felt like I had to piece story together on too many ...
926937
Too many errors , felt like I had to piece story together on too many occasions.
373931
The story idea is cool, but the time overlap in the different stories became tedious. I didn't feel closeness to the characters, so I ended up skimming too many chapters.
2105620
sometimes I felt like it was jumping around to much. Hard to keep up and figure out who was talking at the time
1727428
I thought the premise of this sounded interesting, unfortunately, I ended up doing a lot of skimming. There was a lot of inner dialogue; sometimes two lines of conversation, then 2-3 pgs of introspection, another line of conversation then more inner dialogue. All these inner thoughts just seemed to drag the story down and I had to force myself to keep reading.
222419
The story just didn't hold together for me and in fact there was too much reliance on facts and not enough story telling.
3380452
I had a hard time getting into most of this book. Most of the time it seemed like they were trying to over do the description of everything. The fact that this is written by three different authors may be one of my personal issues with feeling it was all over the place. I didn't get pulled into it heavily till the last chapter. I do look forward to reading the next book
4168251
I will always remain a loyal fan of Hosseini's stories but found this one disappointing.  Somewhere around halfway it felt like the story lost its flow as it started whiz zing back and forth across the stories of too many characters.  They all seemed unfinished.  I wanted to know them all or at least follow two or three right through.  Perhaps a great story teller trying to fit too many stories or threads in one book.
3770401
I actually thought this was a good and interesting story, but there were so many characters I had to flip back and forth to remember who was who. I struggled through the middle, but it gained momentum in the end. I think it was ok, but wished I would've gotten it from the library instead of paying for it.
2552262
This just seemed like so much drama. And it was too drawn out with things I didn't care about. It was too convoluted. I enjoy the girls relationship but I don't know the last book book six really irked me. I'm not sure I would
Continue reading it's just too many bad things happening to one family.
750749
This book I read because I had read reviews. I was a bit taken here and there with the story of it.  I think I was expecting to be able to keep up with all of it but it was disjointed in the process. I think it is an important story to tell but I wish it had been more focused on cohesiveness.
285969
It me a while to really get into the story line, and I felt that there were some gaps in the story occasionally.
4646179
good book but way to many underlying things going on. left me feeling like it was just to fill up pages.
99300
The narrative is about five different main characters living in a country called the Homeland. Each chapter focuses on a different character's life. I expected their stories to intertwine more and come together in the end but ultimately they felt like separate stories around a common theme shoved into one book. Hints are given everywhere to suggest a depth to their world and it's problems but by the end you're left still asking the same questions you started with.
I found myself trudging through to the end of the book simply to find out if it would make any sense when the story was finished. It did not. I also couldn't really say that the story actually finished. It just abruptly ended. I don't need stories wrapped up in neat little packages where everything is spelled out for me in the end but this story left me wondering what the point was. It seemed to be reminiscent of the war in Vietnam, possibly the current war in the Middle East and the tragedy of sending young men to fight for something they don't believe in to serve the purposes of others. By the time I was finished reading I was just puzzled.
I give the book three stars because the style of the writing was good and because I could sort of see what the author must have been going for here even though for me he didn't quite make it.
1631500
In the beginning this book seemed like it would be an amazing story with a situation I've not yet read about in many books. I started to get to know the two main characters and then their story is taken away and another plot and character are brought to the forefront. This happened way too many times for me to feel connected to any of the characters. I wish this story would have focused more on Livia and Blake and that the author had written separate books for the other characters with extra content for each. This would have made for many good individual books however  I feel there was too much going on for just one book and not enough content for each storyline.
4022607
I don't understand why book 1,2, and 3 weren't just put together and sold as ONE book. This second installment again felt like some chapters were taken from a hole complete book and then labeled book number two. They are all short enough that all three books combined would equal out to what a "normal" book would consist of. It really takes away from the story because it makes it feel like things are missing or lacking. Important and necessary details are consistently left out which are normally included in books to help you know whats going on or what people look like, etc. Although the story is still likeable, I don't feel like I just read a book. I feel like I just read a couple of chapters and then said "okay the end." Not only that but Sophia has gotten quiet annoying and indecisive. It's worth reading if it were for free, but again your going to feel like somethings missing.
1074837
I love the characters but the story got too wound up and convoluted.  The going back and forth in time got to be tedious.
2190586
seemed like it was trying to be too many different things. love the descriptions of the house and scenery but found the story a bit thin.