This is one of the worst fla shell book I have seen
920152
This is one of the worst fla shell book I have seen. Not only the author used bright colors that clash with the clearly cutout picture of shells there's barely any descriptions about the shells themselves other than size. Then when you flips to page 60 it makes you cringe as half of the animals listed isn't from Florida at all and except for a few most was found in shell shops not on beach.
235977
This book is honestly the worst book I have ever tried to read in my life. Obviously this was independently published because there is no way this book was edited by a person with any type of experience. I barely got through 25% of the book before giving up. Almost every other paragraph had the same sentence that the previous one did. Everything was explained over and over again. You can pretty much see every situation coming and the wording and actions didn't flow together and made everything seem unbelievable. I have no idea who has been giving this four or five stars because this was pretty much unreadable.

The thing with getting free kindle books is that a lot of them are either hits or misses, and this one was definitely a miss.
2813795
I will admit, I do not write many reviews.  Most of the books I have read (1-3 a week) are very good and properly reviewed already.

Homeworld, though, deserves my opinion.  And it is not good.

First, the story.  It is OK. Shallow to be sure, but still it had some potential.  But the writing style is high school level, and little to no real character development.  It moves along but it's painful at times.

And the reason why is the horrible editing and formatting.  Errors, typos, wrong character names used, you name it all over the place.  It is simply the worse edited and formatted book I have ever read.  Ever.

There are so many great, and I mean really, really good military scifi books and series, some of which are free.  Some are $0.99 a book that blow this one away.  Sure, you find errors and typos is a lot of the self published books that are free or cheap.  I expect it and it bothers me not at all.  But this book, it bothered me and it will bother anyone who actually reads the book and gives it an honest review.  It is that bad.

I will say it again... Shallow, amateur story and plot and character development.  Worse edited and written book ever.
706508
I read this book and was very disappointed. The first page is very hard to read and doesn't fit well with the rest of the book at all. I think the author was trying to maybe put some back story to it but it is difficult to understand and doesn't flow well at all or with the rest of the book. The book is written in rhyme, but it's lacking cadence and feels a bit forced to me at times. It makes it a little awkward to read with it lacking cadence.
There are things that just happen in the story that is not properly explained why. Such as a character, Timmy the Pear, apologizing for tricking Mr. Lemonman. Even though there was no good way to even know he was in on it until the toad is leaving and Timmy is sad that he tricked Mr. Lemonman, so Timmy sends the toad the wrong way. Which nothing is put in the story about it being wrong for Timmy to being lying to the toad and sending him down a dangerous path. Which is one of the things in this book I defiantly do not want to teach my daughter. I don't want her being mean to people and lying to them just because they are being mean.
Also I'm concerned about the fact that the characters look way younger than the toad and the toad is put as an untrustworthy stranger (stranger is used a couple of times to describe the toad). Not that we shouldn't help people. I just don't want my kid trying to save someone bigger, older and untrustworthy out of water by herself, it's dangerous.
And don't like how Mr. Lemonman said he would only help if the toad did something. Instead of helping just because the toad was in trouble. It would have meant much more for the toad to change his ways due to kindness from someone he had hurt instead of because he made a deal and "a deals a deal". Those are some of my issues with this book. Sad because it has so much potential. So disappointing it fell so short.
4132512
I downloaded this book to get a taste before I actually decided to buy it. This book is pretty bad and uninformative. Nothing sticks out, nothing draws you, there is no mind blowing revelation. I'm 23 and I knew all of what she was trying to give out at the age of 13. The whole book is just stories from her life telling you what she did(quite frankly her life seems boring and average). She tends to over explain stories and insert stories that seem to have no real basis for being in the book besides the fact that she wanted to put it in there. I stopped reading mid-way because i couldn't stomach anymore. Theres no originality, no sense of wonder while reading. Its babbling in literature form. What could have been a 30 page straight to the point message was drawn out to over 200 pages of non sense. I urge every man, woman and child to read any other book on happiness before attempting this read. It will save you time.
3680316
Like every other review on here I have to agree that this book is a VERY POORLY written version of Twilight. Don't get me wrong I loved Twilight but I wish I had not read this book or spent the money on it. If you're wondering why I even gave the book two points it's only because I read the book in two days which is surprisingly fast considering how predictable/bad/boring it was.

TINY SPOILER:::I am not going to rewrite all the bad things what everyone else wrote about this book but I would like to add that I have no idea what Damen likes about Ever; she is whinny boring and obsessive. There is nothing about her to like. I guess that can go both ways though because how can Ever like a supposedly "perfect" guy who can't even figure out that it's his ex-lover who is killing off the girl of his dreams over and over again.

Oh and last but not least I hated that the book took place in Laguna Beach. Don't we already have a bad enough image of the kids that grow up there without Ever the influential, drunken, self obsessed fictional character.
652400
The only thing this book is good for is firewood.  This book is so poorly written I am not sure how it got to print.  It is as bad as Luann's, Jill Zarin's BFF, singing.  I am not sure how anyone can write a book on relationships when they clearly have emotional problems.  It's as if Jill didn't get enough attention when she was young. What kind of parenting skills could Gloria or Jill have to act the way they do?  I want relationship advice from this group as much as I want etiquette advice from Countless Luann.

Take your chances with this one...or take it to the beach this summer and create a great bonfire!!!
292329
This is one of worst books I have tried to read in a long time. I try to get samples of authors who are new to me whenever I can.
 One of the reviews compared this author to Ann McCaffrey! WRONG!! Ms. McCaffrey is a 10+ similar to Andre Norton, Lawrence P. White or Mercedes Lackey. This author is about a 2.5 Maybe.
The main character is an immature idiot. He wants to be rich but wastes his money on wine, women and song. May be fun but will not get rich that way. It starts out with him checking out a town before he goes in. He goes around instead because of trouble there. When he gets to the next town there is plenty of clues that there is trouble and yet he keeps right on setting up. Nit Wit!! And WHERE is the Traders Guild? This is supposed to be a big trading town that would have a Guild presence.
The main animal character needs a collar. He is not too bright and doesn't want to be in this relationship but doesn't leave. He is supposedly as bright or brighter than the human and yet he goes tomcatting instead of paying attention to business. Behavior that would be consistent with a normal cat but not one like this is supposed to be.
The whole sample was just full of inconsistences like this. Makes you wonder how old the author is. 12 or 15 maybe. Hope he matures into a better author. We need lots of better Sci-Fi/fantasy writers.
I could barely get through the sample before giving up in disgust.
2133508
This is seriously one of the worst books I have ever suffered through.  I don't know what made Ms. Abraham think she is a writer, or why she thought her daughter might want to know many of the details in the book, but I would be so embarrassed to be her child reading this later in life.

The book is very poorly written.  She has no grasp of how to write about herself or her memories in a way that is anything other than the disaster that her life seems to be.  I am shocked that anyone let this go to print, although really, I shouldn't be.  I think most of us read it in disbelief that this was actually published.  I can only hope those guiding her (is there anyone guiding her???) are someday ashamed of the advice she has been given.  If no one is guiding her, then she most obviously needs someone to step in and be her voice of sanity.

This book has information in it that should never be known to the public.  Farrah seems to have missed many of the lessons of childhood where you don't have to put everything out there...and some things that will most certainly embarrass and hurt her daughter are in the book.  Its shockingly bad and in the same way, horribly sad, because no one told her what a bad idea this was.
4500497
I have been a police officer for 10 years. This book is terrible. I did not buy it, it was provided by my dept. for the Sgt./promotional exam.  The information is very outdated and the author clearly has delusions of grandeur and has not worked in law enforcement for at least 100 years.  The book is repetitions and full of the authors opinions which are universally tactically dysfunctional.  Things like; tap you baton on the ground to signal your partner, if you have a "hair trigger" it's easy to fire your gun accidentally, and have your gun out every time you enter a building.  This stuff might have been fine when he went through the academy with Sir Robert Peele, but for a book that was re-edited in 2014 there is an unacceptable amount of bad information.

I will be speaking to the chief about having this material removed from future tests.  This book should only be used in the academy to teach new officers how not to be cops.
2998754
Luckily I got this book from my local library. If I would've spent even $5 I would've felt ripped-off. This book does not explain anything! It just shows you what a general script looks like with absolutely no explanation for real world use at all. There are so many mistakes it makes me wonder if they just pushed it out the door asap to make some quick cash from the "JQuery" name. Please take my word for it, it's horrible. [...]. I've only read 3 chapters and have already found at least one script in each chapter that does not work at all. [...] I could go on but why waste my time...
2416210
This book is awful.  I can hardly believe Faye Kellerman wrote it.  I'm actually abandoning it, which is something I rarely do, and, it ticks me off because I bought it.  I really should have read reviews first, but usually Faye Kellerman books are pretty reliable.

1. It's pretty poorly written for a FK book.  The dialogue, both inner and via text, does not ring true at all and rings of an adult trying to talk like a teenager.  Definitely a dead ear for the dialogue.

2. Look, I know teenagers and teenage boys think about and pursue sexual activities.  That doesn't mean I want to read about a 14 and 15 year old couple's sexual activities to the degree of detail this book does.  It felt like child porn and was the point I put the book down.

If i could give this a negative star rating, I would.
2637158
Plain and simple, this is one of the worst written action books I have had the misfortune to try to read.
The male MC is a Austin police officer who apparently knows absolutely NOTHING about proper tactics in a combat situation. The women are stereotypical, over the top, action figures that read as more of a caricature than real people. Then we have the two Texas DPS officers who are patrolling Falcon lake in an armored boat armed with 2 .50 caliber heavy machine guns ( which are military restricted weapons and IS against the law to deploy in these United States without martial law being declared) and one of them talks like a Commiefornia Suffer Dude and neither have a CLUE about proper radio usage!
This is a travesty of epic proportions and while I see all too many readers seem to enjoy these pulp fiction writings I do not!
849653
Thank God I got this book for free... Book was horrible I cant believe someone even published this garbage. Most of the book is truly spent rehashing events from Dutch 2. There is about 30 or so pages of new story which wasn't even developed well. This is officially my last Teri Woods book.
2695742
What a contrived piece of garbage this book is! The plot is really stupid and often predictible.

Why is the mother such a secret to one wife and not secret for the other. Why does Jack hate the church when he's with one wife but then is very religious with the other one? How did the catholic church allow a marriage for someone who's already married? Why is Mattie so important to jack when he's now got two other children who he sees far less than her since she's always out sleeping with her boyfriends. (I also think it's so ridiculous that the mother is hiding the half-sister and half-brother from Mattie thinking she can't handle it and Mattie is out already having sex and dumps her current boyfriend at one point because he won't have sex with her. Sounds to me like she needs a different kind of protection than the mother is giving her!) Why is Jack all of a sudden so passionate politically when nothing in his past character can explain it.

I was also annoyed by the character of Robert. Why does he fall in love with this particular widow when he's had several to deal with already? It just feels like the author wrote this entire book in the hopes that it would become a movie starring Harrison Ford.

I don't see what all the fuss is about with this book.

If the writer wasn't already well established I doubt weak fluff like this would ever have gotten published in the first place. The writing style is not even that fabulous either. A very weak and shallow book. I read the back where it says something like "Can we ever really know anyone" and thought this would be a thought-provoking novel since the author seemed reputable but it was nonsense and full of cliches.
2495859
BEWARE!!! Please do not waste your money on this book aka flimsy little pamphlet that looks like a free book you'd get off the street. I just recently bought this book hoping to give it as a gift for my cousin. I also got one for myself because I thought I'd like it. Boy was I wrong. This book is so poorly written and there are grammatical errors every other sentence, like the author just did not care about how they sounded and being a credible source. How is the author getting away with this? The editor should also be fired if there was even an editor at all. Just wow. I have never read a published book like this. There is no way I would give this as a gift to anyone and I hope i'll be able to return it.
419180
I just started reading my kids these CYOA Junior books.  (I read the old version of this, not the new Chooseco, if there is any difference).  Having read scores of these books, I can say, hands down, this is the WORST one I ever read.

The main problem with this book is that you have to supply your own mystery.  We are bringing our friend to this magical owl tree which we have previously discovered, but the book gives almost no backstory about this owl tree, and our previous experiences here are absolutely no help to us.

The choices are terrible (before I could read the choices, my six-year old provided her own choice "Ask the other owl a question" which was the logical choice since the saw-whet owl was bee-essing us, but that was not an option.  We could either ask the saw-whet owl a different question, or re-ask the same question.  And the questions we ask in the story (total: two) are provided for us and are terrible questions, and the book tells us they are terrible questions, because we make our own future.  Now, that's all well and good, but you FORCED us to ask these dumb questions!

It is very sloppy, totally boring -- in the best ending (I guess) you get a ticket to the magical kingdom, and that is the end.  (You have to make up your own magical kingdom.)  Honestly, this books reads like a preview to get you to want to buy a different book.

Also, I was annoyed when we are climbing a magical wall that keep growing, so we can't reach the top.  If you pick "Keep climbing" you are magically on the ground again, and either fly or jump to the top of the wall... it really doesn't make sense.

We still love CYOA books, but this one was NOT good AT ALL.  It makes Tattoo of Death look like a masterpiece.  And that is still grading on a curve, acknowledging that the Junior CYOA are necessarily much simpler.  I would recommend "You Are Invisible" or "The Evil Wizard" (the previous two we read) which were HEAD & SHOULDERS above this entry.