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Forget Me Not (SEAL Team 12 #1)
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 you...more
Mass Market Paperback, 355 pages
Published
December 1st 2004
by Warner Forever
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Buggy
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Opening Line:"Gunfire rained down on the four-man SEAL squad, ricocheting off the concrete floor and metal walls of the warehouse in Pyongyang Harbour, North Korea.”
Navy SEAL Gabe Renault has no memory of the last three years. He doesn’t remember the mission that went wrong landing him in a North Korean prison camp and he certainly doesn’t remember having a wife and teenage daughter. And while the scars on his body tell a tale of torture he has no idea what they did to him or if...more
Navy SEAL Gabe Renault has no memory of the last three years. He doesn’t remember the mission that went wrong landing him in a North Korean prison camp and he certainly doesn’t remember having a wife and teenage daughter. And while the scars on his body tell a tale of torture he has no idea what they did to him or if...more
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Forget Me Not is an entertaining, fast-paced, romantic suspense novel that focuses on a group of U.S. Navy SEALS. It is the first book in the Seal Team 12 series.
The hero, Gabe Renault, is believed dead after a SEALS mission that went wrong. Gabe had dedicated his life to his SEALS team while letting his relationship with his wife and daughter suffer. Gabe was an emotionally aloof man who believed that to feel and show love for his family was to make him weak. Helen Renault was di...more
The hero, Gabe Renault, is believed dead after a SEALS mission that went wrong. Gabe had dedicated his life to his SEALS team while letting his relationship with his wife and daughter suffer. Gabe was an emotionally aloof man who believed that to feel and show love for his family was to make him weak. Helen Renault was di...more
Shawna
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Recommends it for:
Fans of military romance/suspense
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4 ½-5 stars – Romantic Suspense
Forget Me Not, the first book in Melton’s SEAL Team military romance series, is a great romantic suspense read. I had read book #4, Next to Die, without realizing that it was part of a series and was a little bit lost in regards to the characters, so I would recommend reading them in order. This story focuses on Navy SEAL Gabe’s tumultuous return to his estranged wife and stepdaughter after being betrayed on a mission, tortured, and presumed dead. It’s ...more
Forget Me Not, the first book in Melton’s SEAL Team military romance series, is a great romantic suspense read. I had read book #4, Next to Die, without realizing that it was part of a series and was a little bit lost in regards to the characters, so I would recommend reading them in order. This story focuses on Navy SEAL Gabe’s tumultuous return to his estranged wife and stepdaughter after being betrayed on a mission, tortured, and presumed dead. It’s ...more
okay, I am such a Sandra Brockmann fan that it's hard to switch to someone else's universe on the same theme, but the book was okay enough that I have reserved the next one in the series from the library.
In this first book of the series there is setup of the Navy Seals team that the books center around with bits of background thrown in for future books of the various players.
The storyline of this book follows Gabe who shows up a year after presumed dead with no memory o...more
In this first book of the series there is setup of the Navy Seals team that the books center around with bits of background thrown in for future books of the various players.
The storyline of this book follows Gabe who shows up a year after presumed dead with no memory o...more
Since I'm a big Suzanne Brockmann fan, I was figured I would attempt these books due to Amazon's incessant recommendations every time I looked up one of the Brockmann books. I'm not sure what happened with the Melton books but they started off tepid with me and progressively got worse. . . which irritated me to no end since I had purchased the entire series in one sitting and ended up taking all but two back to the UBS.
My problem with this series is that the author outlines a great s...more
My problem with this series is that the author outlines a great s...more
This was the first book I've read by Marliss Melton and I will admit it was a very good book. It was well-written and well-researched.
The book centered around Gabe Renault, a Navy SEAL who had been imprisoned by Korean terrorists for the past year. He had been declared dead, but managed to escape and find his way back home. Back home, he had a wife (Helen) and a 13-year-old stepdaughter (Mallory). Gabe and Helen had been married for about 3 years when he disappeared and their marria...more
The book centered around Gabe Renault, a Navy SEAL who had been imprisoned by Korean terrorists for the past year. He had been declared dead, but managed to escape and find his way back home. Back home, he had a wife (Helen) and a 13-year-old stepdaughter (Mallory). Gabe and Helen had been married for about 3 years when he disappeared and their marria...more
Michelle
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Good plot even if it did make me cringe that some of the Navy's finest turned out to be anything but. I empathized with Helen's turmoil, even if some of her reasoning were rather harsh. I didn't really like the fact that it took Gabe almost dying all over again before she came to her senses. I didn't like her friend Leila at all. While I can appreciate a female bond of friendship as a source of strength and understanding, I felt that Leila overstepped her bounds so many times. Since she...more
While I enjoyed this book, I didn't think it was as good as some other SEAL books that I have read before. There just seems to be something missing, I am just not sure what it is.
I really liked the aspect of Gabe and his missing memory, I liked how when he had the chance to do things over his mind made it ok for him to be the man he knew he needed to be while he was captured. I really liked how Helen was gun shy. Gabe had a lot to overcome before she could even start to let him ba...more
I really liked the aspect of Gabe and his missing memory, I liked how when he had the chance to do things over his mind made it ok for him to be the man he knew he needed to be while he was captured. I really liked how Helen was gun shy. Gabe had a lot to overcome before she could even start to let him ba...more
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 retur...more
I really enjoyed this first book in Marliss Melton's SEAL Team Twelve series, even more than Suzanne Brockmann's SEAL series. I tend to like romantic suspense that is heavier on the romance, and this book had that. It was focused on the development of Helen and Gabe's shattered marriage. I loved the suspense parts as well. There was one big "WTF" moment for me though: when the "cop" asked Mallory to go with him, she didn't even ask for identification! That was way too stupid....more
Not too bad, but not very satisfying either. I found the writing to be inconsistent, splattered here and there with hackneyed bits. Except in the very end, the action was not fast-paced enough to say the book was unputdownable. The suspense factor was tolerable. Gabe has no recollection of what happened during his last mission, so he's in a vulnerable position and can only trust his team and his family. Though we learn the identity of one of the villains very early on, it soon becomes clear...more
Loved it a lot! Solid 4star from me.
There was a lot to recommend this series which has been on my TBR stack for quite some time and I berate myself for not reading it sooner.
This romantic suspense series begins with SEAL Lieutenant Gabe Renault being betrayed by a traitor and captured by the enemy while on a mission to recover stolen weapons. As Gabe is on the slow road to regain his memory and re-establish himself as the man he once was, he finds that he must also lea...more
There was a lot to recommend this series which has been on my TBR stack for quite some time and I berate myself for not reading it sooner.
This romantic suspense series begins with SEAL Lieutenant Gabe Renault being betrayed by a traitor and captured by the enemy while on a mission to recover stolen weapons. As Gabe is on the slow road to regain his memory and re-establish himself as the man he once was, he finds that he must also lea...more
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 coveri...more
If you want to decide if Ms. Melton's books are for you, this is the one to start with. From my (limited) research, this is the book that got the reviews, and cemented her reputation for this sort of thing.
Before we begin: A caveat. Ms. Melton's male characters are SEALS. This is a big deal. While you wait for your books in the post, read up on what the US Navy SEALS do, and how they do it. Read up about what a platoon is, and who does what. The books are peppered with terms like BUD...more
Before we begin: A caveat. Ms. Melton's male characters are SEALS. This is a big deal. While you wait for your books in the post, read up on what the US Navy SEALS do, and how they do it. Read up about what a platoon is, and who does what. The books are peppered with terms like BUD...more
An epic love story with a SEAL twist. I had a hard time putting this book down. Gabe is wounded, literally from his time in captivity, it is up to Helen to put him back together again. I loved how Gabe was able to get a second chance and seemed to learn from his past life. The cast of characters were great to get to know and the set up for the series was wonderful, the book gave us just enough information about the team members to intrigue.
I was very curious about Hannah, we got ...more
I was very curious about Hannah, we got ...more
There's lots of action and intrigue to keep the story moving as well as some emotional twists and turns that have you thinking "uh oh". I liked the book and would relate the style as similar to Suzanne Brockmann in that there's good background info so you understand the characters and sympathize with them, even if you don't necessarily agree with them. This is the first of the series but am looking forward to rest, I hope they are as good. I'll keep you posted...
I just finished this book yesterday and I am eager to read the rest of the series (though I'm now on a self-imposed spending diet after I realized I was spending $50 a week in books for the Kindle...oops). The characters are well developed, the story flows very well. I love the emotion and the characters themselves. Great author!
Although its has it's flaws I currently can't think of them. It's also one of her better written ones out of this series. The characters are pretty likeable with a few exceptions. If you're looking for a good romantic suspense to read this is one.
I thoroughly enjoyed this quick read, though I do have to say that I prefer Suzanne Brockmann's characterization, humor, and plots. But I'll definitely be reading Melton's other subsequent novels in this series.
Carrie
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3.5*
This book almost had 4 stars until the plot takes an unbelievable twist at the end. Still, Melton's writing about PTSD and the struggles Gage, Helen, and Mallory went through trying to reconnect were very well done and moving. Decent suspense plot line, too. I look forward to the next installment.
12/6/11
I reread this book because, even though I gave it the lowest rating of all the Seal Team 12 books, it's the one that has stuck with me. I keep thinking about the mai...more
This book almost had 4 stars until the plot takes an unbelievable twist at the end. Still, Melton's writing about PTSD and the struggles Gage, Helen, and Mallory went through trying to reconnect were very well done and moving. Decent suspense plot line, too. I look forward to the next installment.
12/6/11
I reread this book because, even though I gave it the lowest rating of all the Seal Team 12 books, it's the one that has stuck with me. I keep thinking about the mai...more
If you like Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooters, you will love this.
It's touching and hard and funny and poignant and I can't say enough good things about it. Highly recommend.
It's touching and hard and funny and poignant and I can't say enough good things about it. Highly recommend.
Melton writes great SEAL books. She stays true to the theme and her romances always produce wonderful lead characters. She's an auto-read for me.
I really enjoyed this book and was vary glad that I heard about it here on Goodreads. The story was interesting, although parts of it were a bit obvious. It had a good pace and I look forward to reading more from this talented author. The only change I would make is that I like a little more steam with my romance. That wont stop me from ordering more from this series.
Good story but too much language and immorality. Could have done well just with the action-packed story.
This is a genre that I LOVE to no end......Marliss Melton is truly fantastic at writing this genre. I actually enjoyed reading her series more than I did Suzanne Brockmanns and they were both fantastic. I really loved the hero in this book and I felt for him as well as his wife. Who I found the most indearing was their daughter. Thinking about how she must have felt having everything taken away and then given back and not knowing how to process that. This was an EXCELLENT start to a great s...more
Pamela(AllHoney)
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First in the series and very good, in my humblest opinion. A gripping and heartwrenching story. Helen is ready to get on with her life after learning that her husband, who was listed as missing, is dead. Then a call comes telling her that Gabe is alive but has forgotten the last three years of his life. Gabe is a Navy Seal and who doesn't love the hunky military man? Having served myself in the Navy, I guess I feel a certain kinship to heroes that do too. The story was close to perfect for me. T...more
Suspense / romance - another good one by Marliss Melton.
The main character is a Navy SEAL trying to reclaim his life after escaping from North Korea, where he'd been interrogated and tortured for almost a year. The book is optimistic - Gabe Renault, though profoundly affected by his imprisonment, emerges a stronger man and is able to reintegrate into his family and go back to his job with renewed determination.
This book is a novel but I couldn't help but think of all the...more
The main character is a Navy SEAL trying to reclaim his life after escaping from North Korea, where he'd been interrogated and tortured for almost a year. The book is optimistic - Gabe Renault, though profoundly affected by his imprisonment, emerges a stronger man and is able to reintegrate into his family and go back to his job with renewed determination.
This book is a novel but I couldn't help but think of all the...more
First time for this author, and I really liked this book. Love those SEALS!
A pretty good romantic suspense book. I enjoyed it.
(Hey, I was on vacation.) Terrible in all the best ways. :)
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Marliss Melton is the author of military romance from warner forever. She writes stories about navy SEALS and the women who change their lives forever.
Series:
* SEAL Team 12
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Marliss Melton is the author of military romance from warner forever. She writes stories about navy SEALS and the women who change their lives forever.
Series:
* SEAL Team 12
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