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It was an experiment . . .
but no one could have predicted the results. For eight weeks FInCOM agent P.J. Richards is being given access to the absolutely-no-women-allowed world of the U.S. Navy SEALs, and she isn’t about to let anyone tell her she can’t hack it. P.J. can’t afford to be distracted by anything . . .or anyone. And that includes Senior Chief “Harvard” Becker. Harvard believes that there is no room for women in a combat zone. It’s too da… More >>
#1 by scorpio on March 19, 2010 - 8:53 pm
I love Suzanne Brockmann’s books and make a point of reading every single one I can get my hands on. Her books provide a great deal of info and insight on the lives of some of the toughest men on earth, both professional and personal.
That said… I was sadly disappointed and even mildly amused to see a major mistake in this book. The “island nation” that P.J. and Havard end up on, Korea, is not an island at all, but a peninsula. Nor is it ruled by druglords and it certainly doesn’t have any jungles. Sorry, wrong climate. Why Ms Brockmann didn’t conjure up a fictional name is beyond me. It makes me wonder if the facts are straight on all the other countries that have been mentioned in her books. What kind of editor let such a mistake go? But wait, it gets even better. In another book, “Hawken’s Heart”, the same mistake is repeated. I literally cringed. I guess no one has enlightened Ms. Brockmann yet. Maybe I’m taking this too seriously, but I do feel that I need to bring this up. I really don’t think I could bear reading it in another book.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by B. Kaczmarek on March 19, 2010 - 8:54 pm
FROM THE BACK COVER:
For eight weeks FInCOM agent P.J. Richards is being given access to the absolutely-no-women-allowed world of the U.S. Navy SEALs, and she isn’t about to be distrated by anything…or anyone. And that includes Senior Chief “Harvard” Becker. Harvard believes that there is no room for women in a combat zone. It’s too dangerous, too tough…and with P.J. involved, too distracting. He might respect her sharp intellect and her shooting abilities, but he still doesn’t want the responsibility of making sure she stays alive. But P.J. isn’t a woman who backs down easily, and to her mind, Harvard has a lot to learn.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by StoryTraveller on March 19, 2010 - 8:55 pm
This one is not my favorite of the series so far. I am not sure why it didn’t work for me. I like both “Harvard” and “PJ” and their characters are well developed. I just didn’t really feel the chemistry there. Maybe there wasn’t enough tension created between them or something. I kept putting the book down and coming back to it later…which is unusual for me with a Brockmann book. Possibly my expectations are higher as I have read all the Troubleshooter series and then am going back to read this series…I still am excited about reading the next one in this series though. Brockmann is one of my favorite authors and that is saying a lot as I have a ton of authors I read…
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on March 19, 2010 - 10:34 pm
This book, which is the fifth in the tall dark and dangerous series by Suzanne Brockmann, is excellent. Senior Chief “Harvard” Becker finds out that some beliefs die hard. He finds his match…intellectually and combatively in P.J. Richards, a FinCom agent. I was very happy to see that P.J. was a virgin. It added to the intellectual tension between them as well as the sexual tension. I thought that the characters could have been involved in more action, but the ending (which I won’t give away) makes up for the lack of action throughout the novel. Kudos to Suzanne Brockmann for using an Afro-American hero! I have to say though that “Forever Blue” is still my favorite in the series.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by PATRICIA L FARRAR on March 19, 2010 - 10:56 pm
I agree with the reviewer who had a complaint with Mira’s cover for this book, but my complaint is different.Our hero is described as a large man, our heroine as a petite little thing. Yet the cover shows a silloutte (on the Mira reprint, no less) of what appears to be a mother with her pre-adolescent boy. The other Mira reissues boasted cover art which was much superior to the Sillouette originals- to the extent that I ordered new copies of both Prince Joe and Frisco’s Kid just to get the better looking books.Fortunately, the stories inside are just as delicious, no matter how yucky or yummy the cover art. Do the people who decide on the cover art even know what the stories are about? Obviously they don’t bother reading them.This seems to be a very common problem particularly in the Romance genre.That complaint aside, I do not want to discourage the reissue of further books in this series. It’s the only way I’ll ever be able to afford to collect the rest of the series. I’m still missing 5 of these, and the team 16 bunch are getting hard to find,too. Boo-hoo. Why didn’t somebody tell me how great these books were before they got so hard to find?
Rating: 4 / 5