Sad, because I saw great reviews
346047
These are too high and too tight on my ankles. Plus, they're very smooth, which means that, when you wear them, you feel your feet slipping inside your shoes. Sad, because I saw great reviews. I much prefer Vitalsox's recovery socks (even though they're pricier, they're worth the extra cost)
2432173
I had every intention of liking this book. I bought it with high hopes after reading great reviews. The blurb pulled me in. It sounded great. Unfortunately my love affair with this book didn't last very long.
This book is sad, depressing and a little irritating. I usually really like sad books. I usually even like disturbing books but no matter how hard I tried I could not like this book.

The story behind this book is that Daelyn has been bullied all her life. She has never fit in. Never had good friends and she never got any sympathy from the adults in her life. But to me, the bullying situations that were described in the book just didn't seem like enough. Enough to make Daelyn as miserable as she is. I know, who am I to say what is enough? It just seemed to me the author could have given us more back story or a stronger back story.

 Also, that ending? Um....NO! I did not like. I honestly would have left this book unfinished if it weren't for two things. One, I wanted to know how it ended. Plain and simple. But instead of walking away from this book feeling satisfied, I walked away feeling zero closure. Needless to say I was a bit annoyed.
The second reason was, Santana. He was hands down the  best thing about the book. Maybe the author should have left Daelyn out completely and just wrote a book about him.
1091634
Pretty sad!  The reviews made it seem so awesome. I am plagued by dark circles and was hoping for any type of improvement!  I swear, the bags and darkness looks worse. I will continue to try it and update if I see any improvement. I paid full price for this!
4353385
I was debating purchasing this item, because it's rated five stars and I thought my son might enjoy it. Then, I checked the reviews. Most of them seem to say the same things and none are critical of the product in any way. So, I checked out the reviewers - nearly all have either 1 or 2 reviews, giving five stars to each. I think there were only two actual people in the entire list. The odds of 50+ people only reviewing this one item seems pretty slim, and for all of them to give it five stars - call me skeptical, but I believe these reviews are either from fake or paid accounts.

It's a terrible practice, and I really hope that some day Amazon does something to drastically deter it.
1019607
So, I downloaded this book months and months ago and was very excited to read it, but haven't had time between my own Book Club books.  But, now I'm awfully disappointed.  When I downloaded it and read the initial reviews, it was probably early 2013 - close to when it was first released.

I'm a TINY bit skeptical about the reviews.  I see that the vast majority of the 4 and 5-star ratings have come from members of the Amazon Vine program........ Which I know is a program that Amazon specifically selects the reviewers for.  I only looked through about 4 pages of the reviews ("most helpful"), but it seems like there was an overwhelming pattern that the non-Vine members gave 1-3 stars, and the Vine members gave 4 or 5 starts.  And since I read the reviews initially and purchased the book soon after it was released, I think that most of the reviews I saw were from the pre-release Vine readers.  I feel duped.  I might be wrong, but it seems quite sketchy to me...

So now, I've finished the book, and it never grabbed my attention.  For the first time in a LONG time, there were nights when I wanted to fall asleep to the television as opposed to being excited to pick up my book.  I never felt emotionally attached to the family at all, and not sure how reading about such a devastating story could leave me feeling almost...annoyed...  Especially since I'm very close to my mother and we've actually been in a Book Club together for a couple years now.  Not that I wasn't sad, but I wasn't sobbing - actually, I didn't cry at all.  I'm sure some of that was because I knew how to brace myself for the ending, but still, I cry often so I was surprised.  I'm sure this makes me sound incredibly cold, but I really was never pulled into this family's story.  I'm not a terrible person, I promise I can feel, but this book didn't bring it home for me.

On the plus side, I did pick up a list of titles from their discussions that I have now downloaded to read.  I hope they aren't as disappointing as this book.
3453942
I do love Karen Kingsbury, but this book was just too sad and depressing for me.  The first book in this series "Even Now" was wonderful, had a great ending with a great story line.  This sequel also has a great story line with an excellent character development, but 3/4 of the book was absolutely heart wrenching and too sad.  It never rebounded from the sadness either.  I actually skipped over half the book and read the end because I couldn't read while crying so hard. I was very dissappointed!
3248980
This book is very well-written, especially for a first novel, but I found the content to be very sad.  I found myself wanting to finish it, not because I loved it, but because it depressed me.
2568733
One of the stones fell off after 5 weeks... Conveniently after the 30 day return window. I'm sure my necklace is an outlier, based on the many great reviews from other people. I just think it sucks I can't get this item replaced or anything.. and it was for a Christmas present too :( Imagine how that feels...

If the business selling this can reach out to me, I'd appreciate it!
2966104
The storyline is very sad, but well-written. If you are looking for a great book, read Hear Comes the Son. If you are looking for a book to cheer you up, look elsewhere.
1552587
I really loved how it looks but maybe im doing something wrong but it just does not work. I think I got a bad one =( feels sad when you spent money on it. Maybe i should order another?
4225750
Same thing happened to me, only two speakers. I am so sad because I was really looking forward to this
4019319
I loved it. But I was sad to see I couldn't read anymore of this fantastic and wonderful book. <3
3269531
I had really hoped this book would be a compilation of great works, not bits of them in an erudite lecture.  If I had seen it before hand, I personally would not have purchased it.  You won't find complete poems here, just a major discussion - which is admittedly well done.  For my purposes it serves merely as a broad reference on where else to look for this sort of thing, but I feel rather sad when I see this book not finding it within.

Maybe it's just me - I was an English Lit and Journalism major until my fourth year when an instructor killed any remaining passion for the subject by requiring us to read 30 of Shakespeare's plays in six weeks - the culmination of which was to be a test of one line from each play. We were to identify the play, the act, who it was speaking to whom, and what the significance of the line was.  We were to become indexes - and of course a lot of us dropped that course like a hot rock.

Fortunately I was also beginning my first Industrial Arts Woodworking course as an elective, and finding a whole new passion in life making fine things changed my life permanently for the better. I changed majors immediately.

I still love books - owning some 8,000 non-fiction works from about fifty countries on art, history, archaeology and technology, but I also have the tools and equipment for approximately 30 crafts and trades.  I was seeking the experiences in life, not a discussion.

DaChipmunk's husband.
700341
Got the product and it was damaged:( really sad cause I was looking forward to using it.
3898659
Hell, I'm really disappointed that right now there are so many fake reviews shown on Amazon. WHAT A RUBBISH I GOT.
4178840
Not as cute as the picture, I was sadly disappointed, I am generally a great judge and rarely pick bad products. I hate writing a bad review, someone else might think it's super cute, but I didn't. I'll find someone to give to to or just donate it!
1630925
This was a sad story, within other sad stories, and as much as I looked forward to it's release I was glad have finished reading it.