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Addie's POV was annoying to read at times, mostly due to the author trying too hard to make her narration seem teenager-like and putting "for real" in every other sentence. He is told to work leads from behind the scenes, as he previously showed stalker tendencies toward the son of one of the victims. Whether or not you agree with everything in this book, every teacher should at least be acquainted with its arguments. The plot is well put together and rather than being a typical whodunit with multiple twist and turns, it is more a plot being slowly revealed because it is clear, pretty early on, who the killer is and who will catch her/him. Especially in the second half, things get so batshit crazy that you keep telling yourself, "no way," but yes way—it's a ride of expecting the unexpected!
The disturbing story is narrated via the voices of Eve and Addie with chapters alternating between their points of view. The police are on their way so he goes to the pumpkin patch to check Eve’s grave and make sure she's really dead. As much as I loved her earlier work, her latest musings have left a bad taste in my mouth, I am sorry to say.The Teacher is a fast and furious read of the type that will keep you up at night - not only because you really want to know what the heck is going on but because it may induce a kind of nightmare twilight state in you where sleeping doesnt really seem to be the best option just in case. For example, many students will re-read and highlight material leading up to a test, something which the authors of this book show is little more than colouring in. One of the more concrete findings from cognitive science is that many of the things that engender effective learning are highly counterintuitive.
The story kept running back to the past, then the present, then to a character's viewpoint that served to do nothing but confuse the story even more. The action centres around a museum in Exeter and it makes an excellent backdrop for the unfolding drama. It serves as a warning to anyone of a sensitive or nervous disposition that this book really isn't for the fainthearted.What no one knows is that she's miserable in a loveless marriage with her "perfect" husband, Nate Bennett, who teaches with her at Caseham High. Addie is digging the ride because the car is cleaner than her mom's and smells like him, and he tells her about the difficulty he experienced being a poetry-writing sixteen-year-old boy and recites the first poem he ever wrote (for his mom, at age six, which Jesus H DOES NOT COUNT AS A POEM), and she wishes they would kiss and thinks "there's something poetic about the name Nathaniel" (aaaand I am officially dead because my husband is named Nathaniel and I can't stop laughing even though this entire situation is gross AF). I really have mixed feelings about The Teacher it was a book I really enjoyed reading, but there was a small part of me that was expecting something far more gruesome, now this could be because I read such a large amount of crime books I’ve become accustomed to descriptions of murders that might turn other readers stomachs, but I really don’t think it was that disturbing or gruesome.
Scott has previously appeared on and written for the BBC discussing ideas on how to encourage a love of reading and raising children as readers. The narrative jumps past to present and aroundabout as people die in very violent ways - but why, who, what has started all this - THAT is what will keep you turning the pages. I loved the different storyline which questions if every crime is black and white, or sometimes is there gray in-between? The police stop investigating because Eve isn’t actually dead and they assume SP Nate just left town without a trace. Some parts of the story do become a bit gruesome but I did not find that any of this turned me away from the story, instead I felt it made the story more real.While digging, Eve remembers the poem SP Nate wrote her when she was fifteen and he was her teacher - and (McTwist!
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