Soapy, dopey & dull. Don't bother.
593177
The first book in the trilogy, The Glass Blower, was really good...I don't know what happened to the author after that. It seems as if someone else finished the series or perhaps something is lost in translation...literally! This one is soapy & historically incorrect. I forced myself to finish it. Don't bother.
3990018
Not worth wasting 90 min of your time on. Boring, depressing, just "blah."
3262185
Terrible   both boring and contrived. Witless. Wasted my time and my money onto terrific looking actors given a less than mediocre script. To make it even worse, The music was all kinds of treacly approximately 1970s vintage pop.
4551413
Totally senseless and becomes just colorful noise without any plot one can dichipher.  Waste of time to watch & certainly would never purchase this 6 Souls.  Really disappointing!
186683
As some one else posted, this is more like a bad soap opera. All the main characters are intensely irritating, unsympathetic and unlikable which made the book intensely boring.  I will never understand why Ms Slaughter killed off Sara's husband Jeff all those years ago. Will Trent is a poor substitute; his constant whining about his bad childhood makes me want to slap him. I won't be buying any more Will Trent novels.
1763259
Trite, predictable characters are not realistic and I felt no emotional connection. Too much soap opera like drama and nothing else. I didn't finish it.
3142998
Couldn't finish it, the plot was too amateur to keep the unique setting interesting, and the character development showed no promise of anything more than soap opera romance.
2008849
Couldnt finish it. Tried twice. So damn boring. Maybe if I were an Anglophile Idve found more charm but really really dull to the point that Id imagine how much more fun it I could have if I were to vacuum or clean the bathroom. Yeah. That bad.
3014638
and my verdict is...look for something better to watch. The acting is horrendous. The main actor is so wooden and boring.

The plot, which could have been great, spirals towards a soap opera of drama for characters that are to boring to care about.

Special effects and make up are cheesy at best.

On flaw is one of the characters is slashed in the neck from side to side, blood spurting everywhere, but when the other characters pick her up off the floor, there is no blood on the floor.
1490526
I saw that his was the first in a series so I decided to read it with the intention of continuing.  Well, after finishing this I changed my mind.  Even for chick lit the characters were not very interesting and I just couldn't buy the idea that a famous soap opera actor would leave the fame and glamour to do manual labor at a hotel.  In one word ,"meh".
494643
It was boring.  By the end I did not care what happen to the characters.  Skip it.
1106867
This novel is the defintion of "pulp fiction." The prose is simple-minded at best, with the same stock, one-dimensional characters found in every quasi-adventure novel. The hero is a paragon of masculine virtue, the villians are evil incarnate, the female characters are either conniving sluts or angelic virgins. There is nothing new or believable here. What's more, the historical detail can only be described as cartoonish, leading me to ask whether or not the author conducted any research at all, beyond watching old black-and-white Musketeer movies.
If you like your fiction "ultra-light;" if you know nothing about history and don't care to, or if you are a fan of John Jakes novels, than this book is for you. Otherwise skip it.
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.
2917936
Great literature this is not. This suspense-thriller/murder mystery is built solely on plot, and even that is quite thin as I figured out the gist of it about a quarter of the way in (although I give author Nancy Pickard credit for a surprise twist at the end). The characters are one-dimensional and don't ring true to life. The writing is stilted, and the characters' conversations feel contrived. Several of the key plot points on which everything else depends are completely implausible. Worst of all, it reads like a poorly-written soap opera. That said, if you enjoy the genre of suspense, you may enjoy this book. Otherwise, skip it.
2071625
Reads like a Southern California soap...all sex and disfunction. The teen or twenty-something crowd may find it interesting but I found it to be a shallow and immature composite of explicit sexual fantasies. VERY LITTLE to do with chakras per se. The writing was obnoxious. All of the, supposedly different, writers sounded exactly the same. I kept hoping it would get better but it didn't. A perfect example of spiritual materialism - offering the same old garbage but trying to pass it off as something spiritual.
2288268
Interesting characters, dull story, and one of the worst looking DVD transfers around. Pass.
4149119
Dull, tedious & the "plot twist" was yawn-inspiring. Let's just say I wasn't expecting a 300 page diary of a drunk woman.