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Review: Back to School
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Dylan Cross likes to give his female protagonists names that begin with the letter K – and I can see why. There is something emotive in the shape, something both spiky and sensual. Here, we find Kristi waiting for her niece, Katie, to finish school – Kristi’s old high school with its familiar smells and dreamy reminiscences. Kristi feels transported back in time, the power of her memories so strong it seems as if she is truly back in that time, the years peeling away from her face and body the same as they peel away from her mind. She finds her old locker and can barely believe there is a bottle of spirits waiting there to be unscrewed and sipped…
“Just what do you think you are doing.”
The voice doesn’t shake her out of the nostalgia, but takes her down, down as if into the depths of the past and she becomes what Mr Smith, the dean of discipline, believes she is: a disrespectful, class-skipping, booze-addled student who needs a serious taste of discipline. Driven partly by vanity, Kristi at 31 likes being taken for an 18 year old, and partly by a sense of an explorer entering the unknown, she follows Mr Smith into his office with a prickly feeling over the soft flesh of her posterior and a sense that her life is about to change…perhaps forever.
Dylan Cross is the master of discipline and in “Back to School” we find him at his dominant best.
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