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The Love Factor

By: Quinn Ivins
Narrated by: Lori Prince
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Molly Cook is almost 30, with dismal career prospects, and has given up on saving the world. It might be the 90s, and everything's shoulder pads, Doc Martens, and The X-Files, but people won't budge on gay rights. Molly decides to give a PhD a whirl but finds herself more interested in campus politics...and her strict and sexy statistics professor.

Professor Carmen Vaughn is stuck in small-town Maryland with smarmy blowhards for colleagues and ungrateful students who can't handle her high standards. She has no intention of coming out, least of all to Molly, a troublemaking grad student who can't stop picking fights with the conservative faculty.

But when Molly discovers evidence implicating a homophobic colleague in a scandal, Carmen can't ignore it - even if the subject hits too close to home. As the two women work together to make their case, they grow closer than Carmen ever imagined. But she absolutely refuses to get involved with a student.

The thing is, as the chemistry builds between them, Molly isn't sure she wants to be a grad student anymore...if she ever did.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Quinn Ivins (P)2020 Tantor
Literature & Fiction Romance Student Feel-Good
Compelling Storyline • Believable Characters • Fantastic Chemistry • Political Twists • Academic Setting
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I loved this book! Narration by Lori Prince was superb...no surprise there. And the author, Quinn Irvins, new to me, wrote one compelling story. Taking place in the late 1990s with a backdrop of the political unrest of President Clinton’s special prosecutor’s investigation and impeachment, Dr. Carmen Vance and grad student Molly Cook become enmeshed in their own investigation of fraud fueled by hate and bigotry. The characters are fully developed, engaging, brilliant, strong women. My suggestion: get this book!

A Great Story!

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Honestly, Ivins books are always worth it. She's great at creating interesting characters with fun dynamics. Molly and Carmen's chemistry is fantastic and the plot is great. I think the only flaw is that the plot is just too good and not enough time was given to the romance, even though both characters are fantastic and work great together. Or maybe I just wanted one more hour with this book.

Worth it!

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Aside from the fact that this is an excellent reading experience, I think this is a must read for any young gay woman to read, especially during these politically repugnant times, if they think that things were better in the “good old days” before the turn of this century.
Sometimes we forget that the lesbian rights we are trying to hold on to today, did not exist as recently as during the Clinton Administration, when this novel takes place.
It should remind you of how things not only were, but what they could revert back to.
This “history lesson” would not be as touching and effective if it were not for my favorite narrator, LORI PRINCE, who, has the capacity to make the reader, both laugh, and shed tears, within a few lines of each other.
Both main characters, Mollie and Carmen, are battling the restrictions and prejudices at the end of the 1990’s, regarding two suppressed members of our population ….
Women, and especially gay women.
As you listen, imagine yourself living daily, in the constrained situation of surviving both sexual and academic repression without the freedoms we, until recently, took for granted and are now fighting to retain.
Thank you for this well written, emotional and entertaining novel.
I will echo a previous reviewer who lamented that there was no epilogue🤔… to tell us how these two very dynamic characters as they moved ten years into the future toward the legalization of gay marriage.
Thanks for this very important “romance novel”.
Libra L.

Once Upon A Time ❤️

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Whew! Holy time worp Batman! Not only did Quinn bring the nineties back in all its glory and decking but placed believable characters in our midst. Carmen and Molly were a while chemistry set and brilliant to boot. Thank you Mrs Ivins. Lori Prince’s narration was immaculate.... as always 💜

Another great one!

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The story of Carmen & Molly- two women brought together in academia during the burgeoning gay rights movement in the 90’s. It is so well written- especially the details about the unethical use of data, the challenges of being a grad student and a woman and a minority in academia- it all rang very true. It involved a bit of a whistle blower case that kept me on the edge of my seat. The only reason it doesn’t get a 5 star from me is that the romance isn’t as fleshed out as the investigation that brings the women together. We have to wait til the end to get a payoff and by then I was left wanting more- where are Carmen and Molly now? Maybe an epilogue!

Wonderful smart debut

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Another audio Lori Prince knocks out the park. Read the book a couple of months ago, my first go around with this author and was pleased and more than happy to support the audio version. No real complaints. Would be nice to see how their life shapes out since it was such a slow burn or an epilogue would of been icing on the cake. Just my two scents.

Slow burn...

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Molly cook is a PhD candidate at Maryland University and an out an proud lesbian. She is interested in campus politics and her sexy statistics professor. When Molly discovers evidence that a homophobic colleague has falsified a survey data Professor Carmen Vaughn and Molly are forced together to prove he committed fraud. A very slow burn lesbian romance.

Age-Gap Slow Burn Romance

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I listened to the whole damn thing in one night. I'm still getting used to Lori Prince's way of speaking, but Ivins' academic adventure was a great setting for Prince's emphatic voices. The ending totally ruled, and the palpable tension keeps you hooked all the way up to it.

Creative, Studious, and Satisfying

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The story is great! But the narrator is the worst one! Her voice killed my mood! Never going to listen to lori prince again!

Worst narrator!!! Great story!

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Good book, lovable characters, interesting storyline. Lori Prince did a five star job of narrating. I really enjoyed the book and highly recommend it, but I couldn’t give it five stars, because as enlightened as the author seemed about equality and compassion in the nineties, she fell short on the same issues in today’s world. It’s easy to be on the right side of history in hindsight. I understand that the book was about injustice in the nineties, not today, but I was disappointed to hear her actually speak against animal rights and global warming. I expected her to be more woke to today’s issues.

Good book, lovable characters, interesting storyline

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