![Crashing Back Down: A Military Romance by [Mazzola, Kristen Hope]](https://images-fe.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51QnKu%2Btt4L._SY346_.jpg)
I love military romances, generally I get a little picky about them because I was an army wife so when things are wildly inaccurate I go a little crazy. This was not the case here, I just really didn’t like it. When I have a DNF I normally stop before 40%, I made it to 66% in this book. I honestly just believed it would get better, that there had to be more. There wasn’t.
I’m not sure if my biggest problem was the writing style or the immaturity of the characters. In the book the characters are in their mid twenties, with was seems like successful lives. And yet they all seem to be functioning alcoholics. I’m so not even kidding here at all. They start the day with beer, move on to liquor and then throw in some grown up wine for good measure. If you removed every sentence that has some form of alcohol in it you would lose half the book. Look I don’t mind if the characters are just drunk a lot, I mean I do, but reality is that that’s the reality for some people, but you don’t need to write every single time they get up for a beer. Or ask for a beer. Or grab a shot. It got so old, it doesn’t move the story along to constant tell me they are getting a new drink, like I get it they are drinking.
If the characters are drinking, they are crying. Or drinking and crying. These people cry more than any people I’ve ever met and I’m a crier. Obviously something traumatic happened, and not there is emotional fallout but if felt like the author was trying to make you believe they were struggling with their feelings but didn’t know how to achieve that so she just made them cry.
I skipped ahead and read the ending. No words. Just no. So glad I stopped. Just no.
Product Description
Winner of Best Military Romance - Authors in the City 2016
Mags McManus has just become a war widow in her mid-twenties. Her late husband, Randy, left for the Army right after their wedding. Instead of celebrating his homecoming and living in marital bliss with her soulmate, Mags finds herself living in constant agony. Dealing with the guilt of still living without Randy, are Randy's best friends and parents.
Rising from the ashes of this tragedy, Mags starts to learn how to love and trust again, finally being able to find happiness. But sometimes things really are too good to be true and again Mags learns how cruel the world can be as she crashes back down.
**18+ for sexual situations, cursing, and adult content.***
About the Author
You want to know more about me? Well, let's see... I am just an average twenty-something following my dreams. I have a full time "day job" and by night I am an author. I guess you could say that writing is like my super power (I always wanted one of those). I am the lover of wine, sushi, football and the ocean; that is when I am not wrapped up in the literary world. Please feel free to contact me to chat about my writing, books you think I'd like or just to shoot the, well you know. A portion of all my royalties are donated to The Marcie Mazzola Foundation.
