Review: Annoying main character with an "eh" romance...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2012
The Lure of Shapinsay is a paranormal romance by indie author, Krista Holle. When Krista first approached me about reviewing The Lure of Shapinsay, I was immediately intrigued by the summary! Not only am I a lover of romance, but I was also excited to learn more about a type of paranormal I haven't read about before- selkies! After just recently finishing The Lure of Shapinsay, I have to say, I'm a little disappointed. Although there were things I did enjoy about the story, there was an equal amount (if not more) that just wasn't doing it for me.To start off, I really want to point out that Krista Holle's interpretation of the selkie creatures was really well done. It was entertaining, interesting, and most importantly different from the regular "mermaid" tale. The mid 1800 setting and unique dialogue between the characters also makes it easy to clearly visualize everything in the story!When we are first introduced to the main character, Kait, I immediately thought she was going to be a very strong, female character. Unfortunately my opinion of her steadily went downhill from there. Immediately after falling in love with Eamon, Kait becomes incredibly annoying. Her constant insecurities were repetitive and  her character just became this love sick puppy blinded by "love." I was able to get past the instant-love thing....but what I wasn't able to get past was how being in love dramatically changed Kait's character (and not for the better). With this book being about 50% in Kait's POV, I was going mad from having to read through this girl's brain. *shivers*Ahhh, Eamon....the handsome, selkie, Eamon.....He was probably my favourite character in this book. Although I could have gone without his numerous vulgar "humping" statements, (which was a bit disturbing :P) his character radiated a mystery that encouraged me to keep reading. Not to mention that seeing him make sacrifices to be with Kait was incredibly sweet- I'm a sucker for those sacrifice-rs ;)The love story between Kait and Eamon was just, overall, really hard for me to get into. I wasn't able to connect with them very well -which is essentially the reason why I had to give this book such a low rating.  After reading such amazing reviews from fellow bloggers, I really wanted to fall in love with this book but unfortunately that wasn't the case.