boring interrupted only by annoying
930173
so maybe I am wrong but somehow i thought this was associated with the movie jupiter ascending - NOT - or if it is I have wasted two months of my life that i won't get back.  when I think of a strategic and political novel I think the first book of the dune trilogy or game of thrones.  these people don't even seem to want to leverage the relationship that findlay has with the glisiums or whatever to  try to have peace - they are like rednecks so the strategy is completely lame and without diplomatic finesse at all.

second the characters are boring
third  cameron and her no-value-add transliterated scottish brogue are just beyond annoying.

so for me this series to 63% through the second book was boring interrupted only by camerons annoying accent .  seriously - what exactly was the literary value of that?
BORING
I hate setting a book down but i am compelled to archive these midstream
3198369
Lead female character Kate sooooo annoying , I found myself skipping to the end. I just could not take anymore of her self doubt and whining. Seriously- skip this book.  The entire book Kate keeps referring to herself as fat- her mother is rude- and it just goes on. I know this book only cost a few dollars, but a coffee would have been a better purchase.
4102888
Boring story and one that could have been left unsaid.
3991462
Slow, boring, repetitive, and all-around crap. Story starts off with an odd prologue where supposedly sensible and virginal heroine stumbles upon a stranger in a dark hotel room and instead of calling for security they share a night of mind-blowing sex. When there is no sign of him the next morning she decides that she has traveled back in time for one night of nooky because, hey, she couldn't possibly just be a horny skank. The first thing she does is tell her granny and her brother about the amazing anonymous sex. As one does in real life, because I know I want my dear old granny to be aware when I've had a good rogering. She and hero Iain both spend the NEXT 8 FRIGGING YEARS longing for each other and telling everyone who will listen about their amazing sex. That's right, at the 30% point of this book these two star-crossed lovers are still centuries apart. The worst part is the poor reader has to slog through most of this book reading about these two idiots mooning for each other. Their internal thoughts are so boring and repetitious, I couldn't stand it. Yeah, author, I GET IT, they really, REALLY, liked the sex. I couldn't take the book seriously after that and skimmed through to the end where everything turned out exactly the way I thought it would. I'm angry that I wasted time and money on this drivel.
2010652
Link is a really annoying book. I enjoyed it on the level of an action adventure even though it was predictable and does read like it was written as a movie script.  The annoying stuff which is where the book falls down  completely is the 'science'. I thought it would be an educated, well  researched and therefore credible book that hung together and answered more  questions than it left open. But it's actually a thinly disguised old earth  creationists account of why we didn't 'evolve' from apes.
Infuriating and  for annoying me it gets 1 star.
4000924
Imagine if the most annoying daytime or late night talk show were a too-long children's book, complete with catch phrases. Rachael Ray, for instance. But without the benefit of learning anything like how to cook or in this case useful lessons for kids. You would have the Froggy books. They're just a waste of time and incredibly tedious to read, with the sound effects, the FROGGGGYYY's and turning more red in the face than green at least twice per book. At least Sandra Boynton books are short enough that you can read multiple of them in a row and not get angry. I much prefer Andrea Beaty or Julia Donaldson, or some (but not all) Dr. Suess.
2902831
In a nutshell (very small one) shes annoying the whole book. mad all the time & he has to grovel for her back.. he leaves her alone like she screams at him to do and then get mad cause he listens... is this what men want? Would have been nice to maybe have some more from his view to mix it up and make it interesting...this book was predictable. really could have made this one book! Why waste the readers time with a very rushed, boring and uneventful ending that did nothing to make me want to read another book by this author.
4507009
I don't normally submit book reviews but this time I must, if only to save one person from wasting money on this boring, self-indulgent time-waster. Except for a few very brief paragraphs here and there, there's nothing creepy or suspenseful here, no thrilling drama, no mystery, no horror, nothing.

The plot, such as it is, is anorexic, the premise is silly and stupid. I was so frustrated with this book that I actually googled "Stephen King Revival Boring" and there were plenty of results. Once I read the like-minded reviews I stopped listening and deleted it from my Audible library so it wouldn't take up any more space.

What this book really is, frankly, is a series of musings on things that matter to Stephen King (aging, amateur rock musicians and variations on those two themes: how aging men can still have sex with younger women, how aging men can still play in rock bands.) These highly personal musings are held together with a skimpy and rather ridiculous plot. As I listened, I kept thinking that this was one giant cynical flippin' the bird from Stephen King to his readers. I realize he churns out books as effortlessly as other people evacuate their bowels, and is paid handsomely for it. But in the end, crap is crap. Don't waste your money.
4693174
Intensely boring, pathologically boring, stultifyingly boring...This book is like reading the daily Facebook comments of someone you're sorry you friended who has to describe every mundane activity of her life. Maybe it's meant to be that way for those who love to read about a fantasy world where everyone gets along, romance has no sparkle and there is almnost no action. This doesn't ressemble any family or relationship dynamics I've ever experienced. Spoiler alert: actually I can't call it that because there are no spoilers in this book. But anyway, even the supposed drama of the estranged mother returrning to hit up her daughter for cash carries no major call for mayhem or even therapy. Everyone is so nice to the character involved that ruffled feathers are quickly smoothed. Give me a break! So why did I select this book and even more pertinently, why did I finish it? I moved near the author where she is a local celeb. To fit in to my new surroundings, I read the first book in this series which was only marginally less boring than the second. Then I went to her store for a book signing and had to present one of her gems for a signature. Logically, I picked the next in line, figuring maybe the trilogy improved as it moved along. I finished the book with the cognitive dissonance that such a famous author could write something so amazingly bad. I am not even tempted to read the final book.
1436170
Could not listen to the narrator for very long. Her style is monotonous and very boring. every sentence has the same cadence, with the same volume highs and lows. it was almost painful to hear. After two stories I turned it off and returned it.
2557747
Maggie was stupid and annoying; I seriously wanted to punch her in the face half the time.  If you're looking for suspense, this isn't the book for you; the suspense doesn't come til the last 100 pages or so, and then it's wrapped up quickly and too neatly for my taste.  It was refreshing that they didn't jump into bed with each other right away, and that Nick was actually the one who wanted to wait to get to know her better, but that fell through when he ends up having sex and 'falling in love' with her before she ever tells him anything about her past.  I just don't buy that; you have to have honesty and openness and trust in a healthy relationship, and they certainly don't have that here.  Also, it was really drawn out and much longer than it needed to be, with about 200 pages or so in the middle with Nick and Maggie just fighting and having sex, which really got old, boring and annoying after awhile. Not an enjoyable read, either for suspense or romance.
3326569
What the heck did I just read? This book was so boring. All of the "exciting" plot in the description, well that's as much plot as there is in the books too. The rest is multi-page descriptions of the rippling in the water created by trout. Are you here for character development? Out of luck. The protagonist starts out kind of ballsy and becomes shrill and one-note. Is she curious about how she travelled in time? Not really. Is she having any interesting dilemmas adjusting to the new environment? Not really. The romantic interest meanwhile starts out as the most annoying puppy dog of a character ever committed to page. He might as well not have a brain or tongue because his only use seems to be taking beatings for other people. And the only thing said about him is that he's handsome. Well it's a book, so that doesn't help me much. He then somehow turns into a dude completely willing to beat and rape the wife he's supposed to be madly in love with. And that my friend brings me to the last point. How is this relationship romantic? Girlfriend has an adoring, handsome British SPY husband at home. I don't care about the cheating like some reviewers, Jamie's hot and her husband won't be born for 200 years. But girl, pull it together, you do not fall in love with the 23 year old virgin meathead who beats you with a belt. Don't do it. Run away. Run, Claire, run. But then her inner monologue is so tediously boring that maybe they're meant for each other.
4388822
I listened to far more of this book than I would have because I was on vacation in the mountains with no internet to get another book.  As other 1 star reviewers have noted, this book contains unnecessary, lengthy, monotone descriptions of everyday actions.  "She went to the wooden door, put her hand on the knob, opened the door"  Puh-leeze!  It even manages to make evil Nazis boring.  I should have been warned when early on he ripped off the phrase "He fixes radios by thinking!" from Richard Feynman.
511229
This book was written in the voices of the 2 main characters, both of whom become very tiring and boring after the first few chapters.  After about 100 pages I skipped to the last few chapters to see how it ended, and was grateful I had not read any more.  It was highly rated, but I can't imagine why!!  Don't spend the time or the money on this book.
4508931
I received the abridged audio version as a Christmas gift.  Maybe I should blame the abridgment, but it was about the least-thrilling thriller I've ever come across.  I listened to the entire set of CDs fairly quickly, in several days of my lengthy commute, and kept expecting there to be an increase in tension... especially when "the chase" started. Instead, it was a rather placid description in which everything goes along almost uneventfully and without a hitch, with basically no real threat to the protagonist.

Not a "bad" book; just boring.

There's also a puzzling "continuity" glitch, relating to the substantial amount of money the protagonist has for the initial part of his escape. Maybe the explanation got lost in the abridgment.
4644175
I can't finish this book.  Book club is 3 days away, and it's been sitting on my desk for 2 weeks with only 50 pages left to go.  Has to be one of the most predictable books I've read.  I had no empathy for the characters, and the plot was as interesting as People magazine.  The author attempts a breezy, familiar style by talking directly to the reader, but I found it annoying and disruptive.  Read something else.
4239333
BORING to the point that you want to throw up!  It's not a sceptic making peace with marriage, it's a paranoid rumbling on and on and on about her chaotic observations and research.  The only reason I actually finished reading it is because I was stock with it during my vacation.  The boredom of the book actually effected my impression of the entire vacation.  That bad! I generally like her writing style, her sense of humor agrees with me. Gilbert is a good writer and a nice person, but obviously obsessed and disturbed with a subject of marriage (like she's the only one who's been divorced or like she fell off the Moon and trying to find out why people pair up) and her book is annoying.  Who in the world ever agreed to publish this?!  Her extensive research would go nicely in about 100 pages including narrative about her boyfriend's and her immigration story, but it probably does not make sense to publish anything under 300 page.  So, she milked her obsession into 300 pages making it virtually impossible to read. It's a shame that her writing talent has to be wasted on works like this!