Review: Mixed Review -3.5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
The first part of the book The Education of Sebastian, was an emotional roller coaster. Sebastian is a 17 year old boy who falls in love with the much older and married Caroline.  Sebastian and Caroline are both in emotionally abusive relationships- Sebastian with his parents and Caroline with her husband.  They form a friendship when Sebastian is 8 and meet up with each other again when Sebastian is 17.  The characters and writing are riveting making you want to see what's on the next page.  The relationship between them is beautiful but disturbing.  It was really hard for me to get over that Caroline was allowing herself to have a relationship with a 17 year old boy.  The author did a great job at conveying that these two people are emotionally scarred and really need each other though.  The story is smart and multidimensional.  The sex scenes are steamy with so much emotion it was hard not to get caught up in the romance.  The first part of the book is 4 stars for me.The second part of the book, The Education of Caroline, was in some ways much more easy to read because of the ages of the characters.  Now Sebastian is 27 and Caroline 40 when they meet up at a training conference for the military.  Sebastian and Caroline are much different people now but the attraction is still there.  Where the first part of the book had emotional charged love scenes, I found the second part to have monotonous sex scenes.  There are so many sex scenes, I started flipping through the pages.  I started counting how many times the characters said "condom".  I felt the author was just throwing scenes in for filler.  In summary, the first part of the book held my attention emotionally much better than the second part.  I give 3 stars for Part II.