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A SEAL At Heart (2012)

by Anne Elizabeth(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1402268904 (ISBN13: 9781402268908)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Sourcebooks Casablanca

series

West Coast Navy SEALs

review 1: The patient/client dynamic in this book bothered me at times. This may be because I work in a mental health field. Jack at times seemed to be using her. In their first interaction, he jumps to conclusions and is a jerk. I did like Laurie. I understood her reluctance to be involved with a military man - but that also made it strange that she jumped into the relationship with Jack. I liked Laurie's relationship with her adopted father.
review 2: I always enjoy a good military romance, but this was one that gives readers a completely different point of view...that of a soldier recovering.Jack Roaker finds himself back in San Diego trying to recover from a SEAL mission gone wrong. He's lost his memory of the mission and his best friend. Desperate to figure out wh... moreat happened, Jack's willing to do what he has to to regain his memory, even if that means letting Laurie Smith, the woman he can't get out of his mind, use her massage therapy on him.What really drew me to this story was Jack. Here's an active military man, who was severely injured during a mission, trying to cope with what happened and his memory loss. He doesn't want to talk to a shrink, he doesn't want to sit in group therapy, he just wants his mind to be fixed and remember. Jack really doesn't want to get into the gray area of his healing, because it will force him to look at other aspects of his life that make him who he is. Your heart breaks for Jack because (from the outside looking in) you can see the man just wants to be loved and keep the small family that he had intact. But everything changes for Jack when he meets Laurie.Laurie has lived around SEALs for her entire life. He dad was one and her adoptive family is a retired SEAL. She knows how SEALs are and she's vowed to stay away from them. But there is something about Jack that appeals to her. Despite her protests to herself, she finds herself believing in Jack and wanting to help him regain what he's lost and be able to go back to doing what he loves...despite what that might cost her. Jack and Laurie were characters that I loved together, but also really liked them apart. They knew who they were and could stand by their decision. If they were wrong, they had no problem fessing up to that. They both had an inner strength and courage that only seemed to deepen when they were together. If Jack had never regained his memory, this still would have been a fabulous story...because of these two characters.A pleasure to read and certainly not my last Anne Elizabeth. less

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