Mallory's Reviews > The Professor

I did not realize this was book two and while the story in many ways stands alone I think the first half was very slow and I felt like something was missing and if I had read that first book I feel like I might have felt differently. So I would suggest reading the Resemblance first (ironically that is one I checked one from the library but had to return before I could get to it). The main character Marlitt, or Marley, was hard to connect to and clearly stuck in half explained trauma from the first book. I think I would like her better if I had read that first book too. The mystery of this book was interesting and the second half of the book where that really picked up was good. I listened to the audiobook and thought that the narrator did an ok job, but it wasn’t an audiobook where the narrator brought the characters to life for me. I loved the twist at the very end. Marlitt isn’t a police detective again but when her mother’s friend another college professor is accused of having a professor with a student who is found dead she asks Marlitt to help and clear her name. Marlitt can’t resist the case or the mystery and soon she goes from asking a few students some questions to immrersing herself in quite deeply, but unfortunately the concerns of an affair are the least of the concerns in the case because the student’s death appear suspicious.