GRR Reviews The Navy SEAL's Christmas Bride by Cora Seton

The Navy SEAL's Christmas Bride didn't quite work for me as there's not too much holiday spirit. Instead, it ended up as more melodrama were the two who are enemies but secretly fond of each other, so they ended up goading each other as "flirting", which is about as romantic as slapping each other then next second they rip each other's clothes off. Not quite like that, but it's kinda close.

SEAL Dan Hemmins is about to muster out and he wanted to set up rich people's survival camp training in Utah, and a visit to Chance Creek to see his old buddy Mason Hall was perfect (see Vol 1: The Navy SEAL's email order bride) for Christmas when he can't go home. He did not count on running into Sarah Metlin... a soldier that could be as competent as he is... and that's saying a LOT as he's a Navy SEAL. Sarah had been trying to prove all her life against EVERYBODY, esp. her own family, that she's just as tough as her brothers, not that nobody ever appreciated that special operations do NOT admit female operators. She was not about to let some SEAL challenge her without responding in kind. Dan was smitten, as Sarah was the smartest and the toughest... and sexiest woman he'd seen. He'll do whatever it takes to get close to her, even if he had to challenge her to a few more contests...

I seriiously don't get this one. It seems they are fighting more often than not, and and when they fight, the SEAL just pins her down by body weight alone. That's kinda... creepy? Inappropriate? It's the full body contact version of stopping the slap, pull her close, then kiss her. It's so... cliche! Still, I guess between two hypercompetitive persons, this can constitute flirting.

Category: Contemporary / Military

Primary Plot: A SEAL thinking about retiring met a female soldier that may challenge his heart...

Tropes: HOliday, SEAL, enemies to lovers, forced proximity

Overall Rating:  3/5