I love how Tessa can mix humor and sexy times in such a way to make one heck of a read. I'm sure a lot of women wish they had a sexy, irresistible teacher who could rock their world. Ben does just that! The circumstances of how these two start their relationship is all kinds of funny, Honey setting out to seduce him, all while unknowingly being connected through Honey's newfound friends. My favorite scenes involved seeing Honey and Ben back in her hometown in Kentucky. Something about the Southern setting always gets to me and makes me wish I can visit some day. I also loved that they shared a love of literature and their connection with writing. It was all very sweet and cute. 
 Yay for yet another female lead that I genuinely like. It looks like Bailey knows how to write them, like I doubted that! Even though Honey is dead set on seducing Ben and she often forgave him for his idiot ways a little too easily, she stood by her morals and gave herself a lot of self-respect when any lesser girl who was so enamoured with someone would've done the opposite. I wanted to high-five this girl so many times for not putting up with Ben's crap when it counted. Aside from that, Honey is just a good person. I loved the story of what she did for her community when she was just a child, and her ambitions to become a doctor? Seriously, how could I not appreciate that? Ben had his moments, but the shining light in this book was obviously Honey. 
 Yes, Ben is that smart, sexy, dirty-talking teacher I kind of wish I had during my time in school. His proper, geeky nature mixed with his dominating sexual side made for quite the panty-dropper. I wouldn't mind doing some extra credit for his class! Still, as much as I liked Ben, he bugged me with his back and forth crap that he put Honey through. He's trying to protect himself, yes, but it's so obvious he clearly can't resist her, yet he does the most insane things to try. It irritated me how his actions and words were so at odds with each other. He was a mess when it came to Honey. Sure, it added to the idea of how much Honey affected him, but he made me want to slap some sense into him a lot of the time. 
 Need Me is aptly named, because the way these two characters needed each other was so unquestionable, I could feel it in my bones. Even though the back and forth bugged me at times, I still loved watching these two fall in love. I'm loving this series and these characters more and more and I'm in desperate need of Russell and Abby's story, like, yesterday!