Lyndi Lamont almost does too good a job helping me remember the sixties. Families were split, relationships were sometimes made or dissolved because of the war in Viet Nam and protests at home. Both Sunny and Joe are excellent characters for their respective sides in the conflict. Ms. Lamont does a superb job building them and showing why they are who they are, why they’ve chosen the paths they have.

Joe wanted to be an airline pilot. The war could help him with that. Once he got involved it became more, it became a fight to protect and help his comrades in arms. The descriptions of how people looked at him in the terminal call to mind what other soldiers have said they felt returning. Sunny is a composite of those at home willing to protest because it’s the thing to do or because others encourage her to. A companion had come back in a body bag and she hates seeing people fighting and dying for a political war.

I think Ms. Lamont compares and contrasts what people do to one another with protests and anti war marches in a time of war. This isn’t light reading for those of us over fifty who remember those times. It has depth as well as a great romance.

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Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Dee Dailey
September 17, 2008