Good characters.  Unreal plots.
938860
While I am fascinated by the characters and the interactions, the absurdity of the plots is too much.  I had hoped for something that involved scientific accuracy and believability.  This does not.  I suppose the effects are good for those who want that.  And the characters really are enjoyable.  I just hate that they feel the need to take storylines that are only barely feasible to start with to such absurd extremes.  Especially ridiculous is the time limit factor.  They are ALWAYS on a tight deadline and yet manage to win at the last minute.  Nevermind that you can't actually travel that quickly or that computers don't always process that quickly.  It's just too much for someone like me.  Get a better group of science advisors to keep it on track and this would be a really good show.
3459365
Well written story, great characters but a bit too far fetched ending in this story. Hard to make believable. Story was great about three quarters of the way, then you lost me. Terrorists and aliens...either choose science fiction or international intrigue.
This didn't work.
2820333
Don't get me wrong; this is a really good book, but there's too many totally impossible and unrealistic things taking place.  I like the lead character, Lucy, the FBI agent.  She's real, as are all the characters, and they're richly described and fleshed out.

My problem is that the author "assumes" our knowledge of all the government acronyms currently in use, and more often than not, doesn't actually tell us what some of these things mean.  That's not the worst of it; I did find it truly impossible to imagine that everything taking place occurs over one single weekend, especially when our lead character has a 6" piece of metal imbedded in her back, and blithely has it removed with no anesthesia, dresses, leaves the emergency room and actually goes back to work.  Really?  I'm thinking NOT!

Then there's the light bulb that comes on over her head (literally) all of a sudden, and she knows who the "bad guy" is, without the reader ever having gleaned any kind of clue as to how it could be that person (no spoiler!). The storyline is excellent, thought out well, described in vivid detail so that you're "seeing" these things and getting into the story.  There are a great many formatting/spelling/grammatical errors, which in my world, takes away from a book's rating, because I feel the author, or their representative, should have done a much better job of proofing.  You can't have characters changing names, then going back to the original, correct name, and that happens in this book.

The story is worth reading, and it does grab your attention and keeps you entertained.  Just be aware going into it, that there are some highly improbable (if not impossible) scenarios that take place, and that the formatting lacks quite a bit.  It's well worth your reading time, and I'd probably read additional books by this author.  Thank you.
3202763
The science was well described, but too detailed for any non-scientist reader. The characters and their responses were interesting but not unexpected. I think I have seen this plot before.
2821621
The plot is reasonably engaging if a bit unrealistic.  The notion that one man, stripped of government support, can single-handedly stop the gang is pretty absurd.
4884249
I liked the characters. The pacing of the story was excellent and the writing quality was first rate. Unfortunately the plot tried on far too many coincidences to  hold it together.
2158961
Excellent view of 'the troubles' in Belfast.  Well written and pacey, good main characters but the plot was a bit unrealistic at times.  Good read though.
3895848
An unusual plot, well written, but I couldn't believe the characters. Still, it was an enjoyable story.
4080206
The main character is good but to have an assassin travel with a baby from Asia to the Wild West of the USA. Arrive at a lost and forgotten cowboy town that is falling apart yet has a carnie group that stays there rather than move on. A villain that is ex-Union Army with what seems like an unending supply of bad guys. Sorry but all these are just too much to believe is possible.
3754798
3.5 Stars  Interesting.  Several unanswered questions. Procedures, actions and reactions are not realistic.

Easy to follow. The characters are believable and the dialogue is entertaining.

No desire to re-read this story.
662726
This is a pretty good series of books, I'm reading them all. The characters are somewhat predictable and not very deep but some of the behavior, especially of the female lead, is very graphic and creates someone you think you've seen. She's somewhat stereotyped, i.e., cute, bubbly, perky, etc.  There is a real attempt by the author to make the characters complex but they come across as way too functional for the degree of trauma they have supposedly suffered. They are a little too psychologically healthy in the end for all the terrible experiences they have had. In that sense it's a very up beat rendering of these people but not very realistic. And come on, two adults who love each other, living together in the same apt. and no sex. Gimme a break, this is 2016 not 1953.
My bet is the author is a right of center Christian who paints the world according to his fantasy of what modern morality should be. That all said, the mystery parts of the books are not bad with pretty good plot lines and a enough twists and turns to make them worth reading for some light and distracting fair that won't over work any brain cells.
978444
Very good book. A little unrealistic to think that a cop would be allowed to investigate a family members murder.
4810700
A good read, but not one that you can't put down.  Too much detail that is not relevant to the plot.  Plot develops slowly.
4811093
The basic plot was interesting and moved well. I found the relationships were not drawn well enough to justify some of the actions/behavior. So I was not convinced that they were credible.
4723927
This story is a bit too far fetched and unrealistic. The crime fighting aspect comes across as more luck than careful investigation. I don't see how this leads our heroine to think that she can make a career as an investigator.
2120033
Few main characters make this easy to follow.  Good plot, but use of foul language demonstrates author's limited vocabulary.  Same points could have been made with normal vocabulary.
1160179
Aside from the rambling political rhetoric. This is a good read. The characters are somewhat believable and the adventure unwinds in a decent order. This author does some really good work with most of his characters and makes them people the reader can visualize. What he does miss is the tendency to re-relate the positions and timeline. I think most reader can remember what occurred in the previous chapter.
If only we had some politicians of that caliber on the real life scene.