Review: Comic Book Characters?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2011
I suspect that S. Remenar is correct in his review.  A 6 foot 6 inch body builder type SEAL?  SEALs are NOT huge.  (Neither are Air Force pilots which have a height LIMIT).  I am just starting to read this book but the author's characterizations seem stereotypically incorrect.  SEALs don't look like Arnold S. or Dolf Lundgren or body builders.  They are not big or huge or towering.  They can't be.  Survival in cold water favors smaller, more compact body types that have less surface area the looses less body heat.  I worked with a SEAL one of some renown.  He was a great guy but you couldn't tell he was a SEAL by the way he looked.  Instead only his walk gave him away.  Low center of gravity walk and the assured walk of a guy who knows what it is really like to go in harm's way...and survive.  I'd like to see more realism in these books instead of comic book type characters.  The author has a lot of experience in...Comic books.  Yep, you can definitely tell an author that does NOT write from personal experience or good research.  Has he even met a real SEAL?  But aside from the non-realistic and overdone characterizations the book is well written and looks like to be a fair read for the action novel fan.