Review: Alex and Cassie...making it work in the face of too many obstacles
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
After reading and really liking Fraternizing a lot, I was very excited to find out how their story would all play out. We were left with a big cliffhanger as book one ended with charges being filed and Alex and Cassie separated from each other. I was somewhat let down with the direction this book took and while I understand Alex was facing serious charges and consequences, his volatile and extremely out of control temper caused me to feel like I did not know this man at all. In the first book he was a passionate and yet dedicated Marine but showed a darker side when anyone threatened his and Cassie's relationship. I don't know how much of what goes down is accurate as far as military law goes, but at times I felt like everyone's behavior was so innapropriate and outlandish, I wonder if they would have ever gotten away with it in real life.Villains were played like soap opera characters and the romance lost some of the original charm and instead came a huge battle of wills between Alex and his family as well as with Cassie herself.I wish I had felt more of a spark, but as far as sequels go, it did address much of the first book and led to inevitable but devastating conclusions for some of the players.We did get an HEA of sorts, although everything seemed to tie up too neatly at the end for me and there will be sequels with Alex's sister and his former adversary as well as Nat and Riley's story.I wanted to give this one 3 stars because all of the over-the-top fighting and shouting matches just got to be too much at times, but settled on 4 stars because I really did love this couple's story!~ Review has been done in conjunction with Platypire Reviews ~