Book Review: Beauty and the Professor by Skye Warren

Once upon a time there was a beautiful college student… 

Erin cleans Mr. Morris’s house twice a week to pay her tuition. The reclusive ex-soldier intimidates her, but she can’t help but feel sympathy for him. Then she walks in on him touching himself, and she has much darker, much more sensual feelings. 

And a beastly professor with scars he can’t hide… 

Blake Morris knows he’s scarred both inside and out. He’s reclusive and surly. Nowhere near good enough for the smart and beautiful young woman who cleans his house. 

He receives an offer to return to his alma mater as an associate professor. This is his chance to reenter the world--and to be worthy of the woman he dreams about. He never expected to see her sitting in his classroom on the first day of the semester. 

Beauty and the Professor is book one in this modern fairy tale duet. It's a modern day forbidden romance. The story is trope filled, forbidden love, professor/student, billionaire, maid, significant age difference scars from the past and fairy tale.  The tropes are blended well throughout the story.  However, I have two contentions, there was a lot of sex and the cliffhanger threw me for a loop.  It created a disjointed transition to the next book.  I'm not sure if it was done for shock value but it left me confused.  3 Stars