Review: A rating....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
My Review:This book....wow. I'm not even sure where to go with this. The book is brilliant...and honest....and painful to read, but it has moments that are so incredibly sweet.Reza is an alcoholic who has deployed way too many times and buried way too many of his friends. Alcohol is how he deals and holds it all together. He's a First Sergeant whose job is to keep everyone else under his command in line and in control.Emily is a doctor/therapist who enlisted in the Army because she felt drawn to help. She's innocent to so much and truly doesn't see or understand the stressors these soldiers are under. She's never deployed. Never been anywhere near death. Early in the book she butts heads with Reza over his troops. From that point on, he's trying to educate her on the realities of their lives and all the while trying to keep his distance from her.The book is gritty and realistic in the pure heartache these troops deal with every day....ALL of them. It's not an easy read by any means of the imagination, but if you've never had close contact with soldiers to know the reality of their lives, you need to read this book...in fact you need to read all of Jessica Scott's books. It's real. War is not pretty. It's not about heroics and we are sending men and women into it every single day.Once again, as someone who writes and has a history with the military (my husband retired three years ago, after 20 years in), I applaud Jessica Scott. These can't be easy books for her to write, but she does it beautifully. And even in the midst of really unhappy situations, she pulls a beautiful romantic story out of it that simply melts my heart. Every single time. She writes incredible military romance. Another A rating!!!I received a complimentary copy of this book in return for an honest review.