Review: HATED the heroine
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
This is the third book I’ve read by author Katee Robert. While I have never been blown away by her stories, I have been intrigued enough to return once again to try out her new series.Brianne Nave is the local town librarian who doesn’t date much or really any at all. Her friends decide to set her up on a blind date with Air Force Pararescuer, Ryan Flannery, while he is back in town for a few weeks. Both are not excited about said blind date, but after much pressure from their friends, who believe they are a perfect match, they agree. Brianne is stunned when she opens the door and sees Ryan, a man she believes is entirely out of her league, standing there looking like Superman. When her eyes hit his face she believes the look he is giving her is because he is disappointed with what he sees, but she couldn’t be more wrong.Ryan gets one look at Brianne and is taken aback by her. She is soft in all the right places and has a mouth that’s begging to be kissed. Unfortunately for him and me, once she opened that kissable mouth, I only had the urge to smack her in it, but my hero wanted to kiss it… to each their own I guess.Once Brianne was locked into the idea Ryan didn’t like what he saw, she turns SUPER B!TCH. He even tries to tell her she’s got the wrong idea, but super b!tch can’t be stopped now! She knows everything, don’t you know, because only she can have issues to be dealing with and everything is about her and of course her pet fish that she won’t stop talking to. The date is horrible.Brianne is just rude and seriously drove me insane. She only gets more worked up when Ryan gives her a few blows that I feel were most justified on his end. Someone can only poke you so many times before you react. I think the author wanted the bickering to be cute and maybe even funny at times… I never found it this way, not even once.At the end of the date he walks her to the door and during another fighting match a kiss happens and the sex just explodes all over the place. The sex scenes were my favorite part the story, but I’m not sure if it was because they were truly great sex scenes or if it was because finally Brianne would just shut the F up. Please yes, just shove a c*ck in her mouth so I don’t have to hear her for a little… thank you Ryan. This is pretty much how the story goes. They fight, fight, fight then sex breaks out.Their friends end up locking them in a cabin together thinking if maybe they get to know each other they will see how perfect they are together. Of course being locked up together they do get to know each other. Both have issues from their childhood they are working through, but the author never got me to give Brianne a pass for her b!tchiness because of this. She is a grown woman that at times was acting like a toddler throwing a fit. I hated her and that stupid fish which sucked big time because I liked the hero. He could do so much better than her I thought. I think through the whole book there was one scene I enjoyed that was sweet.This book is pretty short, but took me weeks to finish. I don’t care that it was only .99 because to me the time I spent pushing myself to finish it and actually reading it was the real price I paid. I will say this; Katee Robert did a great job at giving a man’s point of view and that’s something I hardly ever say. A lot of authors can’t do a male point of view that well, but I loved my hero Ryan in this story and I always enjoyed it more when I was reading from his side. The final kicker to me was the ending… some might call it a happily ever after, but I cannot.