I thought this was going to be it's own story ...
340509
I thought this was going to be it's own story. It's just comparing a girl going to daycare to Wonder Woman. 10/10 for diversity but 2/10 for creativity.
1789910
considering the fact that this book was all together wholly different than what I thought I was going to be reading, I'm glad I read it.  the story being told by a character in the book was ok.
4283598
It was not what I thought it was going to be. I was thinking about  stories of regular soldiers defending the Normandy invasion.
1744209
I didn't think I was going to like this as much as I did. Usually when there's a paragraph in the beginning just described a character's butt, you kind of know where it's going to go. It didn't though, really, it was story-centric. I was pretty enthralled with the whole hunt, and I really want to read the next book. I was distressed to find it wasn't published yet, and that I'm going to have to...wait... Can't stand waiting.
2971464
This wasn't what I was expecting, was more like a documentary.
104551
I think part of my problem with this book is that the blurb lead me to believe it was something else than what it intends to be, but part is the book itself.  I first heard of this book in a review of Michigan Murders or Terror in Ypsilanti.  That reviewer suggested it was another angle on the same events (at least one of them), but in the same true crime non fiction way.  The blurb backs this up.  It is the story of the trial decades later by the niece that never knew Jane Mixer, the not John Norman Collins victim killed amidst the series that long ago summer.  Instead, this is some weird personal journey intermixed sometimes with the trial.  There are literary quotes mixed in and they just seem to say look I'm literate despite being royally screwed up in the head.  There is not meat to this story.  I don't really know anything I didn't about the trial or the feelings of the Mixer family.  So many unanswered questions.  But, I don't think they were meant to be answered so I don't give this book a one.  But even still it was a hodge podge of bad decisions, strange visions, personal loss and sometimes the trial.
3307497
However, if I had known it was a "to be continued" kind of story, I would not have purchased it.
2836492
At first I thought this would just be another take on Inkspell, but the author has her own vision. The combination of the "story" device and the plotline made this book hard to put down. I look forward to the sequel.
476622
This story is not entirely what I expected. It's supposed to be a comedy, which it has, and a bit ecchi, which it is, but there is also a scene in which one of the main supporting characters is put under a sort of illusion-based mindcontrol spell, and basically raped by the main character. She then becomes a loyal servant who willingly has sex with the main character on a regular basis. That did not sit well with me at all (especially given the current state of politics in the US), and I have to think hard about whether I'll purchase future volumes.

Despite that, the story IS interesting, though the main character is not a nice guy; I have a hard time getting behind him the way you want to with a protagonist. He is very singlemindedly driven to have his world his way, through coercion, subversion, deception, or domination and violence; and damn anyone who doesn't agree or get's in his way.

That kind of thing doesn't go down well with me for a number of reason, including past personal experience. Again, I'll have to think hard about whether to purchase future volumes.
4521220
I felt like I got hoodwinked, reading this.  I was expecting (from the title) to read about a young woman's experience with homelessness.  Instead, I got a memoir of someone who, unfortunately, hadn't yet recognized her dire need for a 12-step group for adult children of abusive parents, and thereby remained faithful to a lying, conniving, manipulative, charismatic creep of a man who slowly brought her to her knees over the course of a book.

To me, this memoir seems more about a personal vendetta, about telling Matt everything without having to actually speak to him - an act of retribution rather than a story of what it's like for a young, white, educated woman to become temporarily jobless and homeless.  There's a place for this kind of writing - and she's a decent writer for being so new to the medium - but if I'd known what I was getting into, I'd have dropped the book like a hot stone.
3416820
I thought this book was about something else....but it worked out because I ended up really enjoying this book.
2091119
I got this book free through Prime, and it said it was first in a series. While I liked the story, I felt lost by the names, terms, etc. I saw this as a major flaw, thinking it needed significant backstory to make sense. Upon finishing, I see there is a whole series of backstory books. Wishing I would have started there, as this one would make more sense.
2748994
This could have been included in the original story line to give it more sense. I don't know if I will be getting the story just yet.
1916270
I fell in love with this book and was prepared to purchase copies to give to friends until I got to the end and found out the author had just written this book, instead of telling his own story.  Maybe I was a bit of a sucker, but I felt cheated after I realized this was just a book and not a biography.  Sheesh.  Now I am ambivalent as to whether to recommend to others or not.  I guess I will say, go ahead and read this and be prepared to like it a lot.  It just kind of took the "amazing" away when I realized the truth.
1395084
I knew in the opening pages that this was not going to be a typical happy ending story...and it wasn't. However, I really enjoyed the rest of the story. =0)
3454806
Wasn't what I expected. I was expecting the story to focus more on the main character's journey, but it seemed like it focused too much on the other characters
4428260
It could be that I was expecting something different.  The history included seemed plausible.  The story centers on a young Englishman who discovers his sadistic desires while on a trip to Germany before WWII.