Review: Lots of Promise
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
This book is based on a great idea that you don't often see in romance novels: what happens when two people who were relatively young and healthy have to deal with illnesses/physical wounds that alter how they see themselves and how others might potentially see them. The heroine is a nurse and a breast cancer survivor who had a mastectomy; the hero is a Wounded Warrior who returns from Iraq with severe wounds that impairs his mobility and requires him to rethink how he views himself. The two come together when the hero is wounded and the heroine has to nurse him to health.The author clearly knows a lot about military life and what havoc multiple deployments can wreak not only on individuals but on families. She does an excellent job depicting the depression, and PTSD that soldiers experience as well as the survivor's guilt that many soldiers experience when they lose friends on the battlefield. I think the weaker part of the book  is the chemistry between the hero/heroine; I just couldn't feel the passion between the two of them. When the hero tells the heroine he loves her, I was actually surprised, it felt more like they were coming together because they were lonely, and had something in common, but I definitely did not get the sense that they were in love. I am assuming that this might be the first book by this author and so I will definitely read another book by her because the premise is good, but like some of her characters, she just needs a little more experience.