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(More customer reviews)Well, I'd actually give it 4 and a half stars, but that isn't possible.
The book is about twenty year old Bekah Martin, whose fiance, David McLaughlin, died in a fire the year before. She did, however, agree to marry his twin brother, Ian McLaughlin. When she returns to Hawaii, she meets Scott DeAngelo, ensign, of the US Navy, while onboard the ship. The two have somewhat of a "shipboard romance", though she feels that she's being disloyal to Ian. He, meanwhile, thinks that she's afraid to love... which is true. Purgatory, he calls her way of life.
They meet a few times after getting off to Hawaii, and Scott still persists to "capture her heart", so to speak. She still remains loyal to Ian. Ian, hoever, doesn't love her... only in a brother/sister way, as does she, so the two eventually break off the engagement. Scott proposes, but she tells him she has to think...
On December 7th, she finds herself onboard the Nevada, asleep after tending to Scott's friend Jimmy. The attack on Pearl Harbor begins, and she's stuck in the middle of it. During the attack, Scott is suddenly on fire, and Bekah painfully reminices how David had also been engulfed in flames.
Being a nurse, she finds several wounded, but she can't do much to help, and is brought back to the hospital.
I can't tell the ending... It would ruin the story. But she sees Scott again, and isn't afraid to love him any longer, even if her worst fear is coming true: He's dying.
The one thing wrong with this was that they jumped into romance a little too quickly. It would have been better had they fallen for each other later... instead of at second or third sight (in a matter of two or three meetings; two days). Still, it WAS an excellent story, and the scenes were painted quite vividly. Especially on the Nevada, when she encounters many men that were killed.
The end, at the Pearl Harbor attack, was probably the most well written. If not for the romance, or the characters, read it for the end, which would give a clear and, almost, scary idea of what was happening during the attack.
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