A bit weird that Joe and Caroline were exactly the same people as Wolf and Mary (his father and stepmother). Obviously LH wrote this years after Mackenzie's Mountain, not her fault I read them back-to-back. I would have liked more conflict in his role in the Air Force. Just cause he's alpha male doesn't mean he has to be a general at 35. In both books the horrible things that happened when Joe was a boy are a bit glossed over. And Caroline's uber-cluelessness about men was also a bit much. I started college young and graduated early and still managed to figure out how boys worked. Not trying to review this with too much of a PC filter, but of the two Mountain was much better. This seemed like the pale imitation just taken to a different location.