I can't believe how bored I was throughout this whole book
923136
I can't believe how bored I was throughout this whole book.  I only finished it because I paid for it.
3005331
I was only able to finish this book because I was so annoyed that I had already wasted my time reading half of it. It's impossible to respect Harry because he just bumbles around, talking to himself and breaking electronics and thinking he's going to die. I think there must have been at least 5 times when he thought he was definitely going to die and then he'd randomly remember some random thing and woop he wouldn't die.  Ugh.  This was especially annoying when he was being chased by a demon in a thunderstorm and he kept whining about not having enough energy to fight the demon when 4 pages before, he had spent 1/2 a page talking about how much energy thunderstorms have. UGH.  He is SO stupid.  He was also had no other redeeming qualities.  Also, he kept doing a lot of magic and getting tired out and at his limits but then he'd go around doing more magic.  Why doesn't he have a realistic gauge of his energy levels?  oh right, because he's STUPID. Do not read this book if you like the main character to be competent. Oh also, the other characters are flat and stupid too.  Especially the White Council enforcer and the cop woman. I understand that Harry is supposed to be getting misunderstood even by the people whose side he's on (poor Harry!) but I don't think the way to do that is by making those people dumb as bricks and blindly antagonistic.

Also the magic system is boring.

Just because so many people like this I'm going to try reading one of the later books where supposedly Harry and Jim Butcher are more mature at their respective jobs.  Maybe those will be okay. But this was terrible.
2498587
Nonstop action, explosions, battles, blood, love, loss.... and still the most boring book I think I've ever read. I managed to get ~75% through the book before I realized I was wasting my time and gave up on it. If I could give this book a negative star rating I would.

This may just be me but the author's writing style bugged the heck out of me. He skips from scene to scene so suddenly it's like being slapped in the face.

Many times I would read a paragraph or two before realizing POV has switched to another person or the timeline has jumped ahead weeks or months forcing me to reread sections once I realized what had happened to be sure I didn't miss something. Not to mention the fact that it made me VERY aware I was reading a book when I should have been able to immerse myself in the story.

The other big problem was the main character. He was a cardboard cut-out with no personality at all. Perhaps he will develop one in a later book but so far the only important characteristics he's displayed are:
1. He hates everything about the place where he was born and grew up
2. He's good at killing
3. He's smart
....and that's pretty much it.

I normally love stories like this so it makes me very sad that this one was so poorly done.
511229
This book was written in the voices of the 2 main characters, both of whom become very tiring and boring after the first few chapters.  After about 100 pages I skipped to the last few chapters to see how it ended, and was grateful I had not read any more.  It was highly rated, but I can't imagine why!!  Don't spend the time or the money on this book.
824192
I've always counted my time as being far more important than the few bucks we spend on ebooks. This book, or what I read of it (the first three stories) were a complete waste of my time. I only got this book because it had such high reviews, which are completely baffling to me. I didn't read all the stories. I read the first one, and was disappointed by the overly simplistic writing style and the way the concepts were handled. Then I read the second one, which was so utterly forgettable that I can't recall anything about it now, and finally I moved on to the prison story with my rapidly dwindling  hopes, but that was the lamest one of all. Maybe it's me, but I found these stories dull and pointless. Absolutely pointless. I'm still mad about how much time I wasted on this book. While I was reading it, I didn't look forward to my breaks at work like I do with most other books. This book was just so incredibly boring and I couldn't feel a connection with any of the characters. I have taken the unprecedented step-- for me, anyway-- of deleting Galactic Energies from my kindle and my kindle library.

My apologies to the author-- I'm sorry for disliking your book so much. I have written and posted this negative review for the benefit of other readers. I wish there had been a review like this to warn me. All those (in my opinion) undeserved five star reviews raised my expectations to the point where I was extremely disappointed with the reality.
3016247
It is rare that I get truly bored with a book. I couldn't wait for this one to be over. It just kept going and going, ridiculous turn after ridiculous turn.
It seemed like the author wanted to stuff in every suspense trope known to man. If you, like me, are tired of narrators "forgetting" large parts of their lives, don't bother with this one. I cannot wait for this trend in suspense/thriller writing to vanish. It is such a copout.
I read this on my kindle, so I don't know how many pages it has, but I'd say it could have ended at 75 percent or so. But no, it kept "twisting and turning," but by this point was so irritatingly predictable I had to force myself to finish.
3453341
This is my first review I've ever written on a book, but I felt compelled to. I'm a sucker for a cheesy young adult book and am an avid reader of them. So when I read the description I felt this could be a book I really liked, boy was I proven way wrong. It started out really good but it just got worse and worse. I honestly cannot fathom why people liked this junk. It felt like every single cliche imaginable was thrown into this plot, it literally contained almost every possible twist and turn you would think of. By half way through it got so predictable, I knew what was going to happen 50 pages before it would. I had to finish it, because I hate not finishing books. I really honestly tried to like this book and look past all the stupid plot twist and turns, but found myself rolling my eyes more than anything. Harper is a unrelatable character who you really just start hating half way through. Chase was my favorite character, and he is only in part of this book. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time or money on this!
220316
If there was a setting, a plot, or even a climax to this book I must have missed it!  I also don't understand why Nick McDonell needed 98 chapters to write about nothing!  It took all my energy to get through this book, I was bored from start to finish.  Nice try!!
4358449
I lost interest in this book very quickly. Admittedly, I haven't been keeping up with all the books and from other reviews; I gather this is a series. Anyway, my problems with this book stem from the fact that at the start, I was very interested to keep on reading. But after chapter one, I was bored to tears. Doing the dishes or watching TV seemed like more fun. The heroine leaves the golf course and goes somewhere, but honestly, it was that boring so by that time I was skimming.

I think if youve been reading all the books, you might be able to keep up your interest. I thought the writing at the starts was extremely well done, understated and it drew me in, and then when the heroine leaves there was no interest  DNF
591831
I read reviews on Amazon all the time, yet rarely leave them.  I felt compelled to review The Healing, however, because I am stumped as to how it got so many rave reviews.  I read lots of fiction, at least 50 books per year and this was not a well written book.  It was tedious and boring.  I didn't get connected to the characters at all, in fact they annoyed me with their slowness to "get things" and their repetitive nature.  The entire book was extremely repetitive and relied way too much on the mystical instead of the more interesting reality of the characters' lives.  It had the makings for a great historical fiction novel, but it doesn't deliver.  It's immature, almost as if it were written for young teens- in fact, I would believe that to be true except the author likes to throw in references to women's periods and dark thatches of pubic hair all the time.  I thought the book would never end and I even got so fed up I scanned the last 30 pages or so without taking in much just to get it over with.  I think I might have missed the most interesting parts and action based on what I was able to skim, but at that point I was beyond caring.
775953
pure boredom - if there was a point to be made it took too long - stopped reading (which is unheard of for me) after attempting to get into the book for a week
2232277
I really wanted to like this book because I love what it's about, but it is just sooooooooo boring!
1001580
This book was excruciatingly boring.

That might have had to do with the fact that... I read this over the course of three months. But the thing is, I didn't want to pick this up. It didn't pull me in, and there was little to no plot.

The characters, I enjoyed at the start of the book. Bree and Gabe had fun personalities and I genuinely enjoyed reading from Gabe's voice and her point of view. However, as there was a break in Bree and Gabe's relationship, Gabe's personality went down. She PUNCHED her best friend's boyfriend and did other rude things, as well as just assuming that he's horrible without knowing him.

Bree was also unnecessarily rude to Gabe, and it annoyed me how she just abandoned her best friend because she didn't like her boyfriend.

Plot? Hahahahaha. What plot are you talking about?

This wasn't my type of book. It was one about changing and developing but... it was boring.

There was nothing that made me keep on wanting to read, nothing that made me want to turn the next page. I was completely fine putting my Kindle down and just leaving it there... for two months.

There's a small romantic plot, which was cute, but... it was also boring???

In the synopsis of this book, it mentions a night that changes their lives, but that happens at the END of the book, and the beginning was just the build-up to that, I suppose?

This wasn't my kind of book.

Thank you to the publisher for giving me a copy of this book, which did not impact my review in any way.
3326569
What the heck did I just read? This book was so boring. All of the "exciting" plot in the description, well that's as much plot as there is in the books too. The rest is multi-page descriptions of the rippling in the water created by trout. Are you here for character development? Out of luck. The protagonist starts out kind of ballsy and becomes shrill and one-note. Is she curious about how she travelled in time? Not really. Is she having any interesting dilemmas adjusting to the new environment? Not really. The romantic interest meanwhile starts out as the most annoying puppy dog of a character ever committed to page. He might as well not have a brain or tongue because his only use seems to be taking beatings for other people. And the only thing said about him is that he's handsome. Well it's a book, so that doesn't help me much. He then somehow turns into a dude completely willing to beat and rape the wife he's supposed to be madly in love with. And that my friend brings me to the last point. How is this relationship romantic? Girlfriend has an adoring, handsome British SPY husband at home. I don't care about the cheating like some reviewers, Jamie's hot and her husband won't be born for 200 years. But girl, pull it together, you do not fall in love with the 23 year old virgin meathead who beats you with a belt. Don't do it. Run away. Run, Claire, run. But then her inner monologue is so tediously boring that maybe they're meant for each other.
311666
I don't think I had ever not finished a book before I read this. Seriously. I skipped almost half the book becasue of the boring story some old guy was telling.  It bored me to tears, and it barely even talked about the whole Sleeping Beauty connection, just about being persecuted because the guy was gay. I dodn't want to know about how his lover killed himself or ANYTHING. And that is why I skipped most of it, and just read the last page.
1505028
Im not gonna lie, it took me almost 100 pages to get into this book. However, once I got past the boring beginning part where everything was bleak and Feyre constantly feels stuck and like her whole family is on the verge of dying and all of the human race is probably going to die at the hand of faeries, once I got past that part it was just one long train of me dramatically groaning at my roommate about how dramatic this book was. I was SO into it. Yet, at the same time, I was annoyed by how attached at the hip she and her love interest become. High lord this and High Lord that, please. It was terribly annoying. My favorite scenes ended up being the ones with Rhysand and the ones where she put her smarts and badass fighting skills to good use.

Maass writing style was okay, but it was the storyline that truly compelled me forward. Maas overused ellipses, another bothersome point, especially when I was reading it out loud. However, 500 pages breezed past and I readily picked up the next book in the series. Well see how I feel about that soon. I was a little disappointed because there is so much hype revolving around this book, which I think is why I gave the book a lower rating. Perhaps had I gone in with lower expectations, this book might have been more enthralling. Maass worldbuilding, on the other hand, was superb; Id love to see what a D&D campaign with her as dungeon master would look like!
4693174
Intensely boring, pathologically boring, stultifyingly boring...This book is like reading the daily Facebook comments of someone you're sorry you friended who has to describe every mundane activity of her life. Maybe it's meant to be that way for those who love to read about a fantasy world where everyone gets along, romance has no sparkle and there is almnost no action. This doesn't ressemble any family or relationship dynamics I've ever experienced. Spoiler alert: actually I can't call it that because there are no spoilers in this book. But anyway, even the supposed drama of the estranged mother returrning to hit up her daughter for cash carries no major call for mayhem or even therapy. Everyone is so nice to the character involved that ruffled feathers are quickly smoothed. Give me a break! So why did I select this book and even more pertinently, why did I finish it? I moved near the author where she is a local celeb. To fit in to my new surroundings, I read the first book in this series which was only marginally less boring than the second. Then I went to her store for a book signing and had to present one of her gems for a signature. Logically, I picked the next in line, figuring maybe the trilogy improved as it moved along. I finished the book with the cognitive dissonance that such a famous author could write something so amazingly bad. I am not even tempted to read the final book.