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Review: Love at First Write: SEAL Team Alpha by Kat Baxter


Title: Love at First Write
A SEAL Team Alpha Series Standalone
Author: Kat Baxter
Genre: Steamy Short Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Secret/Mistaken Identity, Military Pen-Pal, Small Town, Forced Proximity
Release Date: February 26, 2024

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I had a crush on my best friend’s older brother even before he joined the SEALs and became a hometown hero. I didn’t fall in love with him until I started sending him care packages and exchanging letters. The bond we’ve built over the past two years made me believe he was my soulmate.

But then the man I thought I was writing just returned from overseas with no recollection of our letters. Plus he’s brought home a fiancee!

Enter Ethan Fox, tough guy, loner, war hero. Liar.

He says he fell in love with me through our letters, but how am I supposed to trust the man who’s been lying to me for years?

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AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU
Free in Kindle Unlimited


MY REVIEW


Kelsie thought she had been having a relationship with her friend's brother through their letters all this time. But when Tommy comes into her bakery, home from the military, with a fiancée, and he doesn't even recognize her, she knows she's been deceived. Just who has she been writing to, sending care packages to, and falling in love with, this whole time?


Ethan didn't have the heart to correct Kelsie's assumption she was writing to his fellow SEAL. When she kept sending letters and care packages to him, he spent the time falling in love with her, hoping once he got out he could explain and she wouldn't hold it against him. But now he's in her small town *cough* stalking her, trying to work up enough nerve to approach her and explain who he is. Will she forgive him and let him love her?


This is a short, sweet bit of insta-love fluff. High on spice, but short on enough development of their relationship for my tastes. I do like both Ethan and Kelsie, though, but just wish this novella spent more time on developing their relationship before rushing into claims of love and marriage.


AUTHOR BIO
USA Today Bestselling Author Kat Baxter writes fast-paced, sweet & STEAMY romantic comedies. Readers have dubbed her books “laugh-out-loud funny,” “hot enough to melt your kindle,” and “The Queen of Adorkable.” She lives in Texas with her family and a menagerie of animals. Kat is the pseudonym for a bestselling historical romance author.

Connect with Kat online.

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