Review: Off Base

Off Base by Annabeth Albert
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I was hoping for some hot romance story with this one, but it turned out neither particularly hot nor all that romantic. So, about "hot": the sex scenes are too few and far apart and are mostly left to imagination. Nothing special is described, I couldn't even imagine the heroes all that well beyond one being huge and muscled and the other one - not so much. As for the romance, the whole thing took less than a semester and Pike got very tired of Zack being closeted like in two months. Yeah, I can totally see that, two months can really try someone's patience. Anyway, I can't imagine real people acting anywhere like this, but for more abstract romance this book is a little too domestic. The turn I especially didn't like was the rethinking of attitudes in the hospital. That's a very old move I'm tired of. Do authors really need to "almost kill" their heroes to make them change? Is it the only way?

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