Review: satisfying
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2012
Jessica Scott has written a very emotionally satisfying romance/military wives novel.  Because of You, has characters who live and breath, full of courage, and flaws, just trying to get through lives complicated by constant deployments, and physical difficulties that would bring down the weak.Shane triumphs over his chaotic upbringing by taking care of the men he's in charge of, but when he comes home broken, he at a loss as of where to draw strength.  He finds strength in the most unlikely of places, in the arms of a fragile, haunted nurse with her own problems who's found the courage to continue her own life, after visiting the 'valley of the shadow of death'.Peopled within this tension-filled novel, are two other women, who have their own problems with their soldier husbands.  Laura shows her photo album which is filled with pictures of the high moments of her life, and her husband Trent is in only one of those pictures, their wedding.  Can their marriage survive a spouse who's never there, and whose spouse just learned that her husband has volunteered to be deployed.  On top of finding this out, Laura is hearing rumors of her husband getting close to an enlisted female, making it doubly hard when Trent barely says anything during their Skype talks, or asks how her life, and the kids are going.Because of you is part of a trilogy, and I can't wait to find out what happens next.  I found it fascinating to learn what goes on with our soldiers and their families.  Scott takes us into their lives in a realistic way, because she can.  She's a soldier herself, married to a soldier.  How she found time to also write a book, is beyond me, but she did, and it's a great read.  It's like reading Army Wives, a show I love.Since visiting the world of the military, I've wanted to send care packages to soldiers, and to do anything else I can to help these fine citizens who have dedicated their lives to keep the rest of us safe.  I hope Jessica Scott puts up something on her website, if she hadn't done so already.  Nice work.