Review: AMAZING
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
I’m not even sure where to begin… First off I have to thank my friend and blog-mate, Alexis, for relentlessly bugging me to read this series. She LOVED it and kept telling me to read it and I am so glad that I finally found the time. Given the premise of this book I really thought I would have a problem with it. Normally I don’t care to read a book about cheating of any kind, especially cheating within an 11-year marriage. However, Caroline’s marriage was not typical- she was married at 19 to an older man and their marriage was not really one of love. Sure she thought she loved him, but I think it was more of a way to get away from her controlling mother. Unfortunately, Caroline went from one controlling situation to another. Her husband David, a high ranking officer in the Navy was, in my mind, emotionally and verbally abusive. He not only berates her any chance he gets but he dominates, controls, and expects everything done his way.“He hated the way I dressed, the way I spoke, what I spoke about and the things that interested me to speak about.”Unhappy in her marriage and with her life Caroline finds first friendship and then forbidden love with Sebastian Hunter. Not only does this affair cause Caroline a lot of guilt but she tries to fight it due to who Sebastian is and the age difference between them.Again I thought this relationship would be a problem for me- to most it would be dirty and immoral- but I think the circumstances surrounding these two played a huge factor in my feelings. Caroline never had a chance to have a “young adulthood” or even to really experience much of life; as she was always only doing what her husband David demanded of her. Sebastian had to grow up quickly and pretty much raise himself, when his controlling parents started drinking heavily and not caring or paying attention to him. Caroline and Sebastian found and saved each other.“My gallant knight.” “Your anything,” he said seriously. “But I want to be your everything.”This book was on my kindle for the longest time and I am so glad I finally picked it up. It was unexpected, gripping, and the cliffhanger at the end left me with heart palpations. I was literally swept off my feet by this book and couldn’t wait to jump into book two.