It’s a hazard of their relationship, complicated by the change in circumstances – Bec can no longer, as Sabine’s commanding officer, simply order her to do certain things, like get herself back on the medication. How awful it is to feel like you’re not the same person you were, and how you won’t ever be that person again. How exhausting it is for everyone, all the time. The book charts months after month of spiralling-out-of-control PTSD and its effects on an intimate relationship and home.

The anticipated happy return home is an awkward one in reality, and things get worse from there. It’s been getting worse on deployment again, and of course she thinks she can solve it all by herself because she’s a cocky perfectionist surgeon (well aren’t they all?).

Sabine went through a horrific attack, related in gruesome, exciting detail in the first book, and while she has now recovered physically from being exploded and shot at, she also has PTSD and can’t even get in a vehicle without puking. So, given this is a romance and the happy ending is mandatory, everything looks sewn up within about 20 pages, no? No. If you haven’t read Ask, Tell, I recommend you stop this review and go read it first.Īnyway, it’s not giving much away to say that this book opens with Sabine on the plane home and with a ring in hand, ready to propose to Bec and start their new lives together properly. Sabine has had to go off on another deployment to Afghanistan, and the book opens with Sabine and her trusty buddies coming home after 10 long months in the Afghan desert doing gruesome army surgeon things. Bec has left the army to become a civilian surgeon.

The Major surgeon Bec and the Captain surgeon Sabine have got together despite the outrageous difficulties of the US Army’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. This much-anticipated sequel to the brilliant Ask, Tell, picks up shortly after the first book finished.

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