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Originally Posted by Blossom
Those of you that have read Flashpoint...did you get the feeling that the story was written before the first six books? That she took a story and reworked it a bit adding a few cameos to fit it into the series? The writing is just so different not as polished and there is no storyline going other than the h/h. I'm having trouble believing this was written after Gone Too Far. My first thought was ghostwriter but there are places there that does seem like Brockmann's writing. I'm struggling to get through.
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Flashpoint marked a turning point in the writing syle of the series. It's the book in which she introduced a lot of new characters so as to move away from the at-the-time active duty Navy SEALs since it was the first book written and published after the Iraq War started. She was very much against the war and felt she couldn't write her heroes participating it. I don't believe it was written before the other books in the series. She may have reworked the plot from something she'd done earlier. I can't speak to that. But she definitely wrote it afterwards. The country where the book is set wasn't real, she decided on a fake setting so she could do whatever she wanted.
I enjoyed Nash & Tess's romance when I first read it but warning
. She was also tired of writing the older couples (not age wise, I mean the way she had couples from WWII etc in the first few books). So she stopped including those "background" romances.
Though I liked many of the later couples more than some of the earlier ones, the series really does turn into a hot mess and
Flashpoint was the beginning of the end. As I said earlier, I gave away all of my print copies of the series and deleted my digital ones. That's the first--and I am really hoping only--time I've ever done that with a series. I mean I purged a whole lot of print books when I moved and again after I bought this house (as I have a serious lack of shelf space). But going digital helped with that as I was able to replace some of the books I regretted giving away.