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Forget Me Not (Navy SEALs, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Marliss Melton
Publisher: Forever
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0446614823
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780446614825
ASIN: 0446614823
Publication Date: December 1, 2004
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Description: Gabe Renault doesn t know why he was in a prison camp. He has no memory of the past three years or of the Navy SEAL mission that went wrong. Only two things kept him going: thoughts of his wife and the certainty that he must escape. After Gabe is presumed dead, Helen Renault pulls the tattered pieces of her and her daughter s lives back together. Married young and for all the wrong reasons, she s standing on her own two feet at last and proud of it. Then comes the biggest shock of all Gabe returns home. Gone is the distant, secretive husband he once was. This new Gabe is a man she could easily finally lose her heart to. But his memory is slowly returning, exposing a trail of government treachery and jeopardizing his and Helen s second chance at love.
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 Eh, it's OK September 1, 2008
Cherise Everhard (Michigan, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Navy Seal, Gabe Renault, wouldn't let anyone stand in the way of his success in the military, including his wife and step daughter. Determined to let nothing disturb his concentration and his career he distances himself both emotionally and physically from the both of them. Then one operation goes bad and suddenly he is held hostage with nothing but time on his hands and all he can think about is getting back and making amends.
The world thinks Gabe is dead and the news is met with both relief and shock by his wife, Helen. She can finally get on with her life and stop loving a man who does all he can to put up walls between them. But a shocker comes just as she is getting used to her new life, Gabe is alive and on his way home to her.
The past 3 years are a blur, Gabe can't remember his wife, stepdaughter or the mission that went wrong and he feels like someone is determined to keep it that way.
After so many rave reviews about this book, I have to say... I don't get it. It's not a bad book, by any means; it's just not the greatest, either. I don't know if I was in a mood or what but I had been reading this book for what seemed like forever, when actually it was a little over a week, simply because it seemed to drag on and on. I could not get into it, therefore I found myself setting it down, a lot. By page 200 and something I still felt like nothing really happened and we were covering the same ground. The back and forth between the hero and heroine wore a little thin and I felt I never got to like either one of them.
I am told by others who weren't that crazy about this one that the series gets better, so maybe I will give it another shot with book two. I am interested in some of the side characters, particularly the one featured in the next book, so I am hoping that will add to the enjoyment. But for right now I am going to take a break and read something else.
Cherise Everhard September 2008
 Editing + Character personalities in need of immidiate "Search & Rescue" May 7, 2008
V. Knurenko
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this book, I like military romances and the idea seemed interesting.
I must admit that the actual execution of this book falls short in Many areas. The story is about a navy SEAL who lost the memory of the past 3 years, forgetting his wife and step daughter after spending a year in captivity.
First of all, I believe that it could be one third shorter, with proper editing. I have encountered pages upon pages of repetitive paragraphs, telling us the exact same thing, with slightly different adjectives.
The Characters are not very well developed. Gabe - The main hero, comes across as an uninteresting generic hero blob. He wants to be a WARRIOR again but thee doesn't seem to be any genuine feeling behind any of his words. In her haste to convey the aughts that he is supposed to be suffering the author forgot to include any endearing or interesting characteristics for her hero. Helen, the wife has remained for me as a flat as a pancake throughout the story. She is supposed to be regaining her independence from Gabe as well as her overbearing father, however, other than being told these things out front, we see no traces of this in her conduct through the book.
Mallory - 13year old daughter of Helen and an unnamed men, has been written into the story only to showcase the hero as a loving and doting parent. Even though Helen and Mallory supposedly only had each other for the first ten years of Mallory's life, there are no interactions between them in the book which could attest to such a bond. Mallory is supposedly thrilled to see her new dad, which had, according to the author, ignored her for the course of 2 years, and had been absent completely during the third.
Even given the fact that this book is ultimately a Romance novel, there was no need for this character if the author wasn't going to put the time into developing the intricate - teenager/mom relationships, even a little.
For example, after Mallory runs off, Gabe is the one very worried and concerned about her, while Helen apathetically tells him that Malory is probably hanging around somewhere. Gabe comes off as concerned, while Helen comes off as neglectful.
The characters are almost identical when it comes to patterns of speech and behaviour, other that the character of Master Chief Sebastian, who ads the occasional Spanish word or phrase, which is not nearly sufficient enough to make a charter different or interesting.
In addition, the bad guys a really bad, even comically so. They think evil and do evil, cowardly and treacherous to the bone. Supposedly being former SEALs themselves, there is nothing interesting or humane about them. The antiheroes need to be as interesting as the Hero, or at least make the reader intrigued in some way. Otherwise we don't care if they get beaten or not, and frankly, by the end of this book I cared for none of the characters, good or bad.
The only character I really felt for had been the dog Priscilla.
In conclusion, the plot of this book was hammered together between excruciatingly long narratives about the angst the hero and heroine are going through. The characters are one dimensional, spark no interest and not even remotely believable. The author spends too much time telling us what we should see or feel, instead of showing it through character interactions.
There are better romance novels out there, for your hard earned money: Linda Howard, Iris Johansen to name a few, and if you are particularly interested in SEALs: Suzanne Brockmann.
 great read March 23, 2008
J. Dawson (Harker Heights, TX)
I really enjoyed the characters. Ms Melton creates great settings and builds wonderful tension. Very enjoyable.
Very good military romantic suspense November 17, 2007
M. Childers (Texas, USA)
This is book 1 in Ms Melton's Navy SEALS series. I was decidedly entertained by the story. Lets just say that immediately upon finishing this one, I quickly ordered the other 3 books in this series and have book five on pre-order.
What I liked. I love books with alpha males.
This is one of the few books I've read aside from S. Brockmans where the author sucessfully intertwined the comraderie between a group of guys who work together and who are loyal friends as well as co-workers.
I like the 'lone wolf' hero's, but its kind of refreshing to read a book where a group of guys have friends and a 'regular life' outside work.
Others have already summarized the story well. I just wanted to add a note about a book thats not only a romantic suspense but a good friendship book as well.
I recommend this a all of Meltons Navy SEAL series.
The Story of a Man and a Hero, August 30, 2007
Donna M. (CA, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After one year of being announced "missing in action" Gabe Renault, a navy Seal, returns alive from the jaws of hell, after having been double crossed on enemy territory, in which one of his own team betrayed him. Gabe has endured a terrible year of torture. He has lost his memory, and does not remember the mission, or his wife and step daughter of 3 years. Upon his return Gabe begins to discover the kind of husband and father he was before his disappearance. He had always ignored Helen his wife, refusing to give her his love, or open up to her. He was always distant. He had even refused to legally adopt Helen's daughter Mallory, and been absent from Mallory's life for most of the time.
Helen Troy, is ready to rebuild her life. After one year of being MIA, her husband Gabe Renault was announced dead, just the week before. So it was with no small amount of shock that Helen learned that Gabe had just returned from the dead. She is wary of him, and she is bitter because of his mistreatment of her. While she had given him her love, he had ignored her and abandoned her, hence breaking her heart and shattering all the beautiful feelings she had harbored for him. Now she just wants to help him get better, and regain his memories, then they would get a divorce. He'll return to his life and work as a Seal, and she'll return to bask in her new gained independence. Helen is honest with Gabe, informing him that once he is better they will get a divorce.
And so the story starts, as Gabe struggles to come to terms with who he had been, and why. While this new "real" Gabe is not distant from his wife or daughter. He shows love, care and compassion towards them. Helen retains her wariness of him, as Gabe sets out to regain his family and prove to Helen that he really loves her. He just wants a second chance to prove to her how wrong he was. He had always assumed that allowing himself to feel and care would weaken him, but it was only his love for Helen that had sustained him through the terrible torture and imprisonment in the past year. Gabe loves his wife and his step daughter, they are the most important in his life, and nothing comes before them.
And we the readers get to see how Gabe and Helen get together, as they heal each other and have a chance at a new start. While Helen may seem a bit cold and distant through a good portion of the book, it was understandable due to her past experience with Gabe. And her fear that once Gabe regains his memories he would return to that distant man who had so callously broken her heart.
Gabe also has no memory of his last mission, leaving him vulnerable to the attacks of those who do not want him to remember. For someone is still out there waiting for the right moment to silence Gabe forever, before he can remember the truth and reveal it. This is the story of a hero and a man, who upon return from the jaws of hell, after one year, starts to rebuild his life on a journey of self discovery and love, while trying to stay alive and protect his family from a danger and an enemy he does not know. For only Gabe's memories can save him... if they do not kill him first...
A great romantic suspense read.
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