Lieutenant Peter Green is a Navy SEAL whose job is to train the SEAL candidates and whip them into shape. He's recently been reunited with his 15-year old daughter, Maddie, after her mother was tragically killed. Peter has been struggling on becoming a single dad of a teenage girl, and it all gets so much worse when Maddie disappears.

Maddie is in a new town, attends a new school, and has some new friends who aren't the best influence. Feeling stressed from her new living situation, Maddie decides to skip school and hang out with two older guys she'd befriended. Finding out she's gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd, Maddie quickly realizes she is in danger, but her stubbornness keeps her from calling the man she knows as her father, but has virtually zero relationship with.

Happenstance has Peter running into his neighbor, Shayla Whitman, who helps Peter in his search for Maddie. Sparks fly pretty quickly, but Shayla offers something to Peter in his search that he hadn't expected. Lots of twists and turns in this book, but it was a fun read!

4 out of 5 stars.

Always a fan of Suz Brockmann's inclusive romances and this book was no exception. Brava. Recommended on Twitter.

white guy, dreadlocks? Sorry that's what made this a did not finish. I might go back and restart the series though.

I love Suzanne Brockmann books. I love the Troubleshooter series. Having said that this is among the bottom half of that series for me. That isn’t saying this book isn’t good, it is. They all are. The community that Brockmann has created with the SEAL team in this series is undeniable. But this is still a lesser book in the series as a whole.

What a whirlwind! This hearkens back to some of Brockmann’s earlier seal team six novels, in my opinion. The characterization was beautifully done, and felt realistic. I appreciate that the author gave us accurate descriptions of the heroine but left some details vague until further into the novel. Overall a good thriller, solid romance, loved the inclusion of the teens. One of her best efforts in recent years.

You can't go wrong with a Suzanne Brockmann book! Her characters are great, humor, heart, stories - what more can you ask for?

Love this book!!!
I love the MCs and I love fleshed out and down to her the heroine is . The plot and subplots were very interesting and engaging
Suz delivered a fun , intelligent and action packed story,

Please see the link for the review on Book Binge. This is. a very in depth review.

http://bookbinge.com/2017/07/review-some-kind-of-hero-by-suzanne-brockmann/

DNF around chapter 6.

I should have known better than to jump into a series that's so far in, especially after I previously tried book 1 and was underwhelmed by it. Brockmann, it turns out, is just not for me. I was bored with Some Kind of Hero, and didn't care a bit about any of the characters, couldn't figure out why the hero's daughter was paying for her friend's drug habits and shit, and didn't care to stick around to see if things worked out. The final thing that made me decide to DNF and move on with my life? The WHITE hero talking about how he used to wear dreadlocks. Nope, pass.

Navy men don’t come tougher than Lieutenant Peter Greene. Every day he whips hotshot SEAL wannabes into elite fighters. So why can’t he handle one fifteen-year-old girl? His ex’s death left him a single dad overnight, and very unprepared. Though he can’t relate to an angsty teen, he can at least keep Maddie safe—until the day she disappears. Though Pete’s lacking in fatherly intuition, his instinct for detecting danger is razor sharp. Maddie’s in trouble. Now he needs the Troubleshooters team at his back, along with an unconventional ally.
Shayla is probably one of my favorite characters I’ve ever read. Her inner conversations with her on characters made me love this book a whole lot more than I probably would’ve. Beyond that, it was a pretty good book. Pretty straight-forward with the it being a single father a twist on what I normally get to read. I recommend.
**I voluntarily read and reviewed this book

First, I listened to the audio version of this one, which may have been a mistake. For me, having two different readers was very distracting, especially when Shayla's alter-ego, Harry, pops into her mind. I didn't feel the performers were very consistent in who read which parts.

That said, Suzanne Brockmann seldom disappoints in the romantic suspense genre, when she's writing about military heroes like Navy SEAL Peter Greene. He spends his days "whipping SEAL wannabes" into the best of the best, so why does one 15-year-old girl completely undo him? When his ex-girlfriend dies, he becomes a single dad in a blink to Maddie. Having grown up with almost no rules, she is not a fan of her new dad and his expectations that she will toe his line. She's even less crazy about starting at a new school in the middle of the year. No one wants to befriend the "new kid" - except for maybe the local bad girl. When that girl cuts and runs, leaving Maddie holding the bag, disappearing looks like a stellar idea. She hasn't needed dear old dad all this time. Surely she can figure her own way out of the danger Fiona dumped her into.

Romantic suspense writing is as close as Shayla Whitman wants to get to danger, so when her across the street neighbor draws her into the search for his wayward daughter, she only expects to be helpful - not to be put in the line of fire. As Peter and Shay follow the clues, their own chemistry ignites. Can they keep their hands off each other long enough to find Maddie, before the men who vandalized Peter's house can?

With just enough humor to keep readers snickering, and so much heat that I can't believe the pages didn't ignite, Brockmann keeps readers engrossed. I enjoyed the story, but I think I would recommend reading it instead of listening.

I binged most of Suzanne Brockmann's books in the first half of 2017, so I was beyond excited for this book. Ironic, then, that it's taken me so very long to post this review, for which I apologise.
I'd been looking forward to Some Kind of Hero for a long time, and while I enjoyed it, it didn't match up to how much I enjoyed other books in the Troubleshooters series. One, it was somewhat disconcerting to be reading about a 2009-set book in 2017, it felt not-quite like historical fiction, and yet not exactly current, though one could chalk this up to my nitpickiness. I liked Pete and Shayla together, and I loved that Shayla was a romance novelist, but would have loved to see more about her work. I did really enjoy her as a character: smart, funny, witty, capable. Peter was endearing as a concerned (and desperate) father, and I liked the little details Brockmann threw in (like his giving Maddie the bigger room). I don't know that that would have occurred to me. I also enjoyed Shayla's sons, and Maddie and Dingo, but the story itself, while typical Brockmann with a twisty plot that raced, frustrated me at times. I enjoyed this book, but I think I connected with the earlier books in this series a little more.
PS. I did enjoy little glimpses into the lives of the Troubleshooters gang! Glad to see Lindsey's doing well this time around.

Some Kind of Hero is an Okay book for me.

Since this is my first Suzanne Brockmann. And this book was one that I had forgotten that I read. That says a lot, I guess. It took me re-reading a bit of Synopsis to realize that I have read it.

OK. I liked the book but it was a run of the mill story for me. What stood out or what I remember about this book was the reaction Shayla had for Peter. Oh, never going to forget that one. The characters was the highlight and what would make come back and read more of her books.

I have been reading this series since the beginning and not a single book disappoints. I would recommend this book to everyone, it is exciting and hard to put down.
I really enjoyed how Peter and Shayla worked together to find 15 year old Maddie and How they did not discount the love that she had for Deago Her protector.

thank you netgalley and Ballantine books for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Shayla is a single mom and writer with writer's block. Peter is a single dad and Navy Seal, whose daughter is a little off the rails and hanging out with the wrong people. When she gets in trouble he'll have no choice but to get her out.

This novel has a lot of different themes to it: Family history, family drama, Romance and a bit of crime. And though I found it really interesting, sometimes it felt as if the novel didn't flow as smoothly as it could have. Some aspects didn't seem to be worked out as much as it could have been. It could be a case of over editing, to make the novel shorter, but I really missed some of it.

That being said, I loved the characters and their interactions with each other. Brockmann really has the ability to write amazing dialogue, which is one of the reasons I keep coming back.

Some Kind of Hero by Suzanne Brockmann (Audobook/Ebook) Omigosh, I’m a pretty big Suz Brockmann fan, but seriously, she outdid herself with this one. I was a little wary because I didn’t think that the plotline of a guy trying to find his runaway daughter and the pretty neighbor helping him out was going to be exciting enough to hold my interest, but I was turning pages with reckless abandon. One thing I totally enjoyed was the neighbor is a romance novelist, and she helps by analyzing everything like it is a scene in a book, and she also has one of her characters stuck in her head and talking to her like a conscience. It’s pretty darn funny. Of course the dad is a Navy SEAL, so when the daughter turns from runaway to kidnapping victim, the bad guys are in for a whole lot of whoop-ass. The situation is believable though. I didn’t find myself rolling my eyes in the action scene at the end. The only thing I might subtract a star for happened in the beginning. Dad calls the police because his daughter is missing. The police blow him off and tell him she’ll probably come home. Say what? The first 24 hours are the most important in a missing child case. Statistically, after 24 hours the chances of ever finding a missing child drop at a heart-wrenching rate. I do understand that we needed no police involvement so Dad and the nice neighbor-lady could set off on their adventure together, but the lack of police support left me feeling like the start of the novel seemed forced. So, prepare to suspend your disbelief on that one point. After Dad gets in the neighbor’s car though, and the adventure begins, you are in for a really fun time. This might be my favorite Troubleshooters book yet.

It's been quite come time since I read a Suzanne Brockmann novel, so I was eagerly anticipating reading an advance reader copy of this one, and I'm happy to find that so many of the things I've loved about her books are still present, and yet this one still had quite a few surprises in it, both good and bad, for this reader. I give it 3.5 stars.

As the novel opens, Shayla, the divorced mother of two boys, notices her new neighbor, a Navy SEAL, standing alongside the highway desperately trying to flag down a ride and she stops for him. Although she recognizes him, he doesn't recognize her, but he's frantically trying to follow his recalcitrant and sullen teenage daughter, Maddie, whom he saw get into a car with two older men. His name is Peter, and his ex, Lisa, has had Maddie to herself for the past 14 years, but since she recently died in a car accident, Peter is Maddie's only parent, and his career as a Navy SEAL did absolutely nothing to prepare him to be the father of a 15-year-old girl with a bad attitude. The search is on, and what follows is one of the multi-layered, well-peopled novels that Suzanne Brockmann is so darn good at writing, although this one wasn't quite what I expected.

Shayla is a romance novelist with writer's block, and, in addition to this novel being told with alternating points of view, which I generally like, what I didn't expect and wasn't thrilled about was the voice of Harry, one of the recurring characters in Shayla's novels, with whom she has a running inner dialogue for the first 75% of this novel. While it was an interesting concept, it got old fast, slowed the forward momentum of the story to a crawl, and I found myself growing more and more annoyed with the interruptions his input caused, especially when Shayla constantly says "Shh!" aloud to quiet his voice in her head. I began to wonder if this is a common thing that authors do, because, quite frankly, I began to think Harry was evidence that Shayla was psychotic. I also couldn't understand why Peter never even asked her who she was talking to, since it obviously wasn't him. What I did like about Shayla was her sense of humor, her willingness to help a neighbor in need, her bravery, her relationship with her sons, her directness, her grit, and her honesty.

Peter was also an admirable character, working as an instructor and training other wannabe Navy SEALs. Nothing in his training prepared him for Maddie, who was brainwashed by her mother into believing that he was the reason that she spent most of her life without a father, but he truly wants to be her father and build a relationship with his daughter--he simply has no experience with fatherhood, or how to befriend his daughter.

When one of Maddie's high school friends, Fiona, sets Maddie up as the villain in a drug deal gone wrong and names Maddie as the holder of the $10,000 Fiona actually stole before hitting the road, Maddie's life is now in danger from the drug dealers who want their money back and who come after Maddie, as well as anyone involved with her to get it. Since Maddie believes her father doesn't care about her, her 20-year-old friend, Dingo, accompanies her in her attempt to leave town, hide, find Fiona and have her set the record straight--no easy task. Finding and protecting her from harm is Peter and Shayla's joint mission for most of this novel, and while they soon find themselves sexually attracted to one another, the romance part of this purportedly romantic suspense novel definitely takes a back seat to the chase.

As the chase continues, Shayla and Peter begin to bond, and when she realizes how badly he truly wants to get to know his daughter, and to overcome his daughter's negative attitude towards him, Shayla suggests that he write "The Story of Peter and Lisa," and text it to her phone, and it was a brilliant way to get to know the backstory of these characters. It was also a way to better understand Peter, and for him to communicate to Maddie that he truly does love her and want to be her father, although she's not easy to convince. Peter comes off as a good, true, honest, protective and caring father, but I did find the mutual insta-lust with Shayla to be a bit too insta to be believable. He and Shayla are both thinking that they are in love with one another (privately), within the first 24-48 hours they're together, and it was simply too much, too fast.

In conclusion, while I did enjoy this novel for the most part, and was riveted to the action-packed HEA ending, I was left a bit unsatisfied with the relationship between the two main characters, and I would have preferred a bit more romance in addition to their sexual escapades.

Sometimes you need a good military romance and this book was kind of exactly that. I really enjoyed the main characters and it was a bit if a thrilling read. I was so-so on it in the end, but if you are a fan of out-of-the-box heroines with hunky military alphas than you ill enjoy this novel! Throw in some hard core - fight for those you love, with a little pinch of "Avengers ASSEMBLE" kind of throwing down, and it was overall still a good read.

I have enjoyed this author and this series in the past. However, this one was a slow start and continued at a slow pace. The premise seemed interesting enough, but I lost interest due to the lack of action, poor characterization, as well as the stilted dialogue.

The Troubleshooters is a series that I have a tendency to lose track of. I read a few, it falls off my radar, I rediscover it and read a few then it drops off my radar again, and so on. I've read maybe half of the books and certainly not in order, which can make things confusing, lol. I was a few books behind, once again, when I picked this one up. happily, it worked wonderfully as a stand alone.

The book starts off with a bang when Navy SEAL Lieutenant Peter Greene flags down a car driven by his neighbor, romance author Shayla Whitman. They take off in pursuit of a car that he thinks he saw his missing daughter climb in.

Peter may be a badass SEAL but he's in over his head with his 15 year old daughter Maddie. Peter and Maddie's mom Lisa split when Maddie was a baby and he's had little contact since. Lisa died a few months ago and now his estranged, angry, grief-stricken teenage daughter lives with him. Yeah, that's working out about as well as you might imagine. Poor, clueless, man. He means well but he doesn't know what he's doing. Give him credit though, he's trying. He took a leave of absence to spend time with his daughter and tried to nourish a friendship between Maddie and Ben, the teenage brother-in-law of another SEAL. He even gave her the master bedroom in the house he rented. Maddie's having none of it. She's sullen, uncommunicative, and a determined loner. She does have one frenemy, Fiona, and it's that girl who sets off events. Fiona gets Maddie into major trouble and then takes off. Maddie doesn't feel able to go to her father so she turns to the older, stoner, boyfriend that she's kept a secret from daddy dearest. Soon she's on the run from someone who wants to kill her and meanwhile she's ignoring her father's calls and texts.

Shayla has two teen sons of her own and she's also a single parent. She immediately jumps in to help Peter find Maddie and she's all in. It doesn't hurt that he's drop-dead handsome and she's had a thing for him since he moved across the street. Shayla is a successful romance author but she's stuck on her current book. She gets to exercise her writing skills while helping Peter though with a neat little plot device wherein she and Peter write the story of Peter and Lisa so that Maddie can learn more about her parents and maybe bond with her dad. Their story definitely lures in Dingo, the stoner older boyfriend. I didn't expect much from him when we first met him; he seemed like a throwaway character. But Brockmann surprised me and made him so much more. I have hopes he'll appear in future books.

Brockmann doesn't forget about prior characters and brings in a gang of them -Izzy, still a riot; Eden; Adam: and others, including some future SEALs, Boat Squad John, so-named because each of them has the first name of John or a variation thereof. And Jules Cassidy kinda sorta makes an appearance. Shayla, much like her creator Brockmann, writes a romantic suspense series but hers is about the FBI and her lead character Harry is a doppelganger for Jules. He talks to Shayla in her head and sometimes she replies out loud. Ooops. :D Don't worry Shayla, lots of us talk to ourselves. As long as you remember he's fictional, you're okay. Their conversations did veer into cheesiness at times but they added humor and also functioned as a way for Shayla to think things through.

Maddie, like some real world teens, could be annoying, frustrating, and stupid. I wanted to shake her so hard at times. But I would remember when my parents divorced, and when my mother died my senior year of high school, and I could empathize with her somewhat. I did find the premise of the trouble she was in to be somewhat over the top and unlikely, but I have, in some respects,a sheltered life so maybe it's just me. It has a been a while since I was a teenager. :P Brockmann made good use of today's technology - texting, Facebook, etc - and how teens use it, incorporating it smoothly into the story.

With the focus on finding Maddie, there's a lot of time spent on research and pounding the pavement. The result is that there's not as much action as many of the other Troubleshooter books and much of it is later in the book. Parts of the story are told through Maddie and Dingo's eyes and they get involved in some action so the book is not action-free but it's not action packed.

A few things that I LOVED about the book:

1) Shayla's ex is remarried and she's not the devil! They don't hate each other! It was so refreshing to see an honest, realistic portrayal of the relationship between an ex-wife and a current wife. It's not all rainbows and unicorns but it's respectful, cordial, and even friendly. When Tiffany, the current wife, gets caught in the crossfire of events with Maddie, Shayla doesn't hesitate or think twice about stepping up to offer her protection. She just does it.

2) The Japanese internment during World War II. I knew a little about the internment of Japanese American citizens but I learned more in this story. I love when a story also lets me learn things and Brockmann did a good job. She didn't get preachy and she didn't shove it down my throat but worked it into the story naturally. It's a horrific time in American history that most of us don't know enough about.

3) Respect. That was a part of 1 and 2 up top but really, Brockmann has it all throughout the story. For instance, Peter is careful not to put down Maddie's mother when taking about her. Another shining example of it is Shayla's writing. Peter doesn't denigrate it or put it down. He takes the time to research Shayla and her books, and even buys one to read. When the action starts up and he's worried about her, he frames it not as she can't take care of herself (which she can) but that they each have different skill sets and his include dealing with bad guys. He's respectful, not derogatory or condescending. And when she uses her skill set to aid in a rescue, it's utterly awesome.

"Some Kind of Hero" gives us a steamy romance, suspenseful action (GO SEALS!) (if not enough of it), snark, humor, history, some unexpected characters, some quirky characters, and a solid, if slightly unbelievable, story. If you're new to the Troubleshooters, it's a good starting place. If you're a regular, all the steamy romance, rich characters, and complicated story that you're used to are here. I wasn't a fan of the epilogue but then I rarely am. I do wish Brockmann hadn't set it a year in the future as now all subsequent stories will need to align with or lead up to the events of the epilogue. Still, a good story, worth your time.