Review: Sebastian & Caroline
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2014
I was so conflicted with The Education of Sebastian. Separately, I would give it by itself 3 stars. And normally I would never recommend a 3 star book to anyone, however I LOVED The Education of Caroline, would give it 6 stars, and would absolutely recommend it to everyone. My problem with The Education of Sebastian was the author didn't do much to make me feel more comfortable about a 30 year old woman sleeping with a 17 year old boy. I have an 18 year old brother and would have a heart attack if he started sleeping with a 30 year old woman. That is a huge age difference and women at that age have totally different expectations and emotions than an 18 year old boy does. I have read plenty of older with not-even-legal-yet books (so I'm not a prude) and this one was the most uncomfortable I've ever read. Even the fact that she thought he was 18 when they first slept together couldn't relieve me. Their relationship progressed so quickly from her being uncomfortable with his show of emotion towards her because of their age difference, to them sleeping together and I needed some more time to get to understand her reasonings behind jumping into this and how she thought they would be good together. Their first time sleeping together was so completely awkward and hard to read. I cringed through a lot of the book because Caroline spoke so formally and therefore made the age difference seem even larger and just made Sebastian seem so immature whenever he spoke. And the kid spilling out "I love you's" upon their third time seeing each other? That just screams immaturity. I will say by the end of the book I started to feel more connected to the characters and them as a couple and wanted to keep reading to the next book. I did and I'm so glad. I was smiling, crying, and laughing all the way through The Education of Caroline. So please read this series, just know that if you are feeling the way I did during the first part -  keep going...it's worth it!