Could Have been better
935078
Not as good as the first one.  Many of the characters are rather repulsive.  Also, I was not thrilled with Sharada, Paul Bhar' s mother.  She does not add to the book.  I like Anthony Hetheridge the best because he seems to be comfortable with himself, unlike his two team members.
4167930
This is an ok book but I feel it could have been much better. I think the story was too long. Way too many situations happening to the lead character. I want to read something that is somewhat plausible even if it's comedy. I also want to read about a woman who isn't a door mat. Yes, she gained some spunk that last part of the book. She wants to conquer her fears but she can't stand up to her mean and abusive family. She doesn't have any self respect. She sleeps with the H even though she feels he's not really into her.
3733494
The book could have been better. He kept repeating the same sentence about curiosity conversations. He needed to give more detail about the actual conversations with these interesting people.
3255062
This book could have been better than what it was,It started off very good,the plot was great and I really connnected with Candy but somewhere in the middle things got a lil complicated and the story sort of took a turn for the worse. The ending left me in question... but I am aware that a part 2 will be out soon. I was really looking forward to a page turner with this one so I was slightly dissapointed. I give it 2.5 stars.
4260873
The book was not as good as hoped. I really wish there was more about Percy and Annabeth and how the wanted to live in Rome... There was also a lot about Percy's fatel flaw in the earlier books,but I saw nothing! It was weird that Leo died and then went off with Calyispo,leaving them all worried. It was an okay book but, it could have been better.
579917
This book could have been good if it were written better. Some of the characters are not believable. A couple of the major characters that are supposed to be very intelligent people cuss a lot and at the wrong times. It is hard to stay interested in the book when the characters can't stay on path. If the author had used less cussing I think it would have been a better, more engaging book.
4177834
This was so-so. It reminded me a lot f the Marie-Antoinette movie that came out many years ago which was based on another book about her that I mave nit read. There was a lot of coverage of Marie's life in Austria and the chances she went through in order to become queen and anxiety over if she would be married off to the french at all. However, I am not sure that author had enough drama and tension in these moments. The writing was fine, but I feel as if the book moved a little slowly. I think the second and third  instalments of the book will be better and I am willing to give them a chance based on this first one.
602927
I wanted to love the movie.  It spent too much time in the destructive past in my opinion.  It only needed one or two scenes to establish this and then focus on the evolution of her hike and ultimately of her as a person.  I think it undershot the opportunity for scenic shots and the emotional tug from all of the untangling of the twisted past in her head.  2 stars for missing what it could have been.
674093
This movie is  ok but not on my watch list again entertaining. Could of been better
4616055
It was a good concept, a shame that it wasn't better executed though

Pros: Liked the idea of the difference in ages
  Liked that in some respects the heroine was mature
  A good conceptual plot

Cons: misused words
  Some parts read as if the author was stretching to sound as a sophisticated writer. Ended in misused word and stilted
  sentence structure
  The constant tears
  Too much sex
  The drama wasn't quite resolved: Audi told Max that his daughter was the cause of  two of his marriages failing. Nothing
  came of so important a discussion.
  Incorrect tense used often. Present tense was used when clearly it should have been past tense.
  Some of the drama just fell flat and didn't quite ring true. Such as the scene in the ladies' room when Audi was listening to
  two women talking about her and Max. It went from two women to several women. And the women discussing her when she
  was right next to them in the bathroom made no sense.

I'll keep an open mind for the next installment, but the writer needs to get better hold of her craft.
1768520
This book could've benefited from better editing. Some parts were exceptionally gruesome, needlessly so. Reminds me of a movie that editorial liposuction could have made more enjoyable, and more memorable.
3447535
The plot was good just not executed very well. Love movies with action I felt it was dragging at times. Overall okay but could have been much better in my opinion
810022
I'm not a writer, but I am an avid reader. It was a good story but it could have been more well crafted. It seemed to have a lot of filler than didn't really advance the story. I skimmed over Mace's tales because they didn't seem to be relevant. I would have understood the character development better if Mace had lived to carry on in the series. I also had difficulty getting past the misuse of the apostrophe. As another reviewer reported, the punctuation errors pulled me out of the story. A couple of times a character was said to have made a "statement" when it was clearly a question.
I wish Mr. Glass success as a writer and will see how this series develops, but will be happy to see better editing.
1298328
The idea behind this book is a good one, and I feel like the book could have come out better than it did. I really wanted to like this book when I started, and I did end up enjoying it, but not as much as I hoped I would.

Mainly, this book just seemed choppy. I could get over the clichd aspect of the novel because it's rare to find a book that doesn't contain some sort of clich, however, the book seemed to jump all over, and some it was hard to connect certain times, places, relationships because they just didn't seem to add up or make sense.

Throughout the entire book, I felt like I was missing pieces of information that would have brought sense to the story. For example, how Katy goes from knowing something is different about her but not knowing what exactly to suddenly performing spells with Hattie, without much of a transition between the two. Parts of the book just seemed to jump around and it made it hard for me to enjoy the story as much as I wanted to.

I did like this book, I just feel like it could have been better if there had been a little more flow to it.
3309743
This seemed to miss capturing my attention. It had the makings of a great story. But the narrative left me wondering who's point of view I was listening to. It could have been so much better if the writer  connection between characters was more cohesive.
4535649
Unfortunately, The Dog Walker didn't live up to the reviews.  It was shallow and left too many threads that could have been interesting untouched.  Oddly enough, I did finish reading it.  The main character showed glimmers of being interesting, but the author wouldn't let them shine through.  I would have loved to see the relationship between the brothers develop to some depth and replace the predictable cheesy love story.  The neighbors were quirky and could have also been a source of enriching the novel.  It was a great idea for a story, but needs better execution.
2767990
This series could have been so much better than it was. The story had potential, but it was just too scattered  about and a bit messy. A real let down.