So Boring I couldn't even finish it while stuck at the airport
585397
I normally like Christine Feehan's work. I own almost everything she's written. Long story short, this book was soooooo boring that I haven't finished it. Not saying that the characters aren't interesting - they are. Rikki is a very different kind of heroine and Lev is also an interesting hero, per se. However the way that the story is delivered is ... tired. That's the best description I can give it. Not up to Ms. Feehan's usual standard. I hope this is simply a poor start to another interesting series.
3720525
I am so sorry I have nothing good to say about this story, and that I wasted my money on it. Even "Letters To Erik" by A. Wallace was not as dull a reading,and that story took forever to get interesting. I'm truly sorry to have give any story such a bad review, but I couldn't get through it. This is the first time for me, a story was so very boring, I could not bring myself to finish it; I'm very frustrated.
785106
I don't know why the author went of script with this book. So much internal dialog bunch of science tech information of wormholes and so much other wasted space it could have been good a whole story of him and her and romance, but no just bunch of nothing with lots of wordy scifi time travel garbage that was sooooo boring that I skipped and skipped pages, the romance was minimal the characters had no real connection or chemistry and the fantasy was lost in translation being the reader trying to figure out what happened to a  the story.
3403671
I was totally floored to find I could not make myself read this book!  I have enjoyed Barbara Kingsolver's writing, fiction and non-fiction, for decades and considered her one of the best American writers working today.  I hope Flight Behavior is a fluke in her career.  I found it tedious, boring, and worst of all pretentious.  I tried to read it three times and simply could not get beyond the first chapter.  If Ms. Kingsolver was unable to realize how far below her usual standard this book is, where in the world was her editor?  And did the professional reviewers who gave it all those glowing reviews actually read the book?  A terrible disappointment from an otherwise excellent writer.
4362673
I got to page 51 and stopped reading because this book was all over the place.  It was also really hard to connect with any of the characters.

In the prologue, all of this awesome action took place... and that was as good as this book got because in the next chapter, I was skipped ahead several years into a future/present day that was totally FUBAR.

Ugh! Bored out of my mind.
567387
I didn't finish the book because the writing was so bad.  Downloaded this book to read during an extremely long layover.  All I ask from that type of book is that it keep me engaged and not make me cringe from the writing.  This book was not successful on either account.  It's too bad, because the story has some potential.  About halfway through the book, it dawned on me that it was written like poor fan fiction.
3654898
I was stupefied by how this book got such great raves!  There is no interaction between the narrator and each of the characters whom she serially spends time with.  Each of these characters delivers a long monologue about his or her life and how it went wrong with no insight, no interaction from the narrator, no growth or development.  The first of these is a stranger met on an airplane.  The second a dear, old friend.  The third is a woman who joins the friend at their dinner.  Since my reading time is precious, I could not force myself to finish the book.
412002
Was looking forward to this, but just couldn't get through it. This book is so poorly written that I struggled to keep reading, but I was on a 2.5 hour plane ride so I continued on. The first night at the hotel I read two more chapters and then didn't touch the next couple days. The writing on its own is not great but the authors changing of styles makes you sick - it feels so schizophrenic. Finally while waiting at the airport for my flight I went to the bookstore and bought something else because I could not bear the self-torture of only having this to read on the plane flight home.
Please don't buy this, if you're going to try it, borrow from the library like I did so it is only a waste of time.
3451491
I read and enjoyed "Blackout", but "All Clear" is so verbose and boring I can't stand it.  I am about to give up on this book, which I rarely do, but this one may push me to it.

Where, oh where, was the editor on this one?  Over and over again I read the same long-winded descriptions of St. Paul's Cathedral, over and over again with the train delays, and on and on it goes.  A good chop of a chapter (or ten) would have served this book very well.
3796391
I had been waiting "forever", it seems like, for this book in order to continue reading about Ayla and her life.  I pre-ordered and waited some more.  When it arrived last Friday I was so excited and began to read as soon as I could open the box.  I'm here to tell you the box was more interesting than this over-written, plotless, romance genre soap opera of a travelogue.  Jean, you should have just written a non-fiction account of all the caves you visited.  I somehow (by skimming the endless repetitions of Mother's Song, cave paintings, introductions, etc.) made it through all 750 pages of pain.  There was so much that could have been included such as Ayla teaching someone how to train a horse or a wolf, character development of ANYONE, the tiniest bit of a PLOT, a chance encounter with the Clan, a sighting of Durc and on and on.  Was there not an Editor available?

READING THIS TRAVESTY WAS LIKE WAITING FOR SANTA CLAUS AND FINDING OUT HE'S THE OLD, FAT, DRUNKEN LECHER FROM NEXT DOOR.  And, oh yeah, I want my money back.
2669235
An hour into this book I did something I've never done before - put down a book in the middle of a train ride leaving me with nothing better to do than stare out the window, and to delete it off my Nook. Seriously, it was that bad. An hour in and the characters were already so flat and boring I hoped that they would be the murder victims - although for a mystery, there was a suspicious lack of ANY CRIME happening. However, there were a lot of really horrible characters running around preaching how Christian they were to anyone who wouldn't run away - and that's when I realized that the problem with this book wasn't just that it's poorly written but that it was going to be preachy and over-the-top religious where nothing remotely interesting happens. Christian books are fine if that's what you want to read, but market them as such. There's just no such thing as a "good" Christian romance, mystery, horror, scifi, etc book.
4569916
I had such high hopes for this book! It has such potential, but I could barely get to page 75 before I finally gave up. It gets entirely bogged down in the internal dialogue and boring musings of the narrator, and it was impossible for me to get invested in either of the 2 main characters.  If it ever gets suspenseful or compelling - as so many reviewers here suggested - I couldn't read long enough to find out.
2623188
I have a weakness for light thrillers in this genre, the sort of books you read to help you go to sleep, or to take your mind off the discomfort and potential imminent death of flying. The standards for this type of book are not high, but this failed on every level. I only managed about a hundred pages before giving up. This book is so badly written and just generally stupid it may have permanently lowered my IQ.
1618869
I've expected a sophisticated and colourful description of a life at the airport with some new interesting information since I knew author have been given an unrestricted pass to all airport areas. However this book is 5% about life at the airport and 95% poetic and boring tirades about life in general. As someone with eyes and ears I know very well the diversity of human emotions being expressed at airports however not having a chance to see more from any airport than a regular traveler I wanted to read more about interesting aspects of an airport life hidden from travelers eyes. This book doesn't provide this at all.
2742376
Way to long and sooooooo boring if I wanted to see Leo grunt for over an hour I'd look for his sex tape
1076757
I'm really not sure where to start. The book had promise and I enjoyed some of the night cargo stories. Unfortunately those quickly got drowned out by the painful, excessive, details describing what restaurant chain he was eating at or how fast the crew van was driving. It started to read like a high school paper. I also found it interesting the author had a moral issue for pft (which I wholeheartedly agree with) yet had no problem leaving the airline on the hook for 20g's after he punched out upon completion of oe. Author then goes on to complain it was hard to find a flying job a few weeks after leaving the airline on his own terms. That's when I started to get lost in what the book was trying to accomplish. This job isn't for the faint of heart. You don't get a cookie/ballons/whatever it is you were looking for after completing training, you get to stay.

Ps did any of the 5 star reviewers even read the book or are those all of his friends and relatives.
775953
pure boredom - if there was a point to be made it took too long - stopped reading (which is unheard of for me) after attempting to get into the book for a week