Drivel, just a bunch of nonsense
933535
*Possible Spoilers*

If I could, I'd give it even lower then a one star review.  From the first time I read the Merry Gentry series I enjoyed the plot, characters, and universe Laurell created.  And after waiting years for a new book in the series... we're given this drivel.  Useless dialogue, useless characters, and even more useless Merry. The first... I don't know, 20 pages or so seem like they're just a recap of character descriptions, which by book 9 of a series we should have a pretty good idea of.  The babies are born in literally moments and we don't really hear too much about them (or their birth) except that they cry and are a mixed breed of everything Merry slept with.  There seems to be no character development, or interest in plot by the author at all.  The characters are deliberately obtuse, talking of killing so-and-so one moment then saying they shouldn't soon after, and even though there was an entire book in LA away from Unseelie court, nothing is done about Merry and her increasingly huge number of exiles.  The little bit of plot that the book even has is shoved, and I mean shoved, into the last three or so chapters.  And then it's just a bam explosion of things and you don't even have time to react, because the story just ends. What happened to the series? At least in previous books even if the plot was lacking, the romance and sex wasn't, this book was all waaahhh babies can't have sex let me give head because we all know I like it.  Just, bleh, sorely disappointed in this. Faeries are a relatively rare find in fantasy books, it's all about vampires and such, but LKH just seems not to be as interested in this series as she is in Anita.  I wouldn't even bother to read this honestly, it's not worth it and adds nothing to what you already knew except that she popped out triplets, her Uncle wants to rape her again and again, and the death of one of her Men.

I don't even know how to sum this up, it was... drivel. Garbage. Epic mess.  Hopefully Merry has a come back some day, but I dare not hold my breath.
1689626
This isn't serious political analysis, it's just ranting, name-calling drivel. It's sort of entertaining, and I agree with him on maybe thirty to forty percent of the issues, but he's not a scholarly figure or even clever. As I saw on an anti-Savage website once: "Calling the New York Times the Old York Times? LOL." Alright...I've read this book a few times, they're mostly just columns he wrote for World Net Daily. He'll never convince you to join his side.

 His book summed up for you:

 1) Gay people suck

 2) Al Gore is a Communist

 3) Family values as he defines them and Fundamentalist Christianity are good

 To quote Savage in his book, "That's it. It's over. You're done."

 Typical stuff. For good analysis, read Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly, Thomas Sowell, and Michelle Malkin. I agree with about half of what most of them say, but they're impassioned and reasonable.
2311639
One star is too much for this sophomoric, incoherent piece of nonsense. Only half of the book relates to the title. Even then, the author does not list seven different ideas as stated in the title. He lists maybe three and the concepts he presents are not anything profound-they are just psychology 101. The second half is a collection of random essays that are tangentially related at best. For example, one essay topic pertains to American politics. The author also spends quite a bit of time trashing "The Secret." I am not necessarily a fan of the book myself but the number of pages he spent discussing it is bizarrely disproportionate to the amount of words dedicated to the so-called thesis he claimed to have. What a waste of time!
1556533
This book was awful, but then again I finished it.  Pompous use of latin and medical terminology is a buzzkill in a novel like this.  Also the plot is nonsense with so many holes, I kept reading to be critical, rather than to be entertained.  I want to know who the author's agent is.  I have a much better self-published novel that has some value.
1315558
These are all pseudo-intellectual, academic wannabe articles that are completely full of s*** and have no value.  You can flip through and read any one sentence and come to the same conclusion.  Completely useless, except to other 'academics' who like to BS in order to pretend that they have some use to the world.
1074238
Ms. Talbott starts out her book with this assertion, and it just gets worse from there. She also knows nothing about the mores of English and Scottish peerage, master/servant relations, Scottish history, American history, fashion history, seamstressing, cooking, or any other subject on which she holds forth, but she apparently has written volumes and volumes of this trash.

The plot of this particular gem is completely unbelievable, the dialog is childishly stilted, and the author's penchant for making up character names completely unsuited to the period and ethnicity of their owners is nothing short of hilarious. Nonetheless I'm giving it two stars because it fascinated me in the same sense as would a train wreck. I suppose I'd read another one, for the same reason, if it were also free, but I wouldn't pay even a penny.
165692
The whole book keeps pointing vaguely to how his innate program is supposed to work amazingly, bringing about clarity, peace ... and whatever good feelings you desire. There isn't any concrete or practical steps for the reader. The whole book is just a sales pitch. The author uses examples in books to show how well his clients are doing, how well it will work for you, then doesn't give any clue as to how the reader can actually achieve that. He just keeps pointing back to how his program will work.

I kind of figured that out halfway into the book, but I'm one of those who has to complete the book I'm reading. Complete waste of my time.
2531505
Stunned by the positive reviews on this novel.  There is nothing "well-written" about it.  The plot is one-dimensional and paper thin, and could only be interesting to the simpletons characterized in this story.  They are over-the-top caricatures, prone to juvenile behavior, crass and idiotic conversations and general stupidity.  The heroine especially comes off as exceptionally immature in both her speech and her behavior.  One has difficulty believing she graduated from eighth grade, let alone veterinary school.  There is very little that rings true or believable in this story, it's just plain silly.  I have a headache from rolling my eyes and shaking my head in disgust.  Save yourself .99 and two aspirin and don't bother with this one.
469396
It's short compared to most books but far too long considering the lack of substance. It is essentially an assertion repeated over and over backed up with sketchy anecdotal evidence like, "Doug was in the same job for ten years..." Sure Doug was. There is even a graph at one point that the author has simply made up. I'm not even joking. He writes, "It's not hard to imagine what the drop-out curve for a marathon looks like. Probably something like this:" And then he has just drawn what he imagines the dropout curve to look like. Seriously. He just made it up. If he cared at all about the truth or facts or whether his hypothesis is correct, he would have actually done some research to find out what the dropout curve for a marathon actually looks like. But even if the central hypothesis was backed up with good evidence, no advice is given on how to recognise whether you are in a "dip" or a "cul-de-sac." This book is complete nonsense written with the substance and style of an inescapable dinner-party conversation. If I could return it for a refund I would.
1270849
A very poor attempt at comedy.
I mean, it's laughable, but not in a "ha-ha" kind of way.
More like watching a retarded person stumble along not knowing where they are or what they're doing. You look for someone who helps them but no one is around. It becomes a scene of pity.
That's what this book is.
The author is certifiably insane, but the ones I really have pity for are those that actually believe her baseless, asinine claims.
Instead of buying this book, take all the change you have in the house, drop it into a sport sock, swing it around and smack yourself in the face with it.
Trust me, that will hurt less than reading this drivel...
1278512
Come on... how can anyone believe this drivel?  Please don't waste your time reading this FICTION.
4448413
There was nothing believable about this book. It was over-written; every adverb known was used; totally disjointed and I can't believe an editor was involved. It may have made a mediocre essay, but should in no way been made into a book of several hundred pages. I am grateful that I only paid $2 to buy it for my Kindle, but it wasn't worth even that.
4705400
Waste of time.  So silly that these people must be living in a world all their own.  The whole show is just silly, full of wild speculation.
2981072
What a bunch of garbage.  It was way too long, just kept rehashing the same ole things over and over again.  Maria was selfish with no redeeming qualities as far as I was concerned.  Josh was just a wimp.  There wasn't a likeable character in the book.  Will not read anymore of the author's boring books, life is too short.  I actually had to skim through the 2nd half of the book so I could put myself out of my misery, (I have a thing about finishing books).
76829
The whole premise of this book is nonsense.  Hillary won the popular vote by over 3 MILLION votes.
She won all three debates.  Her momentum was destroyed by the FBI-Comey last minute 'revelations'
of a non-existent email 'scandal' and the Russian-Wikileaks conspiracy.  Not to mention the hard-core
Hilary-hatred of a large number of white male misogynists.  And all the nonsense national media 'scandals'.,
such as Whitewater (remember Whitewater?  years and years of 'scandal' headlines, concluding with
the committee reviewing the case to conclude that all that had happened was that the Clintons lost money
in a bad investment - of course, that conclusion was downplayed by the media!).  And using a private email
server? SInce when has that been a major felony? Especially since so many other officials such as Powell have done the same.
  Yes. the media have always had an axe to grind with the Clintons, and the misogynists with Hillary - but she still\
would have won if not for the FBI-Kremlin interventions.
  This book is one more right-wing attempt to show that the Trump election was legitimate, and to demonize a Clinton.  The propaganda just never ends!  And neither do the lies.  Indeed, there is a strong similarity between the mental mindset of anti-Semites and anti-Clintons!  The absurd lies never go away.
450412
Long-winded, blustery, poorly edited ("impressionable ISIS videos" ?!), and very thin on ideas.  Skip it.
4712350
This book is a random collection of contrived nonsense clearly meant to cater to a very gullible audience.  I find no value whatsoever within its ramblings and, if you are a thoughtful and critical person, neither will you.  I hate to crash this feel-good party that is clearly marketed towards the idiotic Baby Boomer "spiritual" crowd, but you can find more wortwhile life lessons by watching paint dry.  That so many people take the presumption at face value that the world is an inherently loving place and you can get all the blessings you want by just by believing in this drivel, is something that makes me very paranoid indeed.