{"id":340,"date":"2005-06-27T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=340"},"modified":"2005-06-27T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T03:32:00","slug":"brockmann_suzan_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/brockmann_suzan_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Brockmann, Suzanne: (03) Over the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"111992960534072880\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_111992960534072880\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Another of <strong>Suzanne Brockmann&#8217;s &#8220;Troubleshooters&#8221; novels, <cite>Over the Edge<\/cite><\/strong>. Hey, one where I actually liked the main romance the most! A hijacked plane is landed in the fictional country of Kazbekistan, and the SEALS are called in, along with Reserve helicopter pilot Teri Howe. She&#8217;s a great pilot but less assertive when off-duty; through her friendship and then love with Senior Chief Stan Wolchonok, she grows into an all-around kickass person.<\/p>\n<p>Brockmann is slightly too fond of the embarassing public declaration of feelings (or perhaps I just get embarassed easily on characters&#8217; behalfs), but generally speaking I found this a lot more engaging than the primary relationships in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/05\/brockmann_suzan_1.php\">prior<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/05\/brockmann_suzan_2.php\">books<\/a>, or the secondary threads here. In those, Sam and Alyssa continue to be the great angst puppets of the series; though I&#8217;m guessing that Max Bhagat (FBI negotiator) and Gina Vitagliano (hostage) are going to give them a run for their money, since they are the primary thread in the new book coming out next month, several books after this one. <\/p>\n<p>The WWII plot thread was the German occupation of Denmark, and I did a lot of skimming because I am easily distractable at lunchtimes these days and I do that a lot with parallel (in the mathematical sense) storylines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another of Suzanne Brockmann&#8217;s &#8220;Troubleshooters&#8221; novels, Over the Edge. Hey, one where I actually liked the main romance the most! A hijacked plane is landed in the fictional country of Kazbekistan, and the SEALS are called in, along with Reserve helicopter pilot Teri Howe. She&#8217;s a great pilot but less assertive when off-duty; through her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/brockmann_suzan_3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brockmann, Suzanne: (03) Over the Edge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,12,27],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-romance","category-troubleshooters","tag-brockmann-suzanne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}