Silly but not in a good way
583926
It seemed like for every chapter about a "real" place to avoid there was a joke chapter. I don't care enough to actually work out the percentages, but there might have actually been more joke chapters than real chapters. If the book was all joke I would have liked this better, but the author seemed to want to offer serious advise too. And the joke chapters were just silly and stupid - like the one about being the last person on campus 4 months after graduation. Just dumb, and even worse, it took away from the helpful chapters about real places to avoid, like the tourist traps. Too bad.
1061299
Why did this get good reviews. Terrible writing and silly movie. Might be fun for young teens but also would potentially scare them.
471655
Sort of goofy and weird.  Low budget and lots of swearing.
2583457
I read this book on vacation a few months ago (I read dozens of mysteries each year), and it stands out in my mind because I can't believe the high Amazon rating misled me. One positive thing I can say is that it had a couple of Stephen King style chilling scenes that truly evoked a scare. Other than that, I wish my junior high self had been the one to read this because:
The main character is a silly-butt. She surely isn't any heroine of mine; she acts erratically, insists on silly things, gets exasperated, and does silly things that no practical person would do. Yeah yeah it's to force the plot but...
Anyway... What probably bothered me most was that the love story didn't fit realistic patterns of human behavior. There are instances where she practically stalks this guy and scares the tarnation out of him and he responds by being more drawn to her. Supposedly it's because she's so witty and unique.
The climax/resolution was weak because no one was actually backed into a corner so the resolution was basically volunteered. The story was silly. Wish I had skipped this one.
1205758
I can't understand why this tomb of a book got the 5 star ratings that it did. The inconsistanties, both in dialog & characterizations ruined this story. Most of the dialog is stilted old English, sitteth instead sit, and then we get, "Who's the broad?" or some other urban slang. The characters make stupid decisions, causing this reader to wonder why should I should bother rooting for such moronic people. Like a bad B movie, they continuously enter into danger, then get snagged by the same bad guy again, over & over. If you want to read a well written epic fantacy, I suggest Jim Butcher's Furies or anything by Robin Hobb. I won't bother with the second book in this series, and you should not bother with the first.
3961242
What did I like about this book -  um, not much.  The dialogue was stilted.  The characters did stupid things for no good reason.  The atmosphere was supposed to be scary but was just silly.  I realise that the title says "Part 1" so I can't understand how reviewers can enjoy the book from "start to finish" when there was no finish.
3988472
RATHER a silly PIECE OF FLUFF - somewhat inspired one thinks by Noh Theatre.  This one revolves around a misplaced hit-man - unfortunately not quite "Fargo'" territory [that would have been rather charming].

ONLY to be viewed if one is desperate and somewhat isolated on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

It's about as suspenseful as an overstretched elastic band ..... Craig looks extremely bizarre in the role of tragic Papa - he is either overgroomed with a stunning six pack to boot - very GQ, or decidedly Gorky in his drab and somewhat rank garb ......later in the saga.

The children are charming, Naomi Watts is charming and Rachel Weisz is also charming - but very ill used ..... ONLY if you really must .......
1630975
I just couldn't finish this.  I got a little over halfway, found myself skipping pages at a time and just gave up. Silly characters both male and female ... not silly in a light-hearted way but in a boy-is-this-stupid way.  I think the author was/is trying to create a character like Stephanie Plum but failed miserably.  By the way, the Evanovich series at least started out as silly in a light-hearted way that made me laugh.  Only later did it become too unbearably cartoonish.  This one just started out unbearably cartoonish and went down from there.
1191333
This book is full of sterotypes and cliches. I kept waiting for the horror to happen. Instead I started to laugh at most of the book. I don't know if the author intended for the story to be so comical but it definetely amused me. The writing style was kind of choppy and the plot contrived. I didn't care about any of the characters. The zombies or should I say demons were more annoying than anything. Zombie animals?I got a good laugh at the image of people running from zombie squirrels. The ending made me shake my head in wonder at the  wasted time I invested in this book. The only good thing I can say about the book is that it was free.
401691
Written in a silly way ... I read 40 to 50 pages then throw it away
4001216
What a silly book.  So bad it's not even fun to laugh at. An absurd plot populated by cardboard cutout characters. It gets 2 stars instead of 1 because Hall does seem capable of stringing a subject, predicate and verb together to make a sentence.  Still, the latest Wonder Woman movie is more believable than this.
4846603
I hope the film crew was just playing around when they made this one and didn't believe they were making an actual movie.

Everything from the script, storyline, to directing feels so staged and corny I honestly found myself laughing during many of the more serious scenes and what little comedy relief there put me on the verge of eternal sleep.

Despite this movie losing my attention many times throughout it's length, I managed to at least stay in front of the screen until the end.  Honestly the only thing that kept me watching was laughing as this film just became more and more silly as it progressed.

Two stars cuz the scenery at least was decent.
2143633
Purchased for an online series that covers bad movies and how they can be enjoyable and this movie WAS NOT a success. There is bad funny, good funny, and then there are people who thought they were being funny. Sadly this film was made by a group of individuals that THOUGHT what they were making was funny but it is just dumb. If you like films that resemble a lower grade version of a Troma movie you might get a giggle out of this but my personal opinion is to just avoid it.
1110899
while this Fantasy romance was enjoyable in places, it still read as more silly than comedic everywhere else. Maybe I'm just getting old, but this novel, like most "comedy paranormal" romances tend to feel very juvenile and silly. Petra was for the most part enjoyable, but a bit too stupid to live at other times. Another minor but telling flaw is the cover-way too over the top and the heroine doesn't have blonde hair! Some continuity would have been nice.

Overall, while I enjoyed Spellbound in Seattle, I wouldn't recommend it unless you can get it really cheap.

3 stars.
2578871
This was a silly book.  Some of the plot was not at all possible, for example you cannot kill diabetics with one piece of cake.  But somehow I read the whole thing, mostly I think from the desire to see how the book ended. I should have just skipped to the end.
1829951
This book was silly. Not really worth the read. Thank goodness I got it when it was free! I wouldn't spend money on it.
1534498
It is a silly kids movie. Worth watching with my kids once, wouldn't go out of my way to see it again.