Review: The 'hero' is a jerk
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2012
I was totally turned off by the character of Ethan. He is a jerk. He could smell Tegan's fear and he realised that she's been through some kind of trauma, yet what does he do? Stand idly by while his friend Lucas subjects her to a rude and intimidating interrogation. He claims he wants to protect her, yet does nothing, even when he sees that Lucas' questions and manner are upsetting Tegan... why? Because he wants to know the answers to the questions Lucas is asking her. Then he proceeds to test her resistance to vampire thrall by commanding her to strip for him. When she tells him to get lost, he freaks her out more by insisting that he drive her home and makes all kinds of insinuations:"I'm Ethan by the way," I tell her, deciding to introduce myself properly at long last."Whatever.""Just thought you'd like to know, since you'll be moaning it later on." I smirk to myself, I couldn't seem to contain the remark. After all, it's the truth.Can you say creepy? He is a total jerk, thinking only of what he wants, not how she feels.Tegan's character is inconsistent. She is shown to be fearful yet courageous, venturing out of her home for the first time since a huge traumatic event has taken place (the event is not explained). But later when she allows Ethan to take her home, he senses that she is in so much pain that she doesn't care whether she lives or dies anymore, which is why she agreed to let him, a total stranger, into her house. This doesn't make sense. If she didn't care, she wouldn't have gone out that night. If she didn't care, she wouldn't have resisted him at all in the first place.Although I'm curious about what happened to Tegan to make her so fearful and traumatised, Ethan's self-centred arrogance is such a turn-off that I don't want to read any of the other books in the series.