Sabine knows Rebecca is way off-limits, but she can’t help fantasizing about her. She is well liked and respected, and she walks a fine line between professionalism and personal connection. And lately, those secret desires are becoming harder and harder to suppress.Ĭolonel Rebecca Keane is an enigmatic career officer who runs the surgical unit like clockwork. She knows she should feel more sad for the loss, but someone else has garnered her attention. Soon the casualties of war turn more personal as Sabine’s long-term relationship ends unexpectedly. In her Unit, Sabine deals with a lot as a soldier in a war-torn country. She is also one of the thousands of troops who is forced to serve in silence because of the military’s anti-gay policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT).”
This is Noyes’ debut novel, and she is fast becoming a favorite on my book shelf.Ĭaptain Sabine Fleischer is a skilled and dedicated U.S. Noyes highlights the inner struggles of a woman’s heart caught in the crossfire of love and duty. I love watch people fall in love as much as the next gal, but it’s also realllllly nice to see people build lives together and work through their issues in a totally different way.Ask, Tell by E.J. It’s nice to get established relationships and I wish we had them more often in sapphic fiction, honestly. I love Rebecca as a character a lot and I loved seeing her relationship with Jana!!! All in all, this was a hard listen, but a really good one and I really liked getting to have a continuation of these characters. Abby Craden’s voice for her is just… so dreamy and sexy and I love it so much. I was DELIGHTED this was dual povs and we got to have Rebecca’s perspective. I’m… sort of still in it, with my person so this was a hard listen in that respect. I know how it feels to be Rebecca and Jana, trying to help, not sure how, and also… honestly, incapable of doing anything because this is the kind of thing that has to come from the person it’s happening to. Some of Sabine’s anxiety and compulsions hit a little close to home to one of my own family members and it was… well, frankly it sucked.
This… was a little hard to get through for me. Everyone in it is some degree of sad, and everyone in it is trying, and everyone in it loves each other and… that’s not always the cure. This is not a pleasant read or listen, but not because it’s not well written, or the characters are compelling or the narration is bad, just… it’s sad. Nobody is having a good time in this one.
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