Continuing the story!

An Officer and a Gentleman's Daughter by Douglas Day Stewart  

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So I wanted to love this but it really stretched my sympathy. Mind you I’m not sure what my expectations were but this was not it. Zack Mayo and his daughter Shannon have had a yawning void between them for years.

Eons ago Zack, hero fighter pilot, was asked by the President to resume his role with his fighter squadron in the Middle East, leaving his daughter mourning the death of her mother, floundering with her own and her father’s substance abuse. This just doesn’t cut it. Neither does referring to her father as royalty. Nope I’m not buying it.

That’s the background. Fast forward a few years and that daughter is accepted into Officer Candidate School like her dad before her. Shannon is an overachiever on steroids (figure of speech!) All to buy her father’s approval and bolster her own feeling of self worth. The angst and emotions are palpable but I just felt deliberately squeezed. This wasn’t for me. Too smaltzy!

Still if you loved the movie and want more action this might just be your type of read.

A Blackstone ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.