Name: True Valor
ISBN: 9781414310633

Dee Henderson

Exchanging love letters with Navy pilot Grace Yates before her plane goes missing, Air Force pararescueman Bruce Stanton finds his efforts in a NATO conflict particularly challenging when he is assigned to the rescue mission.

True Valor

Jeni Enjaian

*Update* I was not as generous this time reading through. Everything I mentioned in the previous review still holds true and felt exaggerated this time. This book did not survive round two of the purge from my personal collection.

I tried really hard to like this book as much as the first in the series but I just didn't. There's too much in this book that is disjointed, unconnected and without driving force. Rather than saying that there's anything wrong with this book, I'll say that there wasn't anything right. I never really connected with Bruce or Grace. The relationships between Bruce, Jill, Wolf and Grace, while explained briefly seemed to hint at a backstory not given in this book. The plot meandered through several months (maybe a year?) of the character's lives without having any really antagonist or driving purpose. That's the part that bothered me the most. I like my books to have a climax (at least the fiction ones). Without a proper climax (including a build-up to that climax and a denouement) the book flops around like an invertebrate. Thankfully the rest of Ms. Henderson's books don't suffer from this particular problem. It has enough to recommend it to keep it in my library but it's not one that will get another read through (probably).