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Don't Let Go - Navy SEALs Team Twelve, Bk 5 Author:Marliss Melton DON'T GIVE UP — It's love that keeps teacher Jordan Bliss up at night: the lost love for a Venezuelan orphan named Miguel... and the memory of a Navy SEAL tearing him from her arms. Now in the U.S. and longing for her child, Jordan vows to somehow, some way, bring Miguel home. — DON'T LOOK BACK — To Navy SEAL Solomon McGuire... more », orders are orders. But the fierce passion in Jordan's voice and the fire in her eyes when he separated her from her son haunt his dreams. Eager to make amends, Solomon promises to pull every string he can to find Miguel. Only time will tell if Jordan can trust him and forgive him. One thing is certain: His desire for her is relentless and irresistible. And soon their indestructible love will be tested by a terrifying trap of violence....
Better than I had heard - this is a great story revolving around a woman who has to leave behind her adopted son in South America during a coup because of faulty paperwork...and the SEAL who forced her into that decision. If you read Next to Die and remember the "hot tub" scene - Solomon is the Hero of this book.
This is the first Marliss Melton book I have read and I really enjoyed it. Jordan is trying to adopt a Venezuelan orphan and litterally has him ripped from her arms as she is rescued from the area by US SEALS. Her determination to bring the child to the US takes her back to Venezuela after she has fallen in love with the SEAL who plucked her from Venezuela the first time. At the same time, her sister who has lost her husband but is pregnant with his child is opening an equestrian center for handicapped veterans and is reunited with a previous male friend who is recovering from lossing his entire family. It sounds complicated but all works together very nicely. Great easy read!
Overall, not a bad idea for a book...but I just couldn't like any of the characters, secondary ones included. The Hero for most of the book was a jerk, until the end, the Heroine, a little bit naive....
the Heroines' sister seemed too self involved and her love interest seems shallow...Other then taking the focus off the main characters/story, and providing Ms Melton future characters to write about, they (and the other minor characters presented) didn't really serve a purpose in this book...
although out of all the characters I'd have to say I like The Heroine, Jordan best...or rather her dedication to adopting the boy she tries to rescue...despite that everyone around her seems to think that just because she's adopting him, that makes him less her child then if she'd birthed him, herself... (that particular view point annoyed me more than anything else)
Though the story needs tightening this wasn't a bad book, but it has no place on my keeper shelf.