This was fun! I mean I had a lot of fun reading it! It was very predictable and such but I mean I didn't hate this book! I thought the romance was cheesy and the storyline was cute, and I got what I wanted out of this book. I got an cute romance with a bit of action! Don't forget the sexy times! So fun!

This book was just okay for me. I liked the romance but found it moved very quickly and not very naturally. The suspense was good, and I liked the military components.

Her Mission with a SEAL is the third novel in Cindy Dees' Code: Warrior SEALs series, but it's the first novel in the series I've read, as well as being the first novel I've read by this author, and while at first glance, it appeared to have everything I look for in a romantic suspense novel, a strong, handsome, sexy and brave hero, a smart and brave heroine, an elusive and murderous villain, lots of action and suspense, as I was reading it, while the writing was good, I never became invested in either of the main characters or their story, and for that reason, it only gets a 3-star rating from this reader.

As heroes go, it was hard to find fault with SEAL team leader, Cole Perriman, who is nearing the 20-year mark as a Navy SEAL. He's focused, strong, brave, and leading a mission to take down Markus Petrov, a shadow villain who's prided himself on never being seen or captured, with one exception, CIA psychological operations analyst, Nissa Beck, and to say that this novel opens like gangbusters is putting it mildly. She and 3 Navy SEALs are being tossed around in dark, stormy seas in an inflatable, motorized dinghy, as a hurricane is rapidly approaching. They are trying to capture the elusive Markus Petrov, who is believed to be fleeing the country aboard the container ship, Anna Belle, but when they find and board her, the ship is about to capsize and is devoid of all personnel. They barely manage to flee the top heavy freighter and escape with their lives, and are next trying to beat the hurricane back to land, somewhere along the gulf coast before the hurricane makes landfall. Exciting? Absolutely. Yet as tension-filled as the opening of this novel is, the characters just didn't come alive for me.

The rest of the novel follows the standard pattern for romantic suspense novels--dangerous situation following even more dangerous situation, the attraction between the two main characters, sexy down times between Nissa (is there now a movement to create unusual and odd character names that I'm unaware of?) as the team attempts to gain intelligence on and track down the evil villain, a good balance of sex vs. suspense and danger, but, to reiterate, I never became invested in these characters or in the outcome of their mission, knowing that there'd be an HEA ending eventually.

I think that the missing ingredient in this novel was the complete lack of a backstory on Cole and Nissa. Having a strong penchant for and addiction to novels about Navy SEALs, I could understand why Cole wanted to be one, but how did Nissa end up in the CIA? What made her talents so special that she was either recruited or applied for her job? What was her childhood like? What sort of upbringing did she have? Her self-esteem throughout the novel is rather low, but why? Finally, although she and Cole are obviously sexually attracted to one another, I also never really felt a deep emotional connection between the two of them.

All in all, Her Mission with a SEAL was an okay and well-written novel, but the issues I've already mentioned, and the fact that it was a series romance, limiting its page count, kept it from being a great one.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

So here's something I wasn't expecting while reading this book, although Nissa is supposed to be a CIA agent I was pleasantly surprised that she wasn't ditsy. It was clear she wasn't courageous as shown in the beginning she was a pretty strong women who played her part in helping and not totally counting on the Seals to be there for her. She was able to come up with good idea and do her part which I appreciate, not sure why its a common occurrence in books like this for smart women such a sheriff or CIA agents to become a ditz when the all powerful chest thumping male comes around but I'm glad this book wasn't the case. I loved that there was so much going on, I loved that even though there was romance it didn't overpower the book. I loved that there was plenty going on to keep the readers wanting more and honestly I had a hard time putting down the book. I loved watching how everyone worked together and it was such a great book. Overall a pretty great book, highly recommend!

I didn't think I would like this story as much as I did! The heroine for once is not naive & helpless. here is romance & action in equal parts and I truly loved it!

Just the right amount of romance and action. There are moments where all senses go straight to hot & steamy, and then there are the moments when the story makes your heart race because you don't know how it will end. I did not want this book to end.