They make a deal – she will help him pass the midterm make up test and he will take her out to a party where Kohl will be, thus improving her social cred and making her seem unattainable – something Garrett assures Hannah is necessary if she wants a date with “loverboy”. Eventually.ĭespite repeated refusals from Hannah, Garrett is eventually successful in his quest to have Hannah tutor him.
He is not her usual type but he is gorgeous and she can’t help but sigh over him. Hannah has a crush on Justin Kohl, a recent transfer to the university and the star wideout for the football team. Hannah, to her surprise, aces it and once he finds out, Garrett begins a campaign to get Hannah to tutor him for the makeup test the college has forced the professor to grant (as nearly the entire class failed). The class was supposed to be easy but a new professor has changed things up and, to his horror, Garrett fails his midterm. He is also a junior and he and Hannah share a Philosophical Ethics class.
He plans to make hockey his professional career so this is a big deal to him. If he doesn’t maintain at least a C+ average he will be off the team. He is also intelligent and Briar is a college which doesn’t slack on academic requirements for their athletes. He is talented and works very hard at his sport. Garrett Graham is the captain of the Briar ice hockey team. If she succeeds, she will use the money to take some of the burden off her parents. Hannah is a talented singer and hopes to win a $5,000 scholarship at the upcoming Winter Showcase. She has an academic scholarship for her Vocal Performance Music Major but residence and meals etc is still very expensive. Money is extremely tight and Hannah is very aware of the sacrifices her parents make for her to attend Briar. Her parents meet her at her aunt’s house in Philadelphia or they come to her for holidays. For reasons which become clear later in the story, Hannah doesn’t go home anymore. She has wonderfully supportive parents even though the small town she came from and most of the people in it treated her very shabbily indeed after she was assaulted. By the time the book starts, she has had lots of therapy and is in a good mental place. When she was 15, she attended a party and was drugged and raped by her date.
Hannah Wells is a 20 year old junior at Briar University in Massachusetts. Trigger Warning: (off page) rape and domestic violence. The characters grabbed me from the start and didn’t let me go. I saw some buzz on Twitter about The Deal and immediately sent an email off to Jane begging for a copy.
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