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Learning Curve (Franklin U Book 6) Kindle Edition
There I was, moving into the dorms at Franklin U and not into the shared party house I’d lived in my freshman year. Last year had been all about football and parties, not schoolwork. Which was why my grades tanked. Why I was one failed class away from being kicked off the team.
Why I needed to live on campus and find myself a tutor.
Funny that my new roommate just happens to be a tutor. Funny that he’s oblivious to how hot he is. For a smart guy, he’s pretty clueless. Maybe I could tutor him in how to be more outgoing in exchange for help with calculus? I could teach him how to talk to people, how to make new friends. Hell, maybe I could even help him punch his V card.
Actually, now that I think about it… that’s a really good idea.
Vincent Brandt
And there I was, happy to be back at college, happy to be where I was most comfortable. Happy to be starting another school year, happy to start tutoring again so I could earn some money.
And yes, there I was equal parts excited and dreading to see who my new roommate would be… until Cobey Green’s smiling face appeared at the door. A huge football player loved by everyone, gorgeous, rich, and out of the closet.
Everything I’m not.
It doesn’t help that he’s genuinely a really nice guy. It doesn’t help that I make him laugh and we can talk so easily. And it certainly doesn’t help that we start having private tutoring sessions, which end up way more private than I’d ever dare imagine.
I’d ranked top of my class in every subject since the first grade, yet there I was falling stupidly in love with him.
This was going to be a hell of a year. And one very steep learning curve for both of us.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 29, 2022
- File size4.4 MB
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- ASIN : B0B57CRMG9
- Publisher : BlueHeart Press
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- Publication date : September 29, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 4.4 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Print length : 246 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Book 6 of 8 : Franklin U
- Best Sellers Rank: #30,812 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #165 in Gay & Lesbian (Kindle Store)
- #257 in Gay Fiction
- #792 in Gay Romance
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About the author

N.R. Walker is an Australian author who loves her genre of LGBTQIA+ romance. First published in 2012, she now has over 70 books, many which are also audiobooks, and numerous translations done in nine different languages.
She loves writing and spends far too much time doing it but wouldn’t have it any other way.
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N.R. Walker was voted 2019 Goodreads M/M Romance Members' Choice Awards All-Time Favorite Author
and 2020 Goodreads M/M Romance Members' Choice Awards Hall of Fame
Read more on nrwalker dot net
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Customers find this book to be a well-written, feel-good story with adorable characters, particularly Cobey and Vincent, and appreciate how the characters grow throughout the narrative. Customers describe it as a sweet MM romance with no angst, and one customer notes it's a cinnamon roll low-angst romance. Customers enjoy the humor, with one mentioning they laughed and cried while reading, and find it a comfortable, swoony read.
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Customers enjoy the story quality of the book, describing it as sweet, well-written, and entertaining, with one customer noting the poetic relationship between Vincent and Cobey.
"I’ve really been digging low angst lately. This story was just so sweet. Two people really learning how to just ‘be’ together...." Read more
"I absolutely loved every page of this story, and both MC's are just amazingly cool. I just hate that such an awful cover was on this great book!..." Read more
"...The dialogue is superb. The pacing is perfect. I really enjoyed reading this book. Also, the newsletter after the epilogue was simply magnificent...." Read more
"...This was a great confection of a sports fantasy and I really enjoyed it. It will be amazing when reality catches up to fantasy one day." Read more
Customers find the book adorable, particularly appreciating Cobey and Vincent's characters, with one customer noting the realistic newspaper clipping detail.
"...Still, this is a lovely, sweet, low angst, steamy mm romance that high sincerely recommend." Read more
"...Hate how trashed he looks, when he's so good looking and a babe. And Vincent is such a wonderful sweet character...." Read more
"...It was really sweet and authentic. I love the honest conversations they have. Their mutual respect and admiration for one another was glorious...." Read more
"...use of weight lifting as the euphemism for their private lessons is pretty cute...." Read more
Customers appreciate the character development in the book, describing the protagonist as a wonderful sweet character and a genuinely good human being, with one customer highlighting how the side characters were fleshed out.
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"...This book blew me away. Vincent is so lovable. I just wanted to wrap him up in a hug and squeeze him tightly for most of the novel...." Read more
"...Nothing new here: a sweet jock and a socially anxious nerd...." Read more
Customers appreciate the book's lack of angst and find it honest, with one customer describing it as a "leave your heart just a puddle of goo book."
"...Still, this is a lovely, sweet, low angst, steamy mm romance that high sincerely recommend." Read more
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"...Cobey is the perfect partner for him. Genuinely kind, focuses his attention on you, treats everyone with respect. He’s just an all around good dude...." Read more
"...Yet through Cobey’s force of personality, kindness, and like-ability, Vincent finds himself opening up to his roommate who is anything but the..." Read more
Customers enjoy the romance in the book, describing it as a sweet love story between characters thrown together in college dorms, with one customer noting it's a cinnamon roll low angst romance.
"...Still, this is a lovely, sweet, low angst, steamy mm romance that high sincerely recommend." Read more
"...Cobey is an absolute sweetheart in all his hunky bisexual glory and Vincent is not officially out when they meet, but he’s not opposed to it either...." Read more
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Customers describe the book as delightfully sweet, with one customer noting how love blossoms throughout the story.
"...It’s very sweet. They are just dear with each other. Vincent was obviously a neglected child, and suffered some real trauma from that...." Read more
"...cobey was a hunky football player but he wasn’t a crude jock he was sweet and friendly and accepting and he fully accepted Vincent his new..." Read more
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Customers enjoy the humor in the book, finding it hilarious and entertaining, with one customer noting how enjoyable it is to watch the characters interact.
"...book primarily focuses on the endearing characters and their humorous interactions rather than intense conflicts or dramatic plotlines...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2025I’ve really been digging low angst lately. This story was just so sweet. Two people really learning how to just ‘be’ together. I also think it’s a good lesson I. How perspective changes everything. Stereotypes can be true sometimes, but they’re not always the weakness people think they are. Ugh. I just love, love. And this was full of it!
- Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2022Vincent and Cobey are really sweet humans. Even though there’s an instant attraction between Vincent and Cobey, they don’t realize that it’s mutual at first and Vincent is so inexperienced with social interactions that he wouldn’t have known how to proceed even if he had. Yet Cobey’s innate kindness and openness makes Vincent feel safe enough to be more open and honest with Cobey than he usually is with people so it isn’t long before they admit their feelings.
I love the care and respect with which Cobey approaches Vincent’s social issues. And even though he feels awkward and has a hard time believing he could feel so comfortable with another person, Vincent rewards Cobey’s kindness and vulnerability with honesty and his own vulnerabilities. It’s very sweet. They are just dear with each other.
Vincent was obviously a neglected child, and suffered some real trauma from that. It’s not that the book ignores this, but sometimes it felt as if it was glossed over a bit, or just used to explain Vincent’s reactions and insecurities.
Still, this is a lovely, sweet, low angst, steamy mm romance that high sincerely recommend.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2022I absolutely loved every page of this story, and both MC's are just amazingly cool. I just hate that such an awful cover was on this great book! Hate how trashed he looks, when he's so good looking and a babe. And Vincent is such a wonderful sweet character. Just because he was always almost broke didn't mean he had to look so raggedy. Why that sloppy stretched out shirt, and his head tilted so awkwardly? Just took away from the desire to purchase this originally. He deserved to be represented better, but that's just my opinion. But I love N R Walker, one of my favorite authors, so I came back to it after I bought and read 3 others which I loved (A M Johnson, Riley Hart and Louisa Masters). I wanted to read it, based on reviews and my fondness and admiration of this author. And I'm glad I did. Loved it.
Football star Cobey has to move to the dorms his sophomore year, his parents have insisted. He almost lost his scholarship as well as his ability to stay on the football team he's a star player on, when his grades dropped so low he barely passed last year. He had lived in the Athletic Frat house, partying his year away. Almost cost him everything. He finds out at the last second that he's going to have a roommate too, there were no more singles left. Vincent the shy genius is his roommate. Cobey tries to be kind when he meets him, but Vincent kinda freaks when he realizes he's now roommates with one of the most popular guys in the whole place, as well as a star football player. They get along ok initially, but soon Cobey realizes he's totally infatuated with Vincent. Vincent is very shy but for some reason not around Cobey. And Cobey finds Vincent is one of the funniest people he knows, as well as so smart, and so kind. The way their story unfolds is so sweet and realistic, and I couldn't put it down. Till I had to - then picked it back the next day and read till I finished it. I love this story and know it will be in my reread pile. I'll enjoy again and again. 5 big stars.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2022I’m a huge fan of N.R. Walker, so I was really excited to read her novel in the Franklin U series. This book blew me away. Vincent is so lovable. I just wanted to wrap him up in a hug and squeeze him tightly for most of the novel. Considering his background and what little frame of reference he had to work with in most social situations, gosh he was endearing.
Vincent is definitely a special guy. Cobey is the perfect partner for him. Genuinely kind, focuses his attention on you, treats everyone with respect. He’s just an all around good dude. Cobey and Vincent are different. Cobey comes from privilege. Vincent does not. Cobey is naturally athletic. Vincent is naturally book smart. The pair meet their sophomore year when they realize they will be roommates in the dorms. Cobey and Vincent hang out with increasing frequency. Cobey needs help in calculus. Vincent agrees to tutor him in private. Vincent needs help learning how to “people.” Cobey offers his support and opts to tutor Vincent in how to socialize. The tutoring turns physical and the pair connect on a deeper level. I love how careful and tender Cobey is with Vincent, especially considering he’s never done anything physical.
Walker did an amazing job describing how Cobey and Vincent fall for one another. It was really sweet and authentic. I love the honest conversations they have. Their mutual respect and admiration for one another was glorious. I love that Cobey wouldn’t let Vincent talk down on himself. I love that Vincent stood up for Cobey when Gavin called him stupid. I absolutely adored that Vincent wasn’t on social media, and that Cobey was oblivious to how much other people watched him when he was in Vincent’s company.
There’s fantastic side characters in this story, especially Nate and Jayda. The dialogue is superb. The pacing is perfect. I really enjoyed reading this book. Also, the newsletter after the epilogue was simply magnificent. Book six is another hit in the Franklin U series and I am definitely looking forward to book seven!
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AlfaomegaReviewed in Germany on September 10, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Nettes Buch
Ein liebeswürdiges Paar, lustige Dialoge, angenehme Lektüre. Ich mag die Autorin, die traumatische Kindheit wurde unaufgeregt erzählt und passte ins Buch.
- B00KReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars ALL the stars for these boys falling in love!
Do you know what it’s like when you read a new (to you) author and as soon as you finish, you have to go and find their entire back-history because you need to read everything they’ve ever written immediately? Yeah, that was this book for me.
I have been seriously enjoying the Franklin U series of books, not least because it has introduced me to authors I haven’t read before. As far as I know, I haven’t read any N.R. Walker books before and for that I can only give past-me a smack to the back of the head. This was absolutely brilliant – witty, fun, touching, sexy – the relationship that grew between Cobey and Vincent was just everything! I picked this book up just after midnight and finished it just before 2 a.m. because despite being exhausted, I couldn’t bring myself to put it down.
This book was so normal and ordinary in so many ways – it was boy meets boy, boy embarrasses the heck out of himself in front of boy, boys decide to help each other out and in the process fall in love. But it was also extraordinary in how it told their story – it showed how they fell in love, it showed how much they cared about each other in the little things that they did, how protective they were of each other and their relationship.
I adored Nate and Jayda, as well as seeing glimpses of characters from other books in the Franklin U universe, and the epilogue made me laugh out loud. I would suggest flipping over a page after the epilogue so that you can see the newspaper clipping which literally made me say ‘awwww’ because it was just so sweet.
I wanted to leave a review straight away before I fell head-first into the next N.R. Walker book and because I wanted to make sure to leave a recommendation to read it – you won’t regret it!
- Maureen CrothallReviewed in Canada on March 31, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Touching Story.
You know, I don't think this author could write a bad story even if she tried to. This tale is so freaking amazing she kinda converted me. I used to avoid college stories, young men falling in love so early in life and and then get hurt or bullied, it upset me. And then a long comes Vincent and Cobey, two of the sweetest, gentlest, most adorable young men ever, and, my friends, that was that. A truly touching and gorgeous read.
- PpmReviewed in Mexico on January 23, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars The real deal
Wow now this was good. Cute characters who fall in love. I love how Cobey was this type of shiny person and how enamored he was with Vincent... And Vincent's life story and his struggles. This story was so good.
- Nikolle BrunaReviewed in Brazil on July 17, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweetest book ever
I already love EWB, that’s from the same author, and this one brings my favorite combo, nerd and football player, they’re the cutest couple ever, I wouldn’t complain if the book had more pages, I could read about these two daily lives forever. Definitely what I needed right now, a fun and sweet love story!