Review: Everyday, Average Jones by Suzanne Brockmann.

Hero: Harlan “Cowboy” Jones
Heroine: Melody Evans
Grade: 3 out of 5

All her life Melody Evans has wanted to marry a plain, average man who didnt take risks. But when the foreign embassy where she works as an aide is taken over by terrorists and shes rescued by a daring navy SEAL, Melody blames the extreme circumstances for their ensuing passion. When it comes to ordinary, Harlan Cowboy Jones is anything but, and their encounter leaves Melody with a little more than just memories….

Seven months later when Cowboy pays Melody a visit, hes surprised to find her pregnant–with his child. Now all he has to do is convince her that they are meant to be together. That he can be as ordinary as the next guy. The only problem is, once a hero, always a hero.

Before I started this book, I was already in love with Cowboy. There’s just something about a cowboy that gets my panties all ready to fly right off my body. I LOVE COWBOYS! And then everything that I read about Cowboy prior to this book made me crush all over him. I thought that after having read his book, my love for him would diminish but oh no, it’s been a couple of days and I’m still riding on my Cowboy high. He really was something else in this book. He was great, he was better than great, he was my hero in this book. He totally saved me from throwing this book across the room to splat itself all over my wall because I wanted to kill Melody.

Many times.

It started out great, ooh check Cowboy out, totally hitting on the hostage while he’s saving her life. Making her laugh when she was deathly afraid. Holding her hand when she looked ready to cry but refusing to. Admiring her strength when she pushed on, walking even though her feet were bleeding and killing her with no complaints. You go boy, you go get you some hero ass and he totally did. For six days and six nights, he tapped that ass! And then their time came to an end when he got paged that he was needed stateside again. She put the brakes on their budding relationship and told Cowboy that though it was really nice, it was over and he should go his own way and she should go hers.

And Cowboy let her walk away because his pride was hurt. Seven months later, Cowboy can’t take it anymore. He hasn’t been able to forget about Melody Evans and he’s done trying to forget about her. Fate has handed him a gift of getting temporarily stationed in Virgin which puts him closer to Melody than he’s ever been since he left her…and he’s excited because he wants to try to get her back in the sack.

So he calls her and he wants to hook it up again, only she puts a break on that fantasy when she says she’s not interested in renewing their acquaintance. Why you wouldn’t want to renew your acquaintance with someone as sexy and studly as Cowboy, I’ll never know….oh wait, I do know! You’re 7 months pregnant with his child and you don’t want to tell him because you know that he’s going to want to do the right thing by you and marry you but you don’t want to marry him unless it’s for love so it’s better that you take his decision to stay out of the baby’s life away from him and make it yourself and then try to bully him out of your life by telling him that you don’t want him or need him and that the baby inside you is YOUR baby, not his.

*rolls eyes*

Oh, did I tell you she had a chance to tell Cowboy that she was pregnant and she didn’t do it. He found out that she was pregnant because he went to see her and was smacked in the head with her pregnant belly out in public, on the street.

*rolls eyes again*

Melody drove me up the frickin’ wall in this story. I could understand her not wanting to marry Cowboy because she knew that once he found out about the baby, he would feel honor bound to marry her and she didn’t want to marry for anything less than love. I could totally understand that and really, that was one of the main reasons why she didn’t want to marry Cowboy but what drove me bat shit crazy was the way she went about it. Totally sneaky and just wrong. First, she didn’t tell him she was pregnant then she tried to kick him out of her life by telling him to get lost and then she gets pissed off at her sister when her sister lets Cowboy sleep in a tent in their backyard to give him time to convince Mel that he meant what he said…he wasn’t going to give up until she agreed to marry him.

I’m thinking that a guy who spends more than a week camped out in your backyard, doing everything in his power to make you as comfortable as you can be, going out of his way to do sweet things like hang up things in the nursery, reading up on gardening to help you out with your garden and reading every book he could find on pregnancies to better understand the condition you are in so that he could help you any way that he could…I’m thinking the kind of guy that would go through all of that trouble likes you just a little more than you think he does. I’m also thinking that the guy who went through all of that trouble deserved far more than you ever gave him.

You see, I’m not a fan of the whole secret baby plot but it’s even worst when the heroine wasn’t so stupid and I just couldn’t see where Melody was smart. She started out as this smart as a whip hostage in a different country and then she got pregnant and got stupider and stupider as the book wore on. I didn’t understand why Cowboy put up with it. He meant to show Mel that he meant business and he stuck around. He jumped through hoop after hoop and it just wasn’t good enough for her…and then the whole thing with Andy happened and Cowboy blamed himself but by then Mel was already in love with Cowboy and you would think that she finds out that she’s in love with this guy, she should cut him a break but that’s not what happened. She doesn’t tell him how she feels, she just lets him leave and then assumes she was right.

Ugh.

I really enjoyed getting to know Cowboy in this book, I loved seeing him with Andy and my heart felt for him when he was going through that scare with Andy. I loved seeing him help Britt around the house and even seeing him try to woo Melody made me smile but then Mel would go on and ruin everything for me and that’s why I can’t give this book a higher grade than a C because even though alls well that ended well, I didn’t like Mel at the end of the book. I still don’t like Mel. I was still so hot damn pissed off at her that I wanted some grand gesture from her at the end and felt let down about that. I still loved the hell out of Cowboy and I’m still hella loving this reading adventure but for me, this book isn’t my favorite but Cowboy damn near is one of my favorites of the Team Ten bunch!

Now, I’m trying to figure out who the heck Mitch Shaw is, does anyone know? When do we meet him? His book is coming up soon and I’m curious. But yeah, read this book because it’s part of the series and Cowboy is dead sexy, but watch out, stupid heroine alert!

This book is available from Mira Books. You can buy it here or here in e-format.

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