Such a nice name for such a boring book.
582705
Did not realize this was just another contrived government-school curriculum trying to make math "fun" without actually showing that it's useful.
2450147
I ordered this book because I read something else by this author and really enjoyed the story. This is not the case with this book. There is so much reiteration and the character is boring.

This also has what I like to call GDT syndrome or girl with the dragon tattoo. Instead of good dialogue I am forced to read cursing and cliche's interspersed between a myriad of unnecessary details that do not move the story along. I do not care whether or not she decides to vacuum. I do not care if she is putting the groceries away or how many people tell her she has OCD and I do not care if wearing a pink, blue, and yellow outfit is called color blocking.

I want good characters with an interesting story. What I got was a boring woman with a blah life and some serious man issues. Am I supposed to sympathize with a woman who sleeps with a man on the first date? Hours after being dumped by another man? Um, no.

Overall
78350
I've read or listened to all of her previous Mitford and Father Tim books, They were all great with the exception of the previous book about the wedding and this one.  I was only able to get through CD #4 and I'm taking it back to the library. It's very boring, too wordy and no real plot to speak of. Perhaps Father Tim's books should see their end.  It was a good run while it lasted.
4387018
I felt I should finally sample this famous writer's work.  I will note I listened to an abridged version of the book while I had several hours to kill. But I can not imagine the abridgment made a big difference to the plot.  I think I may have picked the wrong story to sample.
  The book was so so until the end, when I was sure it would be saved by some great "twists and turns" as the cover promised. But no, the end was so boring I actually groaned out loud.  This was like a soap opera-but more boring. The characters were either totally good, long suffering heroes one dimensional villains.
  I was sure the cut and dry serial murder case must have a twist somewhere, or the senator must be involved somehow, but no such luck.  You could almost care about the characters, if not for the continual gushing like "they had a magical time in Paris, nothing went wrong the whole trip, the usually cranky Parisian waiter's eyes twinkled in happiness when they looked at the beautiful mother daughter pair. They really did look like twin sisters.  Their perfectly matched long blonde hair ripped in the warm summer breeze in perfect unison...la de da" Blah.
2284197
Well I think this has to be the most boring book i ever read written by Judy Blume and she is very good writer. And I just found this book very boring. But this might be good to read to a class room because it talks about teasing and the story kind of differnt because the person who makes fun of this one girl is telling the story. But at the end it has a moral meaning because ever one makes fun of the girl (the main chacter) and she kind of learns how it fealt to the girl that she was making fun of. and i could see myself as the main chacter when i was hear age.
3137508
No... this book was so boring and generic.  I can hardly stand it.

What a waste of time and life.
1382720
There is no plot or information. Only an excuse to come up with goofy names. And make it seem there are more books.
2626763
Sorry folks, but the "magic" of this book is that it's so pointless, and boring, and endless that those things put you to sleep. Not a quality experience for anyone involved  - and a terrible waste of potentially great bonding time.  A good bedtime story engages the reader as well as the children being read to and just gives them a chance to get still and quiet so that nature can take its course.  Read them a Junie B or Magic Treehouse book or The Hobbit or Aesop instead for crying out loud.  No future grown up is ever going to fondly remember being read this book as a child.
841554
My title says it all. This book was really, really boring.
3138050
This is an azingly boring book, with a few semi winter eating pages surrounded by a couple hundreds d pages of pointless, rambling dialogue. While some of the earlier books in this series were quite enjoyable, #6, #7, and #8 are extremely boring. The author has turned what should have only been a few chapters worth of story into 3 full books. This book, which was free from kindle library and still isn't worth it, is dreadful and I'm exceptionally irritated that I wasted the time it took to browse through it.
3453189
this book really becomes very boring after relatively few chapters none of the characters are anyway likeable or believable
the constant repeating of all there names soon becomes very irritating and this reader reached the point where I didn't give a fig
what happened to them .overall very disappointing .will not be searching for any more of miss mutos books.
4845245
I usually give a book at least 100 pages to get me into a story but this one? it is so boring, it has pages and pages that have lots of word on the page but they say nothing! Just lots of descriptions and the story just stands still, so maybe it gets better but I'm not the type of reader that wants to trudge through sludge for a story 'to get better'.
3160473
I loved the way this book was written.  But it went on and on and, try as I might, it was really boring. We follow the life of the "namesake" but he does nothing to earn it.
658497
This has to be one of the most boring books I have ever read. It doesn't make me feel anything other than sleepy. Goodnight.
1984600
The book is very boring and as others have said more of a romance (poorly done at that) than adventure, fantasy and intrigue. She worked very hard to create a new world and culture,borrowing from Chinese and Mongolian culture adding her own twist. She did better than adequate job.  A lot of the story is predictable and there are some discrepancies as well. A society that still running horse carriages, seem to have invisible plumbing system, indoor bathroom facilities and apparently invisible sewer system. I likes some of the princes and the palace intrigues. This book should have been on its own and if you remove or rename Nessryn and Chaol to something else, this could be a beginning series. I actually liked this whole series, till this book. I am halfway through it and still not much going on. I would not recommend this book at all and I am disappointed. I do realize, sometimes in writing and other businesses, you have to take risks. Sarah Maas has great imagination and her writing is OK, but not great but mostly entertaining. She has great imagination and she is still young and I am sure she will improve. Unfortunately, sometimes early successes will blunt the desire or need develop and progress. She seems to be able to sell no matter what she writes. Why improve? I had to really push myself to read this book. I love reading and usually, I can't wait till I can get back to my book. Not in this case. Just wait for the next book. This whole book as far as the main characters are concerned can be done in 10-15 pages. She could use this new created world, hopefully hugely shrank to create new stories and divorce it completely from the main series. I am usually a positive guy and I feel bad criticizing this book. My hope is that she will read it and improve her work and not allow the pressure of publishing economic bamboozle her into bad work. MY hero, Robert A. Heinlein, also wrote some bad stuff too and yet he also wrote amazing tales that touched life, politics, science, history, technology, philosophy and human nature.
4869657
I did not like this book. The idea for the story is wonderful but the book itself is bogged down by lengthy dialogues and silly characters. It's too bad. What a great idea for a story but what a boring book.
1915553
Hoping to settle into this big, meaty book like I did with The Goldfinch.  This is no The Goldfinch.  It's rambling all over the place, the characters are completely bland, and by page 600 I was just skimming and skipping whole pages. I finally gave up, because life is just too short and there are too many good books out there to waste time on this word vomit.