Review: OMG!! What just happened?!?! <3
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2013
OMG!!! The Education of Sebastian was amazing. It was also kind of a mindf*#k for me and I really didn't expect to like it. It's a controversial book and I had read some of the reviews that had been posted about it. So I knew going in that Sebastian was an underage 17 year old and that Caroline was a married 30 year old. I kept avoiding it but I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I downloaded the sample and holy crap, it was so addictive I didn't want the sample to end. So I bought the book and proceeded to consume it. I just couldn't stop reading. Even knowing the potential for this to turn out so bad I just had to know what was going to happen.I really expected something completely different from what I got. They are incredible together and I thought the author dealt with the age difference beautifully. She never makes light of the fact that what Caroline is doing is a crime in some states. You really feel the angst and the danger of their relationship.Caroline was definitely a character I went in thinking I wouldn't like because seriously she has a sexual relationship with a teenager. How can I like this chick? But I did, she was so broken, so lost and Sebastian loving her healed her in a way that was so extraordinary to read. She definitely knows that what she is doing is considered wrong to most people herself included. I loved when she found out how old he was. It was so real and heartbreaking. She felt it, so we as the reader felt it. She was finding something extraordinary with Sebastian and watching her fight it, then give in and embrace it, to finally doing the right thing for him in the end was incredible.Sebastian is one of my favorite male leads ever. He is such a beautiful soul, so damaged and broken himself but so capable of loving Caroline and showing her how to love. I adored how much he loved her and how he is with her. The age difference never mattered to him, he just loved her so completely and she was the only woman he had ever loved and ever wanted to love. He wanted a life with her so badly and was willing to do anything he had to do to have it.This is a heartbreakingly beautiful story. It has a cliffhanger but book 2, The Education of Caroline, is out and hopefully it's just as incredible. I can't wait to get to it and find out what happens next.I LOVED this book and if I could give it 10 stars I would.If you want to read a beautiful love story that is out of the box and can be slightly uncomfortable then pick this one up.Its one that I will be ordering on paperback to go on my keeper shelf.