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**Protecting Caroline is a stand-alone love story. It’s Book 1 in the SEAL of Protection Series.**Matthew “Wolf†Steel hated flying commercial. Luckily his job as a Navy SEAL meant he didn’t have to do it very often. He’d been unlucky enough to be assigned a middle seat on the cramped jet, but fortunately for him, the woman next to him was willing to switch seats with him. Hoping for a relaxing flight, Wolf was pleasantly surprised at the good conversation and sense of humor the woman had as they flew 36,000 feet over the countryside. When Caroline boarded the plane to Virginia to move across the country for her new job she never expected to be seated next to the hottest guy she’d ever seen. She also never expected he’d be so easy to talk to. She knew he’d never be interested in talking to her if he hadn’t been trapped in the seat next to her, but it was a nice way to spend a long plane ride. Neither Wolf nor Caroline were prepared for a terrorist hijacking of their plane, but if Caroline thought that would be the last time she’d see, or need, Wolf, she’d be sorely mistaken.Start the SEAL of Protection Series with Caroline and Wolf's story
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"Found this book in my Kindle library and read it. This was a good story. It took me a while to get used to the writing style, which was a little off to me. I didn't like having to remember both the real names and the nicknames of the seal team members.
SPOILER ALERT:
There were just a few things that were weird to me in this book. Caroline's self worth was pretty much to the point of disabling for her. The amount of self pity she radiates is beyond belief. It is "sigh" "of course no one sees me and offers me a ride home late at night when we all stayed at work late...and...sigh...no one sees the plain woman sitting next to them." We even have a seal team member calling her "the plain woman" even after they get to know her. I do not get this AT ALL, it's body dysmorphia. It's just a shame.
My other problems, the kidnap pets chained her legs and put weights on them; how she did not sink directly to the bottom of the ocean is beyond me.
Once rescued, they cut the weights off her legs and left her to lay with Matthew on the deck....ummm, OK, they could stitch her up earlier in the book, but she gets beat to within an inch of her life, is in pain,and no one can assess this beaten, probable critical woman after she was rescued??? That is unrealistic.
For all this that is wrong there is lots right! I love how the deal team took her as their team mate. I love that they saw her strength. I love how Matthew nearly loses his mind while watching the video of Caroline being beaten. I loved Abe's "wake the Heck Up" speech to Matthew after he abandons Caroline at the hospital. I felt like the emotions were clearly conveyed. Thanks for a very good read!!!!"
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Protecting Caroline SEAL of Protection Volume 1 Susan Stoker 9780990738800 Books Reviews
- I wish I could say there were some good points in this book. I wish I could say I at least connected with the characters. I wish I could say that with a little work, this book could have been so much better. I wish I could say this book has promise. There's not. I didn't. It won't. It doesn't.
The situations the heroine found herself in were too unbelievable to suspend reality and get engrossed into the story. Hijacked, stalked, put in fake witness protection, kidnapped, beaten to the point of almost death, chained with weights and then thrown into the ocean. All the while being the epitome of a martyr. The hero and his friends are SEALS, but every single thing they did under the job of being a SEAL was so farfetched, it was down right laughable. That the h was able to drag a 200+lb unconscious man through a room, then lift him up to a window to the point his arms are hanging out, no, just no.
My advice for the author...
1. Having your H describe his love interest as "squishy" is not endearing, swoony, and heart melting.
2. The fact you never once had your H tell his love interest she was beautiful, ever... so very disappointing.
3. If you're going to write about SEALS, do research, a lot of it.
4. Do medical research. Having an extra 15lbs does not make you automatically buoyant, especially if you have weights chained to your ankles. Nor can you tread water with said weights chained to your ankles and 2 broken ribs. - **Update** Lowering rating from 2 stars to 1. There is an editor named for this book. How she can sleep at night after having delivered such an obvious editorial disaster to Ms. Stoker is beyond me.
Also, reading the author's bio, I see she is married to a former Army man. That makes the basic military errors in this book, (and throughout her series, going by other reviews), nearly unforgivable. Navy specific errors still would obviously need research to fix. But the generic military errors?! Seriously? Susan Stoker eats and sleeps with her own military info guide and still got nearly EVERYTHING wrong!!! ***
At only 12% completed, I can't give definitive character personality reviews. I can say Stoker had far too much telling and not enough showing, even within the first scene. It didn't improve by 12%...got worse, actually.
Case in point The author had to have her heroine silently recite her entire teenage ansgt with boys, insecurity about her looks and monologue regarding how the many different print and broadcast mediums created cruel ideologies in both sexes regarding womens' looks. JUST TO ASK A GUY TO CHANGE AIRPLANE SEATS WITH HER!!
My biggest reason to review Protecting Caroline already was because I HAD to lament the obvious fact that before writing and publishing this book, Susan Stoker didn't do a lick of research into the military, especially the SEALs. Reading other average or below average military romance books and maybe some quick Wikipedia looksies doesn't count as research. An author needs to write what they know, or, at least, what interests them enough to research the crap out of it.
How an indie author ever thinks they can hope to compete with profesionally published authors without researching, proofreading and editing is beyond my ken. This is my first and maybe only Stoker book. Perhaps she improved the more she wrote and published. One can only hope!
There are so many errors and problems with the writing, editing, characters and military aspects, in just the first 12%, it would take me all night to list and constructively critique each.
PLEASE, PLEASE employ an editor! Also, make an acquaintance with knowledge about any/all military branches and career specialities within same, before unknowingly publishing something littered with frequent, annoying and avoidable errors.
(Add on) * There's just no excuse, even for indie authors, to publish poorly researched, ineptly written and pathetically edited books. It's laziness that causes it and that in itself is annoying enough to lose readers for good. If you're brave enough to put your imagination into a book, go all the way and make it the best representation of you possible!*
(Yes, I'm available for individual freelance work.) - I loved this book, once I started reading it I had a very hard time putting it away. Not only is it a romance but action packed and fast moving. This is a stand alone but I will be reading the rest of this series as you can't help but want to know what happens to each of the SEALS that you meet in this book.
- Found this book in my library and read it. This was a good story. It took me a while to get used to the writing style, which was a little off to me. I didn't like having to remember both the real names and the nicknames of the seal team members.
SPOILER ALERT
There were just a few things that were weird to me in this book. Caroline's self worth was pretty much to the point of disabling for her. The amount of self pity she radiates is beyond belief. It is "sigh" "of course no one sees me and offers me a ride home late at night when we all stayed at work late...and...sigh...no one sees the plain woman sitting next to them." We even have a seal team member calling her "the plain woman" even after they get to know her. I do not get this AT ALL, it's body dysmorphia. It's just a shame.
My other problems, the kidnap pets chained her legs and put weights on them; how she did not sink directly to the bottom of the ocean is beyond me.
Once rescued, they cut the weights off her legs and left her to lay with Matthew on the deck....ummm, OK, they could stitch her up earlier in the book, but she gets beat to within an inch of her life, is in pain,and no one can assess this beaten, probable critical woman after she was rescued??? That is unrealistic.
For all this that is wrong there is lots right! I love how the deal team took her as their team mate. I love that they saw her strength. I love how Matthew nearly loses his mind while watching the video of Caroline being beaten. I loved Abe's "wake the Heck Up" speech to Matthew after he abandons Caroline at the hospital. I felt like the emotions were clearly conveyed. Thanks for a very good read!!!!
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