Review: NOT EVEN IF IT IS FREE, TRULY AWFUL
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
MY BROTHER, MY RIVALThis is my first one star review.  I will try to avoid spoilers.Yes, I occasionally use the f*word.  Yes, I have dated bad boys.However, this story is all about "do you know who I am!?  I was aSEAL!"  Uh-huh.  A  lot of time spent around military and never, not once,did I see the people who are accepted into one of the most disciplinedof careers use their position to justify sexual harassment and assault.SEALs are not perfect or angelic;  however it just feels like the authorput the characters together without the slightest effort to research hercharacters.  Multiple family members in the SEALs, rare enough but dadIs a former colonel?  The author doesn't seem to understand Americanmilitary families or traditions.The story line essentially has the "hero" be disciplined enough to remain on mission afterdischarge  AND be a corporate pilot but otherwise he talks like a 16 year old jock whose onlyclaim to fame is how many women he lets suck shooters off his abs.  He literally winsover the young woman by hounding her, physically dragging her off, giving her a necklacethat says she is the hero's "property," and after returning from a four month mission,the FIRST thing he says is that he wants to f* her.  No wait, it gets better, he says it ather place of work and goes on (and on) about getting it 4 times a day while he is Stateside.Even though she is hard working, putting herself through school, and comes from the "hood,"she throws liquor into a customer's face with no legal repercussions and finds nothingalarming (or immature) about his inability to talk about anything but sex, his bizarresense of entitlement, or his over the top rage issues.I honestly believe the author gets her relationship info from tellenovas and soap operas.And her concepts of race and economic relationships seem to rise from COPS, Honey Boo Booand old Different Strokes episodes.The sex is, quite frankly, not sexy.  It was like reading porn, but w/oany 3 ways to alleviate the boredom.If you told me this book had been written in a high school remedial English class,I would completely believe it.  The one star is because the author used spell checkand proper grammar and punctuation.  I am throwing this one far, far away.