The Truth About You and Me

The Truth About You and Me by Amanda Grace

Smart girls aren't supposed to do stupid things.

Madelyn Hawkins is super smart. At sixteen, she's so gifted that she can attend college through a special program at her high school. On her first day, she meets Bennet. He's cute, funny, and kind. He understands Madelyn and what she's endured - and missed out on - in order to excel academically and please her parents. Now, for the first time in her life, she's falling in love.

There's only one problem. Bennet is Madelyn's college professor, and he thinks she's eighteen - because she hasn't told him the truth.

The story of their forbidden romance is told in letters that Madelyn writes to Bennet - both a heart-searing ode to their ill-fated love and an apology.**

I received this book as an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 

Madelyn is a confused sixteen year old girl that is being pushed and groomed to be something, anything. Her parents don't seem to care about anything but her academics. It seems like through out the entire book her parents only ask about her schooling. One time her dad takes time to have fun with her.  Granted the majority of the book is from a small window of time around two months, but still all they want to talk about is school. Madelyn doesn't know what she wants to do but she knows that she has to do something great. Being something is what its all about right? 

Shes apart of this program that lets her go to college full time on her high schools dime. She super smart so it should be a cake walk. She gets to do grown up things and only has to check in at the high school every few months. We only really hear about two of the classes shes taking, English and Biology. English is boring, the teacher is boring but Biology is great, the teacher is memorizing. He catches her eye and she is just infatuated. Bennet (sometimes spelled Bennett in the galley) is fun and young and she just is drawn to him. He thinks shes a freshly graduated high school student and she lets him think that. 

They meet by chance while hiking and the friendship starts there, growing in to more but knowing that it can't be anymore until she's no longer his student, they keep it a friendship. The truth comes out, just like it was always going to and they are no longer together. He's gone and she's sad..

I really enjoyed this book, was it realistic in parts yes but it's a work of fiction that drew me in. I felt for Madelyn, she was so certain that Bennet would be able to handle finding out that she was sixteen that it was a risk she was willing to take. She loved him, even at sixteen its a pure kind of love. I don't know if it was a real love but for her it was. We do get some resolution for them, they do see each other again but I'm leaving that a mystery. You'll just have to read this book for yourself to see how that all went down. 

**Goodreads summary