Tanner Is Way Too Slow!
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Yep, I loved Driver and I also enjoy Driver 2, but what happened to the game play? I can't hardly do any of the undercover missions because it either slows down or completely stops for a second during a chase and resumes. Has anyone else experience this? I don't know if they thought this game was for Playstation 2 and accidently put Playstation on it or what happen, but the frame rate is horrible. I am surprised they would release something like this without testing it.
Don't get me wrong, the game is a wonderful game and all the ideas are there, but if you are a core game player and really like car games etc. you may be dissappointed in the frame rate and glithcy game play. I really don't know how this plays on Playstation 2, but with Playstation (which is what I have) it was slightly dissappointing.
2463073
Sooooo slowwwwwwww! These filters literally take HOURS to drain. Life is far too short. I'm going back to the actual Britta brand. Sure, they cost more, but I'm not going to die of thirst waiting for my water to be purified.
3537616
SOOOOOO slow. 3 every scene has a 15 second lull that could have been removed. Main actor was 26 trying to play an 18 year old.  He yelled way too much. I never have a chance to watch a movie, so I'm bummed it was so terrible.
4185151
Poor tanning product, and I've experimented with many products over the years. Hardly had results in first day and when it did work it turned more orange than tan! Also snagged my age spots and made then appear darker! Some self tanners do not do that , BUT this one really does it ! yuk!
1144016
Ok. I bought this laptop knowing that it was not going to be lighting fast. But wow. This laptop is so slow. I didn't wanna do gaming on it, I just wanted to develop scripts but I can't even do that when want to share my things on github if it takes almost 3 minutes to open the damn app. I am left extremly unsatisfied with what I have bought. I am refunding this hoping I can find a better deal other than this peice of trash. My 2010 android is faster than this.
2561847
I am a Michael Mann fan. his movie Heat is by far his best and that was 20 years ago now. This movie is slow. Granted it is beautifully shot. But the story is just too slow. Michael Mann need to back to old school Hollywood basics and that's the casting. His movie Miami Vice bombed because of casting. The casting in that movie was all wrong and it was way too dark. Also I think the timing of this movie BLACKHAT hurt it too. It came out with  American Sniper. Again  the story is just slow. The pacing of this movie had the pace of 1970'S detective shows that was written for TV.  I gave it 2 stars because well I said earlier I am Michael Mann fan...lol
41242
I wasted $14.99 on this! It's 80% boring and the rest is good. It's an hour an episode and it should be a 20 min. show. They drag things along too much! I think the whole season could be a two hour movie. This is so out of date the way they stretch everything and then show you something good for one second!
1957211
I love the Prey series (at least the first ten books), but this one was severely lacking.  Sandford just seemed to slap too much onto the pages - too many characters, too many subplots, too many themes.....and too little action!  This was a blip I'm sure - I'm on to #12 in the series after typing this review!!  This is one you can skip.
33101
I really enjoyed Deja Dead, Kathy Reich's first novel, and thought it was better than anything Patricia Cornwell had done in a while.  But in this book, the plotting is just lazy.  Brennan finds bodies related to her case  while on an outing, the cases just happen to have ties near each of her  homes-- Montreal and Charlotte, NC, someone from one case asks her help in  finding someone and THEY also are part of her other case... and I thought  it was bad when in the Robert Tannenbaum books, Butch and Marlene's cases  are tied together coincidentally!  At least they are only dealing with  Manhattan, not half the Northern Hemisphere!  This is like the Hardy Boys  finding out they are really working on their dad's case, but at least  Bayport is a small town.
Especially irritating is the way information is  withheld from the reader, while every chapter ends with Brennan's jaw  dropping, her shivering in horror, or giving us foreboding that something  bad is about to happen.  Really? I think we expect that in a  THRILLER!
Also, the parallels with Cornwell are too much to ignore.  Scarpetta's niece is an FBI trainee, Brennan's daughter wants to be a  profiler (just how many of those ARE there, anyway?).  Both have hot and  cold relationships with cops.  Maybe this was rushed because of the debut's  success.
2262152
I was excited for this book. I had heard great things.

Major let down.

I dislike James Frey as a person and I'm sure most people do. Writing a new book with a "pen name" was a great idea on his part. Next time, he needs to pick one people won't look up and he needs to not make his pen name a shobby character in the book.

The story could have been GREAT! The story line could have taken this book far! But, it didn't. It was slow. It kept me interested, but it was slow. Zero character development. The best part was the dog! Even the "big fight" at the end was lacking.

I do have high hopes for the movie. Maybe the director added enough to make it worth it!
3154212
I waited 4 minutes and watched the slow motions and listened to this seemingly getting louder music. Couldn't take it. Fast forward to about 8 min.....here's hope! A car driving not in slow motion. But gosh. Could they make it any slower? I watched about another 8 min and started fast forwarding....there was nothing to hold my attention. What a waste.
2863700
In my opinion this book suffers from having to set the stage for the whole trilogy.  It was too long and the Mallory-Flynn-Key story was interrupted too many times with bits about Dana/Jordan and Zoe/Brad so that the groundwork could be put down for the next two books.  It made an already long and oddly-paced book even longer and slower and that didn't do it any favors.

As some others have mentioned, Mallory and Flynn's romance lacked a spark.  They were far too different to realistically attract and Mallory acted like such a brat the first half-dozen times she and Flynn met that it really wasn't believable that he'd find her appealing other than that she was pretty.

The rest of the book Mallory behaved like she suffered from some sort of split personality; one of which was a nymphomaniac stalker and the other an ice queen.  She was either declaring her love for Flynn after only knowing him for a week and then getting upset when he didn't immediately say it back to her (which her two new best gal-pals completely supported!!) or she was pushing him away saying she needed her space!  It was annoying just to read about so it's really hard to imagine any man actually living through that sort of behavior and thinking "I can't get enough of this psycho woman!" So yeah, the romance just really fell flat.

I kind of liked that Mallory spent so much time looking for the key and even that she pursued a bunch of avenues that ended up proving to be dead ends.  So many times in books you see the protagonists unraveling what is supposed to be a really tough mystery on their very first guess without even breaking a sweat.  So it was nice that NR didn't make it that easy here but, as I mentioned before, this ended up feeling like a very long and slow-moving book by the end once all the psycho-romance "come close, no go away" and the book 2 and 3 ground work stuff was thrown in, so unfortunately the copious amounts of key searching just ended up adding to the length.
1543029
The premise was okay, but it took way too long to get to the big "reveal" of what happened in Romania.  When we finally find out, over half way through the book, I thought, "all of this build-up and that's the big secret?"  The story was painfully slow and the book could have shed 90 pages without any real impact.  I'm really surprised at all of the fabulous reviews.  I say pass on this as there are far better books with far more suspense you can spend your time reading and enjoying.
2264357
The first book in this series was awesome, but this one took forever to get started.  For the first couple hundred pages the story is slooooooow, then all of a sudden it's like Lahaye realizes that the due date of the book is approaching and he quickly rushes to make his story complete. Maybe next time Lahaye will not procrastinate until the last minute as it seems as if he has done here.
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I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

So much of this book dragged. There were a lot of interesting bits that I breezed through quickly. But in between those bits, there were slow spots and things going on that I just didn't care about. I wanted to like this book, it sounded really good, and I was super curious about why Tiana was locked away and mistreated.

There is a brothel scene early on, and you find out that the poor people are cannibals because there isn't enough other meat to go around. There are signs all through the book that something horrible happened in the past, and the people had to flee from it. The wealthy have electricity and elevators, but the poor use torches and most have no idea what technology is.

I liked Tiana and her brother Arthur a lot more than Aveline. The book alternates view points between the three, with Aveline having the most chapters in her view point. I also liked how one of the main characters is LGBT, even if its as forbidden as the secret the siblings share.

Some of the possible trigger warnings are cannibalism, self-harm (cutting), blood and violence. None of them were bad enough to bother me, but there are a few bloody scenes towards the end of the book. The book also ends on a huge cliffhanger, almost like there were a few pages or more missing. I wanted to know what was going to happen next, but almost nothing felt wrapped up enough for the book to be over.

Aveline didn't fit what I was hoping for as an assassin. Even one who is technically still in training. Her father was the head of the guild and said to be one of the best there was. She had supposedly been training with him since she was 3 or less. And yet, there were so many times in the book where the way she acted didn't fit. In the beginning, shes running through streets trying to escape pursuers. But when a stranger throws her a rope so she can escape to the roof, shes so busy checking out who had followed her on the street below that she nearly forgets that he is up there with her!

She also ignores advice on how to fit in with the slaves on her assignment, pretty much tunes out the man who is telling her how things work. And there are a number of times she forgets that she is supposed to be a mute slave, and speaks to people. This would be mostly forgivable as shes still a teenager, and maybe she hasn't learned as much as she should. Except were constantly being told things like how she started learning how to use a weapon at age 3, or how role-playing was a skill children learned at a young age. And each time we were told something like that, you could be sure that shortly afterwords Aveline would fail to live up to what was said or thought.

I did like how the court intrigue and politics was done. As well as the twists about the danger that was stalking Tiana. But overall, Im not sure I liked the book enough to read the next in the series.

(cross-posted to my blog)
1715143
Got swept in by this "Dan Brown beater". Super slow to get going. Unbelievable. Boring. I've read every Dan Brown book. Very interactive. Honestly I haven't complete the the sword of Moses because it's just too damn boring.  Maybe awesome in the ending.... But horrible boring to get started. I feel like it's someone trying to compete with Brown not out exude brown
4348718
This book was very disappointing. I read the first book and, at least it came to a conclusion of sorts. This one not only leaves you hanging, but it moved so incredibly slow getting there. The premise of book and basic story line has real promise, but is never realized. The Steam Barons, Holme's niece - both should be a recipe for a very interesting book. Evelina is touted as a very intelligent young lady, but ends up making so many stupid mistakes and decisions. Maybe 250 pages - but not 550. Will not be reading the next book, especially for 7.99....Fool me once, fool me twice....