The Study Group by Cassie Cole

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Shared by a professor, a football player, and an engineer? I never thought grad school would be so much fun.

I have the biggest crush on my engineering professor.
Yeah, yeah. I know. But you should see this guy.
He is fine.

Adam Nielson is tall, dark, and handsome.
Like something out of a cologne commercial.
He’s every girl’s fantasy.
And I’m pretty sure I’m his fantasy too.

But Adam isn’t the only boy on my mind.
I’m tutoring Joey Trevino, the star football player.
A blond-haired, blue-eyed athlete with a ravishing smile.
His goofy personality and boyish good looks would be hard enough to resist.
Throw in his persistent flirting?
Soon our study group is the last thing on my mind.

Then there’s Paul Bradley, the fellow grad student I met in the lab.
A boy with the quiet intelligence of a nerd wrapped in the sexy body of a supermodel.
He shows up to my apartment one night to help fix my laptop.
And something tells me he’s not just here to touch my hardware.

Can I graduate on time while being shared by these three amazing men?
Or will these sexy study sessions ruin my academic career?

THE STUDY GROUP is a scorching college reverse harem love story filled with humor, suspense, and excitement. HEA guaranteed!

The Study Group

Terrific storylines & super steamy!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭☺️😘🥰

The heroine: Sarah – she is in graduate school for electrical engineering and is a teaching assistant in a computer course at Southern Polytechnic University. She has always loved computers and electronics and spent much of her childhood taking things apart, putting them back together and building electronics. She wants to work for one of the big tech manufacturers and design her own computers.

The Heroes:
Adam Nielsen – he is a professor of Engineering, and he teaches the class where Sarah is the teaching assistant. He isn’t just the sexy young professor who looks more like a model than an educator, he is actually brilliant in his field. He is also a senior systems engineer at ABQ Labs.
Joey Trevino – The all-American blond hair and blue-eyed football star. He is not doing well in his classes and needs tutoring help before he gets put on academic probation.
Paul Bradley – a grad student in Information Technology. He looks a lot like a nerdy superman (Clark Kent in other words) and is very intelligent.

The Story: Sarah has had a crush on Professor Nielsen for a while so when he asks her to help out a struggling football player, she agrees even though she doesn’t really want to. She sees how many student athletes were treated like gods and helped out so they could sail through their classes without putting in the effort like regular students. However, Sarah had always wanted a job at ABQ Labs where Nielsen is an engineer, so she hopes tutoring Joey will help with that.

Sarah was also in the process of working on her master project, so she often reserved blocks of time at the Lab on campus to do her work on retrofitting older motherboards to work with newer microprocessors. When she goes to the Lab on the wrong day, she meets Paul Bradley who offers to share the space with her. I liked Paul quite a lot. He has a bit of OCD when it comes to evening the score with regards to owing people for things. The feeling that he owes somebody something or they owe him something really bothers him. It was a cute quirk. Plus, Paul was getting his masters in IT, which is what I work in, and I have my master’s degree, so I felt a connection to the story that way.

The other two guys were just as great, each having their own personality traits which were as likable as their tight abs and big…hands. Joey seemed like a dumb jock at first and kind of reminded me of Joey Tribbiani because of his name and some of the things he said, but when he started talking about what he really liked to study we got to see that he really isn’t dumb, he is just not doing what he wants in life.

I can’t say enough about how good the backstories are in Cassie Cole’s books. I have read a few of her reverse-harem romances now and I really love how much detail she puts in and how thoroughly she researches her subjects. I have already put a bunch of her other books on my TBR and I hope they go on sale soon because I hate paying full price for books. Though I just love that each of these has been a standalone and the stories are so good. I expected this one to be not as well thought out but it was really good, and the IT and electrical engineering background was just great.

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