A Magnetic Attraction by RoyalHeather | Caleb & Jester
Title: A Magnetic Attraction
Author: RoyalHeather
Word count: 59,784
Rating: E
Warnings (from the author): teacher-student relationship, age difference, explicit sexual content, past character death, canonical character death,
Summary: Professor Caleb Widogast has enough to worry about when the new semester starts. With a recently-broken heart, a tight budget, and pressure from the administration, he wasn't expecting to become invested in Jester Lavorre, daughter of a famous movie star. But the more time he spends with her, the more he finds himself captivated by her, against his better judgment...After the death of a close friend, Jester Lavorre feels lonelier than ever. What started out as a crush on her cute physics professor has started to become something more, a hunger for someone who understands her and wants her the way she desires. Can she find that in Caleb, or will this forbidden romance end in disaster for them both?
Review:
First of all, if you’re worried about the warnings - don’t be. Caleb and Jester are both adults in this (Jester is in her early twenties and in her last semester at college) and there’s no power imbalance or Caleb taking advantage of her in any way (no sex for a better grade, etc.). Instead, this is a lovely AU story in which art student Jester persues her crush on cute Physics 101 professor Caleb. Overall, the two characters had amazing chemistry in this fic, and I especially loved how the author translated plot points of the original CR campaign (for example, Molly’s death) into the AU setting in a way that felt very natural and not forced. The one criticism I have is common to many fics featuring a Caleb that is originally German. It’s the use of very old-fashioned German and terms/phrases that actual Germans would not use. It’s nothing that ruined the fic for me, since there isn’t a lot of Caleb speaking German, but it did take me out of the story a couple of times. But again, nothing major (pretty sure all the German is even grammatically correct) and nothing that couldn’t be fixed in a revision with a native German speaker having a look over it.