Review: Life is a learning process, well for some of us it is...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2012
It is a story, which will probably make some readers sit on the fence.The morality issue of a student and married professor is a common topic and one that riles people. The main character is a typical teenager at 19, the world is her oyster and she will have her cake and eat it. Then again the same goes for the self obsessed professor. There are a few scenes that are of a sexual nature,however they have not been written in an overly gratuitous way, which you often find happens nowadays to maximize and strenghen the commercial position of a book. Instead the scenes take us back to a pre 60s era, before the sexual revolution and during a time in which the people were still stuck in the conservative minefield of the 50s. The descriptions are that of an inexperienced girl and man who knows that. Other than some of the scenes perhaps being superfluous, the only thing I noticed which didn't gel with me was how the letters and the narrative sounded/read as if they were by two different people. The girl in the letters writes like a 15 year old at summer camp and the storyteller is more mature and aware of her actions.Despite the fact I think it is a 3.5 star book, because it could be better if edited down a little, I think it warrants four for making me mutter at the main character. I received a complimentary copy of this book for my review.