GRR Reviews Her Fierce SEAL: Midnight Delta Book 6 by Caitlyn O'Leary

While the overall plot wasn't bad in "Her Fierce SEAL", the author made the fundamental mistake by making her MMCs US Navy SEALs, as this book had them running around the US being bodyguards, law enforcement, going undercover like spies, and stuff they were NOT supposed to be doing BY LAW (i.e. deploy in the US) that made the book fundamentally flawed.

To recap, Finn Crandall had to deal with the aftermath of his undercover assignment and he regretted not having saved as many of the victims as he could have on all his previous assignments, and it's eating him up inside. He asked for leave and fled to Texas, and happened to run into Angie Donatelli, a PI trying to reunite a mother with her baby who was kidnapped and sold to illegal adoption. Angie always relied on herself, even when taking down monsters who beat up women and paid a price for it too. And when Angie's life was being threatened, Finn's protective instincts kicked into full gear, even as they found that the case Angie was investigating had everything to do with Finn and Team Midnight Delta's previous tangle with the bad guys... even as a new link with the Bratva appeared with a link to a corrupt general, it is time for Midnight Delta team and Angie's family to take a stand...

SEALs are not spies, mercenaries, or bodyguards. Due to this FUNDAMENTAL problem contrary to reality, it is impossible to give this book a higher than average mark. Add to the unrealistic shootout scenario that had the SEAL team members acting as if they're in an Old Western shootout (knock out the glass in the window and shoot back!) and you're left with a "SEAL abuse" novel that the author arbitrarily slapped "SEAL trope" onto a bunch of generic alpha military males.

Strangely, the first novel, where the lieutenant rescued someone while on his midnight jog, wasn't that fact-abusive. But it seems every subsequent novel the fact abuse got worse and worse. There are much better romances dealing with on-duty SEAL or even ex-SEALs that don't abuse reality like this.

Category: Romantic Suspense / Military

Primary Plot: SEAL on vacation ran into private investigator who was working a case he used to be involved in; baby trafficking...

Tropes: disguise, SEAL, private investigator, kidnapping, protector, woman in peril

Overall Rating:  2/5