I was disappointed. The story is told in the present tense
341454
I was very much looking forward to listening to this book during my drives to work. However, I was disappointed.

The story is told in the present tense, which is okay, but I didn't feel that there was any kind of intensity to the story. Part of the problem may have been with the voice of the person doing the narration.

As I haven't read or listened to a wide number of Zombie Apocalypse stories, I can't say for sure, but the Forest of Hands and Teeth doesn't seem to be in any way original. Also, while I rather enjoy romances in novels,I didn't feel that there were any depth to the ones in this book. Frankly,I thought it was a rather boring narrative.

Finally,I thought the storyline was too disjointed, with not enough character development,which might explain why I didn't feel attached to the characters,so that when they turned into Zombies, like Mary's mom, I felt nothing. Finally,nothing is ever answered by the story,such as where did the Zombies come from in the first place, what kind of knowledge did the Sisters possess? Why was Gabrielle the fast one?(this was answered in book 2,but certainly not in this first book.) Did Mary consummate her relationship with Harry or Travis? These questions were endless and never resolved.

As I am listening to the second Audio book in the series, I will let you know if the second book does a better job of telling the story then the first book in the series.
1341728
I was disappointed. If you are going to use foul language, you need to know something about using it. I would be happy to be corrected, but I doubt J.K.R. swares. I don't, but I work in a world which does. The cursing seems contrived and gratuitous, an attempt at down-to-earthyness which isn't down-to-earth. Nothing would be lost of the story if the phoney use of the 'F' words had been dropped. Sorry.
4513533
The story is imaginative and often chilling, but I got tired of all the tell and little show. Also, the editing wasn't up to snuff. Missing/extra words, typos, and neither the author or editor apparently knows about past perfect tense. If you're doing a flashback, it's required to ground the reader in the past. Otherwise, confusion often happens, followed by irritation.
4511626
I couldn't get past the 6th page.  I absolutely hate books written in the present tense.  I'm sorry to miss this chapter of the series, but I'll just have to wait for the next one and see if I can catch up.
2679058
I do not know what effect the writer was trying to engender by writing this book in the present tense - but it doesn't work.
A plodding mess of bad grammar. It reads like a a paper one would produce for a literature class back in high school.

Save your money
406451
Story was ok, Halle was pathetic (oh poor me, poor me), grammar was atrocious.  I kept having to reread a sentence and figure out what word was dropped, etc.  I don't like books written in the present tense, i.e. "I go to the store"  "She walks in the room".  And it is NEVER, NEVER okay to steal someone else's dog!
1884026
This story is written as two stories that supposedly intertwine.  First of all, they don't.  Second, the modern story with the animals and grandchildren is not interesting at all.  I did however, enjoy reading about Dick Whittington.  He is a young boy living in the 14th century.  It's interesting learning about life in that time period, and I would have loved the story more if his story was expanded upon and made the only story in the book.  The story being told with the children and the animals in the barn bothered me because the author presents one character with special needs as someone to feel sorry for, and who is most likely labeled by the other kids in his class as someone to bully.  I am the parent of a special needs child, and in todays modern classroom, this is not the case.  The teachers and the special ed. help that children receive is superb, and kids are taught to be tolerant and accepting by being taught in the same classroom as the special needs children.  I felt insulted reading this book.
829867
Not what I expected.  The era of the story did not hold my interest.
2483510
I give Perv a 3.5-stars.

I enjoyed the story. We follow a guy with a fetish and a woman with a vendetta until they find love. I believed their story. It wasn't deep literature but it was entertaining.

Unfortunately, thats about all I can say for Perv. I then read Filth, Her Story, and gave up after about a third. The author warns the reader that some scenes are repeated due to the nature of a PoV retelling. OK, Ill accept that, except, I expected the same scene to be a switched PoV. As far as I could see, it wasnt. No new information was given to the reader. Huge letdown. I gave up on it.

I did go on to buy and read Hardcore. I found Hardcore a better story than either Perv or Filth.
2035019
I have been interested in this story for many years. I used to have this other book about this crime called "Murder at Corpsewood" that was put out by the local newspaper that covered the story back when it happened. When I read on the internet that a new book was out about this story, I was very excited. I was excited to see that one of the eyewitnesses in the case was also one of the authors, Teresa H. She was also interviewed in the "murder at Corpsewood" book that I used to have. I saw all of the five star reviews on Amazonand thought the book must be wonderful. I feel so let down! This new book didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know about the murder case. It says that it is the "eyewitness account," but it isn't really about Teresa's recollection of what happened. Her story is like bookends here....there is a little narrative at the beginning ...and a little at the end. But the whole middle section is mostly all kinds of filler material that has nothing to do with the actual Corpsewood case. There are some pictures in the book that I have seen before on different websites. I think they should have made the book about Teresa's experience and her life instead of about all of that other stuff that was sort of superfluous.
1370908
It felt really forced having the two different stories intertwine the way they did. The "present" story seemed to gloss over giant plot themes and concentrate on minutiae while the "past" story came to a very abrupt, rather unbelievable end after agonizing over filler info for many chapters. It was random and very jumpy.
264060
I was disappointed.  I guess I wasn't expecting the composition  to be so poor.  I loved the story idea but I felt it was very poorly written.
2836907
This book sounded interesting but I am half way through it and I am having trouble motivating myself to finish it. I am not usually too bothered if there is a grammar mistake here or there but this author has serious problems with tense and form of the verb. Eg. 'leaving us sat in the lounge room watching tv', 'you was pregnant?' and the one that is ALWAYS misused 'seen' instead of 'saw'. Note to author: if you use seen you need to use another word before it eg. 'have seen'. It is always used in place of the simple past tense but used incorrectly. This happens the whole way through the book. As I said, I am not usually so fussy with the grammar but there were problems consistently throughout the novel - and I am only half way through it. Another reviewer said it right when they commented that it 'slaps you in the face'.

Also, and this is a spoiler so stop reading if you don't want to know what happens, when she tells her ex that she is pregnant it came so out of the blue. In her character development so far there was no indication that something like this may have happened. I am assuming she lost the baby because there's obviously no baby around, but there has been no indication that she has had anything traumatic in her life up to date. Just before she tells him she thinks to herself "I didn't want to have to do this. I didn't want him to be hurt like me or to feel the guilt but how could I lie?" Apart from the obvious grammar mistake in this sentence (seriously, did anyone even edit this?), where has there ever been any indication that she has been emotionally hurt or scarred in the lead up to this? It is ridiculous. It is like this author is throwing anything she can into this story without considering plot development. I think there has been little planning gone into this before the author sat at the computer. It's a bit of a brain dump of ideas.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can finish this novel. I do not recommend buying it.
1747267
I bought the book thinking that its a book that goes into "how to" of story telling but it was a disappointment. The author instead chose to present some stories .
1109825
I am disappointed. I wanted to like this book more but found too many outlandish aspects of the story. And it wasn't the man hunting man part that I found unbelievable, just the way the male protagonist handled himself in the story.&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Most-Dangerous-Game/dp/1478256982/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Most Dangerous Game</a>, the short story with similarities written by Richard Connell, which I am sure this book is based on in part, is one of my favorite stories.

The dialogue didn't flow smoothly and seemed sophomoric in spots. The characters weren't fleshed out but were rather one-dimensional. And the story jumped all over, never settling in and telling a good tale. Oh, and I disliked the ending.

I did like the character of Mary and plan on reading her backstory in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Sledge/dp/B00A4N79C0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Sledge</a>, a short story about a serial killer who gave her the injuries that disabled her.

I did like the front cover art.

And there were sparks in the book that I did like, mostly concerning Mary, the female protagonist. So I have bought and am going to chance reading Lindsey's other book -&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Sara-s-Game/dp/1479369446/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Sara's Game</a>.

NOTE: I was sent this book to read and do an honest review on, which I feel I have done.
2613979
I didn't care much for the story, and the first person narrative was a bit much.  I couldn't get past the attempt to sound like they were talking in the way someone may have talked and then use very modern terminology for describing items.  There was good action in the story, and though I finished the book, it was very hard to get through.  I did contemplate deleting it off my kindle a few times, but with a majority of good reviews I had to see if the end made up for it.  No, I was just as disappointed with the end as I was reading the entire book.
1400025
First off let me say that the descriiption is misleading. It's written from his pov yet the story is actually in her pov. Personally, I think the description hurts this story as it basically gives the entire storyline away.
As far as the story goes, it was rushed in many places and the dalogue often came across stilted. Also, Rollins used French too many times, throwing me out of the story since I don't understand it.
The characters could have used more development and many times I rolled my eyes at Rick's commentary.
The narration was  just meh. The narrator also often sounded rushed. I actually slowed the speed down but then she sounded like a robot. Oh, and I hate music at the beginning of each chapter change. Too many times the end of the previous chapter set a somber mood going forward but then the upbeat snippet of music starting of the next chapter didn't dive.
Over all kind of dissapointing.