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Wingmen Warriors #8
Christmas With A Hero
I'll Be Home by Rachel Lee
A Bridge for Christmas by Merline Lovelace
The Wingman's Angel by Catherine Mann
A Bridge for Christmas by Merline Lovelace
The Wingman's Angel by Catherine Mann
376 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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Rachel Lee
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Rachel Lee is a New York Times best-selling author and the winner of Six Romantic Times magazine Reviewers' Choice Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA® Award. She has penned a wide variety of novels in several genres including fantasy, romantic suspense, and romantic comedy. She resides in Tampa, Florida.
Rachel Lee is a New York Times best-selling author and the winner of Six Romantic Times magazine Reviewers' Choice Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA® Award. She has penned a wide variety of novels in several genres including fantasy, romantic suspense, and romantic comedy. She resides in Tampa, Florida.
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December 8, 2011
The first story I’ll be Home by Rachel Lee sets the tone for the rest of the novellas to follow, all rushed tales of romance and predictable schmaltz with bits of action and quasi-danger strewn in almost as an afterthought. This one is about a Navy Seal who returns home for the holidays. He’s shut off emotionally, has been this way for years and this caused him to lose his first wife who couldn’t put up with it any longer. He’s all lonely and miserable and boo-hooey when he conveniently gets snowed in with another houseguest named Maria. Her presence evokes a sudden and brilliant epiphany and he is able to fix himself and drop all of his emotional baggage like a hot potato in order to woo Maria. She’s a pretty young thing with dreams of wanderlust who instantly and totally understands him after a day or two together. He makes all her dreams come true. The End. Seriously? Sorry, not buying it. Meh. Only in Romancelandia.
Next up is Merline Lovelace’s A Bridge for Christmas. If that title doesn’t get your blood a-sizzling I don’t know what will. A Bridge? For Christmas? For real? “Some Hot Sexy Time in a Beast Infested Cave for Christmas” would’ve worked better for me but I’m odd like that. A beautiful young architect joins the reserves after 9/11, leaving behind a promising career and a perfectly suitable fiancé who she quickly forgets when she’s stranded with a handsome Special Ops agent after a bridge collapses on some sort of mission. They give in to their lusty needs despite impending danger at all corners. This plot is scattered with strange events that are supposed to make me melt or shiver in fear but left me shaking my head in disbelief. The heroine is somewhat annoying (with her feckless ways and forgotten fiancé and all) and the love story was super rushed and not at all believable. More Meh, I’m afraid to say.
And last up in this collection of Magnificent Mind-numbing Meh is The Wingman’s Angel by Catherine Mann featuring two about to be divorced Air Force officers who are stranded (yep, again!) together and are forced to work out their issues while being pursued by danger and freezing their tootsies off. They have communication issues, a not-so-big (to me) secret is revealed and all is well again in Romancelandia. I can’t tell you much more about this one because honestly all of the stories are starting to blend because they were all so bland, formulaic and similar and my brain has shut down.
I felt no emotion while reading any of these stories. The plots were flimsy, the characters weren’t interesting, or sympathetic or funny. The last story repeatedly stated that the hero was a laugh riot. Too bad we never saw it. It would’ve been nice to see it come out in the dialogue. Telling me he’s funny does me no good whatsoever as a reader. Books like these can quickly burn a reader out on romance.
Total waste of time.
Next up is Merline Lovelace’s A Bridge for Christmas. If that title doesn’t get your blood a-sizzling I don’t know what will. A Bridge? For Christmas? For real? “Some Hot Sexy Time in a Beast Infested Cave for Christmas” would’ve worked better for me but I’m odd like that. A beautiful young architect joins the reserves after 9/11, leaving behind a promising career and a perfectly suitable fiancé who she quickly forgets when she’s stranded with a handsome Special Ops agent after a bridge collapses on some sort of mission. They give in to their lusty needs despite impending danger at all corners. This plot is scattered with strange events that are supposed to make me melt or shiver in fear but left me shaking my head in disbelief. The heroine is somewhat annoying (with her feckless ways and forgotten fiancé and all) and the love story was super rushed and not at all believable. More Meh, I’m afraid to say.
And last up in this collection of Magnificent Mind-numbing Meh is The Wingman’s Angel by Catherine Mann featuring two about to be divorced Air Force officers who are stranded (yep, again!) together and are forced to work out their issues while being pursued by danger and freezing their tootsies off. They have communication issues, a not-so-big (to me) secret is revealed and all is well again in Romancelandia. I can’t tell you much more about this one because honestly all of the stories are starting to blend because they were all so bland, formulaic and similar and my brain has shut down.
I felt no emotion while reading any of these stories. The plots were flimsy, the characters weren’t interesting, or sympathetic or funny. The last story repeatedly stated that the hero was a laugh riot. Too bad we never saw it. It would’ve been nice to see it come out in the dialogue. Telling me he’s funny does me no good whatsoever as a reader. Books like these can quickly burn a reader out on romance.
Total waste of time.
April 16, 2018
This is the 8th book of the Wingman Warriors series.
I'm only going to rate the book on "The Wingman's Angel" by author Catherine Mann.
This book can be read by standalone, but you will understand and enjoy it more if you read the other books related to it within the series. Besides, you'll actually find out how some of the other characters are doing from past books in the series.
If you want to know what the book is about read the blurb above the reviews.
Once again the author tackles the hero and heroine marriage in crisis. This is pretty correct as many of the marriages within the military fail for the reasons why that are within the marriage of this story. However, when their missions are then put together in the middle of the arctic, that's one way you cannot escape each other.
I liked how the author put the hero as a genius and how he analyzes things because of how his brain works. This is one of the things the heroine loves and hates about him. However, she remains closed to him and will use everything to stay that way. But why? Why won't she let him stay around and this is the big mystery throughout the book. The heroine is very relatable to and the hero gets there eventually, but for about half the book I really didn't connect with the hero as much.
Add to it the plot of what they find when they weren't looking for it was pretty unexpected. I was expecting some bad guys to show up but not the way they did. It was interesting on how the hero and heroine worked together to get to the ending. However, I'm not telling if they stay together or go their own ways after they capture the bad guys.
I don't want to spoil it.
I'm only going to rate the book on "The Wingman's Angel" by author Catherine Mann.
This book can be read by standalone, but you will understand and enjoy it more if you read the other books related to it within the series. Besides, you'll actually find out how some of the other characters are doing from past books in the series.
If you want to know what the book is about read the blurb above the reviews.
Once again the author tackles the hero and heroine marriage in crisis. This is pretty correct as many of the marriages within the military fail for the reasons why that are within the marriage of this story. However, when their missions are then put together in the middle of the arctic, that's one way you cannot escape each other.
I liked how the author put the hero as a genius and how he analyzes things because of how his brain works. This is one of the things the heroine loves and hates about him. However, she remains closed to him and will use everything to stay that way. But why? Why won't she let him stay around and this is the big mystery throughout the book. The heroine is very relatable to and the hero gets there eventually, but for about half the book I really didn't connect with the hero as much.
Add to it the plot of what they find when they weren't looking for it was pretty unexpected. I was expecting some bad guys to show up but not the way they did. It was interesting on how the hero and heroine worked together to get to the ending. However, I'm not telling if they stay together or go their own ways after they capture the bad guys.
I don't want to spoil it.
August 16, 2019
"I'll Be Home" by Lee. Seth Hardin is a Navy SEAL and his ex-wife couldn't stand the pressure. Home for the Christmas holidays in WY, he meets another of his parent's guests, teacher Maria Hoskins. They strike sparks, but he's gun shy and she wants adventure. A blizzard helps them both see what's important. Mostly clean, reasonably believable, easy read.
"A Bridge for Christmas" by Merline Lovelace. After 9-11, Abby Trent signed up for the Air Force Reserves and has left her Philadelphia architect job and family to command a 16 member combat engineering squad - currently high in the Taurus Mountains between Turkey, Iran and Iraq, mapping out a future base in mostly deserted area. She's working with Spec Ops pilot Dan Maxwell and they strike sparks. A desperate operation to help a local girl giving birth brings them together and eventually they marry. Mostly clean, good story.
"The Wingman's Angel" by Catherine Mann. Joshua "Bud" Rosen and Alician Renshaw-Rosen are going through Arctic Survival Training - together - before assuming their new posts at an AK base. They're also in the middle of separating due mostly to the stress of the dual military career jobs and lack of time together. They training goes bad in a storm when they encounter terrorists and illegal mining, but it finally brings them together. Interesting, mostly clean, unusual.
"A Bridge for Christmas" by Merline Lovelace. After 9-11, Abby Trent signed up for the Air Force Reserves and has left her Philadelphia architect job and family to command a 16 member combat engineering squad - currently high in the Taurus Mountains between Turkey, Iran and Iraq, mapping out a future base in mostly deserted area. She's working with Spec Ops pilot Dan Maxwell and they strike sparks. A desperate operation to help a local girl giving birth brings them together and eventually they marry. Mostly clean, good story.
"The Wingman's Angel" by Catherine Mann. Joshua "Bud" Rosen and Alician Renshaw-Rosen are going through Arctic Survival Training - together - before assuming their new posts at an AK base. They're also in the middle of separating due mostly to the stress of the dual military career jobs and lack of time together. They training goes bad in a storm when they encounter terrorists and illegal mining, but it finally brings them together. Interesting, mostly clean, unusual.
February 13, 2020
Three Christmas stories written by three authors who used a touch of military alphas who needed a chance with love. Each book was unique and well rounded story of men who need more than the military to complete them. With each story there was a man with problems with the opposite sex.The last two were also about the alpha women that the men fell for. The last was about second chance at the marriage. I enjoyed each and loved each author. Two who were new to me the last an old favorite. The narrators kept me listening to the very end and will look for more by both author and narrator.
March 29, 2020
🤷🏻♀️ eh. It was ok. Took forever to read. First story was about being snowbound and falling in love in one day. Not a huge fan. (1.5 stars) The second story was about working overseas and a falling bridge and a pregnant lady on Christmas. It was ok. More plot and a little more character. (2 stars) last story was about a husband wife duo on a training mission gone wrong and how they also reconcile their marriage. But the guy’s name is josh. So... (1.5 stars) wouldn’t really recommend.
February 2, 2018
Rating is just for Rachel Lee's story
July 17, 2020
3 stories about service personnel and the issues that they resolve at Christmas time
April 20, 2022
A really good read.
April 22, 2022
Another brilliant story
June 23, 2025
I stories about military and love at Christmas time. All 3 are very good
February 5, 2012
Read The Wingman's Angel by Catherine Mann. It was good. The blurb for the story said the two main characters were being chased by armed pursuers but that was maybe three pages of actual pursuers. Anyway it was a good story.
January 29, 2014
Only read 'The Wingman's angel' by Catherine Mann since I'm on a Catherine Mann reading spree.
Well crafted book. Touching upon other countries' customs, culture and traditions shows us how different the world and its people are.
Well crafted book. Touching upon other countries' customs, culture and traditions shows us how different the world and its people are.
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September 2, 2008Christmas with a Hero (Silhouette Shipping Cycle) by Merline Lovelace Lee, Catherine Mann Rachel (2006)
November 10, 2008
I like Christmas and I appreciate what our military persons do for our country so thought I'd try this. Only got through the first of the three as I was unhappy with the morals in it.
December 13, 2012
Three military based romance novella's with holiday themes. Quite enjoyable.
December 28, 2013
I just read "wingmen warriors" novella out of this anthology. The story was a bit lame. Short and simple. Maybe the problem was that is was too short to really deepen the characters and the plot.
July 3, 2014
Wingman Warriors book .. Amazing ! Saved the other stories for a later time.
November 20, 2015
Very good read. I enjoy reading books involving christmas and love where all works out in the end.
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