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Cowboy SEAL Christmas Navy SEAL Cowboys Nicole Helm 9781492641599 Books Reviews

I was really looking forward to this third novel in Nicole Helm's Navy SEAL Cowboys series, especially since I read, reviewed and gave the first and second novels in the series 4.5 and 5 star ratings, respectively, but, while I couldn't put it down until I finished reading it at 430 a.m. today, I felt that it was my least favorite novel in the series for a couple of reasons, and while it's as well-written and emotional as the previous novels, I can only give it 3.5 stars.

If this is your first read in the series, I'd recommend reading the previous novels in the order in which they were written, all are set at Revival Ranch, where veterans dealing with PTSD and other service-related psychological issues can see a licensed therapist (the heroine, Monica Finley) and receive counseling and equine therapy. The ranch has still not accepted its first two veteran clients, but it's getting close. The cast of characters isn't overwhelming, comprising the two couples featured in the first and second novels, Becca and Alex, Rose and Jack, Gabe Cortez (the hero in this novel), and Monica and her ten-year-old son, Colin, you should be able to read this book as a standalone without a problem.

It's getting close to Christmas time at Revival Ranch, and there's a wedding being planned for Becca and Alex, and Rose and Jack are getting ready for the birth of their first child. The only two adults not already paired off are Gabe Cortez and Monica, and this is their story. Gabe was a tough character to like because the emotional walls he put up between himself and the others were so high and strong as to be impenetrable. He can relate to his fellow SEALs on the surface, since they all were wounded, damaged in the same explosion which ended their military careers, but Gabe believes that he's not like his brothers in arms. He fakes having PTSD , but he has issues that began in childhood, issues he's never told anyone, and he's nursing a fierce dislike of "shrinks," and avoiding all of Monica's attempts to understand and help him--hiding behind a insincere smile and jokes that's as transparent as it is annoying.

Monica, was widowed at age 20, when her husband was killed in a helicopter accident, leaving her to raise their infant son, Colin, alone. She's certainly attracted to Gabe, and wants to help him, but all her efforts are met with distrust, a cold shoulder, anger and a smirking smile. To say that he was a hard character to like is putting it mildly. It was hard for this reader to understand Monica's attraction to the big, surly hunk beyond her wanting to help him deal with his issues, yet pursue him and challenge him she does, in spades. It's the why of it that escaped me.

These two characters finally get together after Colin demands that Gabe ask his mom to dance at Becca and Alex's wedding. A duty he grudgingly performs, and then walks away, leaving her standing alone on the dance floor wondering what happened. It was really difficult to get past his rude behavior, but apparently Monica is not so easily put off by it, and things come to a head when they are snowed in at Monica's cabin. Becca and Alex are enjoying a stay-at-home honeymoon, and Colin is in Denver spending the week with Monica's parents. Alone at last, right? It's clear that Monica is willing to risk herself by agreeing to, and even formulating a friends with benefits until Christmas deal with Gabe. It's the first of several deals these two make, but Monica is hoping that in addition to scratching an itch she's developed since she was widowed 10 years ago, that sex with Gabe might help her get into his head and peel back his defenses to the man she senses underneath his insincere smiles and joking ways.

To say that each of these two characters get more than they bargained for while snowed in together, as well as less than they bargained for, is putting it mildly. I really liked Monica as a character, whose life hadn't been a bed of roses. She's the daughter of a difficult and hard to please father with PTSD, she was widowed at such a young age, and raising her son alone. Through it all, she managed to care deeply about helping others with PTSD, did a good job of raising her son, and managed to care for others and put their needs ahead of her own. I understood her physical attraction to Gabe, after all, what woman wouldn't be attracted to a big, handsome, Navy SEAL, but I simply had a hard time understanding her emotional attraction to him because of his often rude remarks, inability to communicate, and his abject avoidance of even something so little as a decent, rational, innocent conversation with her. My issues with Gabe and his behavior really hampered my ability to sympathize with his inner struggles, or even understand why Monica kept pursuing him.

Yes, there's plenty of angst and emotional drama to go around in this novel, but very little forward momentum, beyond each characters' internal dialogue, which became rather repetitive. Yes, I more than understood Gabe's issues once they were revealed, having a tough and bitter relationship with a stepparent and parental betrayal in my own life, but since I managed to rise above it and find happiness, I had a tough time understanding why Gabe couldn't do the same. And yes, there's the HEA ending romance readers expect, set against a snowy Christmas background, but the bottom line for me was that it's hard to love a novel when you don't think much of its hero.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.
Book Info
Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages
Expected publication September 4th 2018 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
Original Title Cowboy SEAL Christmas
ISBN 1492641596 (ISBN13 9781492641599)
Edition Language English
Series Navy SEAL Cowboys #3
Other Editions (1)
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BOOK BLURB

Three former Navy SEALs
Injured in the line of duty
Desperate for a new beginning...
Searching for a place to call their own.

Single mom and Revival Ranch's on-site therapist Monica Finley has dedicated her life to helping brave servicemen and women, but former Navy SEAL Gabe Cortez is the one man whose shell she just can't crack. Yet with the holidays fast approaching, she may finally have a plan. In a bid to get Gabe to open up, she'll ask for as much help as possible―cutting down the Christmas tree, stringing lights, the whole nine yards.

Who could possibly be a Grinch with so much holiday cheer in the air?

Gabe has always hated Christmas―the holiday never fails to remind him just how alone he truly is. But the more time he spends with Monica and her young son, the more he finds himself drawn to their cozy little family...and the more he begins to realize his long-suppressed Christmas dreams may finally be coming true.

My Thoughts

Returning back to the Revival Ranch and dead of winter in Montana was exhilarating as it is so hot in Central Texas these days reading about somewhere with snow/blizzard conditions was a relief for a day at least.

Plus it always feels like returning to visit old friends when I crack up over the rooster/goat combo that are still featured characters in this 3rd story in the series, along with the newest member of the animal kind at the end.

Prior to this readers had the chance to fall in love with former Navy Seals Alex and Jack. This time Gabe takes a turn and the story is one that will be sure to win points for him as he at long last gets the chance to heal just like his 2 friends have done before him.

Gabe Cortez never talked to anyone about his family. Gabe never wanted them to know that his external scars were no match for the internal ones he carried long before he became a Navy Seal.

Monica Farley is a single mother whose life is dedicated to helping others heal. This time around the person in question does not feel like he needs, nor does he want, her help.

When circumstances force these two people from different walks of life to spend time alone together both their walls come down. Trouble is will it be enough to give Gabe the incentive to see he needs her or will Monica lose him forever.

This one is just as heartwarming as the first two books before it and a little boy named Colin may just have the best Christmas of his life if together his mother Monica, along with Gabe can make it happen.

I loved Jack's story in book 2 and now Gabe's story was enjoyed just as much or more.

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Love the book! Will bring tears to your eyes! It talks about the Veterans n the promblems they have ajusting to be home n PTSD!!
This was a great book. This is my first time reading this author! I can't wait to read more her.