VERY disappointing :(
580954
I was so excited to get this for my daughter. She's a huge Monster High fan. It took longer than expected to get it. AND It didn't even work! It would turn on but the buttons were jammed so you can't even use it! Waste of money!!
2076807
I was so very excited to play this game because I LOVED the first and ESPECIALLY the second, but it was a huge let down.  Every thing is way too wordy and the monsters suck to try to kill compared with the first so it is hard but mostly it is just BORING because there is so much READING! Don't get me wrong, I love games with mysteries but all the reading was just stupid stuff that didn't matter and there would be huge long paragraphs of it!  Don't waste your money... =(
732861
I was very disappointed in Captivated By You! I am really unsure how to review this book. I agree with a lot of the other feed back on this book, the first 2 books were like "Wow" the third booked made me angry with the ending. I mean it just ended no cliff hanger, no anything so I said I was not going to buy this book but I did. I could not start this book to see what happened with Eva's trip etc., well basically nothing and it was so repetitive, it was just blah. It was like Sylvia forgot what she was writing about and I feel with all the hype for this book it was a large let down. I will not buy the next book this series is dead for me!
478921
Ugh, this was such a disappointment! I *LOVE* Baggallini bags, they are my go-to bags for travel and everyday use.
So I was sorely disappointed in this tote, which seemed from the description like it was actually going to meet all my tote-requirements: plenty of inside and outside pockets for organization, zippered main compartment, sleeve for carrying on top of roller bag luggage, and a padded computer sleeve, and was let down on pretty much all fronts (except the zipper on the main compartment - as advertised there!)

My main issues:
POCKETS
Inside pockets: It has the pockets, but not so many for internal organizing as I've grown used to in my other Baggallini bags (not a deal breaker at all, I just had higher hopes, but this could ultimately be worked around with pouches, etc.)
Outside pockets: The outside pockets are awkward shapes which renders them pretty unusable - two are much narrower at top than at the bottom (it's hard to even get my hand in comfortably), and the other one much narrower at the bottom, so I can't fit my water bottle in any of the pockets (I prefer to leave my bottle outside the main compartment, especially if I'm carrying my laptop, in case of accidental leaks), and there really isn't anything else I would need to carry that would fit well in such strangely-shaped pockets.

LUGGAGE SLEEVE
I *love* that the luggage sleeve zippers at top and bottom - so if you don't need to attach this to luggage, you have a bonus, zipper pocket on your bag!
BUT the top zipper goes all the way across the bag (about 15 inches), so it is much wider an opening than the handle-bar of any roller bag luggage. So while the narrower bottom zipper fits fine, the top gaps open and the bag slouches forward - not great if your tote is full (as my carry-ons always are) and especially not if you're carting around something important like your laptop. In the end, it doesn't function much better than when you just wrap a tote's straps around the handle of the roller bag (and "luggage sleeve" was a requirement of mine because I hate how poorly that works!)

LAPTOP SLEEVE
I do not understand what laptops they used to design this bag, but they don't seem to be real world laptops AT ALL.
I have a 13 inch MacBook Air, and it is a SQUEEZE width-wise to get the laptop to fit in. Height-wise, it doesn't actually fit: over an inch of my laptop sticks up out of the protective pocket. (And again, this is a 13 inch MacBook AIR. It's hardly a big laptop.)
 But depth wise, the pocket is like 2.5 - 3 inches deep - as though they are expecting someone to put an old, thick laptop from the late-1990s in here. (But those laptops would have been too tall and wide to fit the other directions, so...what are they expecting?!)
The pocket is way too short and narrow (and weirdly deep) to be effective.

Plus it claims it's padded for protection, but only the bottom (which awkwardly starts about an inch above the bottom of the bag) and the panel that is in the main compartment of the bag is padded - the back of the laptop sleeve/bag is NOT padded, so one whole side of the laptop sleeve has no protection only (so, it backs right into the luggage sleeve, and if you are using that as either luggage sleeve or holder, your laptop has only the regular bag fabric between it and the luggage handles/whatever you put in the pocket.)

Honestly, the laptop component - an attribute they feature as a main selling point for this bag - was so strangely and badly designed I thought I'd received a defective bag. But I ordered it in two colors, intending to keep the one that looked best IRL, and BOTH laptop sleeves are like this, so it can't be a defect.
1876750
As huge as a A&J fan I am, I have to say I was disappointed. Dont get me wrong there was some good points but the overall book was a bit of a drag. The Disaya Morgan we fell in love with in 1&2 is long gone. It had too many slow moments (I put the book down several times where as 1 &2 I didn't even blink) the worst part was the end which said look for Prada Plan 4 in January 2014!! What!!! After waiting a year and some for this one you got to be kidding me!!! A & J to me have been slipping lately, the books seem rushed and streched out to continue on to the next book. I honestly don't know if i will read part 4 because part 3 was a total let down and seems its gonna be predictable and if you know these authors you know there will be NO happy ending. I for once would like to see a happy ending from these authors. I would say buy the book only because I know people have been waiting for a very LONG time for this installment. But be prepared to feel the frustration of feeling cheated out of your time and money!!!
4789612
this book had sooo much potential, but it was such a huge let down. I am honestly so disappointed because I love this author but boy was this book a huge waste of my time. If I could I would give it negative stars.
1181128
I too am EXTREMELY disappointed after waiting 5 LONG YEARS for this!  After always devouring all the books before, this was just a let down, after the changing of the release dates, etc....  I think if an author has too many other things going on then better to just END the series and be done with it!  I do NOT want to hear page after page of BORING details of the war.....OR details of disgusting surgical procedures, or like the other reviewer said....again MORE rape stories...GEEZ!  WHAT happened to all the dialog between Jamie & Claire?  WHERE the bloody hell are Brianna & Roger?  STOP adding all these other characters that we don't give a rat's ass about!  This book was pretty much a waste of time...I kept hoping it was going to get better but it does NOT!  HOW about having William & Jamie getting together & FINALLY be father & son?  HOW ABOUT having Jamie FINALLY going through the stones HIMSELF and seeing the future????  THAT would be a page-turner for sure!!!  STICK to the MAIN CHARACTERS that we all love & care about & STOP with all the wars and surgeries!
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!!!!!
3906018
As a huge fan of the Lords of the Underworld, I was so happy to get this product to review.

Sadly, disappointment is all I can report after reading this one.  There are 3 novellas (2 of which are Lords of the Underworld).  Both are so short that they truly were a waste of time and paper.  No new info, no new twists or insights.....nothing!  I was very bummed.

Another thing is that I expect a bonus guide to FURTHER the series, plot, and continue the momentum of the series.  This one just meanders along and really just reinforces what we've already learned from previous books.

A perfect book to get from the library (if you HAVE to read it!)  Otherwise you could definitely skip it!
4830819
Very disappointed.  Feel that I wasted a gift certificate!! I couldn't wait to get this book.  I had read the reviews and looked forward to ideas
and photos.  This book is ridiculous.....the ideas are not ones I would consider using......the metal from champagne corks?  That is the main ingredient in most of the photos.  I would return this book in a heart beat and my heart is sadly broken. I had SO looked forward to new, creative ideas.  I seriously feel as though previous reviewers let me down.
2727899
The Lost Saint was a book I really looked forward to...so much so I pre-ordered it. However I feel I was disappointed. It was hard to read at times because it was slow moving and frankly boring. ******SPOILER ALERT********** Grace starts listening to the voice in her head which is really the wolf in her telling her to feel and do bad things. Grace then starts to hang out with a new guy (Talbot) who is also an Urbat and considers him her "mentor" cause Daniel is refusing to train her (no specific reason given). What bothers me about this story line is that its so basic and obvious...DUH GRACE! DUH! Her brother Jude calls her in the beginning of the book and says "Dont trust him they are coming for you and he cant be trusted".  Doesnt she for once consider this new guy who shows up practically out of nowhere is the one who cant be trusted? NO! She just goes with it. Also what I didn't get was that Daniel who supposedly loves her so much just drops her totally for 2 weeks because he feels his powers coming back and needs to go looking for answers alone...??? It just didn't make sense. Then to top it all off the author throws in some Katie girl and has Daniel showing signs of interest in her for no reason it had really nothing to do with the story.
I found the story line pretty basic and boring, I wasn't shocked by the ending at all. I was surprised by all the 5 star reviews. I hate to be so tough on this review because I did like the first book. I just found the characters to be one dimentional and Grace to be well...stupid and pig headed. I had to force myself to get to page 225 and by then it did get a bit better. All in all I think the problem wasn't the book it was me..I have read books like Nightshade and Beautiful Creatures since The Dark Devine and they are just so much better.
If I knew ahead what this book was like I wouldnt have bought it. If your looking for a book you won't get too wrapped up in this is it.
3719567
I eagerly await the books in the "Orchard" series, and this one was no exception.  When it came up for pre-order, I ordered it immediately and marked the calendar when it would be delivered.

Sadly, this book bore no resemblance to any of the other books in the Orchard series, and was a bitter disappointment.  I don't see how it could even qualify as a cozy, or as part of the series.  For those of you who "know" Meg, you know there's always a dead corpse that she somehow gets involved with.  ** Spoiler Alert ** There isn't any dead corpse in this book, and it seems to me she's spending her time trying to find out what a 200 year old Sampler has to do with her, and why she found it in her house.

The usual cast of characters are present; Seth, Bree, Art, however, with no death to investigate and somehow get involved in, I found this read to be a bit on the boring side, and quite a departure from the premise of the Orchard series.  I feel it was a waste of good money and pre-order wait time.  It makes me wonder if I'm going to want to read the next book, if there is one, because this was quite a letdown.  Sorry, Ms. Connolly, but you should have stuck to your tried and true in this series and not wasted the readers time on something as mundane as finding the origin, story and owner of a sampler, that quite miraculously, no one before Meg for over 200 years, ever came across.  Really?  Thank you for reading my opinion.
3265847
I'm really disappointed where this series has gone because it was so exciting and promising the first six books. In this book there is no plot, no climax...I didn't even know what the story being told was about; there was just too much of nothing going on. Neferet is the main focus in this book and as the antagonist, this character should be bringing readers to the central theme or climax of the story and taper off with some kind resolution and ending that grips the reader with anticpation of something. All this book does is tell us about Zoey and Stark's advanced relationship--with Zoey latching onto Stark like she is a bimbo and so co-dependent, Stevie Rae and her raven moker Raphiem fall madly in love and suck face, two characters die just like that, the group leaves school to live underground (whats with that crap), dead Heath comes back in the form of a vessel to save the day in the next book, Aphrodite is still her bitchy self (which brings some attitude to the book) and Neferet rides off in the sunset with her white bull...until the next book! So I think that about sums it up! Very disappointed!
4919433
My impression was that this was to be a continuation of the previous books, and tell us more about what was going on with the Seelie and Unseelie courts.  Boy, was I disappointed!!  This was a **SHORT** story, followed up by what was basically a blog entry by the author.  That was followed by a book proposal....  What a waste of $10.  I have to say, I'll never pre-order books from this author again.  The short story itself felt flat, like it was just a formula used to fill space.  Hopefully we'll see better from Ms. Moning in the future.
2681953
Such a disappointment!!!  I love the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks and was looking forward to lots of new recipes.  Didn't happen.
There were not enough pages.  It seemed like everything was squeezed together.  I didn't even have room to get in all my appointments.
So - - I donated it to the book sale and bought a Mary Engelbreit calendar.  Each calendar page has a facing page with a M.E. picture.
2497628
I wanted to love it, honestly. I'm a HUGE Showalter fan - I own almost all her books both digitally and physically. This one felt like filler in an anime - sure, the cast is there. The world we love is being explored. But it's just flat, with little to no development. Not only that, but Baden wasn't even a character people were interested. Either Gena got very lazy and isn't feeling LOTU anymore, or this is a book that's supposed to set up other great ones (Cameo, anyone???? But I'm looking forward to Hades' to be honest) Either way, it felt flat. Maybe it's because she's bored with the LOTU world. Maybe it's because she has such a right writing schedule. Who knows - all I know is, if the next book is like this one, I'll be really disappointed. Where's the Romance!!! Where's the hard to get female who stands on her own? I felt as if this heroine was annoying, whiny and treated everyone (including Baden) like a dog that needed to be trained/comforted. I didn't really find too much chemistry between the characters like, let's say, Anya and Lucien. Their story was FANTASTIC!!! Chemistry between those two was crackling - these two? Not so much. The upside to this book was the information and scenes with the other characters, and I found myself sulking every time their parts of the books ended. I want to see Cameo be happy, William be happy - and Taliyah (sp?) get down and dirty with Hades and chain him up!!! I'm looking forward to the next one... But I'm not expecting it to be as good as the ones earlier in the series.
4611477
I was really looking forward for this new Kendall's book, cause I really enjoyed the previous two about Olivia&Zach and Rebecca&Scott.
Also I'm always looking for plot with groveling heroes for past huge mistakes (especially for abandoning her during pregnancy) - so, I had really HUGE expectation for "TRAPPED".
Unfortunately, I think Kendall made a bad execution of a great idea: this romance is so boring is almost unreal.
Nothing really happens: Paige takes back Mitch almost immediately - he didn't have any good excuse for his past behaviour and didn't have to work at all to have mum and baby back...

SPOILER

I found totally unecessary the final surprise about Diane and Mitch real relationship (which to me acually was clear from the beginning hoping it was not going to happen); I think Kendall wanted to do something to give a kind of plot to a flat book - unfortunately this "twist" is so awful it makes many characters look like sociopaths, without giving any new meanings to the romance: it doesn't explain Mitch behavior which was what I was hoping for...
2120319
This was on the disappointing side. Having read all the books in the Curl Up and Dye series and loved them, I had high expectations for this series since it is set in the same world with lots of run ins from the characters in that series. Sadly, with the second installment in The Road to Blissville series, it just doesnt measure up.

My first issue is that there are so many overlaps between the story lines in the Curl Up and Dye series that there is a good chunk of events and information in this book that Id already read in that series. I think in this case, you just might be better off if you haven't read the other series first. For me, that made the first third of this book seem to drag because I needed something new (kind of the point in picking up a new book).

The other is probably more of a personal taste issue, but I strongly dislike stories with this concept of fated mates where the people have no choice. Dont get me wrong. I love all kinds of things that run to the paranormal and I don't even mind the general concept of fate, but when it is pushed to the point where it feels like all choice is taken away and it doesnt matter how a character feels about it, that is just the way it is going to be, I lose any kind of connection to the story. It pushes boundaries for me that are distasteful to me. This pushed those boundaries.

Because of how unwelcoming both characters felt about this relationship, it made it even harder for me to believe anything that happens emotionally, especially when you are suddenly getting the I love you bombs dropped and they know absolutely nothing about each other. When you have absolutely nothing to base those feelings on, I cannot find any realism in them. It just does not work at all for me.

There was so much energy and character and fun in the Curl Up and Dye series that this book (and the first one in this same series) is lacking. I was expecting at least a few touches of the same here, but you never get it. That is also a part of why this only rated as okay for me. I was just expecting more.