Not one of my favorites.
579695
I'm a serious sci-fi and fantasy fan, and enjoy most of the books I read.  I found this to be a very slow and tedious read - I'm on page 250 of 400 after a week's effort - and I usually read a book within 2-3 days.  I don't think I'm going to expend the effort to finish it.  While I couldn't call it "bad", I couldn't call it "good" either.  It felt like the author was trying to write Sherlock Holmes stories, but only changing Sherlock's name; and not as engrossing as the originals. It also feels like "steampunk", but with none of the technologies that come with that genre.

It might be more interesting in the last third of the book, but I'll never know... My apologies to the author...
580000
It was good, just not one of my favorites by this author.  I found the main female character a bit irritating.
4270798
Which I found annoying after awhile.  It is a decent mystery story...not one of my favorites.
4852138
Can't really put my finger on why I wasn't crazy about this book. Not exciting enough. Moves slower than I'm used to.
3725621
I have read about 6 novels by Catherine Ryan Hyde, all of them absolutely outstanding.  But this one was quite a bit different and just was not one of my favorite books to read.  I don't mean it was not fairly good, just not a 5 star for me, as her others were.
1941613
This one was not my fave. I couldn't connect with the main characters. It's hard to go from the twins and changing to Riue. She just didn't do it for me. I still rated the book 3 stars bc I think the story was ok just bored me compared to the last 3!
3642492
I'm a fan of Cork O'conner.....This was not one of my favorite books.
4676135
I didn't really like this one. I am a huge fan of the Atlantis Gene Series but not of Departure. The story largely mimics Atlantis Gene and I felt like there were carbon copy characters from his Mr. Riddle's previous works in a different setting. Overall I wasn't a fan of the setting and thought the opening of the book took too long to develop. In fact I can close to ending my reading in the first 1/4 but persisted and it got a little better. At least enough to finish.
1073604
I didn't care for this book and will probably not read any more by this author.  Just not my style.
607102
Just OK for me.  I wasn't really crazy about the storyline.  I usually prefer mysteries or suspense/thrillers, but I took a chance on this one since none of the others had my interest.
663621
It was really difficult for me to get into this book and once i did it was, eh. It's not one of those books that makes you want to read it again.
4438280
I was disappointed in this book. I've read the other 5 and some I like more than others, but this one is my least favorite.
1483488
Didn't not come together as most of Connellys books do. It was not my favorite.
1958906
I read this book from time to time but its not my favorite. I think there are better ones out there.
2121328
I thought this book was way too long - and it took forever to get into the real meat of the story.  I will definitely give other books by this author a chance, but this one was definitely not a favorite read of mine.  I finally skipped a whole section of the book and went to the back end of the story and picked it up there - and I don't think I really missed anything.  And I never do that.  I just wanted to see how it would end.  I liked the characters; I actually liked the story; but there needed to be a lot of condensing of the storyline to suit me.  I can see others don't agree, but that's my take on it.
1510668
I follow this author, she is really one of my favorites. Nevertheless, I did not care for this particular book.
1113937
I don't know why, but this book did not really grab me the way most of NR's books do. I never really became invested in the characters and while I like the idea of the plot in this book, it never really got off the ground for me. I suppose it would be impossible to absolutely love everything that she writes, but this is the first time I haven't wanted to reread the book seconds after finishing it.