Review: Started out liking it but
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
I started out liking this story, the hero is WOW on steroids.  you have to love him.  Nick is a man for all seasons.  The heroine was burying her husband, a verbal and emotional abuser. Every woman's nightmare. She is ready to leave him when he is killed driving drunk.  Good riddance.  His best friend Nick has always loved her but has just been a friend to her.Ok, so far the story is good.  Nick wants to help her get over the death and the bad marriage.  He is willing to do anything for her.  She does have a very bad opinion of military life.  I was an active duty wife for over 30 years and the lifestyle is not for everyone. however, she was lonely and it was her choice.  The military wives are as varied as they can be.  You have professionals and high school graduates.  Shy women and women that are over the top.  All I have found willing to be your friend but YOU HAVE TO want to be friends.  I think our heroine realizes this a little late.She also makes the statement a couple of times that the military dictates your life.  They may choose your duty station but in most cases they have tried to send your husband/wife where they have requested to go.  And if you don't think civilian jobs dictate your life you are sadly mistaken.  Then the worry about them being killed.  Sure their jobs are dangerous, but your civilian husband can be killed on the freeway on his way to work.  If it is their time to go, they will go rather they are military or civilian. in a couple of places he was called Sargent.  She refers to the Officer's wives.  A Sargent is not considered an officer.  Little confusion there.For a nurse, this gal sure didn't act like one.  Rather she is in the stroke unit or not, nurses are trained and have the training to know a lot more than blood pressure.  When Nick gets a bad head wound, bleeding and she cannot even see the cut, he is unresponsive and you would think she would be running for help.  NO, she sits and contemplates about rather she could handle losing him or not.  Plus, I don't think there has ever been a recorded miscarriage caused by a deployment.  I don't think a nurse would even say that.I saw a lot of misinformation but it is a fiction story so I went on.  However, let it be known that the military pays for your final move.  they would have moved her out of her house on base and into her apartment.  She didn't have to do that herself.  She did so many things that were just so stupid that I was really losing patience with her.  She is leaving work and is grabbed by a big bad buy, he calls her by name and wants her to take him to her car.  Now, she stands a good chance of being raped, tortured, killed,  etc. she has no idea what is going on.  She breaks free and runs for her car...parked in a back lot, no keys in hand rather than run back toward the hospital.  But our hero is there and saves her this time.  Now, don't you think the first thing you would do is report this to the police.  Nope, she just goes home.Then she is pulled over and told they think her car is being used for drugs.  does she tell them about the weird guy? Nope. doesn't even mention this weird event.  She gets home and her apartment has been broken into and trashed.  Now, she does call the cops on this one but only after she has gone in and touched things and moved other things.  Everyone knows you don't go in you call the cops first.  Just gets better.  she decides to walk down the street to the grocery store.  She gets snatched on the way back, the guy tells her he is going to kill her if she doesn't hand over the stash.  She is being choked to death.  she manages to get away and runs to her apartment.  Does she call the cops.  NOPE.  Is this girl totally stupid?Nick tries to tell her how much trouble she is in but Pollyanna thinks she can handle everything herself.  She will find the drugs, give them back to the bad guy and then everyone will leave her alone!  Right! that is the way drug criminals operate.  Just play nice and they will be nice.  Ok, she picks a fight and tells Nick to leave, he is suffocating her, he is rushing her get out and give her space.  So he does.  First thing out of her mouth a week later is surprise that he hasn't called or texted and he is so cold.  R U KIDDING ME?  Then she is having a problem moving forward with Nick because she feels she should be loyal to the dead husband.  yes, the one that was abusive, threatened her and was sleeping around oh yes, also an alcoholic.  Yes, I can see the bit of a martyr here.  I was really getting angry with this character by this point.Then the ending of course, we have HEA but the stupid things they did in the last chapter set my  hair on fire.  Now if you are in a situation where the drug guys have you and your girlfriend, they will kill you at a drop of a hat.  You have the drop on them and you shoot one....IN THE FREAKING LEG.  Really?  Why didn't he get a shot to the head and drop him like the scum he was?  By this time he could have taken out a couple of the others as well.  NO, they shoot him.  I was screaming at this point.  I hated this whole chapter.  This could have been a good story.  I did think she had an unreal problem with the military.  You marry a Marine what do you expect.  She had a problem because he picked his job over her and deployed.  Surprise, the military doesn't ask you if you would like to deploy with your division or if you would rather sit home and keep your spouse company.  I thought it was sort of funny that near the end she discovers that she really loves Nick and she is ready to marry him no matter what and they can be together forever and this week they have been a part has been hell.  But she can't tell him right now because she has to go to work so she will tell him after work.  OH NO, why didn't she pick him over the job and go tell him?  I have a real problem with this girl. I think Nick deserves better.I probably went on too far with this review but I was not in a good frame of mind when I finished.  So, I would suggest you read it for yourself and see what you think.  I am not slamming the author, so please don't think that I am.  It is her character that I have a problem with.  Semper Fi.