"Disappointing Sequel"
929094
I was not a Baldacci Fan. But someone sent me "The Camel Club" which I thought was great. SO, I decided to give Mr. Baldacci another chance. Was really disappointed in "The Collectors". There are just too many elements that Baldacci tried to tie together, in this effort.
As a Note; one of the Editorial Reviews (Publishers Weekly?) confused Caleb Shaw with Oliver Stone/John Carr. Oliver/John is the triple six.
2144740
I must agree with other reviewers... The essence of the characters is gone. These two are completely different characters from the first story... Too bad! I think the first ones were better. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen... Where's the action? The turning point in te story? That climax when you just can't put the book down! Kept waiting and waiting... But it never came.  Just blah....
2076404
I loved the first movie. Have watched it many times. Although I knew this follow up would probably not be as good, I still thought it would be worth a laugh or two. It was not.
Unlike the first film, this one starts with little explanation, and it truly has no plot. If you have not watched the original "The Trip" you will have no clue what is going on. If you have watched the original, you will be disappointed at how weak this effort is.
The jokes were not as funny as in the original,  they did the same impressions, although usually not as well, and their loud talking in some restaurant scenes would have brought management running in real life. There were no outstandingly funny moments as in the first film when they are driving and discussing the way kings urge their men to rest, "For tomorrow we battle". "We attack at 9:30-ish." Nothing like that in this film.
Unlike in the first film, an affair is improbable, and adds nothing to the movie.
In short, it is a pointless film with no plot, no middle,and no end. It came off as a forced attempt to capitalize on the success of the first, which was a far superior effort. I was expecting pretty good and got nothing.
2068866
This was preordered for months and was delayed several times. It arrives and what a disappointment. It just lacks the smoothness of #2 of the series. Some of the graphics are good, some like the health regeneration, but over all it just is not as good as the Zipper made #2. Slant Six had already failed at "Tactical Strike" and now after years of developement time, they failed again......
4601096
There are plenty of bad video game sequels. Remember "Simon's Quest", the sequel to the original "Castlevania", or "Zelda 2" for the NES?  Why is it that so many sequels are botched?  I'll get straight to the point: "Tooie" is a disappointment--a big one. All the fun gameplay from the first game has been replaced by stupid search-and defeat puzzles, and "Doom"-like mazes. Gosh, if I wanted to play "Doom", I'd go play it!  And caveat to those who get "motion sickness" from playing video games (I don't know how else to explain it).  I can't play "Banjo Tooie" for more than fifteen minutes without getting sick to my stomach--really, I'm not exaggerating!  The worst part is, is that I adore "Banjo Kazooie"; it's such a shame that they had to ruin the possibilities of what could of been a good sequel. Gosh, I waited two years for this?
2477804
I have been a fan of BBC's "What Not to Wear" and I thoroughly enjoyed the first book, but What Not to Wear for Every Occasion was a grave disappointment.  Not only did I not agree with most of the looks created, I felt that often the "don't" examples would work far better than the "do's".

I did not heed some of the negative reviews I read before purchasing this book and that has proven to be a mistake.  Don't be fooled-this is not the customary Susannah and Trinny fare and that is disappointing.
2789540
Ugh, I did it again: I went ahead and bought the sequel to a book I really liked (The Power of One), only to be disappointed. This book felt like an insult to its predecessor, with its annoying, unconvincing characters, redundant storylines, endless pontificating about racial equality, and its over-glorification of the main characters. If you decide to read "The Power of One", do yourself a favor and quit while you're ahead.
2121504
I loved the first Independence Day movie. It was a lot of fun. This sequel is a huge let down. They got poor acting results from the few veteran actors that made the mistake of reprising their roles, and almost no acting from the new cast. It is a crappy attempt to cash in on the Independence Day name.

Snazzy CGI graphics do not make up for poor directing and lackluster acting. The story is simplistic... the aliens return, start wrecking the earth, the wacky scientists come up with a hair brain way to fly a single ship loaded with "cold fusion bombs" into the alien mother ship. Yeah pretty much the same plot as the first movie, without Will Smith. There is currently no accepted theoretical model that would allow cold fusion to occur, but thats what the writers went with. The bomb destroys the alien mother ship... but somehow the Queen survives and charges across the desert looking for a little payback on Area 51. Meanwhile a bus load of idiots is right in the Queen's path... being driven by Jeff Goldblum and his father. Of course the alien is destroyed (cue the scenes of people all over the world celebrating). But wait! There is more cheesy badness to come... because the alien device that the wacky scientists have is full of new weapon plans and a plot to take the war into space.... yes a badly conceived third sequel. It is simply awful.
79974
Disappointing for a follow up to Super Mario Galaxy.
The first one had such HEART and you cared about everything.

This one is honestly just a cash-in, to milk off of the first one's success. It has none of the same plot that immerses you into caring for everyone and saving everyone(and I don't know about you guys, but I totally got teared up hearing about the story in the first one, I mean the STORY that gets read to you).

This one has none of that care. This one is just a good game to play, which it's worth buying for, but it's not much a better time for a plot driven person.

Play through it, and trade it back to gamestop.
1361416
I'm a huge fan of the first one; I guess the sequels really aren't ever as good!
3570419
This is not the Passage. Don't get your hopes up, kids. This book is like side-notes from the first novel made into a second.

I didn't like the narrative, I didn't even care about 2/3 of this book. BUT, the 1/3 is fun. My very humble opinion not worth buying, wait for a kindle discount which as I write this is happening.
4041354
Not a good follow-up movie as it basically re-hashes the themes of the 1st one without being able to add a twist to it that would make the 2nd installment exciting.
4833555
A major disappointment from the first novel.  Not so much in the character of Atticus Finch but more in the general way the story was told.  In the first book you cared about the characters.  In this book there was too much detachment.  They should have started off with JEM's funeral and went from there.
2782313
This book was a major disappointment.  My husband and I loved her first book, and implemented a lot of her changes in our lives.  So we were excited about this book as its listed as companion to the first book.  However, it is basically the SAME as the first book.  And the illustrations that had me so excited about receiving the book....they're just drawings!  And there's only a few of them at that! I Such a disappointment.  Totally unhelpful if you've already read the first book.
4901456
This book picks up where the first one, "The Summoner", left off.  And unfortunately, it continues the trend of stale fantasy stereotypes.  The characters are more three-dimensional than they were in the first book, but the overall impression is the same...predictability, clumsy prose, and poor continuity.  The interpersonal interaction is dry and kitschy...I was constantly confronted with such overused medieval-style fantasy devices, depicted in such unimaginative ways, that I could swear I was reading a middle-schooler's creative writing project.

Once again, as in the first book, the only redeeming quality is the somewhat imaginative take on magic and magicians.  Once again, it's not enough to convince me that I didn't waste my money.  I understand that there's perhaps 2 more books planned for this series, and though I don't like leaving a story unfinished I'm seriously considering making this an exception.
2754765
I really did like the first one in the series, and as I love a sequel, I went for this one. I was disappointing.... The story was just not plausible. Armand recovered from a majorrrrrr trauma a little tooooo quickly........
417305
I consider myself a fan of Mary Monroe's work.  I really loved God Don't Like Ugly, and I was excited when I found out that there would be a sequel.  Now that I've read it, I would have to say that I'm rather disappointed.  Those who have read the first book already, as I have, will find themselves skipping large sections of the book, since Monroe retells much of the story from the previous novel, sometimes needlessly.  The book has other flaws as well:  there is an excessive use of racial and regional stereotypes with the characters, and  distasteful racial epithets are used more often than I think was necessary.  In addition, some details of the story just don't "add up."  For example, could a person (Jerome) with a criminal record involving drug use and sex with an underaged teenaged girl really get employment as a high school guidance counselor???  But I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt here:  the editor should probably take some of the blame. After all, at the very minimum, a story should at least make sense. Maybe the first book set the bar too high for this one to reach.  If you read the first book, you will probably want to read this one, if only to satisfy your curiosity, just don't expect too much.