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Summary: Another Great Installment
Review: I really love Suzanne Brockmann's Navy SEAL books. I enjoyed all of the Tall, Dark & Dangerous books and I'm happy to say that I am enjoying the stories of this new group, SEAL Team 16. This is only the second book of this installment that I've read, but I like the way that she develops the peripheral characters around the main characters. Everyone seems to have a little something going on. The way she delved more into the hero's background was very enlightening and very real. His relationship with his father (or lack of) and his relationship with his role model, Walter, who actually turned out to be his uncle by marriage. Most of all, I applaud her for the way she handled the interracial romance. That's not often seen in mainstream novels and I feel that she handled it beautifully. I read this in one day which is typical for a book that I really like. I hope Ms. Brockmann can continue to write such intriguing novels for years to come.
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Summary: knee deep in angst
Review: I put off buying this book because I was really disappointed by Brockmann's last book in this series. Having read everything else I wanted to read this month, however, I was desperate for new material. Now, I want my money back. Reading this was a painful experience. Sam Starrett is a whiney garbage mouth. Stating that he is crude doesn't help neutralize his constant stream of profanities. I don't think I'm a prude, but I think that kind of language is more effective if used judiciously. Yes, military men and cops talk like that, but this is fiction and the author has control. For guidelines, Ms. Brockmann, check out Linda Howard.Beyond the foul language, the book (which was WAY too long) was one intense expression of angst over childhoods, the situation, careers, etc. -- ad nauseum. The protaganists frequently took time in the middle of their quest, sometimes when you thought they should be paying more attention to what they should have been doing, to express their anguish over myriad thoughts, feelings, and past mistakes. Fairly early on, I really didn't care about any of them. And the soul searching of Max was exceedingly tiresome. I was hoping he would walk into a fatal bullet in the final shoot out. In fact, I was hoping that many of the characters would come to some sort of satisfying and permanent end. Just to put them out of their misery. And to prevent the author inflicting them on unsuspecting readers in some future publication. I finished the book only because I try to finish everything I start. This one was so bad, however, that finishing was a true sacrifice. She got paid for this?
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Summary: Too many stories
Review: I, too, have read all the novels in this series and have been waiting for Sam and Lys's story--and that's what I wanted. But why in the world she threw in the stories about Noah and his grandfather's second wife--well, it made the book endless. Those stories were incredibly boring. We could have learned about Sam's terrible childhood in five pages. I skipped many chapters and the middle of the book, just looking for sections with Sam's name in them. Cut 100 pages and this is a FIVE star.
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Summary: Interesting premise,
Review: I enjoy Ms. Brickmann's books. The reader can always count on a quality book with unique characters. Some of which the reader will like and some of which the reader won't. But one thing the reader can always count on is a good story line!
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Summary: Beautiful people in danger.
Review: "Gone Too Far," by Suzanne Brockmann, is one of those guilty pleasure books. It is a romantic thriller featuring macho men and beautiful women in jeopardy. Lt. Sam Starrett is a hunky Navy SEAL who had a terrible childhood living with an abusive and racist father. Sam was rescued emotionally and physically by a black friend, Noah, whose grandfather served as a surrogate father and role model. Sam's focus is now on his soon to be ex-wife, Mary Lou, and his baby daughter, Haley, both of whom have disappeared, presumably the target of terrorists. With the help of the love of his life, FBI Agent Alyssa Locke, Sam hopes to find Mary Lou and Haley. Alyssa, meanwhile, is romantically entangled with her boss, Max, who is still carrying a torch for a former hostage he once helped rescue during an airplane hijacking. Does all of this sound impossibly complicated? "Gone Too Far" has a great deal more plot in its four hundred and fifty pages than Brockmann can comfortably handle. There is even a series of flashbacks going back to World War II describing the romance between Noah's grandfather and the woman who became his second wife. Potential readers of "Gone Too Far" should be warned that this book has explicit dialogue and some very steamy romantic encounters. If the repeated use of expletives and detailed anatomical references do not annoy you, you may be put off by the many cliches and the lack of realism. However, in spite of its flaws, this novel's characters are undeniably charismatic, energetic, charming, and gorgeous. For fans of romantic thrillers that border on fantasy, "Gone Too Far" is an occasionally diverting romance that will provide a few hours of escapist reading.
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Summary: I couldn't even finish it
Review: I usually like Brockman's work, even though she has a tendency to create relationships that are just too good to be true (i.e., the hero falling in love and wanting committment before the heroine does . . . I call that Catherine Anderson syndrome). However, I usually get past this and am able to enjoy her novels. But I just couldn't do that with this one. This is Sam and Alyssa's story, something Brockman's been building up to in previous novels. I guess the main problem is that Brockman just didn't convince me that the two protagonists were in love. The only basis for their so-called love seemed to be sexual attraction. I kept wondering what would happen if Alyssa was unattractive. Would Sam have "loved" her? I don't think so. Besides this major flaw in the novel, I just couldn't warm up to the protagonists. Sam just isn't a sexy hero to me. He doesn't seem to have much depth of personality. His constant obsequiousness toward Alyssa makes him seem like a loser. As for Alyssa, she's an uptight character who doesn't seem to care very much for Sam. After all, she pretty much admits that although shes "in love" with Sam, she was hot for Max and would have slept with him if he had agreed. Brockman noticably eliminates such thoughts on Sam's part; he even admits that he hasn't wanted to have sex with anyone for quite a while. This is an example of what I mentioned earlier about the author creating relationships that fall into a woman's "too good to be true" category: it's always the man who falls in love and wants a committment, and it's the woman who resists. Unfortunately, that's just not the way it usually happens in real life. Besides these flaws, there was a decided lack of love scenes. Most readers of Brockman's novels are familiar with her ultra steamy love scenes. This novels lacks that. In fact, I read half the novel and didn't encounter one real love scene. All in all, I found this novel extremely boring. I kept skipping pages and finally just stopped reading it.
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Summary: Compelling!
Review: I have rarely been compelled to write or comment on a book but I felt I should on this one. I try not to "over analize" characters and enjoy a story as the author presents it. The one complaint I have about "Gone Too Far" is that to truly appreciate the story you must have read the other books in the series. Now that said... I have found a compelling story that had me regretting having to put the book down. Ms. Brockmann does an excellent job of intertwining character stories -- I look forward to reading more of her books.
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Summary: Gone Too Far
Review: I loved the book. I too have read all 5 previous books in the series. Here, we finally have Sam and Alyssa's story. I can hardly wait until the 7th installment.
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Summary: She should stick to romance
Review: This book didn't live up to the promise of the rest of the series.
Maybe it's just me, but one of my favorite things about the rest of the SEAL books is the Ms. Brockmann's treatment of different races. They're teammates, they're friends, they're lovers, and they balance each others' strengths and weaknesses. And all her characters have strengths and weaknesses. In this book, she seems to have given up on making everyone human in favor of blatant political correctness.
1. The Al Quaeda terrorist is from Ohio or somewhere and has blond hair and blue eyes.
2. The Saudi Arabian Muslims are all kind, gentle, peace-loving Americans.
3. The black Americans of 1945 are kind to whites and receptive to interracial marriages, while the white Americans are intolerant violent rednecks.
4. Germans in the 1940's are also racially tolerant and eagerly accept interracial marriages (right, tell that to Jesse Owens!)
5. Alyssa Locke, who used to be "part White, part African American, part Hispanic and part God only knows what", has morphed into a "black woman", and a "sister" and has a black mother and a white father (naturally he deserted his family). This makes her a much less interesting character and incidentally makes her red hair and green eyes a genetic impossibility.
Like I said, I really liked the way she treated the different races in her earlier books, and that's probably why this one was such a disappointment.
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: I could not put this book down and when I finally finished it I didn't want to flip the last page.I love her books about Navy SEALs and hope she keeps writing.
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