The Cuban Affair

I would give this a rating of 4.5 stars. Although some of these reviews seem to be onto something when they say that nothing really happens, I found that not know the next part of their master plan kept me reading. Call me a sucker but I cared a lot as to what was going to happen between Sara and Mac and if they would actually make it or not. One thing I do know is that I wish DeMille would write another book with the same awesome characters.

This book was fine, maybe even pretty good. I may be being a bit hard due to its place on the New York Times bestseller list. But it has so many small issues that I feel like I kinda have to knock it a bit. It doesn't feel like DeMille is really ready to take on the topic of Cuban-American Relations, with both sides basically having simplistic stereotypes for they're characters. I never really bought any of the character motivations. Sara jumps back and forth from being a serious member of the mission to letting her passion endanger the mission to an extreme level. Mac develops a strong soldiers code out of nowhere. The only character that is consistent is Jack. The whole book feels like it takes twice as long as it needs to to say anything. And (I recognize this is a real nitpick) DeMille uses “Mac and I” and “Me and Mac” in the same paragraph. I wouldn't normally give a shit if you used “me in Mac”, but to do it two different ways in the same paragraph is just annoying.