Well-liked and respected by those who work with and under her, she walks a fine line to preserve the military's chain of command while connecting with those under her care and supervision. Plus, her long-term relationship with a civilian back home is quickly becoming another casualty of war.Ĭolonel Rebecca Keane is an enigmatic career officer who runs the surgical unit like clockwork. Dealing with loss and mortality, lack of privacy, sleep deprivation, loneliness, and the isolation forced on her by Don't Ask, Don't Tell are all taking their toll. Usually driven and focused, Sabine finds that battles raging both inside and outside the perimeter walls are making it more and more difficult for her to deal with her emotions. She is also one of the thousands of troops who are forced to serve in silence because of the military's anti-gay policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT)". I love watch people fall in love as much as the next gal, but it’s also realllllly nice to see people build lives together and work through their issues in a totally different way.Captain Sabine Fleischer is a skilled and dedicated US Army surgeon deployed to a combat hospital in Afghanistan.
It’s nice to get established relationships and I wish we had them more often in sapphic fiction, honestly. I love Rebecca as a character a lot and I loved seeing her relationship with Jana!!! All in all, this was a hard listen, but a really good one and I really liked getting to have a continuation of these characters. Abby Craden’s voice for her is just… so dreamy and sexy and I love it so much. I was DELIGHTED this was dual povs and we got to have Rebecca’s perspective. I’m… sort of still in it, with my person so this was a hard listen in that respect. I know how it feels to be Rebecca and Jana, trying to help, not sure how, and also… honestly, incapable of doing anything because this is the kind of thing that has to come from the person it’s happening to. Some of Sabine’s anxiety and compulsions hit a little close to home to one of my own family members and it was… well, frankly it sucked.
This… was a little hard to get through for me. Everyone in it is some degree of sad, and everyone in it is trying, and everyone in it loves each other and… that’s not always the cure. This is not a pleasant read or listen, but not because it’s not well written, or the characters are compelling or the narration is bad, just… it’s sad. Nobody is having a good time in this one.
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