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Obtained via: publisher
ISBN: 978-1-940223-12-4
Contemporary/Military Romance
** ½
Patty
Campbell’s ONCE A MARINE is a beautifully told romance with a military flavor
set against some really spectacular scenery.
BD James is
so busy with her tyrant of a boss that her fiancé told her it was over between
them. So when retired Marine Rafael Cruz
offers a distraction, BD is all for it.
Rafi owns an air charter service and does some off the books government
work to supplement his income. He has
little time for romance.
Surely,
author Patty Campbell could have come up with any number of better names for
her heroine than Beautiful Daughter. Had
that been my name, I would not have settled for shortening it to BD, I would
have legally changed it, to anything! I
am not sure why this awful name bothered me so much each and every time it was
uttered, but it did. And while this
reader enjoyed the hit and run romance as BD hoped Rafi would show up each
time, it was really rather difficult to see their romance lasting. Rafi’s life consisted of dashing between his
charter service all over the place and his black ops work for the
military. That wasn’t exactly the
perfect storm for family man material.
Still, this
reader couldn’t help but cheer for this couple, especially when the ex-fiancé
decided he wanted BD back and wasn’t above (or is it below) using violence to
get what he wanted. But that bit of
excitement fizzled quickly and the storyline dropped off again.
On the plus
side, the scenery as the story changed locale was spectacular. The scene was laid out beautifully. This reader could easily see vacationing in
any of these wonderful places. The
storyline moved at a nice clip and the hero was just about everything you could
want in a hero: tall, dark, handsome and
able to take care of not only himself but everyone else. It wasn’t too difficult to imagine BD waiting
around for Rafi to show up in spite of her better judgment.
All in all,
Patty Campbell’s ONCE A MARINE was a beautiful romance set in several even
nicer locales that romance fans should find an enjoyable read.
Reviewed by
T. Barringer
"This is an objective review and not an endorsement of this
book."
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