Status Updates From Seducing the Marine

Selfish. That's all she is.

Olivia thought about the consequences of letting him return to Afghanistan.

- What do you mean, letting him go back to Afghanistan? Last time I checked he was a grown-ass man. You and his sister are getting on my nerves.

"Promise me you won't fall in love with me. If we let that happen, this will be a disaster. The only way it will work is if we keep it just two adults enjoying a brief but passionate affair.

- You're a complete moron if you think people can promise not to fall in love. o.O

Somehow, it seemed right. She'd been the cause of all his darkness, hadn't she? And now she'd be the one to fix him.

1.) You're not the 'cause of all his darkness.' He has PTSD from the war.
2.) I am against this idea that you are going to have sex with this man and hope it "fixes" him. That's not how sex - or PTSD - works.

She'd made a vow to help him, and now she had to make a choice. If growing closer, more intimate, was what he needed, was she really prepared to refuse him? Especially when she didn't want to? All of the resolve she'd managed to gather was slowly seeping from her body.

- Okay. You are going to start a sexual relationship with a man in some kind of misguided attempt to heal him? Sexual healing? Come on.

He just broke into her car. o.O

That kiss could've been a lot better.

His dad had always said he'd never felt more alive than when he'd faced death as a soldier. He'd told Will that every man needed to experience those deeply held fears before he could gain perspective on the rest of his life. Strange how it was the exact opposite for Will. He'd learned to feed on his fear, to use it like a drug to numb his body and his mind. He didn't feel alive. He was dead inside.

Okay, the only other Hoffman book I've read: MIGHTY QUINNS RYAN was complete shit. So let's see if she can do any better.