Name: The Marine's Return
Rating: 4.50 (2 reviews)

I received this book for free from the Prism Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Will Lexi and Chad heal each other?

The Marine’s Return by Rula Sinara is fabulous. I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the characters, the setting, and family. Lexi and Chad are such beautiful characters, their story adds splendidly to the others in the From Kenya, With Love Series. I haven’t read the first five books but if I find the time I will be reading them. We are given a glimpse of the others throughout the story, and I fell in love with all of them.

Lexi Galen

Lexi is such a fabulous character, she is well developed and has such presence. She is an orphan whose parents lost her because they went to jail. All that Lexi has ever wanted was to have a family and help people. That reason is why she is a nurse.

Lexi married Tony who was a medic in the Marine Corps. However, shortly after they were married Tony was killed in Afghanistan. However, Lexi found out she is pregnant after Tony’s death. But, Tony and Lexi had a plan to move to Kenya where Tony grew up and help the needy there. Since she has nothing else to live for in the states, she decides to take a job with Hope Corallis in Kenya.

The thing about Lexi is she doesn’t do anything halfway. She isn’t afraid to get dirty; she honestly wants to help everyone. Lexi is a bit stubborn and emotional at times, but what pregnant woman isn’t? Heck, what woman isn’t? Basically, Lexi loves with her whole heart, and throughout the story, we get to see how receiving unconditional love and friendship brightens her life.

Marine Sergeant Chad Corallis

Chad takes stubbornness to a whole new level. He was wounded in Afghanistan and lost his right arm. However, he can’t get past the pain, and guilt associated with his injuries and the event that crippled him. Chad doesn’t want help. He perceives that people look at him and only see the scars and a missing arm. As he can’t imagine who he is now. Let just say that Chad has a massive chip on his shoulder.

Chad happens to be Tony’s best friend and Tony asked him to make sure Lexi was safe if he didn’t make it home. So, Chad has this obligation to his best friend and fellow Marine that he must uphold, but doing what needs to be done is more than he can handle. Or is it?

Throughout the story we see Chad’s perception of himself change as he grows closer to Lexi and the other people at the outpost clinic that his mother, Hope runs. He learns to trust his instincts again and see the possibilities of the future.

Random things that I liked about the story

Jacey the former Army soldier and Taj’s romance

Babies are babies and blood wasn’t important

KWS or Kenyan Wildlife Service that assists the orphaned elephants

Mac, the helicopter bush pilot

Hope and Ben. They are an epic couple

Roosevelt, the dog

Leboo the teenage Masai boy who learned to trust

Lots of giving and not expecting anything in return

5 Stars for The Marine’s Return by Rula Sinara

My rating for The Marine’s Return by Rula Sinara is five stars. The story is filled with sharp minds, goodwill, and love. The characters were fascinating and stole my heart from the very beginning.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves romance.

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Romance in the heart of Kenya

My rating is 3.5 stars

Kenya is a country on my list of places I would love to visit. And I enjoyed being able to do that vicariously through The Marine’s Return.

Though wounded, Chad was a strong character. He had been injured and was suffering from phantom pains in his arm that was no more yet still had a strong need to protect and to serve. Until he helped his dad secure the clinic in the bush, he had felt he had lost his purpose. I liked Chad with his vulnerability and fears and was so glad to see him heal.

There was a mystery about missing medical supplies and a poacher who was known to be injured and lurking somewhere “out there”. While this played into the story, I would not consider this to be an action or mystery or suspense story. We knew by little bits and pieces about what was going on with the poacher which was done well.

I found it interesting how few details were given about the characters. Other than build and hair color, very little was revealed. It allowed me to use my imagination to decide what they looked like and deemphasized the physical, which I thought was nice.

The story was interesting but it did drag in parts. While it stands alone, there were hints along the way of other stories that came before it. And the Epilogue attempted to wrap up not only this story but others in the series as well. It did seem more like a list of what had happened, though, instead of a narrative.

Overall, I am glad I read the book.

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I was given a copy of this book for free. I was not required to give a favorable review nor was any money received for this review. All comments and opinions are my own.

The Marine's Return (From Kenya, with Love, #6)

by Rula Sinara

The Marine's Return (From Kenya, with Love, #6)

by Rula Sinara

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Will Lexi and Chad heal each other?

Lexi Galen

Marine Sergeant Chad Corallis

Random things that I liked about the story

5 Stars for The Marine’s Return by Rula Sinara

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