For His Country +Giveaway +Review

For His Country By Denisea Kampe

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Twenty-seven years, more than a dozen deployments, five kids…and one missing wife.

After twenty-seven years of marriage and service to his country, Gavin McIntyre returns from what he hopes will be his last deployment before either reaching the highest attainable enlisted rank in the Marine Corps or retiring. But what he returns to leaves him flat aback with a busted mast and broken rudder. His wife is a no show for the homecoming. Using the ages old adage of improvise, adapt, and overcome, he makes his way home only to discover, she hasn’t simply forgotten to pick him up from the bus, she’s gone. In her wake, Gavin finds his home set up boot camp style and twenty dollars in the cookie jar, but any evidence he’s ever had a wife or five children with her is deplete.

Pregnant at sixteen and married to a marine in a less than romantic ceremony courtesy of the local Justice, Raylyn McIntyre has spent almost three decades playing the dutiful patriotic wife, catering to the whims of the military. She’s lost track of how many places she’s lived, how many deployments she’s endured, and how many tears she’s shed. But most of all, she’s lost track of herself. With a husband who’s so wrapped up in saving the world he can’t see he’s losing his family, Ray resorts to the one tactic he might understand…a full frontal attack with extreme prejudice, which proves to get Gavin’s waning attention.

Nothing good ever comes easy, though, and just when her choice of battle plan seems to be working, tragedy befalls their family. As Ray and Gavin struggle to find center, they also struggle with the notion that forgiveness of self is often the only path to forgiveness of another, and that path is not only bumpy but filled with pitfalls. 

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My Review  

This book is about a man named Gavin.  He has been in the Marines for 27 years.  He has just come home from his latest deployment to find his wife gone.  They have 5 children together and have been married just as long as he has been in the Marines.  That is part of the problem.  He has been gone for most of their marriage.  When he was gone she felt that she had to keep certain things from him so not to worry him while he was in a combat zone.  Now that their youngest is off to college, Ray has decided she needs to find herself.  She was only 16 when she got pregnant with their oldest child and got married.  She isn’t sorry for one day of their life together she just wishes things were a little different.  She has decided to go back to school herself and try to find out what she wants and who she wants to be.   Also she wants Gavin to see that there were things that were wrong in their marriage.  She tried talking now she is trying action.  Gavin isn’t completely sure where it all went so wrong that Ray felt the need to leave him but he knows he wants her back and some things need to change.  Can they figure out who they are themselves and who they are together or will this be the end of them?

I loved this book right away.  Denisea is a fantastic writer.  She makes you feel what the characters are feeling in the book.  There were parts that I wanted to cry cause it was so emotional and other parts I totally empathized with.  My husband is also military but doesn’t go deployed anywhere near the amount the character in the book goes.  The person you love only needs to go once for you to understand.  If your other half isn’t in the military I am sure they have had to go away for one reason or another and you can sympathize even a little.  This book is fantastic and the title fits it perfectly.  You may not get right away but by the end you will.  I loved how Gavin came to see how he affected everyone in his family even though he wasn’t there.  And then when he decided to make then change he affected them again.  He grew so much and so did everyone in the book.  It was fantastic.  Another great book Denisea.