Book: An Academic Affair
Author: Jodi
McAlister
Pages: 384
Date(s)
Read: April 1st, 2026 to June 16th, 2026
Date
Published: November 11th, 2025
Rating: 3/5
Genre: Romance, Contemporary Romance
Characters: 3/5
Writing style: 5/5
Story: 3/5
Ending: 4/5
Cover: 2/5
Format: Soft Cover
Date Bought: December 19th, 2025
Book Cost: $14.24
Review:
An Academic
Affair is a charming romance that is marred by its odd and uneven pacing.
In an
Academic Affair longtime academic rivals Jonah and Sadie marry for a job
opportunity in the academic world.
I always
love a marriage of convenience trope. I loved the chemistry between the two and
the dual pov was done in a unique and refreshing way that truly added a lot of
depth and dimension to the story. The side characters are as interesting as the
main characters and I found myself equally invested in their own narratives.
That being
said, the book starts off slowly and throws huge deal things that should take
chapters just to build up to over in two chapters. It's a disappointment that
the book has this huge complication with their jobs and yet ends in such an
anticlimactic way.
This book
is good, but the pacing and story itself really could have been so much better.
This book is a study in what could have been. Still if you like a marriage of
convenience trope this one is worth checking out, you might like it more than I
did.
