I really wanted to give this book a great review, but the interactions with the girlfriend are far too contrived and one-dimensional to be real. Overall, the impression one gets from the interactions between the two is of a couple of teenagers attempting to get along, where the girl is very domineering, and the boys simply submits to everything she does. This element for the book caused me to have to stop listening to it several times as my brain started screaming “OMFG! How was this guy a ship captain?!” or, “There is no way this guy survived boot camp, let alone PJ training!”
I knocked a few points off the performance rating because the voice characterization shifts a little over the course of the book. There are sometimes when I can’t tell who is speaking without them being named. This is it marked departure from the previous book.
Overall, an okay story that might not be missed in the series if you skip it. Moving on to the next book…