Review: Emotional stuff...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
It's a little hard for me to rate this as a novel because so much of it was the healing of the marriage between Trent and Laura. So as a novel, at times, it felt a little disjointed and not cohesive. One definitely has to have read the rest of the series to get the most out if this book. But for what it is, which is basically the healing of a broken marriage, it's pretty good.Where this book shines is the realism of what HEA really means without getting maudlin. Sure, Trent and Laura hook up relatively quickly in spite of the divorce threat hanging over them but even after they are intimate, the underlying problems between them don't magically disappear and they still work through those issues throughout the book.It was nice to check in with past characters Carponti, Nicole, Shane and Jen. It seems like Iaconelli is next in the series to get a book and I'll probably read that in the hopes of getting a little bit more of my favourite characters.This book was pretty steamy but at the same time incredible emotional from the standpoint of finding out how tough emotionally the military is not just on the soldiers themselves, but also on their families and their relationships with people. The heroes aren't just the ones who go to war but those they leave behind as well.