Review: 4.5 Emotional Stars!  Grab your kleenex!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
This is the first book that I have read by Rebecca Brooke.  I found it to be fairly well written.  It also happens to be the first book, after hundreds that I have read and reviewed, that made me CRY!!!  No, I did not ugly cry like a lot of readers describe, but I cried.  You need to have a box of kleenex on hand for this one.  Maybe I was more emotional with this read because I had just watched Lone Survivor.  That movie nearly tore my heart out and I had the same damn feelings with this book.Letters Home is about Danielle and Nate, who met in high school and fell in love with each other.  They supported one another with whatever decisions that they made with their lives.  When Nate comes to her one day and says that he has not been happy with going to school and has enlisted in the Army.  At first Danielle cannot believe what he has done, but she sucks it up and supports him through it all.  With a wedding to plan and a new job, she throws herself into keeping busy.  When word of Nate's deployment comes through, they make a hasty decision, to marry early.When tragedy strikes, will Dani be strong enough to move on?  Will her friends and family be able to help her heal?  Or will Tanner Marano be the one to bring her back from the heartbreak she is living with?  Will Nate be able to show her that her life is worth living even from so far away?  That she needs to learn to trust and lean on others again.  Or will his letters and the events that he sets in motion crush her even more?I really enjoyed this story.  The characters were believable and well written.  I could not put it down.  I was drawn in from the first page. I felt that the last 20% or so of the book felt a little rushed and that Dani's character was always thinking the worst of situations, but that is understandable considering what she had been through.  He best friend Marissa and her brother Liam, play a large part in her recovery and I loved both of them.  The author gives the reader a look into the lives of those that choose to serve our country and protect our freedoms and the strength that they need from friends and family to do that job.  But it also touches on the Letters that the soldiers write, to be sent home in the event of tragedy.  Other than some minor editing and timeline issue (I edit, so it is hard not to notice these things...lol) I thought Rebecca Brooke did a great job with this book. 4.5 Emotional Stars