wordy, wordy, wordy, wordy
589412
this author could write an excellent novel if she would learn to streamline her novel.  it was so wordy that I began to skim the book, only because I wanted to know if he really killed those girls and why.  there is so much stream of consciousness in this book that does nothing to further the plot that I became really bored.  I fear she needed filler as it was weak on plot.  technically it was well written with very few mistakes.
4748755
The author writes like he's being paid by the word, with far more detail given too often that bogs down the story and seems like padding. I kept thinking, "move on, move on, come to the point," as well as, "where is this story going?" Other than a set-up for subsequent titles in this series, I'm still not sure. His editor/proofreader, if there was one, failed him several times, which was distracting.
3012350
I found this novella extraordinarily long and tedious.  Seriously, I have read War And Peace twice (the Garnett and the Maude translations) and it reads faster than this...this...
The characters were two-dimensional; the  language was glib and trite.  It had no editing (there were SEVERAL  grammatical errors!).  The theme lacked importance; that is, I could never  see past the tedium of their lives and their love for each other seemed to  be a misplaced greed for need--"what will you do for me."
If  someone handed this book to me and told me to read it I would suspect them  of some sort of devious intent and a basket full of hidden crimes.
Pass.
4064879
I actually returned the book,  Couldn't get 40 pages into it.  I'm sure it has insightful information but it's written so wordy you can't get to it.  The book reads like a textbook that just go on and on to get to the point, making you zone out in the process. An entire paragraph later of extrinsic information and analogies had me completed lost for whatever point they were trying to make.  Not a good selection unless you want to feel like you're back in college zoning out on a textbook or in a lecture.
4863650
This is a very wordy book that goes off on long rambling thoughts that lead to nowhere between small bits of storytelling. This could probably have been a good novella or short story, but the overwhelming wordiness is more of a distraction than an addition to the story.  There was one very long though process on whether he should consider himself an American or English because he was born in the U. S., but had the accent of someone from England. It had nothing to add and came across as rather silly. It was a painful read.

I received the book as part of the Blogging for Books program.
2989274
A never ending maudlin tale of woe for the two pathetic main characters that rambled wordily through the English countryside. The ending died a slow death of wordiness. The middle crawled, If ten words were needed, a hundred were used. I love long books, but this one dragged on forever. I found myself wanting to skip pages which I almost never do. The story line had possibilities, but the pace was too slow.
1249119
I am typically a fan of Mr. DeMille's books, but this story really disappointed me.  It was WAY too wordy, and WAY too many pointless details.  I ended up skipping entire chapters just to get through the endless (or so it seemed) descriptions.  It says it all when you can skip over three or four chapters at a time, and not miss anything major in the plot.  On a positive note, I found I liked the hero of the book, so I plan on reading the reviews of some of the other books in the John Corey series and [hopefully] find one or two that I can read without screaming "get to the point!!!"
3662135
The writer is so wordy!  He drifts into detail that looses the story line.  I still can't finish reading it.
961702
I plan to plow through this one just like I did the first six. But I will agree that each was too wordy and repetitious.

Apparently the illustrator barely read this one.

Humans wearing space suits on Home - when the Race never needed them on Earth?

And members of the Race with full tails rather than the psychologically revealing tail stumps?
3494153
I'm trying to reread the series to finally see the end.  But I found myself skimming through instead of reading.  It's very wordy with only a chapters worth of content.
3451491
I read and enjoyed "Blackout", but "All Clear" is so verbose and boring I can't stand it.  I am about to give up on this book, which I rarely do, but this one may push me to it.

Where, oh where, was the editor on this one?  Over and over again I read the same long-winded descriptions of St. Paul's Cathedral, over and over again with the train delays, and on and on it goes.  A good chop of a chapter (or ten) would have served this book very well.
3718415
Just too too many words. Where was the Editor? Such potential but the tedium of the author continually dragging out even the smallest scene was constant. Yes, she is a beautiful writer, but she was so busy trying to prove that over and over again that I became bored waiting for the story to move on. Cannot recommend this to my fellow book lovers.
4499040
Way way too much repetition. Possibly could be pared down to an interesting magazine or newspaper article. A real slog.
3021058
Very, very long-winded to the point of being boring. I couldn't get through this book, may be through 1/4 of it at most. It did not paint colorful picture of Siberia, just going too much into small details meticulously, while missing on a bigger picture. See the trees, don't see the forest.
614075
It started out ok, but very quickly became extremely tedious.  Two kids playing on walkie-talkies or something, and what they're doing and saying, the explanation of their little game is so drawn out that you want to pull your hair out.  I usually always finish a book, but threw this one aside after a few chapters.
3704221
DeMille's earlier books were excellent, but his latest ones have deteriated sharply. This one, in patricular, is wordy, repetitious, and boring. I wonder if Demille has run out of gas or if he is intentially writing bad books, and laughing at us for buying them.
75156
The book certainly had an interesting premise, but unfortunately, I couldn't handle reading it. Each sentence was so overloaded with unnecessary adjectives that the average word length for each sentence was about 20. In several cases, the sentences rambled on so long that they became paragraphs.

I learned long ago that once you get past about 14 words, most people tend to lose interest in the sentence, whether spoken or written. After 10 pages, I couldn't tell you more than two things about what I read, other than there was a truck, and a helicopter. Considering that I've read thousands of books over the last 40 years, and have only found a few that I simply couldn't be bothered to work my way through, that's saying something.

I feel like if I could have gotten to this manuscript in an editor's capacity (a job I had for a Navy contractor for a while), I would have divided most of the sentences into two, and perhaps been able to finish this story. Apparently, those that managed to finish it quite enjoyed it. :)