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Summary: too Simple, some times inane.
Review: This is the first book by Suzanne Brockmann that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. As a single woman in San Diego, I am familiar with the "boys" who grace our city. Additionally, I was luck enough to have a roommate who was the Public Affairs Office (PAO) for the Seal training center, "Buds." I know some Seals firsthand and the characters depicted are as real as these men. Suzanne Brockmann has done her research! They are unassuming and down-to-earth like "Prince" Joe but carry an amazing ability to assimilate into all types of situations. Our heroine, Ronnie, is a publicist for a small European country who is trying to get US aid to drill for oil. While on a US goodwill tour, an assassination attempt is made on the Prince. As a result, Ronnie is to create a prince out of a New York bred Navy Seal, Joe Catalanotto. This doesn't appear an easy task, except Ronnie doesn't know much about the Seals and how they are trained to absorb any role asked of them. If you liked the movies, "Dave", "Top Gun" and "Romancing the Stone" this book creates some of the same warm and fuzzy feelings. Plus you get a bonus of learning about the awe- inspiring jobs that the Seals do for our country.
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Summary: Patriotic Seduction
Review: This is the first book by Suzanne Brockmann that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. As a single woman in San Diego, I am familiar with the "boys" who grace our city. Additionally, I was luck enough to have a roommate who was the Public Affairs Office (PAO) for the Seal training center, "Buds." I know some Seals firsthand and the characters depicted are as real as these men. Suzanne Brockmann has done her research! They are unassuming and down-to-earth like "Prince" Joe but carry an amazing ability to assimilate into all types of situations. Our heroine, Ronnie, is a publicist for a small European country who is trying to get US aid to drill for oil. While on a US goodwill tour, an assassination attempt is made on the Prince. As a result, Ronnie is to create a prince out of a New York bred Navy Seal, Joe Catalanotto. This doesn't appear an easy task, except Ronnie doesn't know much about the Seals and how they are trained to absorb any role asked of them. If you liked the movies, "Dave", "Top Gun" and "Romancing the Stone" this book creates some of the same warm and fuzzy feelings. Plus you get a bonus of learning about the awe- inspiring jobs that the Seals do for our country.
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Summary: Patriotic Seduction
Review: This is the first book by Suzanne Brockmann that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. As a single woman in San Diego, I am familiar with the "boys" who grace our city. Additionally, I was luck enough to have a roommate who was the Public Affairs Office (PAO) for the Seal training center, "Buds." I know some Seals firsthand and the characters depicted are as real as these men. Suzanne Brockmann has done her research! They are unassuming and down-to-earth like "Prince" Joe but carry an amazing ability to assimilate into all types of situations. Our heroine, Ronnie, is a publicist for a small European country who is trying to get US aid to drill for oil. While on a US goodwill tour, an assassination attempt is made on the Prince. As a result, Ronnie is to create a prince out of a New York bred Navy Seal, Joe Catalanotto. This doesn't appear an easy task, except Ronnie doesn't know much about the Seals and how they are trained to absorb any role asked of them. If you liked the movies, "Dave", "Top Gun" and "Romancing the Stone" this book creates some of the same warm and fuzzy feelings. Plus you get a bonus of learning about the awe- inspiring jobs that the Seals do for our country.
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Summary: Not worth the effort it takes to turn the pages
Review: This was my first Suzanne Brockmann book, and it will almost certainly be my last. While I liked both the lead characters somewhat as people, I thought they both had serious emotional issues that were not resolved in any way, and that these issues would ruin their chances at happiness in the near future. I just don't believe their relationship could possibly work. Joe is constantly putting himself down for being a "low class" kind of guy who's not good enough for his "high class" gal. He also constantly reads just plain wrong things into everything she says, and worries about the tiniest things that come out of her mouth. He keeps thinking all of this in a repeated littany in spite of his many, many talents (too many for him to be a real person, if you ask me). Otherwise, he is portrayed as a highly confident person -- totally incongruous. And the author, after spending pages and pages on this junk running through Joe's mind *all the time*, "makes it all better" with one sentence from the heroine near the end when she dismissed his dozens of mini-misunderstandings in one fell swoop. BLEG! Speaking of the heroine, Ronnie found herself imagining life as a SEAL's wife as hell (her own word!) because of the constant worry, secrecy and sudden separations. But upon being reunited with Joe, Ronnie simply decided that "it didn't matter" and that she would stay with him anyway. Talk about being stupid and blind! Come on. He won't leave the SEALs for her, and she won't be able to take it. She knew it perfectly well, acted properly by breaking up with him, and then decided to ignore it because her hormones got the better of her. Boy, is she gonna be sorry in six months. And this woman is supposed to be *smart*? These two are destined for divorce court. I can't imagine that their marriage will last six months, much less "forever after." If all the above wasn't bad enough, Mr. and Mrs. Prince Charming are getting married after having known each other barely more than a month, and with very few truly personal conversations or interaction other than smoldering looks and hot sex. I just don't buy it, plain and simple. And there are too many painful plot problems to cover up the blatant mismatch. NOT a keeper. I suggest everyone skip this one and read a book in which the couple actually belongs together.
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