Somewhat cheesy but a good book for reading a couple chapters right before bed ...
341222
Somewhat cheesy but a good book for reading a couple chapters right before bed every night.  Good mix of romance with a little mystery and action.
1087148
Its ok and not nearly as bad as some are commenting.  Listen you don't start off reading this expecting War and Peace.  Its a quick, light read that kind of keeps you guessing a little as to the "culprit".  I'd say some of it was a bit on the "romance" side but again, quick easy read and I read it entirely on a plane ride.  It's that kind of book.
3595714
cheesy and predictable... but that's not a bad thing.
2151423
Enjoyed the short stories...perfect for a bedtime read.  While the plot was predictable, the development of the characters was interesting and varied.
869032
This was just the thing to read to relax before going to sleep.  It's light, mildly amusing, and clearly written with a few clever surprises. It's not a page-turner, not great fiction, nor even a great detective novel, but certainly enough to hold my interest for 20-30 minutes at a time.  I will probably buy and read the rest of the series on Kindle.
596179
I liked THE book and THE characters although Some of them were kind of shallow...
THE story was fun to read although i knew certain things before They happend in THE book.
One thing that i do encourage THE writer to do is to read iT again and change THE I could sentences in THE book. As a writer myself i know how hard iT is to cut them out but trust me, iT would read better...
For example: I could hear becomes I heard, I could see is I saw and so on.

All in All a decent book
1323108
Well thought out short chapters, but a bit "preachy" for my taste.
1954114
I think I want to award 3.5 stars here, it is a bit more than OK but I have rated books that I liked much, much more as 4 stars.  It is a nice, easy read but the characters are a bit flat and the storyline is a bit too silly - even for a bit of fluffy, glittery chick-lit.  However, it's exactly what I expected to be and whiled away a couple of hours while I didn't have anything else to do.
1026877
I do enjoy reading this book, and I'm almost in the middle of it. One thing i dislike about this book is the main character Charlie is supposed to be a shy awkward teenager. However when you read the book, he sounds like he's autistic rather than just socially awkward. he doesn't know about things that usually teens his age already know about. that's a little irritating to me because he seems to have the mind of a 12 year old boy. despite that, i find the storyline to be pretty interesting and i love how the book is small enough to fit in my purse so i can take it wherever i go.
2166395
This was quite predictable, and simple in plot.  It was an easy read, and had some humorous moments.

Perhaps I am not at my most appreciative, since I am just halfway though a four month bedrest myself right now, and found some of the parts of the story ridiculous.
617660
2.5 * it was really quick and things were a bit over the top, but the writing was mostly well done. I liked Lisa as a character and will probably read book 2 just to read about her story. This is one of those nearly instalove books.
205479
This was a pretty good book...light reading for summer.  I didn't fall in love with any of the characters because they were all so flawed, but I kind of liked that about the book.  It was a realistic portrayal of the ways things just don't always work out in life.  And, the title makes me chuckle because the characters think they are interesting when they are actually pretty ordinary people.  I like books about ordinary people.  I would recommend this book if you want an easy, summer read.
2551180
I liked reading this book. It has some seriously cheesy moments and the sexy times could have been written better....if I read the word "creamed" or any variation of it one more time...overall though the characters had some depth, the villain was super creepy and heck yeah for girl power!!
559561
It's a nice little book for some quick reading.  The dialogue is a bit stilted (no one really says things like "I am but a poor office girl." I mean, c'mon.)  Everything just seems to fall into place; he manages to prep everything in rapid ease, perfectly, thanks to (of course) an inheritance.  He leaves nothing to chance except for forgetting to stock bacon, an understandable oversight.  No one really knows and/or learns everything that fast, unfortunately.  And poor, poor Amy. We know Amy is poor because she mentions this fact every other minute.  I don't know many people who really say "I'm poor" at all, let alone constantly.

At any rate. Yes, I'm being picky.  I enjoyed this as a little fun reading, but had to comment once I got to the "I am but a poor office girl." line.
543056
One of the things that I like the most about this books is that there are a lot of short chapters. For me, I hate ending a reading session in the middle of a chapter. Having the short chapters makes it easier to keep up with the story and stop at ending points (say when reading at bed time).

One of the things that I didn't like about it is that it was confusing at times when they would switch from point of view to point of view. I noticed that each section was a new point of view, but I didn't know whos point of view I was going into until a few paragraphs into some of the sections.

There is a bit of a love story in the story, which can be expected in any young adult novel. Evan and Cassie meet in not the best way but once they meet they have this attraction with one another that they cant help but fall for one another, despite trying to survive in this world.

This book reminds me a lot of 'The Host', but I find it a lot more interesting because there is more action. Its not full on action, but a lot of little action scenes that help quicken the book along.

The ending of the book had the potential to be great, but it was a little bit anti-climatic. There wasn't much action. The climax offered more information then action. I guess I just had expected more.

Overall, it was a good start for a series. It developed the lead character Cassie really well and created a lot of questions that will probably be answered in the next two books.
4138327
This would have made a good short story.  The plot was okay; the characters were caricatures, but the setting and balloon bombs were intriguing.  It was a great book to read at bedtime, because it put you to sleep rather quickly. The scene in the plane looking for the bomb and Belk parachuting out was good, well-written and tighter than most of the rambling descriptions..  The author needs to take a lesson from Hemingway.
495512
While this isn't a very long book, its not a bad book either. It's good if you need a short couple hour reading, I won't put to much information here so as to not spoil anything, but it's worth reading.