Unfortunately, a strict anti-fraternizing policy--made more perilous by a black mark on Daniel's record--keeps them apart. Against this academic backdrop, Aubrey and Daniel navigate their way through a steamy courtship, their forbidden romance aided, abetted, and sometimes thwarted by a colorful cast of friends, family, and classmates.
4 Great Stars
Review by Nicole Lorenzo
Aubrey Price is halfway through
to completing her undergraduate degree at Toronto College. She works part time
for Dean Grant and is starting her Shakespearian studies class where she can
excitedly immerse herself into Shakespeare’s works. When she gets a glimpse of
the new TA in the class Aubrey realizes she’s going to like the class a whole
lot more. Daniel Grant, with his blue eyes, mussed hair and impossible dimples
is the epitome of sexy, but he is also a teacher’s assistant and Dean Grant’s
son. Knowing that there are strict no fraternizing rules doesn’t stop Aubrey
from wishing things could be different, especially when she senses that Daniel has
an interest in her as well. At first Daniel is very hot and cold with Aubrey
and she doesn’t know what to make of it, but then one day Daniel lets his guard
down and his true feelings for Aubrey are revealed.
“I
really like you. I shouldn’t like you
the way I do. It’s wrong, and I know it’s wrong, but I can’t seem to help
myself.”
Daniel knows he should stay far
away from Aubrey, but he can’t seem to get her out of his mind and he knows
that they could be amazing together. They decide to keep their relationship
quiet until the semester ends and Daniel is released from his TA position. But
there’s something else besides the no fraternizing rule between teacher
assistants and students that has Daniel nervous about his relationship with
Aubrey. Something from his past has him guarded but he still can’t seem to stay
away from her no matter what the ramifications may be.
It
was as if we were attached by an invisible current, dangerously compelling us
to move toward each other.
Aubrey and Daniels attempt to
have a relationship and keep it quiet for the remainder of the semester proves
to be difficult. When a terrible misunderstanding has Daniel second guessing
everything he thought he knew about Aubrey, jealousy and false assumptions can
potentially end their relationship before it can really start.
“This
was not heart ache. An ache is a dull pain, and there was nothing dull about
this; shards of glass were being repeatedly thrust into my heart, twisted, and
then violently pulled out.”
Can a relationship based on keeping secrets
and half-truths really stand a chance? Can Aubrey and Daniel make it through to
other side and have the real relationship they both desperately yearn for? I
desperately want them to! I was sucked into this story from the first page and
now I eagerly await the second book to learn the fate of Daniel and Aubrey. The
chemistry between these two is great, and the fact that they have to avoid
intimacy and keep their relationship a secret makes every stolen moment they
share stand out. Aubrey’s and Daniel’s mutual love for Shakespeare, and the way
they banter back and forth using quotes really added a special quality to
story. I love
the incorporation of Classic Literature in Contemporary Romances, it gives that
something extra you don’t find in every other book you read. The Weight of
Words is a beautifully written forbidden romance that’s witty, sweet and will
have you waiting rather impatiently for the second book which is called Better
Deeds than Words.
“…I’ve spend the last ten years of my life studying words – marveling in their power, their weight. Never once in all those years did I have an inkling that the weight of so few words could be so crushing.”
