Review: Best in the series...to date! Can't wait for more!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
In Bad Girls Don't Marry Marines, Codi Gary has written her most complex and memorable characters (in my opinion) to date. Valerie is the "bad girl" from the right side of the tracks and Justin is the "good guy" from the wrong side. Together they spark like lightning in a dry forest and create a raging wildfire of a story. I LOVED it!!!There is so much going on with both of these characters, both emotionally and plot driven circumstances, that I never wavered in interest to see what would happen throughout the entire story. What's going on with Valerie and her dad? How does her sister play into this? Where is the author going with the singles weekend and then - BAM - loved where the plot unexpectedly went. Woven through is a troubled relationship with Justin's father.Justin is a heart-throb in his own right. Like many of Codi Gary's leading men, he's a strong, provider/protector but I wouldn't call him an Alpha. He's more of a Beta (with Alpha tendencies) without those annoying Alpha cave-man, Me-Tarzan-You-Jane, knuckle dragging tendencies.While some of the plot, at first, might seem cliche, (person from wrong side of tracks falls for someone from the ritzy area) Cody Gary does a magnificent job of twisting it into something completely new and unformulaic while remaining true to "happily ever after." This is definitely my favorite of all her books to date!