The Education of Caroline

The Education of Caroline by Jane Harvey-Berrick


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


5+ Stars! Emotional, Heart Wrenching, but Full of Hope!

Once in awhile a book comes along that absorbs me. I slip between the covers and the journey becomes my own. I live it, breath it, and dream it. This book devoured me whole but spit me out in pieces. I survived the story of Sebastian and Caro, but not without heartache. However, anything deserving of love, is worth the pain to see it through.

TEN FUCKING YEARS LATER!

Chief Sebastian Hunter is successful but comes with a reputation. He's a womanizer but he's also a broken man. Bitter and cold, using women as he felt he'd been used, trying so hard to forget the hurt that was caused by the only woman he ever loved. What he never saw coming was the plan that fate had put into action...

Lee Venzi, formerly known as Caroline Wilson, is a forty year old, divorced, military journalist. Living her dream of being a writer, she travels the world reporting from the core of a godforsaken war. However content as she seems, she's lonely...missing something she once had, true love.

Now they face new problems while dealing with past scars. Their passion ignites, lust takes over, but will love prevail?

"Caro...I don't understand - why do you love me?"
"Just because...because the sky is blue and the sea is green."

This book will stay with me for a long long time. I'm sad to see it end, to watch them go on without me. Hopefully one day we'll hear more of Sebastian and Caro, but until then I wait and hope, that their love never falls short...and that they get their well deserved HEA.

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The Education of Sebastian

The Education of Sebastian by Jane Harvey-Berrick

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lock me up and call me Mrs. Robinson! I'm in love...with a seventeen year old-surfer boy!!

Dear Author:

Congratulations...on ripping my heart out and stomping all over it!

Sincerely,
Broken Hearted!

Cliffhanger danger...my suggestion is to dive immediately into the next book...it's the only way your heart will mend!

The author does a brilliant job of character developement and growth. Two characters, in love, but in different stages in life. Caroline is 30 and married to a military officer, a man only concerned with work and his social appearance, and she's miserable. So when she meets Sebastian (be still my heart), a 17 year old surfer/high school student, he fawns over her and she finally gets a taste of what it's liked to be loved and cherished. At first, it was physical but as their relationship developes they both fall hopelessly in love. Caroline, knowing his age will get her in trouble, tries to stay away but she just can't deny what her heart wants.

Sebastian is wise for his age. He has a broken relationship with his drunken parents, so he's been taking care of himself for quite awhile. I immiedately loved him. He was sweet and sincere, honest and noble, and sexy as hell but innocent. He made Caroline feel so strong, desired, and worthy of love.

I didn't find the age difference bothersome at all, Sebastian is much more mature than most boys at seventeen and boy does he know how to love! Their love scenes were erotic but sensual. I was smitten with all their time together, it had me feeling like a teenager again and I loved it! But the ending broke my heart in two.

I was in LOVE with this story. The 400 plus pages only cover a few weeks so it's a little long but the whole time you're reading about Caroline and Sebastian, you're on pins and needles. Are they going to get caught? Is someone watching them? Will she leave her husband? What will happen? AHHH, it's enough to drive you insane.

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