Review: Ridiculous
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2013
Emma is a young woman with a form of albinism that gives her violet eyes and pale skin.  Despite the fact that many people would consider this quite attractive, she thinks that she is a freak and prefers to spend her entire day with her "friends," the characters in her novels.  I am sure that the novels of somebody who has no social experience and thinks of her characters of her friends are quite excellent, especially since Emma also tends to finish about one novel a day.Emma's sister, Rose, is a pop star.  Emma agrees to spend a month with her sister in Las Vegas despite the fact that she hates to party or be around people.  Rose uses this opportunity to hire a defective bodyguard, one that nobody else wants, for her sister.  That really shows she cares, huh?The course of true love never does go smooth.  Despite all the fun they have eating pints of ice cream and watching Spongebob in the hotel room, Emma and Jackson also have to confront parts of their past.  Jackson, for example, has debilitating PTSD from his time as a Marine (note to the author:  please always capitalize "Marine" when talking about a U.S. Marine.  It is disrespectful that you didn't bother to do this).  And Emma had a bad time in middle school that caused her to decide to be a reclusive virgin forever.Will Jackson be able to change her mind?  And will she be able to magically cure his PTSD with the power of her violet eyes?This book is outlandish, silly, and difficult to finish.  Emma is such a transparent Mary Sue (my characters are my best friends!  I have weird eyes!  I exercise too much!  I wrote a best selling book in a few hours!) and Jackson is just a muscular question mark with a vaguely described case of PTSD.