Review: Such a weak heroine...meh.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2013
I also had high hopes for this book, and was looking forward to reading about the heroine Becca, a military police officer whose father was a Marine. But I'm very disappointed. Becca isn't a strong, confident heroine. She's, well, *delicate*. So much is said about Becca's physical diminutiveness and her emotional fragility -- she's so easily frightened and freezes like a deer in headlights -- that it's *almost* funny. When Becca isn't shutting down emotionally and rolling into a ball in terror (I kid you not, it's either that or hiding her face in her hands), then she's passing out or feeling dizzy, requiring some big strong man to carry her and make sure she's safe. Said big, strong man is, of course, completely enchanted by her human fraility, her childlike size, her little tiny hands, etc. His big, strong protective urges are brought to the fore. And so on.And that's without mentioning Becca's super-rare, supernatural gift. Becca is clairvoyant, but in such an irritating way that I bet she'd like to return that "gift." Most of the time, her brief visions terrify, scare, frighten her, even rendering her temporarily blind, all without giving her any useful information about who, what, when, where, why or how. The "Long Island Medium" gets better information than Becca. So...no strong paranormal abilities, either. Wah-wah.Alas, I can't get even enjoy the blossoming romance because the heroine is so timid, I don't see this as an equal match. I don't respect her, and I don't respect a man who is excited by a woman's constant helplessness.There may be those -- and MUST be, looking at other reviews here -- who like their heroines on the delicate, fragile side. I'm just not one of them. A heroine doesn't have to be a total badass for me, but if I'm to believe she's an MP, she should have a little more ability to handle some strangeness without immediately metaphorically peeing herself and falling over.**A last note: I would strongly encourage the author to hire an editor. Some of the sentences are very awkwardly worded, such as, "Sensing his rage drove him and fearing they would raise suspicion at the gate approaching it like they were a couple of drunk hotheads out for a beer run, Becca reached out." Or, "They had the elevator all the way to the 12th floor to themselves." Reminds me of, "Throw the cow over the fence some hay." Also, there are some misspellings, such as "kitsch," that a spellchecker should have caught.