Not what I expected...disappointing.
929892
Not as thick as most other silicone trivets and not 8 inches as described. More like 6. Disappointing overall. I ordered another different patterned one at the same time and its great, wish I'd gotten two of that one.
2603072
Not what I was expecting, so I was a bit disappointed.
1263984
not at all what was expected  - returned product
3530309
I was really looking forward to reading this book. It sounded like it would have me hooked. Plus I was looking for something different to read than my normal murder mysteries. Ok this book turned out to be a major let down for me. I was expecting this book to be a darker, gritter young adult story. None of the characters intrigued me. In fact, they kind of got on my nerves. The romance I was not feeling at all. Why does it seem like every author thinks that they have to make the main characters fall in love. Not every story has to involve a love story. It is like the author thinks that the girl needs a guy to help them going through whatever they are expericing or needs the guy to solve the problem with them. So anyways back to the book. there was hardly anything of interest happening in the story. I never really saw Barrie use her "gift". In fact, the story had hardly any suspense or action that after half way I went straight to the last two chapters of the bok and read it to see the ending. Which disappointed me of what teh whole big mystery was surrounding the families. I don't think I will be reading the next book in this series.
3438098
This novel was not what I was expecting.  It actually did not live up to my expectation. I was disappointed. It's actually quite boring.
829867
Not what I expected.  The era of the story did not hold my interest.
2859029
Disappointed. This was not what I was hoping for. I read the follow up book "The Foxe and the Hound" before this book and I really liked it. So when I decided to read this book I thought I would get more of the same feel good reading I got with "The Foxe and the Hound". I was mistaken.

Where in the other book it had the heroine being sweet and thoughtful and endearing this book had the leading lady being selfish, self centered, juvenile, ridiculous, annoying, and lacking any redeeming qualities I could see. Even the leading lady's mother I found grating, cringe worthy, overbearing, inappropriate, and disloyal to her own daughter. Not even with the ending being tied up in a "Happy Ever After" bow it couldn't make me like many of the characters, especially the leading lady, Daisy Bell. Even the leading man was lacking in character and was just as juvenile.

The writer told a story well and really had me visualizing what was going on and I do still plan to read more of her work because I do enjoy her vivid writing style. I just couldn't fall for this train wreck of characters the way so many other readers did. I read the reviews of other readers before reading this book, and there were many positive reviews, and that is what inspired me to read this book. Sadly I just didn't feel the same.

While I'll be recommending "The Foxe and the Hound" to my family and friends I will not be suggesting they read "Anything You Can Do". Cause ugly they can find on the evening news and do not need to read about it on their down time in a book. Cause Daisy Bell was an ugly pitiful soul.
1337287
Disappointed! I had high expectations of this book, and all the glorious reviews are misleading. I'm a fan of paranormal romances, that's only reason for 3 stars, well, ok, there were moments that didn't suck, but overall, it's disappointing.
2353953
I was drawn to the title and subtitle of this book, which is why I purchased it. Why I'm giving if 2 stars is that it wasn't what I expected. I think my hopes were very high based on the description. There wasn't much biblical reference or some kind of reference to God's truth to stand on. I was able to take away small bits and pieces of insight, but I wanted so much more out of this book than what I was able to get. Finally, I wasn't able to personally relate to the stories shared very much, although I tried. I'm a work a pretty typically 8 to 5 job, come home to my husband, and am involved in church and extra curricular activities. The examples about being able to stop and journal in the middle of the day or meet a girlfriend for a workout and a meal on a weekday just would never happen for me. I hope that this book can help someone or get them a little closer to the truth they seek!
2033035
Disappointing.  I had to force myself to keep reading this... and I did... all the way to the end.  While there were a couple sentences or moments that were interesting or inspired, the story as a whole fell remarkably flat.  It felt as though the author was trying to tie too many "love stories" in together and ended up missing them all.  I didn't feel anything (except maybe the occasional irritation) in regards to the character relationships.  I didn't feel like they were fleshed-out at all - lust-at-first-sight and cliches abound.

My major issues:
Pacing was terribly slow... You are 30% into the book before the first actual interaction between the "main" characters.

There is a lot of telling - not showing - by the author, which leaves me not emotionally invested.  And by this, I mean that there is a lot of shallow introspection by the characters instead of actions.  Their thoughts mostly revolved around how much they identified with a book character or disliked their current life situation.  It didn't seem to go much deeper or make me feel invested in them.  I stopped counting how many times something like "he realized _____" was in the text.  Instead of telling me what he realized, give me some flavor text and make me feel it and get excited about it.

I do NOT understand the inclusion of all the excerpts of the main character's novel.  I got to the point where I simply skimmed over these... they didn't seem to do anything for the story... except give the characters something to which they could relate.  Between all these scenes and the choppy modern romances, it felt like the author slapped a bunch of romance/sex scenes together, wrote minimally to loosely connect them, and called it good... and even those scenes don't engage you emotionally like you would expect something in the genre to do.
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Pros: In general, it was hard to find pros for this book.  I had high hopes, but felt supremely let down.  I think that the sub characters helped the story along. Had some of the secondary characters not have been interesting; this would have been a one bookmark rating. I did like the whole Illuminati aspect of things, which added another dimension to the back story.

Cons: Kennedy.  I wanted to like her, but she's too insecure for my taste. Dare I say even a little bland?  I like a strong and witty female lead. Yes, she's strong in some respects, and in others she's a seriously insecure kid.

The love triangle is weak at best and that's sad because most YA stories revolve around the love interest.  Honestly, I didn't understand why either of the twin boys even liked her. I just didn't get the love "triangle" in this story.

All the teens are 17, with exception of the one 15 year old. I felt that the story sort of fell on the younger side of the YA genre. Personally, I like older YA, so this just felt a tad young for me.  I really expected this to be more like Anna Dressed in Blood.  It's definitely in the wheel house, but it's much dryer and slower. Even the supposed plot twist, wasn't such a big deal.

Sadly the narrator didn't help things. She was a tad bland. At times, the story turned into background noise.

Final Thoughts:  I expected a slow start being that the couple of Beautiful Creatures books that I read also started pretty slow, but I think I was hopeful because this book was written by only half of that writing duo. But unlike the BC books, the pace didn't pick up. Not ever.  Beyond the slow pacing, I didn't care for the heroine, and it's important for me to like the focal character of the story.  I didn't connect with her.  Will I read the next book in this series? Nope.  Would I recommend this? No, not really.
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*****WARNING SPOILERS*****

Hmm.. I really don't know exactly how I feel about this book. It definitely was not as good as I expected. Most the reviews I have read people are pissed about what choices Sookie made but to me they seemed valid. What made this book not so great for me was that it felt rushed just like Harris was so over it and she let it show, also Sookie got a Half-Assed happily ever after... that pissed me off the most. The writing itself was off too, the pacing was awful and the switch from third person to sookie and the extra events.. i don't think that was needed it just made things confusing. I would of rather had Eric's POV if she wanted to go for something different!

I reread all 12 books before I started this one so the whole story was extremely fresh when I went into this book which I think has made a huge difference on how I took it verses others. Eric and Sookie's relationship had been failing since book 11 so it was no surprise things did not get fixed between them to me. Neither one of them was open and honest with the other and Eric was to damn busy to really be in a relationship..

One thing I do not get from this series in general is why Sookie's reason for breaking up with Quinn was that she needed to be number one and his family would keep that from happening so she kicked him to the curb. Then she jumps in with Eric who puts everything over Sookie for their entire relationship and she knows he is going to do that.. boggles my mind!

I don't blame Sookie for choosing not to be Eric's concubine after he "divorced" her or that she declined his offer to become a vampire. She was so ready for a "normal" life she had been complaining for the last 3 books about wanting peace and just to be happy, for the past 2 years of her life she had been beaten and in danger of dying nonstop so I would think that mundane would look pretty good compare to constant danger and politics of the vampire world.

I have always thought Sam would be a great guy for her, just what she needed but I have to say reading the sex scene between the two of them felt odd... kind of like a brother and sister hook up. Maybe bc Sam has always been filled in that older brother type of roll.. idk but it was awkward for me to read felt wrong.

The ending itself was just disappointing, I wanted a solid path for her to know that all was going to be right that she was going to get a break... what did I get some half-assed bs..sigh And now I have to wait 6 months to read the epilogue!!

I do have to commend Harris for sticking to her guns on what she wanted to happen to Sookie, she even says in the first couple pages of the books that she stuck to what she wanted for Sookie and she knows people aren't going to be happy .. so basically to damn bad. Thats pretty bold more power to her!
1455292
Not at all what I was expecting.  Description could have been clearer.
1015899
Not at all what I was expecting and was rather disappointed. It was highly recommended but is basically a tale of random superheroes with not so super of powers. Could have just been published as a list of awkward heroes or something. The actual story part of it is basically a short story that has been stretched by adding a bunch of the awkward hero names/powers
1132907
I fell in love with Callie and Kaden's story in the first book. I have been looking forward to the sequel to their story for months only to be sorely disappointed. I really wanted this book to wrap up the story and tie it in a pretty little bow.  There was no wrapping and definitely no bow.  I expected this book to really delve into the family drama with Kaden's addict Mother and abusive father, get into the history with Caleb and Callie's family, see a confrontation between Caleb and Callie's family.. confrontation with Kaden's family and Callie's family (I mean, they were close right?).. I just expected so so so much more.  I feel like that this book was written just for the sake of writing a second book, and to set up a story for Luke.  There was so much emotional angst set up with Kaden's mom and Dad, his cutting, etc.. and then they just left town.. and that's it.  You have GOT to be kidding me!!! Thats IT!?  Its just a cowardly way out.  It wasn't dealt with.  Same thing for Caleb.. he just disappears, Callie tells her parents, and everything is just forgotten about.  Nothing was really dealt with.  I hated it. So disappointed.
2006895
Disappointed not what I thought it would be like.  It was confusing to me very much out of my league.
3845296
This was definitely not the Beauty and the Beast that I was looking for.... Terribly disappointed....