Review: Good military read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2011
This is my first Kaylea Cross book which I purchased based on positive user reviews and I'm really glad that I did. I was looking for something similar to the strong military romances that Suzanne Brockmann and Catherine Mann deliver and I wasn't disappointed. The military and geography details are amazing and, while it sounds trite, those details made me respect our military even more. Be aware that only a really, really small portion of this book takes place outside of a Service base in war-zone, but you're right there in that microcosm with them. I thought this book might be light on romance after reading some of the other reviews, but it's not. There are three true romantic encounters between Dev (Spike) the Army Captain/ pilot and Cam, the USAF Pararescueman, and each is progressively more 'interactive' than the one before it. But, for me, those take a back seat to the falling in love aspect of their relationship. You'll enjoy that growing relationship and the author nicely brings you from how they first met to them falling in love. Multiple relationships are explored in the book, but you never lose focus on Cam and Spike. Without spoiling anything, I will confess that some of the logic from the 'bad guys' was a little hard to keep straight as I read this, but the interaction between the women in the B-hut and their camaraderie with the men, the insight into 'a day in the life' at Bagram, and the treatment of women as equals to the alphas offset my very mild frustration at having to re-read parts to ensure that I was following the adversaries correctly. I am going straight from this review to search for my next Kaylea Cross download. If the next one I buy is as good as this one, I'll have a new 'must read' author to add to my list. 4.5 stars.