Product Description

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

• Amazon Sales Rank: #232656 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 260 pages

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
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.

Teacher/Student love
In Teacher's Pet we find an artist teacher, Peter, in a crappy one year marriage and a 22 year old student, Jeremy, with a disfunctional family and dealing with college and life. Jeremy and Peter are instantly attracted to each other in art history class, and then the fun begins. In some ways it reads like a collge teacher/student fantasy, one I know I've had myself over hot profs. It contains satisfying sex and a nice complete ending.
Recommended for any M/M romance fan.

Teacher's Pet by G.A. Hauser
Jeremy is a 22 years old college student. From a middle class family, handsome and friendly, he is like thousands of other students. But Jeremy has a secret: he likes men. Born in a conservative family, he has always thought that his being gay is a drama, something he needs to hide to no lose all his friends and the love of his family. Plus, told be truth, his family is not at all the supportive american family you see in television fiction: a spoilt sister, a father who borders on alcoholism and a mother who not loses a chance to make him feeling ungrateful.

But when Jeremy sees his art teacher, Peter, he is taken. Peter is a 34 years old successful artist who accepted a work as college professor to prove to his family that he has a worthy work. Not that like an artist he isn't doing good money, but being an artist is not a "real" work. Plus Peter is a divorced man, newly wedded to a too young [...]: a woman he has married in a drunken night in a fast marriage chapel in Las Vegas.

Both Jeremy or Peter haven't noble reasons to do what they done. Jeremy is a horny young man who has the hots when he sees his professor; when he learns that the object of his desires is married, he feels a bit of pain, but not regret and this little fact means nothing to his intention to seduce the handsome professor. And Peter doesn't think twice to engage in a relationship with a much younger man, one of his student. And the fact that he is married seems not important since the wife is a spoilt [...] who deserves only to be thrown out of his bed.

Reading this you could rightly think that I don't like Jeremy or Peter... and you are wrong! I like them both, cause they are "real", they are not the fake perfect heros of an usual romance. And also the supporting characters, in their exasperated characterization, are perfect. Everything in this romance is amplified to excess, but it's only a means to underline how the characters are "normal" and "day-to-day": don't miss the family's quarrels of Jeremy, or the jealousy's scenes of Peter's wife.

I like very much G.A. Hauser's style, all her characters are so full of faults: when Jeremy is asked to go home to support his father in a difficult moment, he regrets the lost chance to have a weekend of sex with his lover; when Peter has to face an inequity treatment, not only toward him, but also toward him being gay, he doesn't raise his head in an impetus of rightful indignation, but simple turn his shoulders and go away... Peter and Jeremy are not heros, they are like the men you cross on the street every day, maybe only a little more handsome!