This will be a quick book review, and I'm throwing it out there for those of you who enjoy creepy, stalkerish thrillers. Jennifer Hillier's Creep is an engaging, mostly fast-paced horror story about all the things that can go wrong when professors who know better choose to sleep with their young teaching assistants. Especially when the professor is the brilliant, beautiful and seemingly confident 39-year-old Dr. Sheila Tao, an expert in extreme personality disorders, who realizes that she must end her relationship with Ethan (the 23-year-old psych student she secretly hooks up with on a regular basis) because of her upcoming nuptials. 

Ethan's a sociopath, a fact made clear within the first chapter, so I'm not giving anything away. Before you delve very far into this novel, you will discover that both of the main characters have buried nasty little secrets that will threaten to expose their true, innermost selves to all of their significant others. Suffice to say that Ethan isn't about to let go of Sheila once he's enjoyed her kinky favors; his sociopathic tendencies come about full force as he plots various ways to ruin Sheila's teaching career, and her life. This book is too sexually graphic for a high school library collection, but would likely be enjoyed by readers who are comfortable reading about mature themes and behaviors. 

My only complaint about Creep is that some parts strain credulity. Without giving too much away, events leading up the ending seem to fall into place too easily and appear to be more than the coincidental puzzle pieces being logically snapped into place. The final ending should be left as is, yet the author has penned a sequel that appears to be part of a planned, ongoing series. I'd label this book as highly entertaining, forgettable fun. Much like a bowl of chocolate ice cream, you'll enjoy feasting on it, but then your brain will move onto other thoughts as you make your way to the kitchen sink!