Review: Matt is my favorite
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2013
I am completely biased with this review and wanted to disclose that immediately.  I have wanted Matt's story for a while.  Many times I told Heather that Matt had many different stories playing out in my head and I wanted to see how she did it.  She didn't disappoint either.  As a matter of fact, the morning that I finish this story, I sent Heather these messages on Facebook (condensed to one message):So I tried really hard to finish last night, but I made it 62 percent through and finished this morning.  You know my love for Matt and I think this story was absolutely PERFECT!! I was sobbing reading the first chapter though.  I always told you that it would take the right woman to knock Matt on his ass and Naomi was perfect! I am biased of course because Matt has been in my head for so long, but I think it was down right amazing. Jethro though.............way too perfect.Those messages are still how I feel.  I truly believe that this story was PERFECT for Matt.  We were introduced to Matt in Tell It to the Marine (Always a Marine 3) and Matt has appeared in a few other books, so Matt stayed with me.  I believe that Matt stayed with me because of my career choice to become a Social Worker that truly wants to work with Veterans.Matt returns to Mike's Place after he returned home to his family and couldn't handle it.  He returned to get the help and James realized that Matt was finally ready to begin dealing with his trauma and begin to heal.  The opening chapter had me sobbing huge tears and I almost put it down because I didn't want to read what could have happened.  I didn't because I knew that Heather could have done that a while ago and wouldn't torture us like that.Naomi comes to Mike's Place on her brother's behalf.  She is a musician that is preparing to record an album and finds herself on the path that Matt takes when he is running/walking.  When Matt and Naomi cross paths, she is writing songs for her album and captures Matt's attention.  Naomi comes from a family of Marines and she begins to pick up on things that Matt is experiencing.We meet a very special character in this story that we haven't met before.  Jethro is our newest character and probably the cutest and quietest.  You see, Jethro is Matt's service dog.  Matt doesn't realize for a bit that Jethro is really his and not watching over him for someone else.  James told Matt when he finally asked him about Jethro that he wasn't ready to hear it and accept it.We see Matt make so much progress in this story and while Naomi was part of it, Matt was able to recognize things that he needed to work on himself and did it.  I love a few things that Matt did on his own and stood by his decision.