GRR Reviews Military Romance: Into the Crossfire by Kathleen Hope

NOTE: This book's ASIN number has changed from its original B01MZHHNG5 and thus this review has been edited and published under the new number.

Into the Crossfire marketed itself as "military romance" (heck, it's even on the cover and in the title!) but the author clearly has NO concept of military other than some Hollywood movies, resulting in a patently absurd scenario that simply makes absolutely no sense.

Caleb's SEAL team was to recon a drug lord's compound when they witness a rival gang's attack on the compound. A woman and a young girl were caught in the middle. The order was to observe only, but the lieutenant in command of the SEAL team made an insane decision to expose himself and try to rescue the young girl, and was almost blown up by a mine. Seriously wounded, he was stuffed into the trunk of woman's car and driven off the property and cared for, and as he recovered, he realized he's in the home of the drug baron he's was recon'ing, even as he learned of the woman and the girl (not mother/daughter by blood) and fallen for the woman...

The problems are quite numerous, and thus, SPOILER AHEAD

YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!

1) The lieutenant reminded his men to not engage, but chose to expose himself to MAYBE save a kid? Which he didn't even succeed? WTF?

2) The rest of the team just allowed their leader to be stuffed into a possibly hostile woman's car trunk?

3) Nobody at the firefight noticed anything? They just conveniently killed each other?

4) She never noticed the guy he stuffed into the trunk was wearing digicam, MOLLE harnesses, helmet, and other stuff that a SEAL would wear, instead of simpler weapons carried by the gangs?

5) How does a little woman manage to stuff a big SEAL wearing full combat kit into a car trunk any way?!?!?!!

And this is JUST the beginning of the book! This absurd setup is just to get the SEAL leader alone so he can romance the drug baron's woman! The rest of the book SPOILER!!!!!! had him playing hide and seek in drug baron's garage! it's absolutely RIDICULOUS!!!!!!

This is NOT the first book that the author has with fact-checking issues and creating patently impossible or implausible premises.

Category: Military / Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: SEAL leader violated his own orders, failed at his objective, and left behind by his team to romance drug baron's woman? WTF?!

Tropes: SEAL, different worlds, woman in peril, protector, evil ex

Overall Rating:  1/5