This book explores several issues within its pages. It explores a woman's wish for "Prince Charming" to treat her like a princess (and the frogs one encounters in the search for Prince Charming). It explores dating across skin colors. It explores the nerd stereotype, the jock stereotype, and how much emphasis colleges and universities put on the sports programs.

Heather resents athletes who get scholarships and special treatment to help them pay for school. She's struggling to pay for her own schooling, and it doesn't help that the work study job she had set up to help with her finances has been discontinued due to funding cuts! Heather is surprised when her favorite English professor asks her to tutor one of his students (a basketball star as it turns out), but Heather needs the money so she agrees to take the job.

Heather finds that Anthony is not at all what she expected. She quickly finds herself willing to go to extra lengths to help him pass his classes. In a strange way, she feels that she can be herself around him, but at the same time, she doesn't want to share certain things with him because of how others have reacted in the past (such as how brainy she is). Anthony also shares things with her that he doesn't share with most other people.

Despite all this, Heather dismisses him as a romantic interest and instead finds herself dating a series of "frogs" that she had hoped would be the man who swept her off her feet.

I recognized the author of this book because I've read other books by her and enjoyed them. ( )