I didn't even finish it...
357159
This is an autobiographal story of the author.  She only succeeds in making you dislike her.  Through the entire book, she goes on and on about how an American education is the most important thing in the world to her but by the end of the book, you come to realize that the most important thing to her is actually making money and doing exactly, precisely what she wants to do and on her own terms.  Her parenting style is the stuff nightmares are made of and includes allowing her abusive American-hating Muslim husband to walk out the door with her son and kidnap him.  She considers it something that was necessary to rid her of the devil and she doesn't even allow herself to grieve the loss of the child.  She leaves two elementary aged children alone overnight so she can go to NYC and purchase illegal knock-off watches and purses.  She marries husbands in order to achieve some new goal she sets and then rids herself of them when the mood suits her.

I read this book to gain a better understanding of a foreign culture.  This book does no favors to the Korean people.  The book is not well-written and it really makes me dislike the main character.  I find no redeeming qualities about her.  I read 75% of it and decided to stop wasting my time.  NEXT!
1866604
Wow, this was....not interesting at all.  I read many different novels and genres, and this sounded promising, but I just could not get beyond the beginning of the book.  There was no empathy to be found for the main characters and I will admit that I gave up.  Perhaps there is a reason why he was misremembered?
614663
I thought it would at least be fun, but I couldn't even finish it.  Maybe if you REEEEEAAALLLLY liked HSM it has redeeming qualities, but this one wasn't for me :)
3911703
I tried. I really did, but I couldn't finish the book. I got to the halfway point and gave up. The After Life, Will, and Claire was too uninteresting for me.
1422256
I didn't even finish this book.  Didn't like any of the characters, so why spend my time with it?
2456434
Could not finish reading it....was not interesting
4057086
I didn't even finish it.  Didn't hold an interest for me.  I already understand that heaven is a great place, and the phone calls were so short and insubstantial...same thing over and over.
2488066
Boring! I couldn't finish this book... I'd love to tell you how it ends, but I never quite reached it...
958780
I just could not finish it.  The plot was not fleshed out.  The development of the motivation of the characters was lacking.  The conflict between the main characters was lacking and seemed a little trite.  There was an attempt at trying to make a cliff-hanger type of plot but at 70% of the book, I was tired of trying to make a mental stretch of the plot and I had to give up.  I told myself at about a third of the way through that I would not try to read any more.  Then out of boredom and not being able to fall asleep, I tried to read get into it and that proved hopeless.  This book could be good if it had a complete re-write.  This is the first book that I have purchased by this author and will probably be the last.
2591673
there was no excitement to it at all - no plot line - no variation that could cause interest but just a person talking about depression. I do admit that I finished reading it which I usually don't do if i am not captivated by a book so maybe there was some hook I just didn't realize i had it in my mouth.
2979688
I did not finish. I made a good effort, but after about 50%, I was bored. Entirely too much detail about everything. Everything was happening, but yet nothing was happening. Does that make sense? Maybe it got better the second half, but if you look, you will see that this book is really long, and maybe with a big edit, it would be amazing for me, but in its current form, I'm not going to even bother.
P.S. I don't mind long books at all, as long as they are well paced, which this book isn't.
4897413
No character development, idiotic dialogue - I don't know why I even finished it.
1863260
Heads up: I didn't actually finish it. I found it awkward and uncomfortable, as well as vaguely racist and homophobic, plus the author's research was... well it wasn't. I am only tangentally acquainted with bee keeping, by virtue of having hosted bees for a number of years, and yet I know more about how bees are actually kept than a supposed actual bee keeper. Also that's not how sustainable architecture (and architecture in general) works. Neat idea, gold star, but your projected rainfall to actually support that scale of magnitude of usage is incorrect. (Also also: generators generally come with running instructions printed inside their flip covers. Really straightforward instructions, with pictures, even. If a ten year old could run one in the middle of a storm in a brand new house, your protagonist is more than capable of getting hers started.)
On the non-research side of it, I simply wasn't interested. I knew she wasn't guilty, she knew she wasn't guilty, and I don't care enough to read about a woman I have no reason to like (and a few reasons to actively dislike) make a trainwreck of her life, her livelihood, and her theoretical future murder trial. And I hate to sound like every english and/or creative writing teacher ever, but show, don't tell. You can tell me until you're blue in the face that this is a friendly joke between friends, but if I never see it, if the impression I get every time it comes up is one person getting taken advantage of by the other, I'm never, ever going to believe it.
TL;DR, I didn't like this, I didn't finish it, I didn't care about any of the characters and I sincerely dislike second hand embarrassment.

I recieved this book for free in exchange for my fair and honest review. I am honestly sorry I couldn't give it a good one.
3855698
Sorry, but there is nothing about this book that I liked. I finished it only because I try and finish every book I start, but it was arduous and I wished I hadn't when I was done. Sorry, FW, but this wasn't good....
3083155
Did not finish book .... did not interest me enough to complete it.
2000147
I didn't even finish it, there wasn't anything interesting for an adult reader to get out of the story
4404567
I have to admit I didn't finish this book. Guess I'm just not in the right place to enjoy this