I realized I skipped one of these so I went back and caught it. I'd been really enjoying these books so far, but now it seems that accidentally skipping this one was serendipitous. The MC's love interest in this book was the daughter of his former commanding officer, so she was off limits. Ok, that's a fair stance. She was off limits because she was a child. Eh, he's young and in the military, it wouldn't be the first time a guy who's 19-21 crushed on a girl who's 17, right? That's a fair reason for a girl to be off-limits. The author could have made either or both of those arguments. But no! When Reacher says she was "too young" he was 24 and she was 15, but he "wanted her so bad". W. T. F. He then goes on to recount how she was skinny and gangly, so it's not like the child love interest even LOOKED like a woman yet! That makes it SO MUCH WORSE. The rest of the story was honestly pretty good, but I never got passed the fact that apparently Reacher is a pedo now. Totally soured the whole experience for me. I'm not totally sure if I'll even continue with these.
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