I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
I just didn't find this entertaining enough to be a five, or even four star, book. It seemed like a typical GI Joe story, although they're now working in the open so they have to keep public opinion of them from dropping too low.
Mostly, I hated how much they got into Cover Girl, and her backstory as a model. See, all the Joes are only known by their code name to the public. They're all supposedly dead, and yet Courtney/Cover Girl used to be a super model who was on a Top Model type show.
So, um, how does no one recognize her when she's in the field?
I spent a great deal of time mulling this over, and it's never dealt with directly so I was really unhappy with that gaping plot hole.