full of surprises. I couldn’t put the book down. This novella can’t be enclosed in the cliché of a teacher / student’s love story. It’s much more. You could live trough the characters. It’s full of surprises. I almost could feel the tension and electricity which was going between the main characters. Little Ballerina and Giraffe Tongue are going to redefine what a forbidden romance is.
The peace of the story goes fast and without noticing you will finish the book in one day. I highly recommend you Defy and if you are willing to read more about the 4 Hot Holes you can read as well Vicous which is available and soon Ruckus which will be published this spring-summer. Give it a chance L.J. Shen won’t disappoint you.