Although it was a good premise, she did more telling instead of showing
350784
I really wish this author would study the art of writing more. Although it was a good premise, she did more telling instead of showing. The climax especially could have been much more exciting with interaction between the characters instead of monologue. Also has point of view issues. I had high hopes for this one, but sad to say, I won't be reading any more.
4080967
Entertaining, but I don't feel like I learned much or had my mind blown by anything she said.
2790704
I wanted to like this book more than I did. The premise is promising and the issues with the book have little to do with the author. Rather, the story itself is the issue. The story just is not that worthy of a chase or manhunt narrative. Most of this is because very little is known about the actual events. So, instead of focusing on a riveting tell, the author is forced to describe tedious events such as personality clashes between law enforcement. Furthermore, the author cannot use a linear timeline because there just isn't a linear timeline. Supposition and guess work inundates the work.
The book does become more interesting when the author finally describes his own theory. Unfortunately, the author's own guess leave a bit too desired.
Overall, the subject is interesting. But, the broken narrative or lack of narrative strains the readers patience.
2142215
The author does too much "tell", and not enough "show". I do not want "it was the most cozy room he had ever seen"-descriptions, I want that the author conveys that feeling indirectly.
3655667
I enjoyed the premise and the details about guitars and playing even the sweet way Sam was able to keep Jodi from freaking out about her scars. Jodi's resilience was not really mentioned just her fear about what others would say, there was more to develop and it didn't happen. Where this story fell down for me was the mundane dialogue about food and driving about. I was bored with the gals and they seemed interesting at first, but not for long.
1409228
I felt like I was only getting half the story.  It needed more background to flesh out the main character.  They told us her age, and indicated the professor gave her heart throbs, then never took that part of the story line anywhere.  Too many loose ends.
496999
It was not the kind of transparency film I had hoped for.
2946163
This was a nice book.  The premise was interesting, and the themes of moving on after tragedy and discovering how you want to live life were presented well.  The principal characters were likeable and sufficiently developed that their actions seemed natural.
But it just seemed this was less of a story than it it could have been, that there could have been more exploration of what a just out of high school couple with a young child go through trying to make life work.  The reactions of the young couple's parents to the pregnancy were mystifying.  Harmony's parents seemed just evil -had they been that way all her life? Trey's parent's motivations were puzzling..  Although  there is some explanation, I'm not sure I got it - and I didn't understand why what they told Harmony would cause her to leave the love of her life and run off, even if she was worried that his profession was dangerous,  Nor did I completely buy a girl that age running off to Nantucket and living off her parent's credit card for a month with no contact with anyone,  Preston's finding her after all that time and not showing even the least little vexation that she hadn't contacted him.....I don't know.  It just seemd contrived.  Life is more ambiguous than this, I think.  How nice for her that he didn't really want to be a firefighter and she didn't really want to be a nurse so they could run the pub together and live HEA.
In short, I did enjoy reading this, but after I finished I felt let down.  I wanted Harmony to have more adult emotions , but then she wasn't really an adult.  I wanted the story to be a little grittier, to have more substance,  but my hat is off to anyone who can put together a good story and write it well enough to  keep me interested till the end.  This is an intense and emotional story, well written, and you won't regret reading it, I just think it could have been so much more.
3589262
I expected more.  It came off as more of a lecture than a story.
3132532
I enjoyed reading it although I liked her first book a little better.
3949176
It felt somewhat uneven, too much time spent over her "lie", too little time spent on the resolution. It's more of a 3.5 stars.
3799435
I liked it due to one principle thing--I finally got to see her--but did not like some of the things(much of it in fact)in it, and I DID NOT like the narration--So I watched 2 scenes muted.
1270787
Okay, as this type of book goes, too narrative for a mystery story, needed more description to enhance the events and build anticipation for the solution.
1599435
Good premise.  Had promise but the writing got bogged down in "facts" and overstatement of the obvious.
1376001
Although I only gave 3 stars to this book, it was actually more like 3.5. The story is of Zoe, an agoraphobic for the past 18 months, who is startled by an old man whom she has never met before collapsing and dying on her front step. Soon afterwards, she notices some very strange, eerily realistic dreams. Before long she realises that she's actually entering other people's dreams, although most of the time when she sleeps she finds herself in a strange dreamland where there is unrest, and corruption. She realises that she is the only one to do something about it and she needs to make use of her gift to do it.

The book started out strongly, both in terms of plot and character, but unfortunately it weakened somewhat towards the end. Zoe was entertaining and courageous, but I found her solution to the problem didn't feel plausible. This is despite the fact that the whole premise itself was plausible and really well imagined. I did enjoy the book and I would like to read on as the author writes well, but I was disappointed with the conclusion.
2291817
I liked the premise of the story and the characters but I think a little too much time was spent on the history of the place.
Although Paige's job as a feature writer includes research, this was a bit much. I just skipped over that part.
735889
It would have been decent if she didn't keep ignoring obvious clues. She'd remember parts of it then ignore it again. Would have been more credible if she'd gotten an answer that turned out to be false.