Started out great. Ended poorly.
580183
Quite pleased with my power grip. Feels sturdier than expected and very comfortable to use. I have only been shooting with it for one month, but do far so good.

2/1/19/2012- I would like to update my review. After 1 month, it just stopped working. Camera couldn't "read" the grip. I cleaned the connections and tried many times to remedy the situation, but alas I have had to return it. I gave it 2 stars because when it did work it was good.
2695620
This book started off with a bang that seemed to be a delicious read. But midway through, It started to fizz out.
4827171
This book started out great. It was a quick read and kept my interest. The main character was likable and the secondary characters interesting.  I love a good ghost story and this one was going great until the climax and then it went totally off the mark. Really? Why couldn't you just stick with a good ghost/murder mystery? The ending was very disappointing. Maybe if there had been more build up, but it just seemed rushed and not fully formed at all.  I am debating whether I want to spend money on the next installments of the story or not.
1936056
The first third of this book was great: on par with Perfect Chemistry and way better than the blueprint copycat Chemical Attraction.
The middle third of this book began to get muddled. It veered off course from its promised good boy versus bad girl setup and started forcing in that old tired gang subplot.
The ending was hurried. The original good boy versus bad girl idea was completely abandoned, and the prose felt wholehearted.
Still, the romance itself is a worthwhile read and I don't regret the purchase.
4002994
This book started off with great promise and then slowly fizzled out. By the end, I was glad it was over. My biggest complaint is the poor editing. Sloppy. The errors were obvious and everywhere. The author hopped around from past & present tense and changed point of view with the wind. I had to reread several paragraphs. I also felt that nothing was left to the imagination. The author seemed to doubt our ability as readers to connect any dots.
3263091
It started off with so much promise. The premise is original and intriguing and the voice of the young narrator likable. The author drops so many ominous clues about what the slowing could be. Why it's happening. Is it the government? Our destruction of the environment? Or some other force we would discover as the we turned further into the pages. Unfortunately, nothing was discovered and we got no resolve. I was left completely unsatisfied. The author copped out on the ending. Not committing to anything. Just leaving us with the same questions we started with. I was really disappointed.
2747375
STARTED OFF GOOD BUT BECAME QUITE REPETETIVE.  Became increasingly predicable. Major character developed well but not the others.  Love sequences artificial.  Became less believable as it evolved.
1895782
This novella started off so well...and then went to total shite. In the beginning we're introduced to sexy Alpha among Alphas, Mac and the sexy, capable, strong-willed Hannah. Everything was looking good. I was loving the narrative predominantly from Mac's POV and thrilled to be reading about a heroine who was competing on par and impressing all the type A, military men. You go girl!

Then about 25% through the book the sexual tension cranked up and Hannah's IQ dropped by about 50 points, as did her sense of balance and calm. All of a sudden she was scared and crying every 10 minutes, stumbling over tree roots (where before Mac had been impressed with her ability to soldier on unaided), and bordering on hysterics for all of the rest of the story. And no, for the record, just because he tells her repeatedly that she's strong and resilient doesn't actually make her so. It's condescending and pat.

I get that she had a bit of a shock. Totally get that. But why did she have to become so very weak in order for his masculinity to come through? He would still have been plenty manly even if she didn't fall to pieces. I sure didn't see any of the men crying over a little gun fight.

The story also felt very much like the middle of a longer piece. There is obvious history with Hannah and her job with the military and the Wolves' need to rescue Torjak. Then there is a lot left unexplored on the return to Virginia. Not once did Mac and Hannah manage a normal, rational conversation about their future. I would have liked to know how that was addressed.

I had a hard time looking past hannah's crumbling facade. It ruined the story for me. But I did find that I liked the writing style a lot. The POVs shifted a bit too quickly at times, but that was easily looked over. I also thought the basic structure of the world Silver James created was interesting. It was only thinly sketched out, but I saw the possibility of some entertaining future books in it. I'd be willing to give another one of her stories a shot.
2328313
This started out SO well.  The plot and the events were terrifying, although I felt the writing left something to be desired.  It had a creepy Blair Witch vibe to it that really had me feeling jumpy, and I had to keep reading.  Then . . . the second half.  And while it was not terrible, it really could have been a story in itself.  The characters in the first half were real and you could relate to them.  The characters in the second half were almost caricatures. Things didn't make sense, things jumped around, and the ending was a huge let down in most respects.  On the one hand, the message was clear about how events can totally wake us up from the life we thought was making us happy and cause us some serious rethinking and re-evaluation.  But there was no actual conclusion, no resolution -- and to say more would be giving it away.
Also, as others have mentioned, some more extensive editing would have helped.  There were odd sentence constructions, and some things were so bad I had to back up and read it again to figure out what he was saying.  There was also a lot that could have been left out in the second half, and was just superfluous and tedious. In the first half of the book, it was interest that kept me reading and wouldn't let me put it down.  In the second half, I kept reading only to find out how it was going to end, not because the story was drawing me in.
1740833
This book started out great.  I loved Mason' s character in the beginning.  He showed great promise as a human being.  The character of Max started out great as well.  There were issues with this book that I'd like to address.

First of all, the story seemed somewhat cookie-cutter.  Some of the characters were like afterthought, like Tiffany, Diane and Cory.  It was if they were added on an as needed basis.  They showed up and disappeared just as quickly.  They were not well- developed.  The same went for Alex.  Why was he so expendable?

Next was the lengthy separation that just felt wrong.  Don't get me started on the engagement for "business" purposes, when he made no effort to reconcile with Max or at least give closure for both of them.  It made Mason shrink in my eyes, and he never won me back.  A man who had so much going for him did not have to stoop so low.

I was also concerned over his lack of respect for their fathers.  In my opinion, that was a missed opportunity to explore root causes and heal a social issue as well.  When issues like this exist in familial relationships, they affect future generations.

Finally, I spent three days reading a book that was too long.  It needed editing in grammar and length.  I am exhausted, and have no desire to reread any portion of it.  Someone should have caught this before it was published.

The author shows promise, however, needs to learn what "less is more" really means.  As I wrote this review,  I dropped down from three to two stars.  She lost me on this story, and I'm not sure if she can win me back.
756935
This series started well, and seemed to have great possibilities. From a Sci-Fi perspective the story broke down by failing to back the premises built up in the first two books. so book three ended poorly for me because is wasn't plausible.  By book three I was hoping for rounding out the character development, especially for the protagonist. It was becoming more difficult to care about the charcters, and some were merely written out instead of delving into potentially interesting material. I gave up on Ms. Brighton and moved on to a different series and author that was more satisfying.
3581686
Antarkos Rising started off great. The last 100 or so pages were stretching to fit in with the authors' biblical beliefs.
Sometimes you just need to let stories play out.
Overall I would give this book  five stars for the beginning and 2 stars for the last chapters.
3194321
This book had a great start.  The characters were well developed and the story line kept you interested.  That is up until about the last three chapters.  It seemed like the McCaffreys got tired of writing and lost interest in the story line.  Kindan was made out to be a main character but in the end was shoved aside like he was nothing.  The book set itself up for a sequel but why read a sequel that has the potential to let you down the way this book did.  It was very disappointing.
1898467
The book started off good.  Kept me interested.  The characters of Amy and Nick were written to be complicated and they were.  But, then it drifted into a direction of disbelief.  I found myself saying, what are you kidding me.  The Amy and Desi relationship was too far fetched, as was the investigation.  I wanted to rate this book higher and was looking forward to doing so as I was reading it.  But the ending, well it took what might have a 4 star to a 2 star. I can't say I hated it, cause I did enjoy the first part, but then it spiraled out of control, and lost all sense of being a well written novel. The ending was a let down and we as a reader and a consumer of this book deserved better.  Can honestly say, my Kindle will not be downloading any more of Ms. Flynn's books.
574717
It started well and may be first three chapters were great n engaging with lot of key points but then it totally looses the track. Most of the book is really some commentary with no value.
4023226
Could have been a great movie. Good acting, great scenery, and a plot that starts out good. A movie that was building to a great climax, fizzled onto nothingness.
3624443
It started off pretty good. Then got draggy. I wasn't able to finish it.