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Review: Forever Blue by Suzanne Brockmann.

Posted July 2, 2008 by Rowena in Reviews | 2 Comments

Hero: Carter “Blue” McCoy
Heroine: Lucy Tait
Grade: 4.75 out of 5

Blue McCoy was once the hero of Lucy Tait’s teenaged dreams — quiet, dart and dangerous. After high school he left Hatboro Creek, South Carolina, to join the military. Years later, now a Navy Seal, Blue was a man who embodied all of Lucy’s fantasies.

Now Blue is back in town, and Lucy is not the person he remembered. She’s a no-nonsense police officer — and a woman Blue can’t take his eyes off. But then Blue is accused of murder. And Lucy is assigned his case. Now their brief affair has became part of an extensive investigation, where what’s at stake is critical — Blue’s future . . . and maybe Lucy’s heart.

Two down, a whole lot of SEALs to get to know and man am I excited. I read this book a long time ago, it was the only Team 10 book that I could find at the bookstore out here in my town so I read it because I couldn’t help myself and I really, really loved Blue back then. After having read it this time around, I love it even more then I remember.

Blue is one of those heroes that just never gives up. He just doesn’t know how to and I love that about him. The way he came back home, after being away all this time to attend the wedding of his step brother and his high school sweetheart made me feel bad for him, even though I knew that his feelings for Jenny Lee Beaumont were completely done. He came back home, to a small town, where he knew that the tongues were gonna wag because he wanted to be there for his brother.

I loved reading about his friendship with Joe Cat. I read about it in Joe’s book and it was in there that their friendship was shown to me, the way that I knew it would be but in this book, we get to see Blue having to deal with a very big problem on his own without his team there to help him out. As much as I love seeing the entire team fighting TOGETHER to bring the bad guys down, it does make me feel good when I get to see each soldier fighting his own battles and coming out on top. I love watching the entire team together though, I loved how when Lucy finally got in contact with Joe and the guys, they didn’t even stop to think about how they just got back from a long training and wanted nothing better than to lose themselves in sleep, their wives, etc…they were needed by one of them and they didn’t hesitate to help.

This is my most favorite part of the whole SEAL thing. The brotherhood that is just so …real.

Then there’s Lucy. Little Lucy Tait.

Gosh, what a fantastic heroine. I could totally tell why Blue fell for her. She was so refreshingly different from the other heroines that I’ve read in the past few months, all feminine and girly. Lucy was the complete opposite of that but she was still a fanfrickintastic heroine to Blue.

This was one of those high school crushes turned into true love at the end storylines and as always, I fell like a rock for it. Lucy has had a big crush on Blue for as long as she could remember and then he went away to become a Navy SEAL and she never saw him again. Until he came back to town for his step brother’s wedding to his high school sweetheart and girly girl princess Jenny Lee. Everyone thinks that Blue is going to come back and try to break up the wedding, everyone including Lucy but Lucy has been giving the green light for a hot affair with Blue and not being the smart girl that she is, she jumps on it.

Until she sees him dancing with Jenny Lee and her engagement party, you know the engagement between her and his step brother, Gerry?

Yeah, that one.

So because that’s a big buzz kill, Lucy decides that maybe it’s not a good idea after all..the hot affair with her hero and crush, Blue McCoy. Then events happen which make it impossible for Lucy to play out all of her wild fantasies with Blue, but those same events keep Blue in town a lot longer than she thought he’d be in town for and she gets to know him. He gets to know her. And together, they try to figure out the puzzle that is his life and try to clear his name.

I loved reading this book, it was so much fun watching Blue and Lucy fall in love and watching them make mistakes and then getting up and trying again. I loved the unconditional love Lucy had for Blue, she knew that he thought the worst in her but she didn’t let that get in the way of her feelings for him and for what was right. She didn’t lose faith in him and she fought for him. Literally, fought for her man.

You just gotta admire that in a woman.

I admired Lucy a lot and I thought Blue was a great guy in Joe’s book and proved to be an exceptional hero in his own book. I loved his sandals that he wore with everything, even at his wedding and I loved that he loved Lucy, exactly the way she was…white cotton panties and all. They were perfect together and were enjoyable to read.

I heart this book and cannot wait to read more from this series. Read this book, seriously, it’s good!

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

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Review: Prince Joe by Suzanne Brockmann.

Posted June 30, 2008 by Rowena in Reviews | 6 Comments

Hero: Joe “Cat” Catalonotto
Heroine: Veronica St. John
Grade: 4.5 out of 5

Veronica St. John is facing the challenge of a lifetime. The media consultant has two days to teach a rugged Navy SEAL to impersonate a European prince who has been targeted by terrorists. It’s a tough assignment, but Veronica is sure she’s up to the task — until she actually meets Joe.

Despite his physical resemblance to the handsome prince, Lieutenant Joe Catalanotto is nothing like the stuffy aristocrat. Everything about the combat-hardened Navy SEAL — from the arrogant gleam in his eyes and streetwise attitude to the New York accent — says regular guy, not royalty. One conversation and Veronica knows nothing could turn this military man into nobility. Joe, on the other hand, is confident he’s got what it takes to complete his duty.

But neither of them expects their assignment to include falling in love . . .

I have been a Suz Brockmann fan since I first picked up Into the Night and fell in love with Michael Muldoon. I was sold on that series and have fallen in love with many a SEAL because of that series. Now, I started reading that series back in I think it was 2003 or 2004, I can’t remember but I remember falling for Muldoon and then wanting to know more about this Sam Starrett guy. And after I finished that series, I was so determined to try the Tall, Dark and Deadly series, only I never got around to it.

Until now.

I think I have fallen in love again.

I swear, Suz Brockmann knows how to write the hell out of a hero. I’m already addicted to her Team 10 guys. I already can’t wait to finish out this series. I’m starting Blue’s book and I can’t wait to dig right in.

So this story is about Lt. Joe Cattalonotto, Commander of Team 10 and how he looks exactly like Prince Tedric of Ustanzia and how there’s been a hit on Prince Ted’s life while he was on his tour of the United States and how he needs a double to stand in for him until the terrorists are caught.

In comes Navy Seal lookalike Joe.

Joe’s mission is to help find these bastards that tried to kill Prince Ted not because he wants to protect the Prince, oh no, he wants to find the bastards who tried to kill Princy Boy because those same guys killed a son of his friend’s. He wants to bring them down because of that. So in order to play this out, he needs to learn how to be a Prince in two days and the person who’s going to whip him into shape is Veronica St. John.

The story is filled to the brim with fast action and lots of running from the feelings. Some of it was bearable and others (Veronica’s reasons for loving Joe but not wanting to marry him) made me want to strangle someone…Ronnie being at the top of that list.

What I loved most about this book was how easy it was to fall into Joe’s world. To fall into his love story with Ronnie. It wasn’t rushed or anything but some of it was enough to make me roll my eyes down the street. Like, at the end I got that Joe was madly in love with Ronnie and that he would have done anything at all to be with her again but when you’re shot, bleeding all over the place, your helicopter crashes into the freezing ocean and you’re fighting for your life and the only thing you can think about is that Ronnie has finally agreed to marry you and that she loves you makes me want call you on my cell phone and when you answer, scream into the phone, “LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!” Because, who in their right mind is going to have time to think about the woman that they love admitting that they love him?

Seriously?

I mean, if it was a, “I don’t want to lose her, I love her too much to die” kind of thing, that’s understandable and even admirable but when you’re dying and losing ground and you’re thinking, “OMGOSH, did she really mean it? Did she mean it when she said that she loved me? Could she really love me? Truly? Love? Me?” That’s a load of bull, right there…I can’t believe that.

But other than that scene, this book was pretty great.

Joe was a fantastic hero, one that had me oohing and ahhing over how hot and strong and smart and everything good that he was. I loved him. It’s that simple, I shouldn’t have been surprised that I would love Joe because he was Alpha and he was honorable and he was just a good guy and strong and I can’t say good enough things about Joe because he was just a great hero.

Veronica, she was cool, I guess. I mean, she was great up until she made that idiotic decision. Suz loves to write those heroines who drive us readers crazy but Veronica made up for her stupid decision after they come to grips with the fact that they love each other. I’m itching to read the rest of the series so I’m just going to go get to it.

This was a great beginning to a series I know is going to be fantastic. You should definitely read this book if you haven’t…it’s great, great, great.

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