Not what I expected...
938733
Lousy pressure, constantly having to pump it to keep pressure that is inadequate to do the job right.
4682810
Just arrived and I wish I had paid more attention to what I was ordering. This isn't what I was expecting. I thought it was the actual book.
1084900
I must admit that I did think I would enjoy reading this book at first. But as I continued reading I found that it was not what I expected and not in harmony with my beliefs and found it hard to keep on reading it. Was hoping to be able to see the value and gave it my best-
Don't think I would read any more from this author-glad I had a chance to receive it and post a review even though Whitefire publishing didn't require the review
1889041
Not what I expected...more of a paranormal horror story than an adventure/mystery.  Not a BAD read --- just not what I had expected.
1537900
I am not sure exactly what I was expecting with this book, but this wasn't really it. While it does shorten the novel, and it adds a few pictures, it doesn't really simplify the language much, and the pictures were just ok and there were only a handful of them. I guess I was expecting a book that was a little more simplified from Dicken's original work, and would have thought it would have contained a fair amount more pictures, since this is geared to a young reader. I read this to my 7 and 6 yr olds, and they had trouble following along in parts because of the difficulty in English level. I want to read the classics to them, to get them accustomed to the more difficult levels of the English language, used by the writers, but would have liked this more if it had been a little bit simpler to read. I found myself substituting words several times, as I knew they would have no idea what the writer meant. And it definitely could use more illustrations. It was a good introduction to both of them, to this holiday classic, but just not what I expected. Also, the book is HUGE. I thought it would be the size of a regular children's picture book, but it is truly massively large...much bigger than anticipated. I am not sure if there are measurements on the description, so I may have missed this detail, but it was just much bigger than we were expecting, and it doesn't fit on any of our shelves...not even our bottom large ones...
1628121
That's it... it's ok but not what I was expecting
727187
This product was not what I expected... Very disappointing
4649336
Don't know what I was expecting, but this was not it. This does not read like a story, it reads more like a text book. If you want facts from the case and quotes from the accused, this has all of those things. I guess I was looking for a gossipy beach read and it didn't feel like that.
2486857
I don't know what I was expecting. I guess other people LOVE this type of "out there" book. Just not for me.
2432597
We've never smoked anything before and after reading reviews and finding this book was highly rated I decided to go ahead and make the purchase.  It wasn't at all what I expected.  I was hoping for basics to get us started, but this book seemed to be written for folks who'd been smoking for a while.  I'll still use it, it just won't be the first book I pick up when getting ready to smoke.
3701976
This was not what I was expecting at all.

Of course, I had no idea what the book was about... Do you SEE that blurb up there?! There's nothing really to go on.

Still... how am I supposed to review a book that I'm basically told not to talk about? Ha ha.

Well, I can tell you this:

-GOR-GE-OUS writing. Parts of a sentence broken into one or two words per line... I don't know, I jsut fancied it a lot.
-It's a story about 3 cousins plus-a-sorta-halfway-adopted cousin, and their rich family.
-Main setting: an island!
-A mystery. (which I sorta figured out from the time the main character returned to the island after her "accident", but then I doubted myself, but then at the end, I was RIGHT!)
-Even though I basically figured out the mystery, I loved it none-the-less, heartbreaking though it was.

Like I said, I don't want to tell you (and sorta not allowed to because of the unspoken rule it's got going on) anything else. Please just read it for yourselves!
2116581
This was not what I expected. Very disappointed.
2635363
Not what I expected........I thought that the pink area was glowing, from a light.......there's another pair I'm looking @, so I may return, these basis Headphones for $35.00
1531219
Meh, definitely not what I had expected.  Strange book, didn't really make a whole lot of sense to me - the plot, the characters, the storyline and the writing style.  Yes, it is disturbing but not interesting enough.  I found the characters flat and predictable.  Not my cup of tea.
4350523
Defiantly not what I thought I was buying. I struggled to get into it...but once I did it wasn't too bad...never buy again though.
3541158
I have to say that I was disappointed with this for the most part. I'm not sure what I was expecting- I think I was hoping that this would be the "Prince & Me" meets "Devil Wears Prada" and Sophie Kinsella. It has touches of all three, but in the end it just fell short of my expectations.

I think that part of this is because of the pacing. Sometimes you get some really great scenes in here that work incredibly well, other times this just feels like it's treading far too much water and as such, is taking far too long to get where it's trying to go. I couldn't help but occasionally wish that it was maybe about 50 pages shorter since it just seemed to be a bit tedious at points.

However that said, this isn't a bad novel in the slightest and for those with a bit more patience will probably find this more rewarding and for what's ultimately the two authors' first adult novel, it's a very good debut. (They have written some YA novels and a non-fiction book, but YA and adult fiction are two different writing spheres.) I also have to say that despite the occasional slow spots, the two authors have created some pretty good characters. I did feel like Bex was a sympathetic character and that's kind of what kept me going through the books- her interactions with her sister were especially the stronger parts of the novel.

Overall I think that I would recommend this, but as a library read. It's not bad and I have a feeling that this book is likely going to get a pretty big following, but I do think that this is going to be one of those "you like it or you don't" type of books like "Devil Wears Prada" or the Emily Giffin books. If you do want to buy this outright, read the sample first before deciding.
3210021
Not what I expected, quality wasn't great.