Review: Three and a Half Stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2013
I thought A SEAL's Seduction by Tawny Weber marked a good enough start to her Uniformly Hot series. Once again I'm shaking my head ,that this is a Harlequin (Blaze) book because it was better than I expected. I actually purchased the second book  A SEAL's Surrender first but the good thing is they are standalone and not dependent on reading in order, which I like. I think A SEAL's Seduction is the product of unexpectantly great writing and a very sexy set of main characters. Weber does a good job on making Navy SEAL Lieutenant Blake Landon sexy, charming and a little broken. When he meets Alexia Lane they spend a hot 48 hours together but they wind up unable to start a real relationship because of their issues with committment and family. Weber creates a smartly interesting character in Alexia which I would have liked to see go a little further in her progress within the book. I also didn't really understand her job. I saw what Weber tried to do by tying it to the plot but it distracted from more than it enhanced the story. And ultimately it flattened what could have been a more excitingly written element of danger in the story's second half. Blake's character would have also benefited from a more in depth history. Weber lost the heart and soul of the story by making him unreadable at times. This is a big difference in my opinion from Cade and Eden's story in A SEAL's Surrender. Surrender did an excellent job of showing a very detailed history between its main characters and you felt like you knew them based on their shared pasts. So I gave this book three and a half stars because it is quite good for a book in this subgenre and Tawny Weber is one of my  new writers to watch. The four/five stars would have been for Weber really twisting the plot in the second half, where I felt she kept it safe. This is still a good read that isn't too serious but believable with the elements of a sexy hero, love, danger and more sex.