Intriguing, however......
356319
The premise of the movie was intriguing. Both Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones were excellent in their roles. However I thought what Hilary Swank's character did toward the end of the movie was not something her character would do. I thought it was totally out of character for the person she portrayed. Tommy Lee Jones wrote the screenplay along with one or two others. Sorry Tommy, you blew the ending.
2447055
This book was interesting...but I feel I need to read the others in the series.  I do recommend it, though.
1729929
Overall a very good book that definitely keeps your attention, but almost too many twists & turns, and he gets a bit technical......It is worth reading, though.....
635372
I was initially attracted to this book because the cover intrigued me when I saw it was available for review. Since then that cover has been omitted from some of the publicity so it doesn't have quite the same curiosity factor.

This is the third in a series & while I could read it as a stand alone I feel I would have benefited strongly from reading the previous two first. There are a lot of complexities that took some absorbing & this distracted me from the overall story. Some of the characters were interesting to say the least, the child really wound me up at times. Isabella is approaching 5 & 'gifted' & doesn't she let everyone know it!

It's bit like being a 'fly on the wall' watching how this family interacts & copes on a daily basis .. there are some amusing moments & you kind of forget there is a murder being investigated. So to sum up, it was entertaining, not what I was anticipating & I didn't feel I fully connected maybe because of that, but the writing is steady & if you view it as a trilogy that is slightly quirky I'm sure there are many people who will love it.
4160998
Quite an interesting plot, though a bit far-fetched in places.  I had difficulty with the actions of the grandfather as to why he waited so long in trying to retrieve the article and sending his granddaughter back to his roots for it.  It didn't seem reasonable that she would go without learning more, but, of course, that would have changed the mystery etc. in the story.  I like some mystery in story lines, but I don't like actions that seem more real or how people usually act.  I appreciate realism, I guess.
3671194
Interesting, but somewhat disjointed.  Lacks information re marriages, lack of children..........is that a personal choice, etc.?  Maybe she should write a sequel.
4328301
The novel has an interesting set of characters and an interesting take on vampires and vampirism. However, I felt like the beginning was slow and as if the author was trying to be clever by sprinkling in clues about Giovanni's not being human, without coming out and saying that he's a vampire. I picked this Kindle file up about a month before I actually got around to reading it, so by the time I started it, I really didn't remember from the reviews/back cover what kind of supernatural he was supposed to be... However, the clues were such that any reader used to reading supernatural fantasy would have figured it out long before the author actually admitted to it. So that was a little annoying.

The early development of his relationship with Beatrice was interesting, and the interplay between characters was good. However, even though the point of view shifted between Giovanni and Beatrice, it was clear that we were still only seeing the parts of Beatrice's life that coincided, time-wise, with the parts of Giovanni's that we got to see. When Beatrice disappeared from Giovanni's life for "several weeks", presumably wrestling over his revelations about vampires, for instance... That's all we know. We don't really know what she thought about, or did, during those weeks. We don't even really know what she concluded about vampires in general. We just know that after a couple weeks she stopped avoiding him, and the story picks up again.

And finally - what is the point of hiring human guards to protect someone against vampires (at least, in this story's setup)? Every time a vampire wants Beatrice or her grandmother, they simply kill the human guards, so really the only good the guards do is to protect against human muggers. Maybe they would have been more helpful if Giovanni had attached heart monitors to them - at least then they'd have been an early-warning system. (When the heart monitor stops beeping, it's time to scramble.)

It's a good kernel of a story but there were still some items that needed to be more thought out.
2327318
I found that this tale tended to wander off the plot a tetch here and there ....and the 'love' aspect was somewhat unrealistic.
STILL - overall....an interesting enough read to keep one flipping pages......
4470407
Intriguing,  unfortunately a little gorry at times, but certainly held my attention making for an interesting read.
Hard to put down.
4145790
Interesting personalities---------not too clear if main characters really had a sexual affair or if that was imagination. I felt main character (Alma) was a selfish individual who thought only of herself in the relationships with the two men.  Surprise ending---good story!!!!---------I will probably read it again someday.
4210872
An interesting book, I can't say I enjoyed it as I felt uncomfortable throughout but needed to read to the end to find out.  I didn't like any of the characters but that is not usually an issue for me.  However, I felt that I was watching a character's total disintegration and this made me uncomfortable.  Having read to the end I think I understood it but I'm not really sure.  Certainly intriguing, not really sure that it came off as well as it could have and I would have preferred a bit more clarity in the ending (not to change the ending though!)

I am very torn between two and three stars - three stars means I liked it, and I'm not really sure that I did, but I don't want to only give two stars as I certainly was intrigued enough to need to read to the end, and quickly too!  So I'm going with my gut feel, which is 3 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley and Carina UK for a copy of this in exchange for my honest review.
2338143
Intriguing.  Made me think.  I think it was a little long around the half/two-thirds mark.  I think shortening it - tightening up the story -  by 20% would have made it a little stronger, but I really enjoyed it overall.
1383468
Tammy Wynette:  Tragic Country Queen was a very intriguing book.  My main complaint is that it skips about too much.  The author jumps from past to present at unusual times.  I also feel that possibly her last husband-George Richey may have been depicted unfairly.  In Wynette's last years of life she was a full-blown prescription drug addict.  How difficult it must have been for Mr. Richey to live with her in that condition!  One can hardly blame him for looking elsewhere at times and for feeling less than sympathetic toward her. I feel the author should have tried to see past the image of Tammy Wynette and written a less subjective story than the one that he did write.

Also, the author seems to side with Wynette's daughters against Mr. Richey.  Frankly, I don't feel sorry for the daughters at all.  It wasn't up to their mother or their step-father to provide for them throughout their adulthood.  They are all grown women now who can make their own choices. Only one of the daughters went to college and obtained an education.  Why didn't the other three?  Did they feel that perhaps their mother would always provide for them?  For those of us who struggled financially to finish college or job training it is difficult to feel any sympathy for the spoiled daughters.

The book was entertaining, however, very little objectivity was used in writing it.
1246820
I enjoyed this book, but I found myself confused at times. I liked that it had so many different layers, yet I finished the novel feeling incomplete. I won't give away any spoilers, but the ending did not provide me with the answers I was looking for. Still, this was an intriguing and well-written novel that is worth reading. I gave it four stars, but I still feel like I need to know more about the main characters. Audiobook review at JacksonBaer.com
2553655
When Josh Langston offered me a copy of his latest novel, I eagerly accepted. It was not the type of book Id normally select but I had been following his blog for several months and found him to be engaging, humorous, and bold. Thus, my curiosity was piqued.

The book intertwines two storiesthe first set in prehistoric North America and the second taking place on the same patch of ground centuries later.  Having the two unfold simultaneously at an interval of 12,000 years was an intriguing device; however, it was the ancient story which held my interest. The characters in the modern parallel, as well as their motives and behaviors, were less developed and more clich&eacute;d.

While I am giving this adventure three stars, I am also offering this disclaimer: I am not a published author, and this the first time I have attempted to write a review. I have heard it is common for graduate assistants to be harder graders than the professors in whose steps they hope to follow. It may also be a simple matter of preference. While I enjoy a round or three of navel contemplation, Josh is all action: Reading about teen angst, probing into the unconscious for signs of self-worth, contemplating the power of introspection or fostering a deep seated need to feel guilty are pursuitsGod willingyoull never find in my work.

The above quote was lifted from Joshs instructional writing book, Write Naked!, which I will be reviewing next and while fully clothed. So far, it looks like a keeper!
1003176
Interesting, I have to say, though the stories seem to end with little overall resolution.  Obviously, the fiction here needs to set up a situation and break it down, leave some loose ends (it is marketing for a role playing product, after all), and some story threads are quite interesting...  However, each of the stories only achieves a minor resolution -- though in terms of individual characters, some resolutions resolve character arcs.  There is so much left open and unanswered, however, possibly too much.

To back up, apparently, there is a Ghostbusters style organization (they even have computer servers named Spengler, Stanz, Zeddemore, etc) dedicated to investigation and resolution of ghostly phenomenon, for a profit.  Its agents can -- either through psychic power or scientific motivation -- detach their souls from their bodies.  These four novellas explore several aspects of this organization -- both as a threat and a victim.

The first novella (Greener on the Other Side) is the story of several youths who get together to drop a new drug and watch a strange, pirate broadcast...  A situation that gets pretty ugly after a couple of twists.

The second novella (Euridice) involves a widowed agent who discovers that his wife (a psychic Orpheus agent) may have been killed by the very organization they are working for...

The third novella (Dia de Los Muertos) finds a rookie and experienced agent answering the highest level of distress call in the newly opened Orpheus branch in Guadalahara.

The fourth novella (Corridors) finds a man, who volunteered for a spiritual experiment with the Orpheus group, trapped inside a strange hotel, with its equally strange inhabitants -- both dead and alive.

Interesting premises, interesting stories, but they would have been stronger with a more definitive resolutions...
3914088
Was intriguing and interesting but I don't think the end was what I would have thought of, this story has been good but needs an ending!!!