Hourglass (Hourglass Novels)

by Myra McEntire

The beginning of this story pulled me in straight away, I really enjoyed it and was overjoyed to find it was a little bit different to other paranormal romances I have read. But then I kept on reading and realized that was false, it was exactly like other paranormal romances I've read. The beginning was just really good at hiding it.

The main thing that annoyed me about this book was that it was all about the romance between Emerson and Michael when I wanted it to be about Emerson's 'gift'. It was instalove and it pissed me off. The romance started off way too intense, within the second day of Emerson meeting Michael she's thinking she could trust her life with him. The rest of the story is all Emerson thinking how hot Michael is, how she's drawn to him and how she thinks he doesn't have feelings for her. Which was so annoying that I wanted to stop reading this altogether. In fact I did. I just couldn't read this eye rolling story all in one go, I had to take a break and read something that was gritty and not sickeningly cliche. Then there was a forced love triangle that made no sense and felt completely out of the blue. So stupid.

I think if this story had backed off of Emerson's and Michael's 'relationship' and focused more on the bigger story I would have loved this. However since I had to sit through pages of Emerson pining over Michael that got so bad to the point that she had to keep restraining herself from smelling his pillows (SERIOUSLY?!) I just very nearly hated this. It was nauseatingly sickeningly cliche.

I loved the 'ghost' part of the story, I just wished it had focused on that instead, with the romance being a byproduct. Too bad it seemed to be done the other way round.