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Everyday, Average Jones (Tall, Dark and Dangerous)

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Harlan "Cowboy" Jones, a Navy SEAL, not only saved her from a probable fate-worse-than-death but showed her the flip side. They spent a marvelous leave together after the rescue and Melody has quite a souvenir to show for it. But there's no point in regrets, even if she had any. Until Cowboy calls and wants to see her again. But she's seven months pregnant! And he doesn't know anything about it, and Melody has decided she'd be better off with an everyday, average guy who comes home every night instead of going off to save the world. So she tells Cowboy that she meant what she said when they parted: it's better to make a clean break. She didn't count on one thing: Navy SEALs never give up. There are a lot of romances that feature SEALs, but this one rings true. At one or two points I could just shake the adamant Miss Evans, but she finally wises up. The secondary characters are neat...The next book is going to be Harvard's Education and I am waiting in line. Impatiantly!

What I love about Suzanne's books are her smart, original characters--both men and women. However, in "Jones," the conflict and the heroine were just too unbelievable. Melody starts out interesting--smart enough to successfully pose as a man and worldly enough to know the true danger she's in. Then she devolves into a one-track woman: "I can't marry you, Harlan, even though you are a superman who risked your life to save me and the sex with you is fabulous. It's true that I am having your baby, but I don't really KNOW you. You're not an ordinary, boring man that, for some crazy reason, I want." Even the love scenes are boring, just a few sentence flashbacks. Harlan is determined to marry Melody, although I personally would have said, "Okay, you refuse to marry me. You're right--you're too boring for me." And another thing. . . the town seems shocked, shocked at Melody's out of wedlock pregnancy. Huh? Do they live in the l950's? In short, I bet Suzanne was bored by this herself when she wrote it, or, as I suspect, she wrote it quite a while ago. The woman has surpassed this level of writing a long time ago. Don't buy "Jones"--wait with me, for a her new book, coming out March 30th.

I enjoyed this tale of a Navy Seal and the hostage he rescued but found it lacking in depth and intensity.

The storyline itself was engaging...Cowboy enters an embassy under attack by rebel forces to rescue 3 hostages and falls in love with Melody, the hostage he is assigned to. The first part of the book flies by as they evade enemy forces and escape. From there on, things slow down a little bit as Cowboy and Melody deal with her pregnancy and Cowboy tries to convince her to marry him. It ends rather nicely, but the book left me wanting more... I felt like the characters were never really fully developed.

"Cowboy" Harlan Jones is a great character... he's smart, dedicated and has a quirky sense of humor that makes him endearing. Melody, however, seems too one-dimensional. I wish Suzanne Brockmann would have spent more time on her character. "Harvard", Cowboy's partner, was actually the most interesting character in the book. I'm looking forward to reading his story.

Having said all that, my primary purpose for reading is to be entertained and enjoy a little escapism. This book definitely provided that for me and I enjoyed reading it.

All her life Melody Evans has wanted to marry a plain, average man who didn't take risks. But when the foreign embassy where she works (her first real adventure) as an aide is taken over by terrorists and she's rescued by a daring navy SEAL, Melody blames the extreme circumstances for their ensuing passion. But, Harlan "Cowboy" not ordinary and their encounter leaves Melody with a little more than just memories. But, she thinks it will cramp his style and doesn't even tell him he is to be a father.

Seven months later when Cowboy pays Melody a visit (he can't get her out of his mind, or appears heart), he's surprised to find her pregnant, and with his child too boot. Now all he has to do is convince her that they are meant to be married but, to do that he will have to show he can be as ordinary as the next guy. Things seem to be going well until they walk in to the middle of a hold up and his instincts take over. The book focuses on how Harlan goes about trying to make her see they are supposed to be together.

This was a bit of a different Seal Team book for Brockmann, this one spent most of it's time in a quiet suburbia neighborhood. I thought it was a nice change of location and thoroughly enjoyed to book!

This book was a great break from reality. There are so many good parts to this book. The story as a whole is so romantic. The SEALS Alpha team also brings something into the book. I love to just sit down and re-read it over again and over again. I can't wait to get my hands on the others in the series of TD&D.

Everyday Average Jones is the 3rd installment in the S. Brockmann Tall, Dark and Dangerous series.
Harlan "Cowboy" Jones is a Navy SEAL. He belongs to the Alpha Squad and is one of the bests in his field.
He is sent into a mission in the Middle East where he and the Alpha Squad must rescue 3 hostages from the American Embassy. Cowboy is struck by the image of the picture of one of the hostages, Melody.
Alpha Squan enters the embassy and rescue the 3 hostages, but they all must split because part of the mission went awry and if they stick together they will get caught.
Melody finds herself in the company of Cowboy and they soon bothe develop a tremendous bond that comes from a hostage-rescuer relationship... and from something more. She comes to trust him with her life completely until they are both out of danger and she is safely tucked in her hotel bed. But once in the hotel they both know they can act upon their feelings, and so they do, spending almost an entire week together, before he is sent somewhere else. But not before Melody makes clear that she wishes nothing more from their affair that what they enjoyed during 6 days, so she breks it off (she has a more deep reason and a valid one I must admit).
7 months later Cowboy is in Virginia and as close to Melody as he could be (she lives in Boston), so he pays her a visit since he hasnt been able to forget her in those 7 months. Thats when he finds out Melody is pregnat... with his child. He wants to give the child his name and marry Mel so he can right her, but she plain and simple refuses. She feels she can not trust him with her heart and knows that the only reason he wants to marry her is because of the baby.
I found this story was sweet and cute, but it was not much compared to the 1st 2 installments of the series. Brockmann seems to want to fill in the blanks of the story with secondary plots and characters that could be so well developed, but they aren't. Cowboy's specialty was supposedly Psychology (all Alpha Squad members have a specialty) but Brockmann did not explored it at all. She mentions it but leaves the rest blank, it seemd to me that she did not do as much research in the psychology field as she did in the SEAL field. I didnt like that because in all honesty, it made Cowboy seem not knowledgeable at all about this particular field. However Brockmann has so much information on the SEAL's that she seems to put all she knows (repetitively) about them and their trainning throughout the book and even in places it doesn't seem to fit.
Overall it is somewhat entertainning, but it was a dissapointment for me since I was expecting so much more. For me it was longer that it should have been, and certain things are not well covered. However we get to see a more active role of Harvard in this book and we get to know and like him (I beleive the next installment in his story).
I would recomend this book, however, but I would not run to get it. It was fun and sweet, but it was nothign from another world.

First Joe Cat, Blue, then Frisco, and now Cowboy. These guys are great and the women they fall in love with are equal to the task to love them.

This was a fun light read from start to finish. Cowboy and his team are on a resuce mission. One of the people they rescue is Melody. Melody puts her life literally in Cowboy's hands. What they both can't explain nor expected was the instant attraction they both felt. After the rescue is complete these to act on their mutal attraction neither realizing that this is not the end but the beginning for both of them.

The character's were great and although at times Melody did get on my nerve's with her reluctance to even take the time to get to know Cowboy (one of her reason's for not marrying him was because she did not "know" him outside of the bedroom) eventually these two people come to an understanding not only about themselves but their individual place in the world. Sounds cheesey I know but still that's how it turned out. The whole team is present in this book so you get to visit with old friends as well getting to know other secondary characters. This is a fast paced read I;n sure you'll enjoy!

Melody Evans is trapped with two fellow Americans at an embassy in an unnamed middle eastern country after a terrorist coup. Navy SEALS are sent in to rescue them, and she is taken into custody by charismatic Harlan "Cowboy" Jones. After a tense two days trying to reach the border to safety, the two hook up in her hotel room and spend the next six days in bed. When she returns to the US, she soon discovers she has a party favor from her rescuer, but decides not to tell him because she doesn't want to tie him down. Besides, she's looking for an average Joe, who has a safe and boring job like an accountant.

When Jones gets reassigned to the east coast, the first thing he does is contact Melody at her home near Boston. She brushes him off citing that they just had a fling. Not one to take no for an answer, Jones rushes up to Boston and is shocked to discover that she is bursting with child. She insists that she doesn't want him to feel obligated to have a role in the child's life, but he's insistent that the kid get a name.

Brockmann's fourth Tall, Dark & Dangerous SEAL story is kind of a let down after the first three that were so interesting. Let the blame fall on a couple lacking chemistry. As a reader, I never got a sense that either was anything more than a bed partner (and we get cheated out of those scenes). Considering the rest of the SEAL 10 squad, this one is below average. About the only part of the storyline I found interesting is the relationship between Mel's sister Brittany and the juveline delinquent she adopts. Their story is further fleshed out in "Night Watch," which picks up about 5 years later.

Suzanne Brockmann is one of the strongest writers in categoy romance. This original story is well paced, filled with sensual tension, and, most imrpotantly, to me, has a heo and a heroine that you care about, worry about, and root for. Their internal conflicts are so beautifully and clearly developed that you are pulled along with them throughout their somewhat stormy relationship. You'll be hooked! I'm gonna be reading a lot more of this author's work!!

Harlan "Cowboy" Jones is the 4th SEAL to get his story told in Suzanne Brockmann's Tall Dark and Dangerous series. And while as a whole I am loving these well written, addictive stories and their delicious alpha male heroes this one was a letdown. It starts out with a ton of potential; exciting action, suspense, a decent heroine and a larger then life Navy SEAL hero coming to her rescue. Unfortunately Brockmann then pulls out the secret baby card and for the last 3/4's of the book I couldn't stand the heroine, lack of storyline or the ongoing (and going) conflict between them. Luckily we get some great supporting characters and lots of interaction with the rest of Alpha Team 10 to carry us through.

When the American embassy Melody Evans is working in is overtaken by terrorists it doesn't take long for the Navy SEALs to come to their rescue however it does take them 2 days to reach the Middle Eastern border and a flight to freedom. During those tense few days Melody comes to trust her daring and charismatic rescuer with her life. Blaming the extreme circumstances on the ensuing week of passion they share together in Paris. However Melody doesn't want a relationship with a hero who risks his life on a daily basis and is never home, she plans on settling down with an everyday, average man. So when Jones gets called back to duty she thanks him for the laughs and breaks things off.

And this is when things fell apart; 7 months later Jones gets reassigned to the east coast and because he hasn't been able to forget about Melody he looks her up. Shocked to discover that she's pregnant but being an honourable guy Cowboy Jones dons his dress whites and asks her to marry him. The only thing is she doesn't want him, in fact she's got everything worked out so that she doesn't need him either and no amount of coercion on his part will change her mind. This storyline goes on and on with Melody not giving an inch and Jones setting up a tent in her backyard then doing normal suburban type things in the hopes that she will at least put his name on the birth certificate. He's kind of like a dog waiting to be thrown a bone and this got old, fast.

One interesting thing about this story is that (except for one) all of the love scenes are spoken of or thought about in past tense. Now I usually like to be in on the action but this really worked here and I found the memories and sexual tension to be just as sexy as if it were taking place. I just don't know what happened to our heroine because she became very unlikable. Even at the very end I didn't ever and get the feeling that this couple loved each other, I just felt that Jones was going to be in for a lifetime of supplication and diaper changing.

So, my least favourite from the series so far, but still a worthwhile quickie romance and I should mention that the entire TD&D series is in the process of being re-released (with fancy new covers) and this one can be found in TALL DARK AND FEARLESS along with the excellent tortured hero in FRISCO`S KID.