Review: Playboy shot down - Great love story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
** spoiler alert **I really liked this book. I saw it recommended several times on GoodReads and decided to take a chance since this would be my first book by this author. I was totally surprised that once I started reading, I could not stop. This is a deep, all-consuming love story that has some really dark sides to it. When I finished the book, the characters stayed in mind for days. The H, Maverick, is your usual arrogant, alpha, hot Navy Seal who usually has women hanging off of him and chanting take me, take me. He has suffered rejection by his parents, so he comes with built in insecurities. The h, Windsor, is a strong, independent woman who also has not had a healthy relationship with her Mother, who by the way is on husband number 5. So both Maverick and Windsor don’t have the best of family histories to be good at forging a strong relationship based on true love.Maverick and Windsor meet at a bar during a get together with mutual friends. He sees her, decides to have her and then cannot believe he is shot down by her rejection. He then decides the game is on and his goal is to bag her and then dump her. That is when the story begins twisting and turning. Maverick becomes the most obsessive, compulsive, possessive character I have ever read about. He becomes so totally obsessed with Windsor, he basically cannot function. When his best friend, Stone, is killed Maverick spirals down into a deep dark hole and does some crazy, mean things to Windsor. Of course, he ends up groveling at the end and we do see our couple ride off into the sunset with a HEA.I loved the way the author portrayed the group of Navy Seals, their banter, their close brotherhood and look forward to more stories about them. By the end of Maverick’s and Windsor’s story, I had laughed cried, felt anger and so many other things as I read through the struggles of Maverick and Windsor. Loved the book but it is not a light, fluffy romance so be prepared to go to the darker side in some situations.