I sounded like I was auditioning for the audiobook of our text. “Knowledge gained through experimentation and observation.” Lovely. He walked over and jabbed his index finger on the table in front of me.

“The only class I’m failing,” said another.Ĭoach’s eyes tracked down the front row, stopping at me. “Boring,” some kid in the back of the room called out. “It may not have occurred to you kids that sex is more than a fifteen-minute trip to the backseat of a car. “Seats, team!” Coach considered teaching tenth-grade biology a side assignment to his job as varsity basketball coach, and we all knew it. “Not so loud.” She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.Ĭoach McConaughy grabbed the whistle swinging from a chain around his neck and blew it.

“This class isn’t going to teach me anything I don’t already know.” Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. “Why, Vee,” I said, “I could’ve sworn you’ve been looking forward to this unit all semester.” And then we’d have this hour to do something productive-like receive one-on-one tutoring from cute upperclass guys.” Pictures of this in the eZine would be all the evidence I’d need to get the board of education to ax biology. Scribbled above their heads in thick pink chalk was the invitation:Īt my side Vee Sky said, “This is exactly why the school outlaws camera phones. They’d been forced to link arms and were naked except for artificial leaves placed in a few choice locations. Mysteriously adhered to the chalkboard was a Barbie doll, with Ken at her side. (Oct.I WALKED INTO BIOLOGY AND MY JAW FELL OPEN. Nora's tempestuous relationship with prototypical bad boy Patch is genuinely, even unsettlingly, seductive-fans of paranormal romance should be rapt. Fitzpatrick regularly tweaks the tension, resulting in a fast-paced, exhilarating read. The violence and danger escalate, and Nora learns that Patch is actually a fallen angel seeking to become human. And the same figure ransacks her bedroom, but everything is in place when the police arrive. Soon she is questioning her sanity-she is attacked by a masked figure that smashes her car window, but later the glass is intact. ! A more reckless part was tempted to see how close I could get without.

Her instincts tell her Patch is trouble, and she doesn't like the way he is already inside her head (“Part of me wanted to run away from him screaming, Fire Nora Grey is assigned a new partner in her sophomore biology class. Fitzpatrick debuts with a gripping chiller where humans become pawns in the hands of fallen angels.

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