Review: Night Watch by Suzanne Brockmann.

Posted January 9, 2009 by Rowena in Reviews | 4 Comments


Hero: Wes Skelly
Heroine: Brittany Evans
Grade: 4.75 out of 5

Hollywood Nights . . . Leading To Hollywood Daze

When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been secretly in love for years, albeit with a woman who belonged to another man. So what did he have to lose?

Plenty, it turned out. Because suddenly the woman he thought he could never have was available. However, so was Brittany — and not only that, she was in danger. Because of him. He knew he could keep her safe. But why was he increasingly certain that he was the one in danger?

This is my first story in KMont’s Year of the Category Reading Challenge and my second entry in J-Kaye’s 2009 eBook challenge, so one down and eleven more to go on one challenge and two down and ten more to go another…wish me luck!

This is where all the magic ends. The last book in the Tall, Dark and Deadly series. The part of the series that I didn’t want to get to because I didn’t want the series to end but it ends here. With this book, with these characters and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Right from the very beginning when Wes and Brittany are paired up on that blind date by Melody Evans (grrrrr, remember how much I liked her from her book, here?) and though they hit it off, they know that nothing is going to come of any of this because Brittany isn’t Wes’ type and Wes is already in love with someone else. Someone he can’t have because that someone belongs to one of his friends.

In the books before this one, we find out that Wes has it bad for his friend’s wife, Lana. We find out that he’s got it bad for her and a part of me wanted him to somehow end up with her but having read this book, I’m glad that Suz didn’t go that route. I’m glad that she took the road that she did for Wes because he deserved more than loving someone from afar and getting her only because something bad had to happen to her husband in order to bring it about.

I couldn’t have written a better book for Wes had I tried because this was just a great book. It was so nice to get to know the real Wes, the Wes that we didn’t see in the other books. To me, Wes reminded me of Wildcard Karmody from the Troubleshooters series because he was the one on the team that I rolled my eyes every time he came on because he was always so crude and such a knucklehead that I never really paid too much attention to and also because he was short. I never pay much attention to the short guys but I will now because I loved Wes in this story.

I loved the way that he was with Brittany and the way that he was with Andy. He fit right into their little world and it was just great to see Andy have that male influence that has been missing from his life and it was heartwarming to see Brittany respond to Wes the way that she did and I really enjoyed seeing Brittany come to mean more to Wes than he ever thought possible. Their relationship was so cute and this book was such a good story that I know that I will be reading this over and over again. One of my favorites of the entire series though my favorite book in this series still belongs to Frisco and Mia. This one was definitely in the top three, easy.

I enjoyed seeing Wes open up to Brittany and I laughed everytime Brittany would scold Wes for trying to smoke. These two were clearly made for each other and they complimented each other wonderfully and I just really enjoyed their story. It was a great ending to a great series and I still have a whole lot of Suz Brockmann list to get through but man am I sad to say goodbye to this series …does anyone know if there’s a story for Jim Slade? He’s mentioned in this series and I just wondered if anyone knows if he’s got a book out or not. I’d like to get to know him a little better as I am mighty intrigued by his character.

Definitely check this out if you’re a fan of Suzanne Brockmann, you’ll enjoy this one. It’s a good one!

This book is available from Silhouette. You can buy it here.


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4 responses to “Review: Night Watch by Suzanne Brockmann.

  1. Rowena

    Lori,

    HECK YES! Gosh I love these guys, I wish this series was a neverending series like the Troubleshooters series.

    Azteclady,

    My thoughts exactly!

    FD,

    Really? I want to read his book next but I guess I shall have to ask for it, wonder if she’ll care that I want to read Slade’s book. LOL. I liked Lucy too but for me, it was Frisco’s story that stayed with me long after I finished it. I loved him and Mia.

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