I bought this book after briefly looking it up on here after being originally interested by the premise. I am, admittedly, rather swept away by teacher-student relationship stories and I was hoping that this one wouldn't disappoint me - and it certainly didn't (though there were some points of which I wish were different about this, which would've allowed me to enjoy it a bit more, but I enjoyed it plenty anyway - enough so that I've already bought the second and third book.)

I would like to take a second to warn you that this isn't such a love story as a lust story. There seems to be a lot of "almost sex scenes" (which get rather repetitive, or at least I thought so) and very little love scenes. I'm hoping this rectifies itself in the next couple of books. Regardless of that, this book was wonderful.

The story starts with Cindy (Wilson's rather b*tchy friend) giving Wilson a ticket to go skiing with her; and Cindy hopes that Wilson will go to clubs and parties with her. Neither of them know that, that won't actually pan out completely as Cindy would like... (I shan't go into detail lest I spoil the plot too much for y'all). I did feel it a little predictable, however, when Max (Wilson's teacher - who I pictured as Ed Westwick, purely because of the film Chalet Girl; and yes I pictured Wilson as Felicity Jones) showed up in Aspen. Despite that, I was rather pleased with how it started to pan out. The story developed really brilliantly and I did love almost everything about it. I loved the setting, I loved the characters (aside from Cindy, ugh), I loved how their relationship began, I loved pretty much all of it. I shan't go into too much detail because I really don't wanna ruin stuff. I've briefly gone into the negative things though.
For me, however, the positive outweighed the negative by a landslide.

There were many features that I was somewhat unhappy with. For example: the texts between characters... Gosh, they're so awfully written that they took me a moment or two to actually understand. It was "CU L8R, CNT W8 2 C U" kind of thing... Which was really irritating for me; and it kind of took the maturity away from the book. It's really nit picky of me but I felt that if the texts were written more maturely (particularly Max's), then it would've made the characters seem more mature.

I found that the characters in this book were really well portrayed and well written, and I particularly warmed to the character of Nick during the first leg of the novel; and even later in the novel that like for him kept up, if it didn't grow a little just because of me coming out in sympathy for him. I really loved Wilson (though I wish the whole broken family thing was written in a different way; because the amount it was used there was only one way it was really expressed and by the end it was starting to get frustrated) and Max... Well, I loved him, too; purely because of the way Wilson saw him. I mean, come on, we've all had that teacher that has made us completely fluffy inside. We can all sympathise (I hope). One character I despised, though, was Cindy. I'm sure, as you read this book, you'll all feel the same. I like how she is a catalyst to this book, but it's kind of a predictable catalyst. But either way, she's there and it's kind of necessary in this book - without her, nothing would've happened. I loved Joanie though! Joanie reminds me of my own best friend; so I grew a soft spot for her straight away. She was wonderful. It felt nice for once, in a teacher student relationship book that, there was a supportive person in there opposed to everyone running at them with pitch forks.

That said, I really did love how this was written. I loved how descriptive it was - the author described everything perfectly, and whilst I've seen people complaining about it, I absolutely loooooved it! I also loved how the characters were portrayed, the events that happened, and even down to the cliffhanger (which was rather annoying at the time). I just loved this novel.

Overall, this book was thoroughly enjoyable, more so than that, and I will definitely be reading the second book.
I would absolutely recommend you read this and enter it with an open mind!
I do hope I haven't hovered too much over the negative, for this book was actually really brilliant. ^.^