Predictable and even boring
349869
I liked Furst's early books because of the period about which he writes and the stories he told.  But he has become much too conventional, and even boring.  Create an attractive hero and a few girlfriends, add a dollop of sex; lose a couple of good people. continue the hero's brave work.  This is the last Furst book I will read......probably.
3406146
This is yet another article turned into a 300 page book. Only the first two chapters are worth a read. The author writing style is boring, repetitive, and predictable. This author is clearly over-rated.
942377
It seemed like a 'formula' book--change the location, but the story is sooo predictable.  I would not read this author again.
1576742
This was a disappointment. There were a couple of very likeable characters but there were just too many of them and too many story lines for any of them to get developed enough to interest me. Also, it was entirely too predictable. There were no surprises and the ending is just too perfect and wrapped up with a pretty little bow.
2560062
I found it boring and predictable. Not many romantic parts. This is the first book she ever made that I hated,
2348431
This is a nice sequel to the first in the series.  However, her writing style is very predictable.  The behavior of the characters is always to resist the obvious, then finally, and to the readers relief, give in, thus having a happy outcome.  Rather boring!  I won't be reading any more of her books, sadly!
3694433
I had to force myself to finish this one. A "Nora Roberts" is usually a good read, but this one had all the cliches - the prefect heroine, the put-upon victim (the husband who is accused of his wife's murder) the hidden treasure, the cop who believes the husband is guilty, the old house on the beach, the grandmother who is the matriarch of the tribe...

Honestly, it rambled on and on with everyday things the couple did, what they ate, how they cooked...the dog was the only character I liked and who had any life in her.  It was as though Ms Roberts had a duty to put X amount of words in the book and by heck, she would meet that number no matter what.  The ending was obvious about half way through the book and very weakly presented.

I really do think that famous authors are pretty well imprisoned by their publishing houses. No wonder some of them go feral and become self-published. I would expect that Nora Roberts - from her output - isn't allowed a day off, let alone a month, in a year. No wonder some of her novels are becoming re-hashed versions of her former hits.
1830873
I cannot recommend this book to anyone. Apparently other readers believe there was a twist: to me all plot points were so obvious that the word twist just doesn't apply. The characters were two-dimensional and the dialog was completely predictable. Give this one a pass.
143724
Predictable and unbelievable. A waste of my time and money even if it was only a dollar.  Boring, and so much like others of its sort I wouldn't remember it to recommend..or delete
4892463
I have read a couple of other titles. They are readable though the element of mystery has never been very surprising, but overall they have been readable. This one was not. I think I got this one free, for that I am glad.
It was so boring. Myrtle Clover is told by her psychic friend Wanda that there would be a murder at an age old home 'Greener Pastures'. hence she and her sidekick Miles go over there to investigate. The day after their first visit someone does die. The administration of the home thinks it is a natural death, but one resident Ruby insists it is murder. There are a total of three-four people whom Myrtle interacts with in the home. She is so sure from the beginning that the murderer is one of them. But how is that even possible? There could be any number of reasons someone holds a grudge against someone else. But no! the entire book is about trips to the home, talking to suspect1, suspect 2, suspect 3 and then back. Somewhere in the middle of the book, you will figure out who the murderer is. The end is also predictable. (Spoiler alert) In all the books in this series I have read, Myrtle gets into trouble with the murderer in the end, usually trapped alone in a locked room. That is what happens here too.
3033906
boring. starts slow, gets slower and quite daft. The whole police force seems to be really incompetent and stumbles from one stupid mistake to the next. how those guys solve anything is actually a miracle which never gets really explained in the book.
Also, Erica has no proper role in this book..she basically just feels sorry for herself and plays host to some really annoying relatives/friends.

so, again: boring, predictable. Avoid this and read something from Jussi Adler. Or anything else....
2572387
I put this book down after a half an hour of reading it.  So predictable and shallow...not worth the time it takes to read it.
2574647
This book was boring and predictable.  I kept reading hoping there would be some kind of plot twist.  Didn't care about any of the characters and the book was full of repetitive, unnecessary fluff.  I don't even like the name Janet Maple.  Boring!!!!!!!
1260436
This book was predictable from the first sentence - well, actually, the title.  I understood everything in this book.  There is really not much to understand.  Every "clue" points to one very obvious thing.  There have been dozens of movies made with this exact same plot.  A few of the philosophical points brought up in this book could have gone somewhere interesting, but they just fizzled out.  No. No. No.
1422234
just another boring romance novel that made little sense. lots of sex in the book and very predictable.
151581
Less than halfway through, I had to make the decision whether to keep reading to find out what happens or quit because of the cliched characters and plot that I've seen a hundred times before. I kept reading, but didn't feel that it got that much better. I'm actually pretty surprised at the number of positive reviews and popularity of the author, as I felt this was pretty generic and predictable. The main character is superwoman, with not enough flaws to make her interesting. The dialogue is forgettable, and too many characters have names that are too similar to keep track of who is who.
4734091
Yawn. An interesting premise is beaten into a coma by an endless stream of cliched writing, "fight" scenes pulled straight from a sub-par episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" and a super-villian who would make Keyser Soze look like a purse snatcher. Unbelievable, two-dimensional, predictable and boring. Plus, Baldacci's voluminous, sexist descriptions (there are dozens of them strewn throughout the book) of the main heroine's body would be offensive if they weren't so outrageously overblown (and I'm a guy).