GRR Reviews PRIVATE: A Military Romance Novel by Leila Haven

The author had already demonstrated her complete LACK of any knowledge of the military in her first book HOSTILE: A Military Romance Novel (Military Men Book 1) (which got a 1 star rating from me) and her second book is no exception. IGNORE any and all "military" bits in this novel, because a good amount of which seem to have been gathered from watch TV shows and movies rather than actual military knowledge. And if you ignore everything that's military, what's left is basically a taboo "I want to bonk my hot but unobtainable boss" romance

To make it short, a woman, Sasha, was deployed as a new member of Corporal Rafter's fireteam. (Wait! There are no women in combat yet?!) and Rafter was determined to wash her out and sent her home because "woman doesn't belong here", and he rationalized it's for her own good. Unfortunately, Sasha is from a military family, does PT with all her brothers, and is a thoroughly proficient soldier... except for her crush on Rafter...

The military details are a complete joke. The insurgents run around not carrying weapons, then behave like thugs (holding American soldier hostage with a knife to the throat? Really?) rather than martyrs. Don't Americans carry alternate weapons like knives? These insurgents act more like street thugs in the 'hood, and were dispatched in a similar fashion (Sasha shot them in the head before they can cut Rafter's throat). ARGH!

I quit reading about 1/3 in. It's a TOTAL travesty and an INSULT to see our military being fetishized like this.

Category: Military

Primary Plot: New female member joined corporal's fireteam in Middle East. She's hot for him, but he's determined to wash her out and send her home to protect her...

Tropes: hot for boss

Overall Rating:  1/5