Review: Incredible, emotional read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2014
Arc provided by Netgalley for an honest review!I have to start by saying this is e first book I have read from this author but it will not be my last, I am determined to go back and read Ms Scott'sprevious books in is series!Ms Scott did so much more than write a contemporary Romance with this book, she gives you a vivid look at soldiers home from deployment dealing with the horrors of war, PTSD and various addictions that some develop as coping mechanisms and she does it incredibly!The story is focused around Seargent first class Reza Iaconelli of the first infantry, for Reza when he is home from Deployment staying Sober is a prime focus and this time home even more so ,because his military life is on the line.When he is deployed staying sober is easy; he is too consumed with keeping himself and his men alive that there is no time for the Ghosts of the men he lost, or his mother to haunt him,but at home the routines of dealing with comma above him, chasing down men who do not show for training and the stress is different it is not he constant adrenalin rush of deployment,sobriety is harder.To add to Reza's stress he gets to deal with the new base psychiatrist Captain Emily Lindberg who gets in his face about how treats his men and how to deal with them at this she has no clue about just how much he does are about his men, but she will , because though this relationship starts out adversarial , it morphs , respect, trust and love come .Emily sees the man Reza is to spite his addiction , she does see it in the way he advocates for his men, the fact the he stresses that one of his most important jobs is making sure his men can be trained tobe the best of his ability, because that is what will keep them alive on deployment she sees first hand how it effects him that he can not keep them safe from their ghosts and demons.Emily has heroin ghosts, new to the Army, never been deployed, onthe outs with her well off family because of her enlistment ,she is alone struggling to try and educate the men in command to spot PTSD and get the men care before , the depression, before the addiction, before the suicide. Reza takes her under his wing to show her first hand what these men face during deployment, taking her on mock fighting and building clearing of the enemy, so she can better grasp what these men who are having issues who are talking to her are talking about and better understand what they have gone through.The sexual attraction flows naturally between these two , but Reza does not think much of himself and certainly does not believe he is good enough for her.Do you get an HEA , yeah but if your like me on the road to it while reading you get some gust twisting,some tears and an even greater respect for our military!