This book started as a 5 star book but as it progressed it was going down to 4 then 3 and eventually I could not finish it and gave it 2 stars. This addition includes all 3 books in the series. I liked the first book/part of the story. I liked the main hero Nate, his character was well developed and complex. I din't care much for the main heroine Emi, but I could overlook her flaws because the story was good. Like other reviewers pointed out she is shallow, there is nothing special about her. She doesn't have anything going on for her except her beauty and her green eyes that everybody seems to fall in love with. I like my heroines more complex. Something tragic happens in the end of the first book and hundreds and hundreds of pages are spent on Emi wallowing and whining. I understand it was a part of the story, but it didn't have to be hundreds of pages! Then enter Jack, another uninteresting character, who I couldn't care less about, because I was rooting for Nate from the beginning. The story of Jack and Emi seems to be the same version as Emi's and Nate's. He is in love and can't live without her but she puts him in the friend zone because she is too afraid. Tons and tons of pages are spent on her confused internal monologue deciding if they should be friends or more. I already read it in the beginning of the book when she was going thru the same thing with Nate. At this point I just gave up because I couldn't continue reading it. 3.5 Stars.This was a journey, it was a well laid out story. I loved the men in this book, but Emi herself, I would have to say was a bit annoying. She was very frustrating because she would just completely shut down and it took really big men with really big gestures to break her out of her funks. After a while, it was tiring and I wanted her to just stop. In that same sense, Nate was similar. Except for when he finally realized what he wanted and went balls to the wall for it. That I loved. That I missed. I really missed Nate and I feel like I went through the whole grieving process with Emi on that one. I read half of the second book through tears. And it was ugly, but in a good way. Jack was a little too perfect. I feel like he TOO good and to me, that was a flaw. Because he got boring. It was only towards the end where he grew some balls that I finally grew to really love him. But seriously, I went through book 3 probably as tentatively as Emi did because I was afraid of what would happen next. Would we have to suffer another devastating loss? Thankfully, no.
What do You think about Emi Lost & Found Series (2000)?
Great book!!! Ugly cried a lot!! Love the characters!!!
—clroger2
