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Summary: Still the best
Review: Into The Night was the first book from Suzanne Brockmann that I had read and I think it will remain my favorite. It was sweeter and had better character depth than The Defiant Hero and The Unsung Hero (In my opinion ^_^). I especially liked the WWII flashbacks with Vincent and Charlie, and I thought they brought depth to the story, despite some bad opinions I have read in other reviews. Given the fact that I had read Into The Night first, I did NOT like Sam very much, but after having read the first two books of the team sixteen series, I look forward to reading Gone too far. I recomend this bok to anyone who likes romance but doesn't want the whole "hairless chest, bodice-ripping and cheesy heaving bosoms". It'll keep awake at night, wanting to read until the end.
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Summary: The weakest in the series
Review: Okay, I loved the first four books up until this one. I didn't hate it at all. I found it really very good but like Meg, Joan irriated me too. First of all, her problem with the age thing? Give me a break. I mean, yeah, I have a slight hang up with age but if I met a guy who cared enough about me, I think I could over look it. She was a real woman, but also a tad on the very very obnoxious side. Mike was a little weaker than I anticipated once he got his own book. He seems very pro-USA and that's all fine but the golly gee stuff? Ah, shut up, Mike.The Charlotte/Vince thing. Eh, for once, I didn't care about it. It added nothing to the storyline.
Mary Lou. Least favorite character ever. After her comments about Alyssa in a pervious book, I'm supposed to care about her situation now? So what that NOW she's all in love with Ibraham? Who cares that now she has had a change of heart? She's miserable, Sam's miserable. And because of her silly scheme, she brought an innocent baby into the world that didn't asked for that dysfunctional situatuon. Jesus. I think out of all the reccuring characters, I could jettison her out of there so quick. She chose the life she was in, and didn't once try to make nice with the Navy girls. Bleh. Sam! Okay, yeah, I wasn't a big fan of his [stuff] about Donny or how he wasn't really around for his daughter, but (and this is probably because I LOVE his character) I think the situation he was in affected him more than he ever thought it would. Hence the absenteeism and the like. Do I like it? No, but I get it. I have Gone Too Far but am waiting until I'm on vacation to read it. The only saving grace with this book is Sam/Alyssa, even though they aren't in it a lot. Don't start with this book. Start from the very beginning, and at least with this one it'll go down easier.
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Summary: Late Into the Night
Review: When I read one of Brockmann's books, I end up reading Late, Late, Into the Night. The first book I ever read from this author was a frustrating experience. She has her own unique writing style. I found that I was sitting on the edge of my seat being switched back and forth between several sets of characters. When I finished that particular book, I thought, "Whew! It is over, what a ride!" The frustration was secondary to following the suspense of one charactor/plot and then a swith to a different character/plot that was equally as suspensful, within the story. Then I realized, that story kept me riveted throughout all 300+ pages (that is unusual), like driving down the LA freeway during rush hour! I couldn't find any weak spots in the entire book. I immediately wanted to read the next book. So... I bought the next book in the series, and the next and the next. This is one of my favorite authors! She has such insight to "the human psyche" You become the characters, through their thoughts. Five stars
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Summary: My second favorite Navy Seal story..
Review: This is my second favorite among the five Navy Seal books, after Over the Edge. I didn't think I would find Muldoon to be very credible as a hunky hero, since he was depicted as such a baby-faced, goody-goody innocent in the other books. So I was pleasantly surprised to find his character compelling. To learn that, in spite of his incredible looks, he had his own justifiable, believable insecurities made him all the more likeable. He was so open and honest with Joan, and made her feel so sexy and desirable. On the other hand, I loved Joan's sense of humor, but her character was very irritating. Her issue over their age difference became silly, and she was so mean to him at times. If she had been my friend, I would have slapped her for be so immature and neurotic. A gorgeous Navy Seal wants you, woman!! What are you quibbling about?!!! As I've written in reviews of the other Seal novels, I have tired of the WWII aspect, as well as the need to include so many subplots. This author has to find a way to keep the main love story flowing, because the way she breaks up the main story with the subplots is too distracting. Just as I wanted to slap Joan, I wanted to slap her grandmother Charlotte. These two women definitely ended up with wonderful men they didn't deserve. To think, for the 60 years of her marriage, Charlotte never bothered to tell her husband that she wasn't still in love with her first husband who was killed in the war. So that poor man lived 60 years thinking he was her second choice, who she had to marry because she was pregnant. After I read that, I just could feel no sympathy for Charlotte.
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Summary: Passable, wouldn't reread
Review: This was my first book in the series to read, and I wish I had not bothered. Brockmann kept flipping between three different stories, and it broke the flow of the novel. Just when I had started to get interested in one set of characters, the book would switch back to one of the other sets. I started skipping entire chapters and going back later just so I could follow a complete story line to a more natural break. By the end, I just didn't care what happened, I just wanted it to be over.
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