Review: 1-3 Hot .....4 Not!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
The thing I loved about this series was the fact that these are flawed people who find and heal each other (often through delightfully kinky sex); but this was a slog mired in tedious, overly traumatic and frankly uninteresting drama.  While I am aware the Author is trying to tell military characters stories; there has previously been a compelling romantic and sexual component that made these stories fascinating.  That was completely lacking in this book.  With one of the few romantic scenes being between a conflicted Adam and a very pregnant Karla (which as a non-mother I found kind of cringy).  I had a really difficult time reading this book and found myself skipping over large chunks of it.  I actually stopped reading to come here and see if others were having as hard a time with this as I am.  Given Cassie's past I am actually less excited about her story than I was before I started this one, as I kind of felt a focus shift with this book that makes me less optimistic that I will be able to connect with the characters the way I was able with the earlier books in the series.  Unlike a lot of readers I was thrilled when I first saw the number of pages, I expected to lose myself in these characters lives, but instead I felt like I was reading a clinical breakdown.  While I understand the Author is not marketing these stories as erotica; the almost complete lack of the riveting sexual dynamic of the previous books left me feeling like maybe this storyline is going on a journey I don't want to go on.  I feel like this book did not advanced the story in a meaningful way.