Review: Once I started Reading I HAD to Shut My Kindle (and wash out my eyes)
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
At the price I paid, $4.99, this costs $5.00 too much.I bought these books because I have DOZENS of Carolyn McCray's books. Yep, DOZENS of her books, including Multiple Series of books, packages of them bought all together. I bought this series because Ms. McCray gets HUNDREDS of positive reviews. This is the FIRST TIME, in Three years, that I actually opened any of her books. I actually was 'saving' them to read all at once, and began recently thinking ALL of her works would be my marathon reading list for this summer. Others in my account have read her books, a couple said they were a decent read... One person simply said "They're okay". I should have read between the lines.In THIS Series, Ms. McCray pretends to know about the Military. NOTHING - by looking at her writing - could be further from the truth. In just two or three pages into the first book in this series, Ms. McCray stated that the men and women under the "Heroine's Command"  (I SO hope you're sitting down for this) - FOLLOWED HER ORDERS WITHOUT QUESTION. Yes, you read that right - GASP - Men and women IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY  - FOLLOWED THE ORDERS OF A COMMANDING OFFICER WITHOUT QUESTIONING THOSE ORDERS.How STUPID can one book GET!? Pretty Stupid, as there are even More catastrophes within. I have been around military men and women ALL of my life, my mate spent the better part of a decade serving his country, so NO WAY could I over look this when it happened REPEATEDLY in several short paragraphs, right at the beginning of the books. If /SINCE it was SO OFF so Early on I dreaded to see what other 'liberties' the author would take with describing how the United States Military works - so I simply shut the book and removed it from my Kindle. IF I HAD OPENED them when I first bought them I would have returned them for my money back....maybe the story-line is Wonderful (that has not been seen), maybe the characters in it are all great characters (???) but *I* can not stomach finding out because I KNOW that the book is nothing but fluff written to sale a book. My GOAL in reading is to loose myself for a while in the pages of a book. I have to be able to BELIEVE what I am reading, even if it is fiction, horror or fantasy, even if it says the grass is purple and the sky is green (not that THIS book says That - But if it DID, it would NOT be believable because of the way this author writes!) THIS IS SO UNBELIEVABLE it SCARED me to think that people might actually BELIEVE that the military runs the way this author described it.I know THIS - I will be MUCH MORE CAREFUL about buying books by this author, and, ANY author whose work I have not PERSONALLY read by way of their free promos. I have LOTS of free promo books, that is how I usually get books, then IF I like the author's work, especially if I have been fortunate enough to get several free promos, I BUY them. SOMETIMES, even the ones I ALREADY READ, but OFTEN, the ones the author has listed that I have not yet sampled. (And, NO, NOT true sampler books -  I HATE those sampler books that give you a 'taste' of a book and leave you hanging.)  I made an exception with this author, Several times over, and it is one I won't make again with her. Besides being unable to tell the reader about what MIGHT TRULY happen in  scenarios such as the one in this book, the author  wastes words, seemingly adding them to UP the word count - I LIKE a descriptive book but this author goes OVER board, detracting from the scene, not adding to it.I truly am  sorely disappointed. I hope other people I share my account with can get something useful out of this too-OFF-fiction, for the ones of us who KNOW about out military can not.WITH ALL OF THAT SAID - One of my friends in my reading circle, who share my account, said that they enjoyed the book series about Dinosaurs taking over, or something like that, by this author. Maybe I will give THOSE a try, or the scary ones I have so MANY of in my cloud. But she DEFINITELY is NOT ABLE to write a believable book that has to do with the military. ( I don't even usually READ romance books, but I even have her romance books, acquired based on her reviews. SO, folks, THIS IS AN HONEST REVIEW. This series is just AWFUL!)