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Delta Force Heroes #9
Rescuing Mary
Ford “Truck” Laughlin and Mary Weston have weathered their share of storms over the last couple years. Truck’s job, Mary’s health. His bossiness, her bitchiness. All while dancing around their intense attraction. Mary’s tried to push him away for his own good but Truck won’t let her give up…on herself or on them. Just when she decides they deserve a fair shot, disaster strikes.
Truck has wanted Mary since the moment he saw her. The prickly woman pushes all his buttons and looks beyond his scarred exterior, something few women have managed. His plan to take their relationship to the next level is stalled when he’s injured on a mission. And he’s barely feeling like his old self again before the couple is dealt another blow, one that could permanently end their chances…and their lives.
**Rescuing Mary is the 9th book in the Delta Force Heroes Series. Usually my books are stand-alones, but in this case, I feel you would get more enjoyment out of the story if you read the other books first, since Mary and Truck’s relationship evolves throughout the series. If nothing else, I recommend reading the first book in the series, Rescuing Rayne, where their relationship began.
Truck has wanted Mary since the moment he saw her. The prickly woman pushes all his buttons and looks beyond his scarred exterior, something few women have managed. His plan to take their relationship to the next level is stalled when he’s injured on a mission. And he’s barely feeling like his old self again before the couple is dealt another blow, one that could permanently end their chances…and their lives.
**Rescuing Mary is the 9th book in the Delta Force Heroes Series. Usually my books are stand-alones, but in this case, I feel you would get more enjoyment out of the story if you read the other books first, since Mary and Truck’s relationship evolves throughout the series. If nothing else, I recommend reading the first book in the series, Rescuing Rayne, where their relationship began.
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First published October 30, 2018
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New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan Stoker has a heart as big as the state of Tennessee where she lives, but this all American girl has also spent the last fourteen years living in Missouri, California, Colorado, Indiana, and Tennessee. She's married to a retired Army man who now gets to follow her around the country.
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July 1, 2019
When I finished this book, I felt like I'd taken a really long journey that has come to an end, and now I don't know how to cope with life. This couple has waited a long time for their HEA, and I cried when it happened. Sure, I wanted to plant a boot up Mary's ass a couple of times, but it's been that way with this character for me for a long time. I'm so glad to finally get a peak, a real peak inside her head.
And Ford "Truck" Laughlin...I think I love you. You make love special.
The most happy-cry inducing, heart wrenching part of this entire book rested in the epilogue for me. What a magnificient, grand finale for a remarkable, memorable series. If one could be gutted in a happy way, I was. I love these characters and I don't want them to grow old. I don't want their children, especially Annie, to grow up.
I was blown away!
And Ford "Truck" Laughlin...I think I love you. You make love special.
The most happy-cry inducing, heart wrenching part of this entire book rested in the epilogue for me. What a magnificient, grand finale for a remarkable, memorable series. If one could be gutted in a happy way, I was. I love these characters and I don't want them to grow old. I don't want their children, especially Annie, to grow up.
I was blown away!
October 10, 2018
The only problem with this book is that it ended. At last Truck and Mary got together and everything was explained so we know why everything was so hard and complicated for the two of them. The explanations were hard even for us to read. They had each had a hard life. But each found in the other the answer to their problem. Why they were so good for each other is answered by the other's love.
As I said at the beginning, This book ends this series with this bunch of friends and I will miss them. They have been good friends for a good while.
As I said at the beginning, This book ends this series with this bunch of friends and I will miss them. They have been good friends for a good while.
July 8, 2019
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I'm not going to lie, this book did not do these characters justice in my opinion. After seeing Truck and Mary, well really only little hints of them, in all of the previous books I was hoping that they would get some grand romance in their own book. But that just didn't happen for me. I felt like there was a lot not said or shown about them and by the end I felt like I still needed more of them to fully feel their romance. I honestly would have loved to get their story much earlier in the series because waiting so long while getting glimpses of Truck and Mary through other characters' POV's built them up so much only for their own story to fall flat. There was just so much going on with them in the other books but of course we didn't get to see that and then this book, where it was all about them, had less of them together and it was a disappointment.
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I'm not going to lie, this book did not do these characters justice in my opinion. After seeing Truck and Mary, well really only little hints of them, in all of the previous books I was hoping that they would get some grand romance in their own book. But that just didn't happen for me. I felt like there was a lot not said or shown about them and by the end I felt like I still needed more of them to fully feel their romance. I honestly would have loved to get their story much earlier in the series because waiting so long while getting glimpses of Truck and Mary through other characters' POV's built them up so much only for their own story to fall flat. There was just so much going on with them in the other books but of course we didn't get to see that and then this book, where it was all about them, had less of them together and it was a disappointment.
January 5, 2022
Very Good. This is one of my two favorites in this series. A truly sweet story.
June 7, 2024
Review from 2018
B+ for narration/ B- for content .
Okay, so I have to start this review with a confession or two. I picked up a review copy of Rescuing Mary without knowing very much about it. I expected a book in a series called Delta Force Heroes to be romantic suspense (was I really dumb for thinking that?) rather than contemporary romance featuring guys who just happened to be special forces buddies. I also missed the bit in the blurb that said that while all the earlier books (eight of them) worked as standalones, this one would work better if one was familiar with the other books and had perhaps read/listened to book one, Rescuing Rayne, as the central relationship in this instalment began there. So… oops?
Rescuing Mary opens with a prologue that affords listeners a few short snapshots of Mary Weston’s life through the years. Aged just five, her mother is already ranting at her about how men are all bastards and never to be trusted, but that it’s okay to use them to get what she wants. Never believe a man when he says he loves you, her mother tells Mary – aged nine – and never open your legs for one because he’ll be off like a shot after he’s done. As she gets older, Mary does wonder at her mother’s intense dislike for men, considering she has a new “uncle” every few weeks.
Then, at twenty-two, Mary meets Rayne Jackson, and the two women become lifelong best friends. When Mary is diagnosed with breast cancer, Rayne is there for her – holding her head over the bowl when she’s sick, holding her when she’s in pain, doing the housework when Mary is too weak to look after herself… Mary knows there’s nothing she will ever be able to do to repay her. When the cancer returns, however, Mary is determined not to be a burden to her friend and decides she can’t go through it all again; not only will her insurance not cover the treatment, she just can’t face the chemo and the radiation therapy – all of it – so she distances herself from Rayne and their circle of friends, basically intending to hole up somewhere until the end comes.
But Ford “Truck” Laughlin (and yeah, all the guys have dumb nicknames like Ghost, Chase, Coach, Fish… Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch!), who has been in love with Mary from pretty much the first moment he met her – finds out what she’s doing and refuses, absolutely, to let her give up. When he asks her to marry him, for a moment Mary – who is as head-over-heels for him as he is for her (not that she’d ever admit it) – thinks he’s asked her because he wants her… until he says that will mean she’s eligible for all his army benefits, including his health insurance.
Truck won’t take no for an answer and they’re secretly married three days later. When Rescuing Mary opens proper some months later, Mary has been given the all-clear and is pretty much living – platonically – with Truck, nobody knows they’re married, and she and Rayne are still estranged. Things might not have changed had it not been for the group of robbers who hold up the bank at which Mary works at the same time as some of her friends – including Rayne – have paid her a visit. Facing danger together helps Mary and Rayne get their friendship back on track, and with that hole in her life repaired, Mary decides it’s finally time to tell Truck the truth; that she wants to stay married to him and for them to be a husband and wife for real. It’s scary, but she’s looking forward to making that change in their relationship.
BUT. As if fate hasn’t punched Mary in the face enough, it’s got a couple more big blows in store for her and Truck when he’s injured on a mission… and THEN as if THAT wasn’t enough, they end up in a life threatening situation which really could mean the end of everything.
I admit when that last thing happened, I rolled my eyes so hard they hurt. Because by that point, the story seemed to have become an exercise in “let’s see how much crap I can heap upon these people”, and it was a heist too far for this listener.
The author deals with Mary’s cancer in a sensitive way and shows clearly how much the disease has affected her and the way she interacts with people. Add to that a truly shitty childhood, and it’s not surprising she became a hardened cynic who uses biting sarcasm as a defence mechanism. She really does go through hell, and the author does a superb job of conveying her roiling emotions – the bitterness and anger, the exhaustion and hopelessness, her insecurities about her attractiveness and her worries that maybe Truck only married her out of pity… it’s emotionally raw and hard to listen to at times because it feels so true to life.
When I realised my misconceptions about the book, and the fact it might not work so well as a standalone, I adjusted my expectations accordingly. The falling-in-love part of Truck and Mary’s story happens in the other books, and I was disappointed by that – almost certainly because I haven’t been invested in the couple for eight books. I do, however, applaud the author for telling the story of what happens after the wedding, because the “post-HEA” isn’t something we often see in romance beyond an epilogue.
And speaking of epilogues, the one in this book is really – and I mean REALLY – one for the fans. It’s well over TWO HOURS long and is a series of vignettes peeking into the lives of the couples who appear in the series at various points in the future, ending with a look at Mary and Rayne twenty-five years hence. (And preceding it is an entire chapter devoted to the set up for the next book.) Again, if you’ve been following the series, it’s a great way to say goodbye, and some of the storylines were poignant and affecting. But as I wasn’t really invested in any of those other couples, it all went a little over my head and I zoned in and out a bit.
Stella Bloom is a very experienced but new-to-me narrator who delivers a confident, accomplished performance. With so many secondary characters from previous books popping in and out, it must have been difficult to differentiate them all clearly, but she makes a very good job of it overall, making sure that all the men or women in any given scene sound different, and assigning distinct character voices to the principals and the major secondary characters. Ms. Bloom adopts a lower pitch and varies the timbre of her voice to portray the men, her delivery is smooth and her pacing is neither too fast nor too slow. The accents she adopts for Mary, Rayne and some of the other characters sound authentic to my British ears, and those two ladies are always easily identifiable in their scenes together and with others. It’s a very strong performance, and I’m certainly not averse to listening to her again.
My content grade undoubtedly reflects the fact that Rescuing Mary wasn’t what I’d expected, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other things about it that prevent my rating it more highly. The overblown drama of one life-threatening situation after another, the repetitiveness of Mary’s insecurities about Truck when his every word and action scream “I LOVE YOU!” and the horribly stereoptyped minor female character who has ‘man-stealing-bitch’ practically stamped on her forehead all contributed to that grade. If you’ve been following the series, Rescuing Mary is probably going to work better for you than it did for me.
B+ for narration/ B- for content .
Okay, so I have to start this review with a confession or two. I picked up a review copy of Rescuing Mary without knowing very much about it. I expected a book in a series called Delta Force Heroes to be romantic suspense (was I really dumb for thinking that?) rather than contemporary romance featuring guys who just happened to be special forces buddies. I also missed the bit in the blurb that said that while all the earlier books (eight of them) worked as standalones, this one would work better if one was familiar with the other books and had perhaps read/listened to book one, Rescuing Rayne, as the central relationship in this instalment began there. So… oops?
Rescuing Mary opens with a prologue that affords listeners a few short snapshots of Mary Weston’s life through the years. Aged just five, her mother is already ranting at her about how men are all bastards and never to be trusted, but that it’s okay to use them to get what she wants. Never believe a man when he says he loves you, her mother tells Mary – aged nine – and never open your legs for one because he’ll be off like a shot after he’s done. As she gets older, Mary does wonder at her mother’s intense dislike for men, considering she has a new “uncle” every few weeks.
Then, at twenty-two, Mary meets Rayne Jackson, and the two women become lifelong best friends. When Mary is diagnosed with breast cancer, Rayne is there for her – holding her head over the bowl when she’s sick, holding her when she’s in pain, doing the housework when Mary is too weak to look after herself… Mary knows there’s nothing she will ever be able to do to repay her. When the cancer returns, however, Mary is determined not to be a burden to her friend and decides she can’t go through it all again; not only will her insurance not cover the treatment, she just can’t face the chemo and the radiation therapy – all of it – so she distances herself from Rayne and their circle of friends, basically intending to hole up somewhere until the end comes.
But Ford “Truck” Laughlin (and yeah, all the guys have dumb nicknames like Ghost, Chase, Coach, Fish… Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch!), who has been in love with Mary from pretty much the first moment he met her – finds out what she’s doing and refuses, absolutely, to let her give up. When he asks her to marry him, for a moment Mary – who is as head-over-heels for him as he is for her (not that she’d ever admit it) – thinks he’s asked her because he wants her… until he says that will mean she’s eligible for all his army benefits, including his health insurance.
Truck won’t take no for an answer and they’re secretly married three days later. When Rescuing Mary opens proper some months later, Mary has been given the all-clear and is pretty much living – platonically – with Truck, nobody knows they’re married, and she and Rayne are still estranged. Things might not have changed had it not been for the group of robbers who hold up the bank at which Mary works at the same time as some of her friends – including Rayne – have paid her a visit. Facing danger together helps Mary and Rayne get their friendship back on track, and with that hole in her life repaired, Mary decides it’s finally time to tell Truck the truth; that she wants to stay married to him and for them to be a husband and wife for real. It’s scary, but she’s looking forward to making that change in their relationship.
BUT. As if fate hasn’t punched Mary in the face enough, it’s got a couple more big blows in store for her and Truck when he’s injured on a mission… and THEN as if THAT wasn’t enough, they end up in a life threatening situation which really could mean the end of everything.
I admit when that last thing happened, I rolled my eyes so hard they hurt. Because by that point, the story seemed to have become an exercise in “let’s see how much crap I can heap upon these people”, and it was a heist too far for this listener.
The author deals with Mary’s cancer in a sensitive way and shows clearly how much the disease has affected her and the way she interacts with people. Add to that a truly shitty childhood, and it’s not surprising she became a hardened cynic who uses biting sarcasm as a defence mechanism. She really does go through hell, and the author does a superb job of conveying her roiling emotions – the bitterness and anger, the exhaustion and hopelessness, her insecurities about her attractiveness and her worries that maybe Truck only married her out of pity… it’s emotionally raw and hard to listen to at times because it feels so true to life.
When I realised my misconceptions about the book, and the fact it might not work so well as a standalone, I adjusted my expectations accordingly. The falling-in-love part of Truck and Mary’s story happens in the other books, and I was disappointed by that – almost certainly because I haven’t been invested in the couple for eight books. I do, however, applaud the author for telling the story of what happens after the wedding, because the “post-HEA” isn’t something we often see in romance beyond an epilogue.
And speaking of epilogues, the one in this book is really – and I mean REALLY – one for the fans. It’s well over TWO HOURS long and is a series of vignettes peeking into the lives of the couples who appear in the series at various points in the future, ending with a look at Mary and Rayne twenty-five years hence. (And preceding it is an entire chapter devoted to the set up for the next book.) Again, if you’ve been following the series, it’s a great way to say goodbye, and some of the storylines were poignant and affecting. But as I wasn’t really invested in any of those other couples, it all went a little over my head and I zoned in and out a bit.
Stella Bloom is a very experienced but new-to-me narrator who delivers a confident, accomplished performance. With so many secondary characters from previous books popping in and out, it must have been difficult to differentiate them all clearly, but she makes a very good job of it overall, making sure that all the men or women in any given scene sound different, and assigning distinct character voices to the principals and the major secondary characters. Ms. Bloom adopts a lower pitch and varies the timbre of her voice to portray the men, her delivery is smooth and her pacing is neither too fast nor too slow. The accents she adopts for Mary, Rayne and some of the other characters sound authentic to my British ears, and those two ladies are always easily identifiable in their scenes together and with others. It’s a very strong performance, and I’m certainly not averse to listening to her again.
My content grade undoubtedly reflects the fact that Rescuing Mary wasn’t what I’d expected, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other things about it that prevent my rating it more highly. The overblown drama of one life-threatening situation after another, the repetitiveness of Mary’s insecurities about Truck when his every word and action scream “I LOVE YOU!” and the horribly stereoptyped minor female character who has ‘man-stealing-bitch’ practically stamped on her forehead all contributed to that grade. If you’ve been following the series, Rescuing Mary is probably going to work better for you than it did for me.
May 2, 2021
Capita leggendo un libro che ti colpisca un personaggio secondario, o un comprimario.
Capita meno spesso che i personaggi siano due, e che ti colpiscono per motivi differenti.
Ho adorato Truck e Mary da sempre, sin dalla loro comparsa nel primo libro "Salvare Rayne" il gigante buono sfregiato e la caustica (ma verrebbe da dire altro, ma voglio essere gentile), i due migliori amici dei protagonisti.
La serie Delta Force ci racconta di una squadra di soldati, che sono amici, sono famiglia uno per l'altro e libro dopo libro lì vediamo crescere, vediamo il legame forte che unisce gli uomini estendersi verso le donne che via via entrano in gioco, persone che non potrebbero essere più diverse trovare quel punto di incontro e lì costruire quella che via via recepisci come una grande famiglia, non di sangue ma di cuore.
Libro dopo libro, conosci meglio e ti affezioni ai personaggi, ma Truck e Mary, bhe loro ti rapiscono il cuore subito.
La Stoker semina, come pollicino fa con le briciole di pane, indizi su questi due personaggi, sulla loro storia e il loro vissuto lungo tutti i libri, tanto che alla fine da una parte ti ritrovi a desiderato, dall'altra a un certo punto ti chiedi se serva quel libro, poi il libro arriva e... Boom, la perfezione.
Ti trovi davanti a una storia che già conosci, almeno ti illudo di conoscere, ma quelle bricioline, più o meno grandi, messe insieme non fanno neanche 1/100 di quello che poi ti troverai a leggere.
La Stoker ci regala un libro che è una perla, regalando a due personaggi che ami una storia meravigliosa, toccando temi non facili, con una forza e una delicatezza che ti stringono il cuore.
Bhe lo ammetto, ho riso e ho pianto perché Truck e Mary sono anche questo e lasciare i ragazzi della Delta mica è facile.
Questo capitolo finale è la ciliegina sulla torta di una serie bella, bellissima
Capita meno spesso che i personaggi siano due, e che ti colpiscono per motivi differenti.
Ho adorato Truck e Mary da sempre, sin dalla loro comparsa nel primo libro "Salvare Rayne" il gigante buono sfregiato e la caustica (ma verrebbe da dire altro, ma voglio essere gentile), i due migliori amici dei protagonisti.
La serie Delta Force ci racconta di una squadra di soldati, che sono amici, sono famiglia uno per l'altro e libro dopo libro lì vediamo crescere, vediamo il legame forte che unisce gli uomini estendersi verso le donne che via via entrano in gioco, persone che non potrebbero essere più diverse trovare quel punto di incontro e lì costruire quella che via via recepisci come una grande famiglia, non di sangue ma di cuore.
Libro dopo libro, conosci meglio e ti affezioni ai personaggi, ma Truck e Mary, bhe loro ti rapiscono il cuore subito.
La Stoker semina, come pollicino fa con le briciole di pane, indizi su questi due personaggi, sulla loro storia e il loro vissuto lungo tutti i libri, tanto che alla fine da una parte ti ritrovi a desiderato, dall'altra a un certo punto ti chiedi se serva quel libro, poi il libro arriva e... Boom, la perfezione.
Ti trovi davanti a una storia che già conosci, almeno ti illudo di conoscere, ma quelle bricioline, più o meno grandi, messe insieme non fanno neanche 1/100 di quello che poi ti troverai a leggere.
La Stoker ci regala un libro che è una perla, regalando a due personaggi che ami una storia meravigliosa, toccando temi non facili, con una forza e una delicatezza che ti stringono il cuore.
Bhe lo ammetto, ho riso e ho pianto perché Truck e Mary sono anche questo e lasciare i ragazzi della Delta mica è facile.
Questo capitolo finale è la ciliegina sulla torta di una serie bella, bellissima
October 30, 2018
Rescuing Mary (Delta Force Heroes Book 9)
by Susan Stoker
5 Stars
If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would. Susan Stoker has completed the DFH Series with a BANG. There is so much I want to say about this book. If you are like most of the SS fan club this has been a MUCH ANTICIPATED release. We've been asking for years for this story and now it's finally here. A friend of mine did a review of another SS book and kind of likened it to a Target Run. You go knowing you need one thing yet end up leaving the store $100 poorer going, WTH??
For me Rescuing Mary was like my 21st birthday, Christmas and my wedding day all rolled into one. So excited for the day to arrive and when it did it was nothing but FEELS. Susan Stoker is such an amazing writer and she proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt with this book. You get to go back and visit with old friends. You get to meet new characters (that you know will come to life in a new book) and you get to finally read the tale about two beloved characters. Know this...tears are inevitable but the love, joy, and wonder from the book offset them.
Yes, this is the final book to the series. But I'm not sad. We all know that somehow Susan Stoker will keep these characters alive and intersperse them throughout other series. While highly anticipated Ms. Stoker does a fabulous job keeping true to her writing style and fans and producing an epic story. Yes, it was a LONG LONG LONG wait but it was worth it. Thank you Susan Stoker for this book. A.S.H. love you too. Beautiful story from a beautiful writer. Now I'm going to dive back in.
by Susan Stoker
5 Stars
If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would. Susan Stoker has completed the DFH Series with a BANG. There is so much I want to say about this book. If you are like most of the SS fan club this has been a MUCH ANTICIPATED release. We've been asking for years for this story and now it's finally here. A friend of mine did a review of another SS book and kind of likened it to a Target Run. You go knowing you need one thing yet end up leaving the store $100 poorer going, WTH??
For me Rescuing Mary was like my 21st birthday, Christmas and my wedding day all rolled into one. So excited for the day to arrive and when it did it was nothing but FEELS. Susan Stoker is such an amazing writer and she proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt with this book. You get to go back and visit with old friends. You get to meet new characters (that you know will come to life in a new book) and you get to finally read the tale about two beloved characters. Know this...tears are inevitable but the love, joy, and wonder from the book offset them.
Yes, this is the final book to the series. But I'm not sad. We all know that somehow Susan Stoker will keep these characters alive and intersperse them throughout other series. While highly anticipated Ms. Stoker does a fabulous job keeping true to her writing style and fans and producing an epic story. Yes, it was a LONG LONG LONG wait but it was worth it. Thank you Susan Stoker for this book. A.S.H. love you too. Beautiful story from a beautiful writer. Now I'm going to dive back in.
October 25, 2018
I’ve been looking forward to Trucks and Marys story for along time. And it did not disappoint.
June 1, 2021
Chris McGranitt - per RFS
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Salve mie care Fenici,
questa è senza dubbio la recensione senza spoiler più difficile che mi sia mai capitato di fare, per quanto mi stia mordendo le mani, prometto che non scriverò nulla di troppo rivelatore; ma veniamo al dunque.
“[…] Poi ho incontrato te, Raynie. Non avevo intenzione di lasciarti entrare nella mia vita, ma hai preso d’assalto le barriere che avevo innalzato intorno al cuore. Non sapevo cosa fosse l’amore finché non ti ho incontrata.” (Mary a Raynie. Tratto dal libro)
“La storia”, che presumo un po’ tutti stavamo aspettando, è giunta sui nostri Kindle. Mary, che abbiamo conosciuto attraverso scorci della sua vita in altri volumi della serie, finalmente, ha un inizio e una fine. Mary Weston è la migliore amica di Raynie (la protagonista del primo volume, nonché compagna di Ghost), è sarcastica, molto, nasconde la sua vulnerabilità dietro a un sacco di stronzaggine (passatemi il termine), è forte e molto altro, che non posso e non voglio spiegare.
Sono pagine che dovrete vivere.
Nonostante abbia sconfitto per ben due volte il cancro e deve comunque trovare il coraggio di diventare chi è destinata a essere, come se ciò che ha passato non sia nulla rispetto al fare i conti con la vita che continua. Inoltre, una volta certa dei propri sentimenti, deve fare di tutto per tenersi l’uomo migliore al mondo, per lei, ovvero Ford “Truck” Laughlin.
Ford non ha avuto una vita facile, e come sia potuto diventare il gigante buono che è, mi risulta inspiegabile. Mettiamola così, se devo credere nelle anime gemelle, direi che erano predestinati a stare insieme e a essere il meglio per qualcuno, soprattutto alla luce del loro vissuto.
Truck è generoso, leale, silenzioso e non fa che attrarre gli altri grazie al suo essere profondo, sebbene non sia una persona che si possa definire “aperta” e soprattutto nonostante il suo aspetto fisico che, per i più bigotti, potrebbe rappresentare un limite (parlo della cicatrice).
In questo libro le sfide non sono finite, e sarà una corsa contro il tempo, a volte il nemico sei tu altre, invece, chi non ti aspetti, ma quando “tutto accade” (non chiedetemi di spoilerare) diventa un caos che solo un Delta può gestire, specie se circondato dai suoi amici e dal suo amore.
Penso che sia un romanzo meraviglioso, scritto dal punto di vista dei nostri protagonisti.
L’autrice sviluppa in modo impeccabile la caratterizzazione dei personaggi, tanto da rendere i loro comportamenti attuali veramente comprensibili e sentiti.
È un libro che commuove fin dalle prime pagine, non vi nascondo che ho pianto, e parecchio, tanto da non da non essere sicura di riuscire a proseguire, ma era impossibile non farlo, mi ha catturato e tenuto stretta mentre mangiavo o riposavo. Non ho potuto smettere di leggere, ho dovuto dare un senso a tutto e non ne sono affatto pentita, anzi, semmai sono ancora più convinta che tutti dovreste viverlo.
È un romanzo profondo, costellato da scene d’azione, disastri, e amore… tanto amore. Presenta pochissime scene hot e, onestamente, va bene così, questa volta è il cuore che merita il palcoscenico. Questo libro ti entra veramente sottopelle e mi auguro vivamente che gli dedicherete un po’ del vostro tempo.
P.s. godetevi la playlist inserita dall’autrice nelle ultime pagine, di certo accompagnerà la vostra lettura e renderà questo momento di svago una vera esperienza.
Alla prossima appassionante lettura Fenici
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Salve mie care Fenici,
questa è senza dubbio la recensione senza spoiler più difficile che mi sia mai capitato di fare, per quanto mi stia mordendo le mani, prometto che non scriverò nulla di troppo rivelatore; ma veniamo al dunque.
“[…] Poi ho incontrato te, Raynie. Non avevo intenzione di lasciarti entrare nella mia vita, ma hai preso d’assalto le barriere che avevo innalzato intorno al cuore. Non sapevo cosa fosse l’amore finché non ti ho incontrata.” (Mary a Raynie. Tratto dal libro)
“La storia”, che presumo un po’ tutti stavamo aspettando, è giunta sui nostri Kindle. Mary, che abbiamo conosciuto attraverso scorci della sua vita in altri volumi della serie, finalmente, ha un inizio e una fine. Mary Weston è la migliore amica di Raynie (la protagonista del primo volume, nonché compagna di Ghost), è sarcastica, molto, nasconde la sua vulnerabilità dietro a un sacco di stronzaggine (passatemi il termine), è forte e molto altro, che non posso e non voglio spiegare.
Sono pagine che dovrete vivere.
Nonostante abbia sconfitto per ben due volte il cancro e deve comunque trovare il coraggio di diventare chi è destinata a essere, come se ciò che ha passato non sia nulla rispetto al fare i conti con la vita che continua. Inoltre, una volta certa dei propri sentimenti, deve fare di tutto per tenersi l’uomo migliore al mondo, per lei, ovvero Ford “Truck” Laughlin.
Ford non ha avuto una vita facile, e come sia potuto diventare il gigante buono che è, mi risulta inspiegabile. Mettiamola così, se devo credere nelle anime gemelle, direi che erano predestinati a stare insieme e a essere il meglio per qualcuno, soprattutto alla luce del loro vissuto.
Truck è generoso, leale, silenzioso e non fa che attrarre gli altri grazie al suo essere profondo, sebbene non sia una persona che si possa definire “aperta” e soprattutto nonostante il suo aspetto fisico che, per i più bigotti, potrebbe rappresentare un limite (parlo della cicatrice).
In questo libro le sfide non sono finite, e sarà una corsa contro il tempo, a volte il nemico sei tu altre, invece, chi non ti aspetti, ma quando “tutto accade” (non chiedetemi di spoilerare) diventa un caos che solo un Delta può gestire, specie se circondato dai suoi amici e dal suo amore.
Penso che sia un romanzo meraviglioso, scritto dal punto di vista dei nostri protagonisti.
L’autrice sviluppa in modo impeccabile la caratterizzazione dei personaggi, tanto da rendere i loro comportamenti attuali veramente comprensibili e sentiti.
È un libro che commuove fin dalle prime pagine, non vi nascondo che ho pianto, e parecchio, tanto da non da non essere sicura di riuscire a proseguire, ma era impossibile non farlo, mi ha catturato e tenuto stretta mentre mangiavo o riposavo. Non ho potuto smettere di leggere, ho dovuto dare un senso a tutto e non ne sono affatto pentita, anzi, semmai sono ancora più convinta che tutti dovreste viverlo.
È un romanzo profondo, costellato da scene d’azione, disastri, e amore… tanto amore. Presenta pochissime scene hot e, onestamente, va bene così, questa volta è il cuore che merita il palcoscenico. Questo libro ti entra veramente sottopelle e mi auguro vivamente che gli dedicherete un po’ del vostro tempo.
P.s. godetevi la playlist inserita dall’autrice nelle ultime pagine, di certo accompagnerà la vostra lettura e renderà questo momento di svago una vera esperienza.
Alla prossima appassionante lettura Fenici
November 5, 2018
This is the book we have been waiting on the whole life of the series. I really wanted things to work out between Mary and Truck and for Mary and Rayne. I liked that both of these issues were dealt with right away and how they were resolved pretty quick. The friendship between Mary and Rayne seemed to be the only constant good relationship Mary had ever had. When the two of them finally talked about what ripped them about I had tears running down my face. I think it helped Rayne put things in the past due to the the drama they were involved in.
As Mary said, karma is a bitch. Just when Mary was going to let Truck know she was going to go all in with their marriage fate stepped in and pulled the rug out from under her. I think this was a good thing, it showed Mary what was important to her and made her fight for Truck. The slow way that they had to talk about things was better than what happened to them before. I really liked that by the end both were finally in the right frame of mind for their HEA.
The epilouge to this one was great! I loved how we got to check in with each couple, to see how things were for them and finally for Mary and Rayne 25 years later.
As Mary said, karma is a bitch. Just when Mary was going to let Truck know she was going to go all in with their marriage fate stepped in and pulled the rug out from under her. I think this was a good thing, it showed Mary what was important to her and made her fight for Truck. The slow way that they had to talk about things was better than what happened to them before. I really liked that by the end both were finally in the right frame of mind for their HEA.
The epilouge to this one was great! I loved how we got to check in with each couple, to see how things were for them and finally for Mary and Rayne 25 years later.
June 7, 2021
Quanto ho aspettato questo libro! Fin dalla prima apparizione di Truck e Mary e la Stoker ha pensato bene di farmi sudare e mettermelo per ultimo.
Per fortuna il libro non ha mi ha deluso, anzi.
La storia bene o male la sapevamo già dai precedenti volumi, con la malattia di Mary e il matrimonio camuffato da copertura assicuratrice, quando invece i sentimenti tra i due erano lampanti, ma il passato di Mary e il suo futuro incerto mettevano tutto a rischio.
E cosa si è inventata l'autrice per stupirci? Fantastico!
Ma l'amore di Truck supera qualsiasi cosa!
La storia scorre via velocemente fino ad arrivare alla mia parte preferita: l'epilogo.
Non uno solo, ma uno per ogni componente dei Delta ambientato in momenti diversi, addirittura anche 25 anni dopo la scena finale del libro.
Non c'è stato un epilogo che non mi abbia convinto! Tutti a loro modo perfetti.
Per me la serie dei Delta era perfetta così, invece l'anno prossimo è in arrivo la storia di Annie e Frankie, già accennata in uno degli epiloghi.
Per fortuna il libro non ha mi ha deluso, anzi.
La storia bene o male la sapevamo già dai precedenti volumi, con la malattia di Mary e il matrimonio camuffato da copertura assicuratrice, quando invece i sentimenti tra i due erano lampanti, ma il passato di Mary e il suo futuro incerto mettevano tutto a rischio.
E cosa si è inventata l'autrice per stupirci? Fantastico!
Ma l'amore di Truck supera qualsiasi cosa!
La storia scorre via velocemente fino ad arrivare alla mia parte preferita: l'epilogo.
Non uno solo, ma uno per ogni componente dei Delta ambientato in momenti diversi, addirittura anche 25 anni dopo la scena finale del libro.
Non c'è stato un epilogo che non mi abbia convinto! Tutti a loro modo perfetti.
Per me la serie dei Delta era perfetta così, invece l'anno prossimo è in arrivo la storia di Annie e Frankie, già accennata in uno degli epiloghi.
May 3, 2021
mary e truck imperdibili!!!!!
noi lettrici fisse della stoker attendevamo la storia di mary e ford "truck" forse fin dal primo libro della serie, perchè al di là delle loro immediate scintille mary è la sua malattia rispecchiano ciò che può accadere ad una donna qualsiasi così come la sua reazione
finalmente però sappiamo di più anche sulla sua vita, difficile, così come su ford che è stato anche bullizzato da ragazzo
il loro riavvicinarsi e ri conoscersi daccapo dopo l'incidente di lui è una lenta progressione che pone questa storia un gradino sopra tutte le altre
intorno a loro la famiglia di tutti i seal della squadra che è presente più legata che mai a conferma che questi uomini che hanno scelto di servire il loro paese sono anche fratelli davvero
ho fatto fatica a lasciarli andare nonostante la bellissima finestra temporale finale sulla loro vita futura
assolutamente impeccabile la traduzione (e volevo pure vedere dopo i disastri precedenti affidati ad altri................)
cinque stelle
noi lettrici fisse della stoker attendevamo la storia di mary e ford "truck" forse fin dal primo libro della serie, perchè al di là delle loro immediate scintille mary è la sua malattia rispecchiano ciò che può accadere ad una donna qualsiasi così come la sua reazione
finalmente però sappiamo di più anche sulla sua vita, difficile, così come su ford che è stato anche bullizzato da ragazzo
il loro riavvicinarsi e ri conoscersi daccapo dopo l'incidente di lui è una lenta progressione che pone questa storia un gradino sopra tutte le altre
intorno a loro la famiglia di tutti i seal della squadra che è presente più legata che mai a conferma che questi uomini che hanno scelto di servire il loro paese sono anche fratelli davvero
ho fatto fatica a lasciarli andare nonostante la bellissima finestra temporale finale sulla loro vita futura
assolutamente impeccabile la traduzione (e volevo pure vedere dopo i disastri precedenti affidati ad altri................)
cinque stelle
October 13, 2018
Thank you for allowing me to get this early at Naughty Nashville ... this book was everything I could imagine and so much more!!! I loved this book and it was worth the wait.
September 15, 2022
They saved the best for last! Though I love each and every team member and their women, I’ve been dying for this story. I’m sad it’s come to an end but I’m so glad to see the how/where/where/why of Mary and Truck’s togetherness.
This story has it all. Fun, serious and tearful moments surrounded by a helluva lot awesomeness in between. Truck has been one of my favorites from the beginning. He’s the big, scary looking Delta but that’s why they say don’t judge a book by its cover. He may look hard on the outside (and he is or can be) but he’s just as much of a teddy bear to the right people.
Tragic events happen in life, it’s never easy and god knows Mary has been through something every woman (and a lot of men) fear. cancer. It sucks the will to stay strong right out of you. Going through it a second time, well that’s just kicking a sick person in the guy while they’re down.
Through out it all Mary had Truck to hep her get through it. So when Truck needs her to return the favor she does. Times get hard, relationships are put to the ultimate test but in the end Mary and Truck can overcome anything as long as they do it together.
I also love how Susan added each couple into the Epilogue (as she did with the seal team books) its always great to see how everyone ends up after a series ends.
This story has it all. Fun, serious and tearful moments surrounded by a helluva lot awesomeness in between. Truck has been one of my favorites from the beginning. He’s the big, scary looking Delta but that’s why they say don’t judge a book by its cover. He may look hard on the outside (and he is or can be) but he’s just as much of a teddy bear to the right people.
Tragic events happen in life, it’s never easy and god knows Mary has been through something every woman (and a lot of men) fear. cancer. It sucks the will to stay strong right out of you. Going through it a second time, well that’s just kicking a sick person in the guy while they’re down.
Through out it all Mary had Truck to hep her get through it. So when Truck needs her to return the favor she does. Times get hard, relationships are put to the ultimate test but in the end Mary and Truck can overcome anything as long as they do it together.
I also love how Susan added each couple into the Epilogue (as she did with the seal team books) its always great to see how everyone ends up after a series ends.
October 23, 2018
I was so lucky to get a copy of Rescuing Mary at a book signing. Excellent book worth 100,000 stars! I can highly, HIGHLY recommend this book (and for that matter all her of books).
February 4, 2019
I couldn't wait for the story of Truck. However, it came with Mary.
September 13, 2019
Anyone that follows my reviews knows by now that I love the Delta Force Heroes series. Sometimes as a series goes on the later books get a bit repetitive or feel like they are being phoned in (for lack of better description). Rescuing Mary didn't let me down. Here we are book 9 and going strong. Although, I am fearful that we are reaching the end of these Delta Force hotties.
I've been interested in exploring Truck and Mary's story since book 1. They've had so much contention between them but you could always feel the sizzle and romantic tension right there on the surface. It's funny how you get something in your head that the story is going to take us in one direction and then it goes somewhere you couldn't even have imagined. That's exactly what Susan Stoker did with these characters. As a cancer survivor myself I was convinced that their story would revolve around trying to create a relationship and rekindle passion while trying to deal with starting life anew post-cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy. Believe me it's a real thing. While Ms. Stoker went there, and did a great job describing the reality of it, a lot of the story focused on Truck and his current struggle instead. I loved it! You gave our heroine the opportunity to feel strong and in control when she felt anything but.
Truck as always was the perfect character. Even when fighting his own battle he remained the man that he's always been. Good to know that the real him was the man I'd fallen for in book 1 no matter what.
I love how Mary is all kinds of badass but vulnerable at the core like the rest of us. When Truck read her diary I wanted to cheer and cry at the same time. I know it's not a good thing for a man to read his woman's diary but we would have missed out on reading in her words how she was dealing with her cancer fight. It was beautiful. Every word of it was beautiful.
I've been interested in exploring Truck and Mary's story since book 1. They've had so much contention between them but you could always feel the sizzle and romantic tension right there on the surface. It's funny how you get something in your head that the story is going to take us in one direction and then it goes somewhere you couldn't even have imagined. That's exactly what Susan Stoker did with these characters. As a cancer survivor myself I was convinced that their story would revolve around trying to create a relationship and rekindle passion while trying to deal with starting life anew post-cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy. Believe me it's a real thing. While Ms. Stoker went there, and did a great job describing the reality of it, a lot of the story focused on Truck and his current struggle instead. I loved it! You gave our heroine the opportunity to feel strong and in control when she felt anything but.
Truck as always was the perfect character. Even when fighting his own battle he remained the man that he's always been. Good to know that the real him was the man I'd fallen for in book 1 no matter what.
I love how Mary is all kinds of badass but vulnerable at the core like the rest of us. When Truck read her diary I wanted to cheer and cry at the same time. I know it's not a good thing for a man to read his woman's diary but we would have missed out on reading in her words how she was dealing with her cancer fight. It was beautiful. Every word of it was beautiful.
March 31, 2022
An end of an era🥲
Rescuing Mary is the conclusion of the Delta Force Heroes series and ends with an hour epilogue which flashes through each of the Delta Force Team and their women and hints at other wonderful up and coming stories😍
The main focus of course is Truck and Mary and their “complicated” relationship. It was also wonderful to see how Susan dealt with all their issues and the curveballs that life threw at them…I’m so excited to finally have finished this series and I’m eager to get started on Macie next❣️
Rescuing Mary is the conclusion of the Delta Force Heroes series and ends with an hour epilogue which flashes through each of the Delta Force Team and their women and hints at other wonderful up and coming stories😍
The main focus of course is Truck and Mary and their “complicated” relationship. It was also wonderful to see how Susan dealt with all their issues and the curveballs that life threw at them…I’m so excited to finally have finished this series and I’m eager to get started on Macie next❣️
October 25, 2018
The much anticipated final book in the Delta Force series, Rescuing Mary was Epic! The journey that Truck and Mary have been on since they first met in Rescuing Rayne was an emotional roller coaster and so awesome. I am blown away by each and every book Susan writes. The sexy, protective loving Alpha men, the strong, giving, loving women they fall for. There is so much I could say but don’t want to spoil the story for anyone. You need this book! And while you’re at it, get started on the other books Susan writes!
Stella Bloom has done an amazing job.
Stella Bloom has done an amazing job.
November 2, 2018
Loved Mary and Truck's story.
Want to read
March 22, 2018I was really intrigued by Mary and Truck in Book One of this series, Rescuing Rayne. Mary is Rayne's best friend and is like a sister to her. I am looking forward to this book.
October 25, 2018
I feel like, I have been waiting for Truck and Mary's story forever.... It was SOOOO worth the wait!!!
July 31, 2021
2.5⭐️
I’m kinda sad and disappointed with this one. I felt like it didn’t do Mary and Truck justice. We didn’t get the passion, angst and fighting that we have seen from them. I feels like we didn’t get the truck we know and love so much. Or even the Mary we know and love (or hate) so much. Mary was so toned down and wasn’t as snarky or bitchy and that’s sad because that was one of the huge reasons truck was drawn to her and we didn’t really get to see her like that. The amnesia felt like a easy and convenient way to get them their love story. but I don’t want easy and convenient . They are a complicated couple and I was hoping to see the fighting and passion and snarky behavior and just truly see the truck and Mary we saw through the series. I was hoping to see a complicated love story that ends in a beautiful HEA. Yes the story does end in an HEA but the story itself just didn’t live up to all the moment we got to see of truck and Mary through the series. It’s sucks because I love truck so much and it felt like his story was a let down and we didn’t get to see the true truck we saw through the the series.
The story was more of Mary and truck restarting their relationship with her being nice. And that’s just not them. At all. I wanted the fighting and passion and frustration we saw between them to come to life in their story but instead we didn’t get that. Yea truck was frustrated but at his health Issues and seeing that everyone was keeping secrets. The passion wasn’t really their. And they didn’t really fight or argue or push each others buttons like they used to, and truck used to love that about Mary and still does but we never really got to see, we only saw a extremely water down version of it. We got to see them restart their relationship completely different then how we watched it unfold through the series. It was a let down. It’s hard to really explain unless you read the series. But this just wasn’t the story we were promised through the series.
We also didn’t really get to see any moments with the team and their girls being friends and shit throughout this book. Normally in the books we gets to see them all hang out and rag on each other or tease each other at some point but we didn’t really get to see the team and girls like that in this book. Yea a few guys were their with truck all the time and a few girls were their for Mary but we didn’t get any of that normal fun or support. It just didn’t feel like it normally did. It felt kinda lonely this book not really seeing everyone like we normally did through the story and we really didn’t get to hear about them either. So that kinda sucked. Like yea they had baby name reveal party but they were mostly focused on truck and the baby name. And idk it just this book missed a lot of great opportunities to give us one last good farewell to these characters as friends and family and just seeing them all happy and together one last time. We just didn’t get that huge family feeling. I hope that made sense.
And at the end of the story we got little peaks into all the other couples years later after the wedding and I’m not sure how I feel about that. Normally I would love to see them in the future but they didn’t feel like a family anymore. They were so wrapped up in their own lives it’s like they weren’t all a really close team of friends and family anymore. And that makes me sad. I wish we would have just got a huge Christmas scene a decade later and they were all celebrating Christmas together or something and we got to see what each couple was up too and how many kids they have etc. I understand that they will have their own family’s and I’m fine with that but it just felt like they weren’t all close to each other anymore and thats the sad part. I’ve spent 9+ books reading about them being such a close group; a family, just to get to all the epilogues and they don’t feel close anymore. It’s sad. I’m sure they are still close and it was mentioned in passing that everyone was their for Annie’s graduation and Jackson’s wedding and Hollywood and Fletch’s kids have a crush on each other and were having a play date but that’s it’s. I wanted another big team moment. I wanted more of that big family moment and feelings we got through the series. I almost wish we didn’t really get all the epilogues. Did we really need to see how many kids everyone had and where they are now. Not really. It might have been better to just use are imagination. Because for some of the couples it felt like the passion was gone between them or that they weren’t that happy. Mainly ghost and Rayne. But still epilogues are supposed to be happy and a great ending. I don’t think the epilogues were necessary. We would have been better off with our imagination.
All in all the story didn’t do Mary and truck justice and really let that feeling of family between all of them all fizzle out. It’s just sad. I was so hopeful and excited for this one. 🙁
I’m kinda sad and disappointed with this one. I felt like it didn’t do Mary and Truck justice. We didn’t get the passion, angst and fighting that we have seen from them. I feels like we didn’t get the truck we know and love so much. Or even the Mary we know and love (or hate) so much. Mary was so toned down and wasn’t as snarky or bitchy and that’s sad because that was one of the huge reasons truck was drawn to her and we didn’t really get to see her like that. The amnesia felt like a easy and convenient way to get them their love story. but I don’t want easy and convenient . They are a complicated couple and I was hoping to see the fighting and passion and snarky behavior and just truly see the truck and Mary we saw through the series. I was hoping to see a complicated love story that ends in a beautiful HEA. Yes the story does end in an HEA but the story itself just didn’t live up to all the moment we got to see of truck and Mary through the series. It’s sucks because I love truck so much and it felt like his story was a let down and we didn’t get to see the true truck we saw through the the series.
The story was more of Mary and truck restarting their relationship with her being nice. And that’s just not them. At all. I wanted the fighting and passion and frustration we saw between them to come to life in their story but instead we didn’t get that. Yea truck was frustrated but at his health Issues and seeing that everyone was keeping secrets. The passion wasn’t really their. And they didn’t really fight or argue or push each others buttons like they used to, and truck used to love that about Mary and still does but we never really got to see, we only saw a extremely water down version of it. We got to see them restart their relationship completely different then how we watched it unfold through the series. It was a let down. It’s hard to really explain unless you read the series. But this just wasn’t the story we were promised through the series.
We also didn’t really get to see any moments with the team and their girls being friends and shit throughout this book. Normally in the books we gets to see them all hang out and rag on each other or tease each other at some point but we didn’t really get to see the team and girls like that in this book. Yea a few guys were their with truck all the time and a few girls were their for Mary but we didn’t get any of that normal fun or support. It just didn’t feel like it normally did. It felt kinda lonely this book not really seeing everyone like we normally did through the story and we really didn’t get to hear about them either. So that kinda sucked. Like yea they had baby name reveal party but they were mostly focused on truck and the baby name. And idk it just this book missed a lot of great opportunities to give us one last good farewell to these characters as friends and family and just seeing them all happy and together one last time. We just didn’t get that huge family feeling. I hope that made sense.
And at the end of the story we got little peaks into all the other couples years later after the wedding and I’m not sure how I feel about that. Normally I would love to see them in the future but they didn’t feel like a family anymore. They were so wrapped up in their own lives it’s like they weren’t all a really close team of friends and family anymore. And that makes me sad. I wish we would have just got a huge Christmas scene a decade later and they were all celebrating Christmas together or something and we got to see what each couple was up too and how many kids they have etc. I understand that they will have their own family’s and I’m fine with that but it just felt like they weren’t all close to each other anymore and thats the sad part. I’ve spent 9+ books reading about them being such a close group; a family, just to get to all the epilogues and they don’t feel close anymore. It’s sad. I’m sure they are still close and it was mentioned in passing that everyone was their for Annie’s graduation and Jackson’s wedding and Hollywood and Fletch’s kids have a crush on each other and were having a play date but that’s it’s. I wanted another big team moment. I wanted more of that big family moment and feelings we got through the series. I almost wish we didn’t really get all the epilogues. Did we really need to see how many kids everyone had and where they are now. Not really. It might have been better to just use are imagination. Because for some of the couples it felt like the passion was gone between them or that they weren’t that happy. Mainly ghost and Rayne. But still epilogues are supposed to be happy and a great ending. I don’t think the epilogues were necessary. We would have been better off with our imagination.
All in all the story didn’t do Mary and truck justice and really let that feeling of family between all of them all fizzle out. It’s just sad. I was so hopeful and excited for this one. 🙁
February 5, 2024
I've been waiting for Truck and Mary's book ever since I read
Rescuing Rayne
and even though I liked this, I was actually a little annoyed honestly.
After the reveal in the last book, Truck made up with the guys (although the fact that him not telling turned everyone into pissed off teenagers annoyed me, especially since Coach and Harley basically did the same thing, they just told everyone earlier) but Mary was still holding out. While she did finally apologize here, there wasn't nearly enough groveling, in my opinion. Especially with how much everyone was going on about how it was killing them not to be together, etc, the fact that Mary basically said "I'm a bitch because it's easier" and Rayne just waved it off felt very cheap. Yeah, Rayne did call her on the fact that she was more angry about Mary not saying anything about her cancer but still.
Truck was great. In the previous books, I've loved how much he clearly cared for Mary and stood by her with everything. I did wish we didn't have to deal with an amnesia plot because there were other ways to write him breaking down Mary's walls, but at the same time I liked that he basically got to know her all over again and nothing changed for him.
Mary pissed me off in the beginning. Again with her not-quite-an-apology at the bank which again, she needed more explanation. But then when Hollywood showed up to tell her what had happened and that the doctors thought it was a good idea to ease Truck into things, rather than agreeing and trying to go slow she just reverted back to "well that's good because I'm a bitch so now he won't know me" and I just wanted to throttle her. Luckily she didn't have that attitude for too long but it kept creeping up and I just wanted someone to actually smack her. Rayne called her on her crap a couple times which helped but why Mary just reverted back to "well mama was right so why should I care?" just annoyed me.
The epilogue was 50 pages too long. I get what Susan Stoker thought she was trying to do but either write novellas or just give us one big event. I don't need vignettes telling me everyone's kids are all grown up and how each of the couple's didn't think they'd be good parents or they decided not to have kids because of health issues or whatever. I mean, again, I get what she was doing, but I don't know, something about this just rubbed me wrong.
After the reveal in the last book, Truck made up with the guys (although the fact that him not telling turned everyone into pissed off teenagers annoyed me, especially since Coach and Harley basically did the same thing, they just told everyone earlier) but Mary was still holding out. While she did finally apologize here, there wasn't nearly enough groveling, in my opinion. Especially with how much everyone was going on about how it was killing them not to be together, etc, the fact that Mary basically said "I'm a bitch because it's easier" and Rayne just waved it off felt very cheap. Yeah, Rayne did call her on the fact that she was more angry about Mary not saying anything about her cancer but still.
Truck was great. In the previous books, I've loved how much he clearly cared for Mary and stood by her with everything. I did wish we didn't have to deal with an amnesia plot because there were other ways to write him breaking down Mary's walls, but at the same time I liked that he basically got to know her all over again and nothing changed for him.
Mary pissed me off in the beginning. Again with her not-quite-an-apology at the bank which again, she needed more explanation. But then when Hollywood showed up to tell her what had happened and that the doctors thought it was a good idea to ease Truck into things, rather than agreeing and trying to go slow she just reverted back to "well that's good because I'm a bitch so now he won't know me" and I just wanted to throttle her. Luckily she didn't have that attitude for too long but it kept creeping up and I just wanted someone to actually smack her. Rayne called her on her crap a couple times which helped but why Mary just reverted back to "well mama was right so why should I care?" just annoyed me.
The epilogue was 50 pages too long. I get what Susan Stoker thought she was trying to do but either write novellas or just give us one big event. I don't need vignettes telling me everyone's kids are all grown up and how each of the couple's didn't think they'd be good parents or they decided not to have kids because of health issues or whatever. I mean, again, I get what she was doing, but I don't know, something about this just rubbed me wrong.
November 3, 2018
I've loved the whole series but for me, this one wasn't the best one to end on. Mary's health issues were handled sensitively and I'm sure reflected what a lot of women go through. And I've loved Truck throughout the series but I just felt that Mary was the wrong woman for him. After EVERYTHING he had done for her, she still couldn't tell him how she felt about him??? For the type of character she was portrayed as being, I wanted to yell and tell her to suck it up and tell the man. He deserved that much. It was portrayed as the 'confusion' between him asking her to marry him for love but giving her the impression that it was because of accessing his health insurance. What a load of crock! All the way through he kept saying that he didn't need Mary to tell him how she felt because her actions told him; well his actions more than told her how he felt about her. Even after his 2 bouts of head trauma and almost being blown up she still couldn't say it to him - sorry that's cowardly in my book.
I kind of liked the round up at the end of all their lives but I found myself wondering things like 'so did Mary go for the reconstructive surgery that was talked about so much throughout the book, did she finally decide what career she did want etc.?
Sorry but it just fell flat for me.
I'm interested in hearing about Annie's story though and about the other delta team.
I kind of liked the round up at the end of all their lives but I found myself wondering things like 'so did Mary go for the reconstructive surgery that was talked about so much throughout the book, did she finally decide what career she did want etc.?
Sorry but it just fell flat for me.
I'm interested in hearing about Annie's story though and about the other delta team.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 2, 2018
AN AMAZING, EMOTIONAL, STUNNING AND MOST EPIC ROMANCE STORY YET FROM SUSAN STOKER! I have been waiting for this book for a LOOOONG TIME now and WOW...I wasn't in the LEAST bit disappointed. It was INCREDIBLE and had my emotions all over the place and finally getting to know why Mary is the way she is brought tears to my eyes. And Truck...OMG BEST. HERO. EVER. I SWOONED with this book SO HARD. I can't wait to read this whole series AGAIN from the very beginning. You seriously do NOT want to miss this book!
May 21, 2020
J'ai adoré l'alchimie entre Mary et Truck. Comprendre comment ils ont soufferts durant leurs enfances, les difficultés qu'ils traversent et connaître l'évolution de chaque membre de l'équipe, un plaisir.... une amitié incroyable entre tous.
Hâte de découvrir, de dévorer l'histoire de la sœur de Truck et du Commandant, ainsi que la nouvelle équipe Trigger et Cie.
Hâte de découvrir, de dévorer l'histoire de la sœur de Truck et du Commandant, ainsi que la nouvelle équipe Trigger et Cie.
September 16, 2024
I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Always love a big, scarred hero with a heart of gold and a protective streak as big as he is.
The series epilogue went on much too long for me. But Truck & Mary's story itself? I loved it!!
The series epilogue went on much too long for me. But Truck & Mary's story itself? I loved it!!
February 22, 2021
4.5 Stars!
Enjoyed this book and the epilogue.
Enjoyed this book and the epilogue.
October 24, 2018
This is going to be such a hard review to leave. Mainly because there is so much in this story and I don't wanna give anything away.
This is Delta Force Heroes #9, Truck and Mary's story. Truck has been my BH since Rescuing Rayne. I was so worried about what Susan Stoker would do with this story. Would she do my most favorite character justice? Would that "woman" (Mary) be deserving of such a great man?
Well, Susan Stoker blew this story out of the water!!
There was so much of everything in this book: friendship, killer boobies, marriage,bombs, injury, love, parties, futuristic epilogues of all of the characters (like in the final Seals of Protection book), and meeting the next Delta Team! (I've already "claimed" my new BH ~ Bwahahahahaha).
This book comes with feels, laughs, oh no she didn'ts, and every single thing inbewteen.
So...
Will Mary finally be deserving of Truck and his unconditional love?
Do they make it past whatever Susan Stoker has come up with to test them? (WOW! It's a doozy too) he he he
Do they ever get that Quadruple wedding from book 8?? What does that even look like?
Does Annie finally get her baby brother?? or does she have to put up with a freaking, boring sister??
This is Delta Force Heroes #9, Truck and Mary's story. Truck has been my BH since Rescuing Rayne. I was so worried about what Susan Stoker would do with this story. Would she do my most favorite character justice? Would that "woman" (Mary) be deserving of such a great man?
Well, Susan Stoker blew this story out of the water!!
There was so much of everything in this book: friendship, killer boobies, marriage,bombs, injury, love, parties, futuristic epilogues of all of the characters (like in the final Seals of Protection book), and meeting the next Delta Team! (I've already "claimed" my new BH ~ Bwahahahahaha).
This book comes with feels, laughs, oh no she didn'ts, and every single thing inbewteen.
So...
Will Mary finally be deserving of Truck and his unconditional love?
Do they make it past whatever Susan Stoker has come up with to test them? (WOW! It's a doozy too) he he he
Do they ever get that Quadruple wedding from book 8?? What does that even look like?
Does Annie finally get her baby brother?? or does she have to put up with a freaking, boring sister??
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