Joan (official heroine hater)'s Reviews > Emerge

God this book was annoying! I have no idea how I managed to finish it-I guess curiosity to see how it all ended up. The first few chapters of the sample I read were pretty decent-I should know by now that samples can be deceiving, when will I ever learn?
I absolutely hated just about every character in this book. Let’s start with Laney, our heroine. Biggest dick-tease I’ve ever read! Now I hate that term and hate it when guys use it, but I’m sorry, Laney was the very definition of a dick-tease. The back and forth-I love Evan and I don’t want to hurt him…or no, I love Dane and I don’t want to hurt him. Oh, but I’ll just mess around with both of them and get their hopes all up. Non-stop “woe is me” and “my life is so hard” and tears galore. UGH! The best part of the whole book was when her friend, Bennett, went off on her and told her what a selfish bitch she was-that had me smiling!
Then we have hero #1-Evan. What a weenie-he spent the entire book apologizing and saying “I’m sorry” to Laney. And for what?? I have no clue, he never really did anything wrong except fall for her and get yanked around on her chain. Grow a pair Evan….
Hero#2-Dane. I didn’t get the appeal of this guy at all. I guess he was supposed to be Mr. Mystery Man, but I wasn’t falling for it. We never really get to know him, even with the chapters from his POV. I have NO clue what he saw in Laney and why he was suddenly so in love with such a useless blob. He also had the worst case of winkitis I’ve ever seen. This guy was “winking” at least once or twice a chapter. Was that supposed to be hot? It was starting to creep me out and by about 50% I was ready to poke him in the eye with a sharp object. I actually thought he was going to end up being the stalker with all the creepy winking and possessiveness. Course, that little plot line is finally revealed at the end…lame.
So, it goes without saying, that I won’t be bothering to read the rest of this series. I see that the next one is Evan’s story and reading an entire book about that ball-less wonder just doesn’t appeal to me.