Extremely disappointing!
596923
Product streaks after rain.  Did not reuse.  Used a leading protectant as I have been using since the vehicle was new.  Bought this product because it advertised itself as a once a year product.  It is JUNK!  Don't waste your money!
2971403
Like most people I was extremely disappointed with this book.  As most of the other reviewers, I am a long time fan and have read all the series (most more than once), but I just feel let down that he would put out a book of this quality (or lack of).  I have not been impressed with any of the books written with a co-author, the characters seem different and facts are changed from previous books.  I'm not sure I will buy more books or not, I may check them out at the library before wasting my money.  You should refund loyal fans their money back, because this was a bad product!
4224957
If I could give this book a negative number, I would!  A great disappointment from an author whose works I've enjoyed in the past.
4405274
I was so looking forward to this book and what a disappointment!  The characters are flat.  There is too much going on and as others have said where is Terry Prachett wonderful humor?  I love to read and finished the first book in a few days and preorderd this one, I am giving it up as a bad project why waste time reading something that is so joyless.
41403
I think my title sums it up!  I was utterly disgusted and disappointed by this book ... terrible & a waste of money!
4521293
This book appears to have generated quite a few reviews already but I felt moved to put in my own two cents (or rather twelve bucks worth!) on it just to get the frustration off my chest.
  When I bought this dictionary, I wasn't expecting anything too grand- after all it's not particularly big and I did take a look at some of the other reviews before purchasing, so I had some idea.  My hope was that this dictionary would be a convenient reference for the most common Esperanto words. What I did not expect however, was the useless white elephant I ended up with!  This book is utterly useless!  It doesn't contain even basic words (like "decide" for example), the phrasebook at the end is a risible waste of space that just eats up pages that could be devoted to actual lexis.
  I can honestly find nothing good to say about this book- frankly the vocabulary list at the end of Ivy Kellerman's excellent grammar book has been of much greater use to me.
  I read on one of the reviews here that this book was prepared by one of North America's leading Esperantists.  Well, if anything, that makes matters much worse!  The author should be ashamed to have tossed such a piece of inadequate garbage on the market!  Unfortunately, Esperanto is much under-catered for and an absence of good learning texts just serves all the more to push the language to the margins.  If we ever want to turn Esperanto into a viable project again rather than the marginal refuge of cranks and fruitcake idealists we really have to start getting some appealing and useful texts out on the market.  Garbage like this dictionary hinders rather than helps the esperantist project.
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!!!!!
721785
I love the Charles Todd books - at least all those prior to this one.

However, this latest effort ,the third on the Bess Crawford series, is a huge disappointment!  I found it utterly dreary - the plots sags, the characters are shallow, totally uninteresting and unpleasant (with the exception of a minor character,  an Australian sergeant, but this one is overdrawn - a charicature).  Our heroine once again  starts interfering with some stranger's household when she's supposed to be going home on leave , and the ponderous way this is handled by the authors makes Bess  come across as a self-righteous, interfering,  meddlesome and quite unlikeable spinster.  Much of her narrative is an unrelenting whine ..... There is no joy anywhere to be found, no lightness of being, no sense of contrast  so essential to any good fiction) .......

Why Bess  should want to spend time with these totally unlikeable people is beyond me.  And why  should I want to spend my time reading about them ?  Life's too short for this unrelenting, depressing, tedium.
I really couldn't care who committed the murders......I just wanted to finish the book - a chore, to say the least.  Sorry,  Charles Todd, but you can do SOOO much better.
986548
As so many have said before me, I have been a constant fan of the Pendergast novels, although less so for the last couple. However, this was really disappointing. SPOILER ALERT Not only does it open with a protracted series of chapters about Proctor chasing after Constance, but we soon find out that this long, detailed chase has nothing to do  with the real story.  And although the story leaves Proctor at death's door, he suddenly comes back in the end and we have no idea how. Bad storytelling. And I'm so disappointed that the authors keep recycling Diogenes. Enough already. He doesn't even die in this one, which must mean he will be back. GROAN! I found the whole idea of Constance's turnabout at the end ridiculous. And there was no point to the character of Flavia. She added nothing but volume, and in the end, she was killed off screen. So there wasn't even a satisfying moment when either Constance of Pendergat best her. Dumb. The only thing I enjoyed was learning more about the lead characters' backgrounds. I hope that the authors read their reviews and take to heart these comments. We want our Pendergast back!
4149114
The greatest disappointment I have received in many years!  I didn't finish reading the book because it was more autobiography than new informaton about new style and life-style.  It was boringly written, holding no one's interest and a total waist of money.  By the beginning of chapter three, the book was tossed in the trash.

Don't waste your time or your money, unless, of course, you're related to the authors!  They are the only ones who found the material in this book worthy of publishing.
4342430
Extremely disappointed!  Firstly - these ornaments are far from being "giant".  Secondly - the quality of materials is poor/cheaply made.  The painting on these ornaments is nowheres near as vibrant as shown in the picture, & the painting job itself could be bettered by any grade school student!  A drip & a very noticable smear is front & center.  I've. only given a one star rating so that my review will be posted.  Don't waste your money.
2105681
Sadly, this book was a complete disappointment!  This is my first 1-Star review I've ever given to a book.  I agree with the review by Surayya Hosein "Terrible", and wonder as well, how this received so many stars?&iquest;

"Blur" is written from the POV Nikki Gerard, a 17-y.o., along with her twin brother; Nathan and their mom; Anne, escaped from California, after their father  brutally raped and beat Anne viciously.

Almost 3-months after the attack, Anne Gerard jump at an opportunity to start over in a small town, far away from her monstrous ex, she takes her kids and runs to Shore Lake, Montana.  Shortly after they move to this idyllic town, they discover there really are worse monsters out there, than their father.

It's a shame this book had so many contradictions and inconsistency - very disappointing!  I had to constantly remind myself, "This is a YA read!", yet most of the dialogue throughout the book is more befitting of a juvenile/YT (Young Teen), except the YA sex scenes.

Prior to the sexual-lustful scenes in the story, Nikkie; the main character, speaks and acts more like a 5th or 6th grader (13-14 y.o.).  BUT!, when sex gets thrown in, Nikki is no longer the chaste  innocent virgin, she's suddenly  to 'ready, willing and able.

As a previous review said, a woman, especially one with kids escaping a maniacal ex-husband, who raped and assaulted her (couple months prior), does not invite invite a strange man over for home cooking and a romp in the hay!  That kinda trauma takes time, just to get over the shock and years learning to live with PTSD and sadly in some cases, agoraphobia.

Similar issues with Nathan - dying to have his girlfriend visit him, yet suddenly he's falling over a new girl.  Deanna suddenly just drops out of the story!

The characters are hardly likeable, due to lack of character development, poor grammar and vocabulary, and just too many contradictions and inconsistencies.  It's a crying shame this wasn't developed and written better, as I do see a good plot and storyline.  Perhaps, a new editor?

Please note, I'm only sharing my opinion, which is based on my own experiences and truths.  I'm also aware I probably don't fit the regular demographics the author is writing for (I'm well into adulthood).  Regardless, there are many YA urban fantasy series I've become addicted to, this IS NOT one of them.
998649
I have read all of the "Cat Who" books and this one by far is the worst!  2 major events that in past books would have warrented at least a column in "The Quill Pen" were simply sighed over and not discussed.  Hardly even a mystery to solve and a lot of ramblings and repeats of words or old books.

Whoever is writing this series now needs to admit that it's over and leave it at that.  The original books were good - fun to read and enjoyable.  This was pure misery!
3641702
So disappointing! I surely can't justify spending my hard earned money on this "book." What a slap in the face for such loyal fans.
3051956
This book is truly dreadful!

I know the author is Anne's son, but I really wonder if he's bothered to read ANY of her awesome Dragonrider books! I love the series and I'm currently re-reading them for the second time and thought it would be great to read some of the 'new' ones... BIG mistake!

What on earth makes he him think a dragon can die in his sleep without his rider or the other dragons being aware of it!!!?? And then the other riders thinking they can keep it quiet from the dragons until the following morning! What a TOTAL joke!

He also seems to think that you can hear dragons go 'between', and that gold dragons and dragonriders have no way to tell a gold egg from the others.... (And I'm less than a fifth of the way through the book so far!)

To top it all off, this guy seems to have a very one track mind when it comes to plots too - it's either a plague, or a plague. It's a wonder anyone is left on Pern!

Avoid this book at all costs!!!!
4414611
Prince, and waited to read it until I was able to purchase the first 2 books. I could hardly wait! What a disappointment! First of all, knowing that this story was based on the biblical story of Jacob, I was in angst from the beginning trying to figure out how the author would address the Jacob character having two wives, when I know that was not legal in Scotland during that time period. The book dragged on and on, and was not enjoyable at all. Some of the characters were conniving, some were mean spirited. The two sisters acted appallingly to one another. And there actions made no sense. Throughout the book, the two sisters were continually saying their mutual loved one's name in their heads, "Jamie, Jamie, oh Jamie!" And after awhile I felt like puking every time they did. How pathetic! These were supposed to be Christian woman. I ended up reading the first and last paragraph of the last two books, Fair Is The Rose and Whence Came a Prince, just to get the torture over. Spare yourself grief, and pass this trilogy by.
4884492
I was a fan from book one, so ending the trilogy with this mess was a real disappointment! One of the reasons the story worked was the way Christianity fit into the vampire world, and that is completely abandoned by the time we and the trio reach the blessed salvation the last page. Now it turns out Elizabeta of Bathory is not a maniacal murderer, but the misunderstood Madam Curie of vampirism, the bad guys are in the Catholic church and Sanguinist order, Satan is the real victim, Eve is responsible for the fall of man and Lucifer, and Budhism is the true path, way, and light. (I did think of putting a spoiler warning before that sentence, but the book itself is so rotten that spoiling it is impossible!) It comes complete with one of the worst sex scenes ever written, with Erin using her blood on her Knight of Christ to stop hemorraging when he loses an arm. That leads to a whole other kind of fluid discharging from another appendange, all while her angel-essence tainted/temporarily impotent boyfriend, the Knight's girlfriend, and the whole supporting Sanguinist cast watch. The priest was the only one to find pleasure in the scene, with the ridiculously forced love triangle element of the trio's story concluded through that odd moment with an "eeewwww" factor that robbed it of any eroticism or emotional payoff for readers. All of these weaknesses in plot, character, and writing add up to a must-miss book, especially if you're like me and feel compelled to finish any book no matter how bad. The only salvation to be found here is in not reading!!!