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Summary: Blah Stories...Lacking in Military Action & True Romance...
Review: I picked this up since it had three promising military romances(which are tough to come by)and was further impressed to see Merline Lovelace's name as one of the three authors and further so seeing Linsay McKenna and Rachel Lee(whom I did not know wrote military romance). What I ended up getting was a very mediocre book containing stories hardly based on military and mainly romance.
Now I am a big fan of romance, so don't get me wrong, I was just expecting something more detailed in the action and drama department considering the authors.
The first by Rachel Lee ' Dream Marine' was pretty good and kept me turning the pages but lacked real developement, enough so to leave me wanting more of a story in the end and ending up disappointed. It was a little slow at times, but the back story was interesting. A love story about a Marine coming home after spending a harrowing time in the Middle East and a fellow Marine recruiter trying to make him open up. This tale I give 3 Stars...Second story was Merline Lovelace's 'Undercover Operations'; which turned out to be the gem in this book. Full of action and military know-how she's known for and sprinkled with enough redhot romance to be complete, but again, I felt I never really got to know these promising characters and they deserved a longer story. A tale about an Air Force Colonel's daughter trying to find her stepsister who is taken hostage down in Central America. Her only hope? An ex-pilot who flew the Stealth in Desert Storm with a very large chip on his shoulder and former friend to her father. I give this tale 4 stars...
The last story was the worst in my opinion. 'To Love and Protect'; Linsay McKenna gets rave reviews for her action-packed military romances so I thought I was in for a treat here with a 'stranded at sea' scenario. It was flat and the characters were so misguided and irritating that I struggled through their bungling romance. In the end, I began to hate them, especially the heroine and that is not a good sign, lol. A tale about a divorced couple forced to work together to find an undercover agent at sea and crash in the middle of a terrible storm and become stranded on a raft. Forced to talk and face each other after 5 years, the two Coast Guard officers realize they still love one another. My biggest gripe with this story is the whining and nagging heroine who I wished at times would get thrown from the raft to leave the hero in peace. Constantly bringing up events from their rocky marriage over and over and still over again to the point of me wanting to pull my hair out(and hers too)I was stunned that the mild-mannered hero could listen to her at all nevermind consider trying to work things out. He deserved better Ms. McKenna. I give this tale 2 stars...
For an example of good work from Merline Lovelace, check out 'Line of Duty', it's excellent. Rachel Lee's 'Under Suspicion'.
Tracy Talley~@
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